I'm hearing that Alan Vega has died. RIP Alan Vega
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I'm hearing that Alan Vega has died.
RIP Alan Vega
Source?
>>66457637
Yeah what? Haven't seen anything on this
http://henryrollins.com/news/detail/alan_vega1/
Was it... Suicide?
please don't be true
no...
"no"
fuck fuck fuck
at least I got to see him live with Martin Rev.
>>66457739
>With profound sadness and a stillness that only news like this can bring, we regret to inform you that the great artist and creative force, Alan Vega has passed away.
>Alan passed peacefully in his sleep last night, July 16. He was 78 years of age.
>>66457783
I was going to see him at desert daze, I hope this isn't true ugh
>>66457739
That seems a fairly solid source. I don't think Henry would post that if he didn't know for certain.
This is really sad. 2016's a rough year.
Who?
>>66457818
he sang le frankie teardrop song
Henry Rollins confirms.
http://henryrollins.com/news/detail/alan_vega1/
RIP, the original punk
>>66457818
Commit
<---------
frankie frankie...... YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
>>66457799
almost 80 fucking years and suicide were still doing shows like last year
not bad
>>66457803
Henry Rollins wouldn't lie about this: http://henryrollins.com/news/detail/alan_vega1/
https://twitter.com/henryrollins/status/754497878253592576
STICKY WHEN?
WE'RE ALL FRANKIES
AHHH FRANKIE SINATRA
Damn, RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FFIFsK1duw
This is... not true... Isn't it...
Please please tell me this isn't true please
>>66457818
hang ys
he'll be fine
That's what he gets for making that garbage album I guess
>>66458004
da nigga dead.
>all these dipshits frankieposting
they have other songs/albums ya know.
fuck it's real
F
Haha yes!!! He died
>>66458030
That is a really cool photo
>>66458046
RANKIE
>>66458041
he said without source
>>66458041
No they don't?
There's only the blood one
http://henryrollins.com/kcrw/detail/radio_broadcast_381_07-17161/
New henry post
damn...
>>66457747
>>66457846
underrated
Mark and Jerry of DEVO with Alan Vega
They're both dead now...
>>66458041
muh muh-muh muh
night rider
damn that's a shame
RIP, motorcycle hero with the chain.
f
Fuck you 2016
rip
F
>>66457799
Holy shit he was that old?
I guess punks age too, but it's hard to imagine. Sad.
>>66458497
he made the s/t album when he was 29
>>66458575
39.
>>66458620
well fuck I'm bad at math
but you get the point
Ahh shit, no way! Suicide was such a unique group. RIP
WE'RE ALL FRANKIE
Fuck. Makes me more sad than Bowie passing.
>>66458875
AAAHHH
Great more bandwagoners.
>Paco De Lucia (literally who) gets a sticky
>Alen Vega doesn't
>>66458041
>they have other songs
No they don't...
...
...
...let's hear it for FraaAAaAAankyyyyyy...
AGH....AAAHHHHHHHHHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHHGHGGHHGHGHHGHG OOOohhhh...
>Guy from a band named Suicide dies
>It wasn't a suicide
>>66457637
mods please sticky. he was key piece of post-punk.
>>66458980
why would more fans be a bad thing
>>66457637
i fucking hate 2016 holy shit. please don't take iggy pop or patti smith i beg of you.
>>66458984
I cannot think any of the mods being that much into music as their own creative or cultural hobby except for listening to Aphex Twin or otaku OSTs while chatting on IRC but I doubt I'm on the right time line anymore.
I think everyone should hear the infamous 23 Minutes Over Brussels recording at least once.
Shows how brilliantly stand-offish Suicide were
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rXJCl876Lk
>>66458959
FRANKIE SINATRA
If this doesn't get a sticky, then I will lose all faith in the mods
>>66457963
i hehed
>>66458984
>Paco De Lucia
>literally who
>>66459082
/mu/ doesn't even care about prince and he got a sticky
The thing that pisses me off is that nobody realizes just how much of an influence they had or how important they were.
>>66457963
>>66459078
this is why i don't browse here anymore, kill yourselves.
