This record was one of our most talked about releases because of the hip-hop style of the song on the A side called "The Rulers." Voted as one of the top 100 7"s of the 1990's by Maximum Rock and Roll, it was definitely a nice follow up to No Strength to Suffer. It was recorded in January of 1997 (duh) and was released in the late spring of that same year on Moo Cow Records. INSERT RECIRD INFO HERE. About 2 months after the 7" was released, we released a CD/EP with the 2 7" songs, the Sesame Street cover, the 7 Seconds cover, and a few other versions of The Rulers and Wheel of Pain. It was in a cardboard little sleeve with a small insert inside. It was cool packaging, but if the CD's were left in the sun, or it got too hot, then the glue that held the packaging together would melt and stick to the CD rendering it unplayable. That really pissed me off cause it seemed like I got a lot of the defected CD's. I think that there were 2000 of those pressed, but once again I may be wrong.
Due to the popularity of No Strength to Suffer and the touring that we did in the summer of 1996, the 1100 7" sold really fast and were out of print and sold out by the end of 1997. The CD/EP hung around for 1998 and sold out in early 1999. It has not been repressed since.
I still lived in the Lakeside Drive house and Damon had since moved out. Things weren't looking so good at this point for the band. Fall Silent ran in to a lot of trouble with Straight Edge gangs around the country on our 1997 summer tour with Unruh. The last show on that tour was in Reno and we didn't get to play because some one got stabbed in the name of sXe. We had a member quit due to the violence and band morale was at an all time low. In November of 1997 Fall Silent was down to Me, Damon, and Dan. We were almost ready to quit as a band.
Damon and I grew up as huge Van Halen fans with Roth on vocals. We named the album in remembrance of one of the greatest albums ever recorded, Van Halen's "1984."
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