I enjoyed this video - Alan is a great friend from the early days. I was fortunate to play on 2 LP's "Collision Drive" & "Saturn Strip"....along with 'Video Babe' which was in the close here....very cool - thank you.....Sesu Coleman
Saturn Strip is one of the great albums ever. Especially Saturn Drive. Totally brilliant and I don't begin to think I understand it. Not really. But that's cool. It's like a perpetual long term goal.
@@ericpeterson6766 (@Moonlight Dust too) total agree I first heard 'juke box baby' on the radio, France 1980. Loved the song and acquired the single though never heard the album at the time, nobody would switch his/her favorite band's last release for such a minor character back in teen times.. 3 years later befriend a very rockn'roll fella who just happened to buy Saturn Strip.. and there i was...: 'home, now..!' I had a purpose in life, investigate this dude's behaviors / mis-behaviors.. Proceeded so and in a few weeks had collected every recording plus bought Saturn Strip from a.. pawnshop. A record six / seven months old. All new, had been listened once i believe. Magick. Now i could die.. wouldn't be too much of a ridiculous hellish jackass.. Though would have missed these two great nights a few years later in Paris. Alan Vega's Rex performance in March, Suicide reunion in October, first giig in 5 years suspension.. the whole Paris artistry was there as the mundane spot for the night (both Vega and Suicide had their first recognition here, one of the few credits to help me support my people, otherwise dumbass mediocrity-praising arrogants, is their collective artistic subconscious for some aspects, basically we like 'odd' and 'new"). This concert i believe Suicide wanted it to be true, so played a 35' then disappeared in a smoke, left obscurity on stage and a 4/4 creepy rythmic loop suspended in sound, obsessively boring to drive the weak to some uneasy reminding of their last mis-behavior's forgetting process, awesome. The whole hype gradually vanished out to a point a less than third of the audience was left: hard-core fans. It lasted 45' then they rushed back on stage and gave a 1+ hour performance, one great souvenir, i was beginning my own path, the spectre of the performance to do was designed. Guess working with Alan must have been quite an epic. Besides SS i much enjoy Collision Drive's sound, with true rn'r dna in, a Suicide mood on b side. Great art, congratulations dear Moonlight Dust. Video Babe should have hit. We know talent is not at stakes for success, only careful dick-sucking can achieve such. Guess we are not in such characters' brethren here. We perdure through our manifested ideas' influence, this is the only point to matter.
Ric Ocasek respected him and many others! He was definitely a pioneer but pioneers rarely get the glory! Like the western saying. Pioneers die and settlers prosper!
yes but 'pioneers' are influence on the future, such a matter is more satisfying to them than basic business bullshit (bbb), which in the arts mean dick-sucking and self-censorship.
SUPERIOR INTERVIEW AS IT REVEALS HOW TOYALLY DIFFERENT ALAN IS FRON THE PERFORMER/// HE IS ACTUALLY A SWEET GENEROUS MAN THAT DIDN'TWANT FAME OR FORTUBE, HE QUITE INTELLIGENT, AND WANTED TO BE A PHYSICIST//FROM 2011
massive respect and admiration for Mr Alan Vega! what an artist! there are no words to describe Mr Vega/Suicide music! came from NYC, saw and experienced things only a few did and influenced many others... may you rest in peace, man 😔
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I enjoyed this video - Alan is a great friend from the early days. I was fortunate to play on 2 LP's "Collision Drive" & "Saturn Strip"....along with 'Video Babe' which was in the close here....very cool - thank you.....Sesu Coleman
Saturn Strip is one of the great albums ever. Especially Saturn Drive. Totally brilliant and I don't begin to think I understand it. Not really. But that's cool. It's like a perpetual long term goal.
@@ericpeterson6766 (@Moonlight Dust too)
total agree I first heard 'juke box baby' on the radio, France 1980. Loved the song and acquired the single though never heard the album at the time, nobody would switch his/her favorite band's last release for such a minor character back in teen times.. 3 years later befriend a very rockn'roll fella who just happened to buy Saturn Strip.. and there i was...: 'home, now..!' I had a purpose in life, investigate this dude's behaviors / mis-behaviors.. Proceeded so and in a few weeks had collected every recording plus bought Saturn Strip from a.. pawnshop. A record six / seven months old. All new, had been listened once i believe. Magick.