RIP Alan
RIP
>>66459121
then how do you know about the meme
>>66459121
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
>>66459113
in the mainstream? I'm sure actual musicians who copy them know
>>66459021
Just a knee-jerk hipster contrarian reaction. There were plenty of Bowie threads after his death and whatnot but considering that it was David Bowie and everyone knew about him that would be typical. I just fear what people are going to do about Vega's death though Suicide is a bit of a meme "babby's second art-band" and Frankie Teardrop shitposting is usually brought up. Mountains out of mole hills.
>>66459113
People actually do.
>>66459062
Pic related.
>>66459182
FRANIEEEE SINATRAAA
>Ahhh Frankie Sinatra
>Frankie M. 15:36
>guy who sang Frankie Teardrop dies
What does this mean?
>>66459121
Frankie me boy don't know,
you have the perfect voice to sing Calypso,
what did they say?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>66459122
Its real, dubs confirm
>>66459235
New Season of Malcolm In The Middle
Starts next month
NO NO NO NO
oh god, i feel like crying
Wow, I loved Mambo No. 5 as a kid. RIP.
Who?
>>66459121
>walks into Steam Locomotive themed milkbar with fake limp
>"Greeting Sir! What a fine establishment!
>removes trilby
>places trenchcoat with oversized collar on coat rack
>adjusts monocle
>checks pocketwatch
>loosens brass breastplate
>puts safety on steam powered glock
>unsheaths cane
>taps on counter and orders drink
>"Cheers good sir"
>*sips in gentlemanly fashion*
>thinks about how the world should adopt a steampunk aesthetic
>walk over to the jukebox
>takes out coin sack
>inserts coin
>"AHHH FRANKIE SINATRA"
>dies
>>66459122
WHAT NO
>>66459235
publicity for his new album
>>66457919
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34UF6jKpr00
>>66459328
Actually kek'd
Now I feel bad
>>66459271
kek
anything worth listening to besides the first suicide album?
>>66459402
The second Suicide album is also really good.
The other albums are also all pretty good.
AHHH FRANKIE TEARDROP
>>66459402
Sorry that there isn't a flowchart made for you.
>>66459423
i just don't waste my time with stuff that isn't generally considered good
>>66459423
dude was just asking for recs, chill
We're all Frankies
We're all lying in hell
>>66459434
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDHco20dQGY
Go fuck yourself
>SHUT THE FUCK UP!
>THIS IS ABOUT FRANKIE!
STICKY
>>66459449
hey fuck you senpai
>>66459062
haven't listened to this in a while. it always reminds me how much i fucking hate people
anything thats equally as dissonant and misanthropic other than swans and whitehouse?
preferably with the same vibe/sound as suicide
>>66459517
korn
>>66459517
uhm spacemen 3????????////
>>66458620
Truely a legend, becoming one of the pioneers of punk music at 39 and all the kids never even come close to him
https://twitter.com/flea333/status/754515805665005568
why is flea pretending to care about his death lol
>>66459517
Throbbing Gristle
Cabaret Voltaire
Einsturzende Neubauten
Basically, any early Industrial or Industrial-esque artist
>>66459544
flea's got pretty patrician taste t b h
>>66459544
Flea probably does care. He was a part of the New York punk scene at the same time as Suicide after all, when he was playing in Fear.
How is this not stickied i thought suicide's S/T was /mu/core
>>66459528
i was gonna say this, but he said dark and misanthropic so idk..
either way>>66459517
you should check out this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWjbJ2s_--k
and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNW0xXKulco
>>66459163
everyone knows this autistic meme, go outside
why is their s/t considered so great? just cause of the sound they made at the time?
Sticky
>>66459588
>why is their s/t considered so great?
probably because it is great
>>66459588
you obviously don't understand how influential it was.
>>66459588
It is pretty great tbhfam, but also because it was really ahead of the curve, yeah.
>>66459588
>why is their s/t considered so great? just cause of the sound they made at the time?
Nail on the head.
