100 Flowers 7" with nice history notes:
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100 FLOWERS – Presence Of Mind b/w Dyslexia, Mop Dub. Happy Squid Records HS 008. Issued in 1982. PICTURE SLEEVE: VG+, for general use and storage, printed on paper stock. VINYL: EXCELLENT, play graded. Produced by Vitus Matare (The Last). Recorded by Ethan James at Radio Tokyo. MEMBERS: John Talley-Jones, Kevin Barrett, and Kjehl Johansen. DESCRIPTION: Life began as LA’s anti-punk, punk band The Urinals. The Last and Black Flag were both enthusiastic supporters of the Urinals, and frequently asked to have them as support. At Blackie’s (on LaBrea), the Urinals were on the bill the night Black Flag was arrested on stage for disturbing the peace. Eventually, competence began to set in, and the material became more sophisticated, though its aggressive directness remained. The band felt uneasy using a moniker than no longer reflected the throwaway attitude of its early days. After much discussion, a new band name was decided upon, 100 Flowers, taken from the Maoist Cultural Revolution quotation, "Let 100 flowers bloom and 100 schools of thought contend." After having scrapped its 4-track Urinals album, the band, and producer Vitus Matare, began work on its 8-track album debut, which was recorded at Orange C…+ ounty Recorders over time, as the band could afford the sessions. With musical competence came disagreements over musical approach which caused the band to break up, and the album and follow-up EP came out posthumously. The former was eventually released in February of 1983, one month after 100 Flowers had played its farewell shows at Russell Jessum’s Anticlub. A follow-up EP, Drawing Fire, was to follow a year later. With the name change to 100 Flowers the trio made a successful switch from their punky Urinals days to something that sounded like Wire (but with a little less worry over sounding arty) or Gang of Four (but with less hang-ups about life) but, either way, was definitely its own thing. This single was their first official release and the only release before their breakup. They previously had a track each on two different compilations from 1981. Happy Squid was the bands own label.
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