BIG CHIEF Big Chief Brand Product 1993

	Discogs Biography by Andy Kellman Not so much grunge as they were high-energy fetishists, and not so much funk-rock as they just happened to be funky, Ann Arbor, Michigan's Big Chief were slightly ahead of their time in a number of ways. Not only were they updating the sound of Detroit '69 prior to the grunge sweepstakes of the early '90s, but they gradually incorporated their fanboy obsessions with funk and Blaxploitation flicks well before the revivals caught on with the masses. Most of the groups that followed these stylistic hybrids in the mid- to late '90s probably never heard the band that was honing this style a few years before them. But Big Chief were more about making fun records, rather than adding a generous amount of forced rebellion for marketing value. They were hardly original, but they were a couple bases ahead of the platinum acts that followed. Credit timing, botched promotion, lack of … » Read more Tracklist   1 Fresh Vines 2 Lot Lizard 3 Wasted On B.C. (Fresh Flavor Remix) 4 Dirty Double Bottom (Meat Rack Remix) 5 Cop Kisser (Mack Fucks Up The Scene At The Freezer) 6 Midnight Vines (Cool Jazz For Lovers Remix)