MR. RAY HEY HEY
>>66459588
very unique sound for the time
minimalism
terrifying lyrics/aesthetic
early use of electronic drum machine
first band ever to call their music "punk"
I heard it was Suicide
>>66459627
>first band ever to call their music "punk"
wat
JOHNJOHNJOHNJOHNNY! JOHNNY!
HE'S CRUISING THE NIGHT!
LOOKING FOR LOVE!
Need that sticky man
>>66459576
are you saying I would hear about the memes outside?
HEY GIRL
Still can't understand why a bunch of Elvis Costello fans would riot at a Suicide show
>>66459647
They formed in 1970, and they called their concerts "punk music mass."
It amazes me to think they were making this sort of racket at that time.
>>66459653
it's not gonna happen senpai
So many suave frontmen dying this year. Who's next???
>>66459653
mods are plebs obviously
>>66459588
for a album that thrives on minimalist instrumentls, it sure sounds very unique and memorable
also first time i listened to frankie teardrop i got spooked so damn hard
>>66459689
Iggy
>>66459693
This
>>66459647
>oh frankie frankie oh frankie frankie
>>66459713
;_; Most likely.
>>66459717
I'm really curious to hear what their early performances were like.
>>66459746
my guess is that they probably weren't much different from their first record, considering how minimal and simplistic it is. would have been awesome to see them back then though. i've heard stories about audience members spitting on them, and alan just wiping the spit into his mouth
>>66459795
What a badass.
>>66459434
You're supposed to find out for yourself. That's how you find legit great shit other people don't know that much about. You develop your own taste.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KPNO5f4yO_g
Love this performance.
A cool Psychobilly style version of Ghost Rider from his second solo album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rISbnsi0Ns
>>66459689
jonathan richman
>>66459963
No
>>66459713
>Iggy and Bowie dying in the same year
it would feel so natural
>>66459042
i was thinking about this earlier today before i even heard about vega. now with this news im just like ://///
>>66459961
This is fucking great stuff.
Fuck
Fuck
FUCK
>>66459588
Reconsider suicide
OH SHADAZZ
OH SHADAZZ
RIP
I
P
>>66459544
Lots of people like Suicide. Bruce Springsteen is a vocal fan and has covered them
>>66460068
Same actually, I almost felt like I jinxed it or something.
also, this thread should really get a sticky, Alan was super important.
Did anyone else get, like, celebratory? With Bowie and Prince I felt sad and confused and sorta pissed and lost, this time I started whooping it up, yelling "he is GONE children he is GONE" to my empty room, basically laughing. You think he would have wanted that? I'm not happy he's dead, but it just seems so ridiculous this time. I couldn't sleep so I checked twitter and the first fucking thing I see is Alan Vega trending, and I just knew there'd be no way he'd be trending if he wasn't rip AND HE IS FUHUHUCKKK
>tfw listening to suicide while tripping on acid at age sixteen
Hard to believe that was ten years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsL6tMM5hJg
>>66457637
RIP Neon Indian
DIAMONDS
FUR COAT
CHAMPAGNE
>>66460263
I think Alan P of Neon Indian will be sad with the news. He was a really big fan of the duo.
Can any of you listen to Frankie Teardrop in the dark yet? I can't. I'm man enough to admit that shit still fucks my shit up, even when I listen to it in broad daylight.
>>66460415
>not listening to it right now, in the dark, totally hammered
Alan is rolling in his freshly dug grave anon
F
>>66460415
i'm with you, anon. christ, i'll just listen to it tomorrow when it's bright and sunny out.
fuck me man this one hurts the most
F
OH GIRL!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAQ2jq6vwsE
F
:(
I just wonder how James Murphy and Bryce Springsteen feels right now.
When Bob Pollard goes it's really going to kill me
>>66457963
10/10 that made me kek hard and I'm a Suicide fan who is sad over Alan's death.
>>66459121
Calm down, senpai.
>>66460701
I DON'T CAAAAARRRRRRRREEEEEEEEE WHAT YOU DOOOOO ANYMOREEEEE
2016 strikes again. R.I.P.
AAAAAH FRANKIE SINATRA
I bet Pitchfork feels real stupid right now not giving it a 10.0
FFF
F
FFF
F
F
Where is the motherfucking sticky?
