strife - demo days
back in 1992, a time when i was listening to my michael jackson tape and sang along to 'black or white', a band called strife released their first 7" on a new label called indecision records. now we all know the mentioned band and label, and after twenty years both are existing or in some way existing again. those twenty years and the re-union of strife were taken as an opportunity to do a re-press of this important release for both, band and label.
this isn't a straight re-press, to be exact. it's the original strife demo that was recorded at the thousand oaks teen center in 1991. they took the tunes from the original tape of the demo that is in possesion of andrew kline ever since. according to the story inside the sleeve, which is written by andrew kline too, the songs were recorded on a four track recorder and therefore sounds that way.
but to be honest, if you buy that record you don't expect a good sound or whatever, it's more for the historical weight of this stuff. what's really cool about the presentation of 'demo days' is that the sleeve is a 10-page booklet with the story of how the self-titled 7" came to be and on the last two pages you can gaze at a small flyer galery. pretty good!
as another nice extra touch on the label of the b-side andrew kline's demo tape is shown. the very reason why you can listen to the music pressed on your vinyl copy. checking the indecision discography page the following pressing information was added to my knowledge: 1086 copies in total. 94 copies on clear vinyl. 330 copies on clear gold vinyl and 660 copies on clear red vinyl. indecision records. 2012.
