ALAN VEGA R.I.P. 1938 - 2016 drummer and there may have been a keyboard. “Fireball” was cut short on the Alan Vega of the influential band Suicide as tape - seems that whoever was running ALAN VEGA died in his sleep on July 16, 2016. The singer the tape deck just stopped the recording; was 78 years old. broke the I don’t know how much was lost. Alan news on his website with a statement from was annoyed because he thought it the Vega family. Vega formed Suicide, the wasn’t loud enough and he complains trailblazing electronic duo, with multi- about it a couple of times. instrumentalist in 1970. The two built a loyal following among the This cassette was given to me shortly City punk scene of the early and after the show by a friend/co-worker of mid-1970s, counting such acts as the New mine who was part of the soundcrew - it York Dolls and Iggy Pop and could be from the monitor board; it’s as contemporaries and friends. The band’s possibly the master tape but since I’m 1977 self-titled debut is widely considered not certain, call it “unknown generation”. as one of the seminal of electronic I might have played it once but I don’t music, released during what was only a remember it and I just found it in one of nascent scene at the time. - Billboard my old boxes of roadie debris, still sealed in it’s broken case with the crumbling + + + + + duct-tape I wrapped it in back in the day.

Thanks to zootype for sharing the show at + + + + + Dime. Front cover picture by Peter Noble, zootype noted in 2010: posted at rollingstone.com - Thanks! Not the best sounding, lots of distortion and, at times, the usual distance typical of Lineage: small room soundboard tapes, with noises Soundboard > normal bias cassette > and feedback from Vega knocking the mic PC > Soundforge > WAV > tracked and around but a rarity for Suicide/Alan Vega edited in Soundforge > WAVS > SBEs Spit, Lansdowne Street, Boston, MA fans nonetheless. The band was probably repaired, checksum files and FLAC-8 files a guitar with a drum machine and/or created in Trader’s Little Helper 1981 MP3 Version Naughty Dog Alan Vega Boston 1981 37 mins 12. outro1:26 11. Bye Bye Bayou 7:25 10. break1:02 09. OtisRedding4:53 08. intro1:04 07. Jukebox Baby 5:20 06. intro0:26 05. HotDate5:51 04. intro0:24 03. Fireball 3:38 02. intro0:33 01. Kung FuCowboy 4:42

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