>>66460237
best song
this is so surreal, i never even considered him dying someday
there's no fucking way he was 78, why would he suddenly start playing music at age 32
>>66460989
Not til the next reissue rolls around
>>66461121
Because he was pursuing an art career long before music?
>>66461121
From Wikipedia:
>Seeing The Stooges perform at the New York State Pavilion in August 1969 was an epiphany for Vega. In 1970, he met and befriended Martin Reverby. Together, the two began experimenting with music and formed the band Suicide along with guitarist Paul Liebgott. The group played twice at MUSEUM before moving on to the OK Harris Gallery. Calling himself "Nasty Cut", he used the terms "Punk Music" and "Punk Music Mass" in flyers to describe their music, which he adopted from an article by Lester Bangs. In 1971 the group dropped Paul Liebgott and added Mari Reverby on drums, though she didn't play in their live performances. With Bermowitz finally settling on Alan Suicide as a working name, they began to play music venues. Suicide went on to perform at the Mercer Arts Center, Max's Kansas City, CBGB and ultimately, achieve international recognition.
>>66461138
People here don't know anything substantial about the cool bands they are supposed to listen to. Anything more would be dismissed as 'autism'
RIP Alan
>>66459679
I never heard this before - apparently it's true:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/aug/01/popandrock.suicide
>>66461167
Something about a 30 year old watching Iggy Pop and thinking "I wanna be like him!" just doesn't seem right to me
>>66461246
It's the 23 Minutes Over Brussels recording (Bonus disc in one of the S/T reissues) that captures that event. Any Suicide fan would know this.
There's a recording (I think it's a song called "Dance") on one of their live albums with the audience chanting "FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU" on it too.
>>66461280
When you're in your 30s you will understand
>>66461342
Are you in your 30s?
>>66460187
lol what songs did bruce cover
>>66461380
Almost his age when he started Suicide. Sorry for outing a portion of my identity on an anonymous imageboard. The substance of the post should be always be a bit more important than the identity of the poster at most times.
>>66461472
Dream Baby Dream.
Also, State Trooper off Nebraska is directly influenced by Frankie Teardrop according to bruce himself
>>66461342
It depends upon what the meaning of the word "fan" is.
Thanks for pointing out where I can hear it, at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rXJCl876Lk
>>66461490
Can you give me a glimpse of his/your mindset then?
>>66461527
I would usually like to attribute the word "fan" with a hint of autism but I'm sure that would be "superfan".
Oh, and off-topic and slightly meta. Before Facebook had the "Like" button it was a "Become a fan" button. I would also like to point out that Facebook ripped off the Canv.as sticker system for their current system of reactions :^)
>>66458123
not underrated, just not very funny
I feel like shit knowing I will never see Suicide live.
RIP Alan Vega
>>66461625
I have a few things I'm a superfan for too, but you can't have an obsession about everything.
it was surreal seeing those new reactions reacting to a Turkish video posted to Facebook, of people whose arms or heads had been reduced to burger from helicopter fire, and what was supposed to capture the revulsion to the sickening sight were....THESE (by the hundreds)
>>66461589
Take it with a grain of salt because there is clearly some forms of projection.
I'd like assume that if you were more leaning on the artistic side there would be some sort of narcissism. I've met plenty of musicians (I guess I could consider myself one but I never went up on stage) and many always have this self-satisfaction ("smug" would be too harsh of a word) of success in a manner like an award-winning athlete. It takes a lot of time and sacrifice to achieve your personal endeavors. Seeing The Stooges and Iggy Pop on stage, (shot in the dark) possibly cutting himself on-stage and bleeding for the audience, must've inspired him. Your art critics aren't going to see you bleed when you present a piece and your sports fans aren't going to see you run that extra mile everyday in pain to be the best.
I'm not familiar with his actual art pieces (I believe he was a sculptor) but maybe he just got by and got enough to eat and maybe wanted more? When you perform on stage you have the audience paying attention to you than you would having the audience looking at your art.
