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What Feeds The Fire React showcase edition? Hey, wait a sec

By Tre | Published 01/07/2012

At first, you might think good old Aram is trying to pull a fast one on you. You know, since What Feeds The Fire certainly did not play the React showcase and all. But you might not be aware of the label that Aram did before React, called Anchor Records.

What Feeds the Fire- Set Me Free EP REACT! Showcase edition out of 88 copies. These were left over from my days running Anchor Records. They have a special cover and were given out free at the showcase. Awesome!

Word on the streets is that Aram has a few of these WFTF 7″s just collecting dust in a closet somewhere, so making up a cover, and giving them out for FREE at the showcase was a way for him to clear out a little bit of space.

Sadly, eBay does not allow you to auction off things for free, so have at it!

One More Anchor Records Test Press for TPT

By b. murphy | Published 11/29/2011

Earlier today, I posted up the Stay Gold EP test press from Anchor Records. I couldn’t recall the other released. I knew there were 3-4. The only one I concretely remembered was the xWFTFx EP, but again yeggin comes through. He’s got one of the records I couldn’t remember. This is the Allegiance EP (the other was the Answer EP). With those two auctions, you can score HALF of the entire Anchor Records releases. Not bad, right?

WFTF – Pay For Crap

By b. murphy | Published 05/10/2011

Here’s a good one. The second picture pretty much sums it all up, but here’s the breakdown. What Feeds The Fire released an EP on Anchor Records called Set Me Free. Before there was React Records, Aram did Anchor Records. You know Aram. Aram rules. This particular EP was a freakin headache from the get go. This rejected test press is one of those headaches. Pops, skips, … headaches. You can #8 of 8 from deathwishinc.

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Stay Gold

By b. murphy | Published 04/17/2010

Stay Gold was a smooth hardcore band from Northwest US, mostly Seattle. They began when hardcore was in a full revival swing, 98 or 99. These were the years of Floorpunch, Reach The Sky, In My Eyes, Kid Dynamite, Saves The Day … Hardcore was back and was really taking names.

They released a few albums on smaller labels (like Aram’s Anchor Records, pre React Records!). And ended up signing to Indecision Records to sell a few EPs and LPs. They did some big tours, but at least on the east coast, they never got the fanfare they deserved. Oh sure, the Tanguays moshed like crazy bastards (or at least Kyle did), but for the most part, it felt like they slipped unnoticed through the east coast. I’m sure it was an all together different story in Seattle and Portland.

Also, lets not forget that one of the dudes in the band is named Eagle Barber. Great name. And a pretty chill dude too. He hooked me up with a big box of tees a while back for a VERY reasonable price. Big fan.

First up, their first release on Anchor Records. Later Anchor Records would release EPs from What Feeds The Fire and almost Verse. Then Aram got super busy touring the world 600 times over with Champion and had to put record labels on the back burner for a bit. But this Stay Gold EP is a fave. This is the regular release.

This is the same EP but with the limited edition record release cover. Limited to 75. Aram is obviously good with packaging, always has been. This one comes with an acetate sleeve AND a vellum sleeve. Clear vinyl too!

Up next is the Caught Up In The Moment EP from Indecision Records. This one dropped in 2001 and was really when Stay Gold seemed to shine. This was the record that kids really wanted. Sadly, most of those kids wanted the record in 2006, instead of when it originally dropped in 2001. Like Van Gogh, they seemed to have got more popular post break up.