Suicide (1977)
RIP Alan Vega
I just read that Alan Vega, the singer of Suicide, has died at 78. I doubt that many of you ever heard of him or his band, but they were very influential. They were pioneers of punk music. Bruce Springsteen said the following in a Rolling Stone interview:
Suicide's Alan Vega
It's quite possible that Bruce Springsteen would have never recorded 1982's super low-fi Nebraska without the influence of the New York punk group Suicide. "They had that two-piece synthesizer-voice thing," Springsteen told Rolling Stone in 1984.
"They had one of the most amazing songs I ever heard called 'Frankie Teardrop'. That's one of the most amazing records I think I ever heard." When Suicide frontman Alan Vega first heard Springsteen's "State Trooper" he actually thought he was listening to one of his own recordings. Bruce returned the favor by covering Suicide's haunting "Dream Baby Dream" most every night on his 2005 Devils & Dust tour, and he finally released a studio version of the song on 2014's High Hopes. Springsteen has said that "[Suicide] are underground masters," and that "they should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
Springsteen interview:
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