Now i could die.. wouldn't be too much of a ridiculous hellish jackass.. Though would have missed these two great nights a few years later in Paris. Alan Vega's Rex performance in March, Suicide reunion in October, first giig in 5 years suspension.. the whole Paris artistry was there as the mundane spot for the night (both Vega and Suicide had their first recognition here, one of the few credits to help me support my people, otherwise dumbass mediocrity-praising arrogants, is their collective artistic subconscious for some aspects, basically we like 'odd' and 'new"). This concert i believe Suicide wanted it to be true, so played a 35' then disappeared in a smoke, left obscurity on stage and a 4/4 creepy rythmic loop suspended in sound, obsessively boring to drive the weak to some uneasy reminding of their last mis-behavior's forgetting process, awesome. The whole hype gradually vanished out to a point a less than third of the audience was left: hard-core fans. It lasted 45' then they rushed back on stage and gave a 1+ hour performance, one great souvenir, i was beginning my own path, the spectre of the performance to do was designed.
Guess working with Alan must have been quite an epic. Besides SS i much enjoy Collision Drive's sound, with true rn'r dna in, a Suicide mood on b side. Great art, congratulations dear Moonlight Dust. Video Babe should have hit. We know talent is not at stakes for success, only careful dick-sucking can achieve such. Guess we are not in such characters' brethren here. We perdure through our manifested ideas' influence, this is the only point to matter.
rip, irreplaceable and total fuckin genius.
Thanks for everything... Suicide changed me. RIP
What an awesomely genuine and all-around good man Alan was
Ric Ocasek respected him and many others! He was definitely a pioneer but pioneers rarely get the glory! Like the western saying. Pioneers die and settlers prosper!
yes but 'pioneers' are influence on the future, such a matter is more satisfying to them than basic business bullshit (bbb), which in the arts mean dick-sucking and self-censorship.
There will only be one Alan Vega, Thank You for all you have given, taught, stood up for, and inspired us all... We miss you already...
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Enjoyed this. Would have loved to have met him. Seems cool and down to Earth. Rest easy, Mr. Vega.
Fantastic!
I always wondered why there are barely any interviews with Alan Vega or Martin Rev on youtube.
Living Legends!!!
R.I.P. :(
SUPERIOR INTERVIEW AS IT REVEALS HOW TOYALLY DIFFERENT ALAN IS FRON THE PERFORMER/// HE IS ACTUALLY A SWEET GENEROUS MAN THAT DIDN'TWANT FAME OR FORTUBE, HE QUITE INTELLIGENT, AND WANTED TO BE A PHYSICIST//FROM 2011
massive respect and admiration for Mr Alan Vega! what an artist! there are no words to describe Mr Vega/Suicide music! came from NYC, saw and experienced things only a few did and influenced many others... may you rest in peace, man 😔
Sadly Robert Christgau still lives on grading music like a school teacher, though at least school teachers have a coherent A-F scale.
Visionary
absolutely
can't believe that's the guy who wrote krankies teardrop
Interesting collection of shots mixed in with an interesting interview.
Great guy . Fantastic accent.
BRILLIANT.
AWESOME!!!!! i love him!!
pure insight from a legend
rest in peace alan vega
Mr.Vega!!! long time com'n
Thank you !
r.i.p.
this is great thx
@giancarlodrago THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH .
Alan didn’t k ow his own actual age..
genio
9:05 MTV fascisme then, fb,twiter,pokemon, smartphone fascisme today; protect yourself
Gangster Rock
What drugs were they on back in the day I've always wondered was it crack? not a dig btw suicide is my favourite band just genuinely wanna know
Coffee. They weren't in to drugs
alan says around 10:53 - 11:00 "I did my coke, acid and weed. I couldnt afford to do much of it thank god, never did heroin"
Whats the song at 9:50??
whats the song at 10:00 PLZ HELP ME
@az0r22 ;-)