I've had plenty of epiphanies over the past decade but nothings ever come out of it. Maybe it's not an age thing but an unsatisfied ego. But many shows I've been to makes me inspired to make something of myself. But then you wake up and the morning comes.
I forgot how terrifying his screaming is in Frankie Teardrop
It's a animals violent yelp, it feels so intense
does anyone else hear similarities between "Frankie Teardrop" and Dylan's "The Ballad of Hollis Brown"? it's set in an urban environment, and it's a much more visceral emotional experience, but thematically they're similar
>Mods please sticky this
>>66461625
>ripped off the Canv.as
fuck off christopher you ripped off SA and 2ch
>>66459963
Don't you fucking dare
>>66459402
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15XuMThGgy4
>>66461882
Thanks, this makes a bit more sense I think
>>66461200
>People here don't know anything substantial about the cool bands they are supposed to listen to
That's what I'm trying to figure out retard
Was fortunate enough to see the Gories do their rendition of Ghostrider a few days ago, but all I could take away from their performance was how much more excited I was to see Suicide's original in October. RIP
Also some Alan Vega thread, doesn't matter which one, should be fucking sticked goddammit.
bump because fuck you mods
>>66463107 this forever
>>66462937
all me
>>66461882
I can connect with this minus the age part, thanks dude. I hope you get what you're looking for man
Dammit, I was just starting to really get into him recently and he just passes away out of nowhere, same thing happened to me with Bowie. It's a shame his death won't receive the same amount of attention as that of Prince or Bowie. Wish I could have seen him live.
RIP Alan
>>66462937
>>66463119
Oh and
>the cool bands they are supposed to listen to
was a joke btw :^)
>>66462621
>ripped off SA and 2ch
Someone doesn't know their history or the difference between 2chan and 2channel either. How do you rip off SA when ATDRW or whatever migrated from there?
>>66463107
Seriously this needs to be stickied
>>66459276
One of my favorite pastas
Up there with grocery flylo and Thom's sex helping machine
>>66461121
>>66461138
one of the main things that led to no wave was that artists that didn't have musical experience got inspired to start a band
>>66457637
RIP
>>66457637
so glad saw him live 2011 performing suicide 1977, now I appreciate even more that gig
>>66459254
underrated
>>66459235
>What does this mean?
Not a very good time to use the name Frankie, I imagine.
>>66459419
Was just thinking of this one. Ebin.
>"When I was 17, my mom came downstairs while I was listening to 'Frankie Teardrop' really loud. That was the only time she ever asked if I was using drugs."
-Steve Albini
>>66459963
DELETE THIS
>>66459402
I find it odd that this album is never mentioned. For me it's their second best.
>>66458984
This actually triggered me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcgeHvPcgHE
fucking incredible
>>66459963
NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO
>>66457637
Sticky, come ON.
literally who
Bumping again
Come on mods, sticky this shit. This is an important man that's died.
i'm so sad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWjbJ2s_--k
awesome tribute to suicide from an awesome band
>didn't kill himself
Wasted opportunity tbqh
Fuck 2016 honestly
also STICKY WHEN
fuck fuck fuck. Suicide debut album is one of the first musical kicks in the ass of my life.
>>66467758 same desu..... heres a rare pic of daddy in his 20s
>>66457637
STICKY THIS FFS
never liked his music
>avant teens
WHY NO STICKY
WHAT THE FUCK
>>66457803
same :/
OHHHH, FRANKIE'S DEAD!!!
>new ilys albums gets (temporary) sticky
>this doesn't
What the fuck are you playing at, mods?
>>66468138
We're all Frankies!
I can sense it familia. ;_;
If Gen dies I'm going to cry like a little bitch...
rip
>>66458984
triggered
>>66458041
Because it's really easy to make "Frankie's Dead" jokes now ya dip.
2016 is a killer
>dead at 78
damn didn't even realize he was that old
and he was still touring
>>66468288
don't put that thought in my head anon PLEASE
>>66468288
No sticky
>>66468606
that's incredible. Always taking it farther away
>39 by the time Suicide released their debut. Already one of the oldest of the punk bunch
![tom-waits-2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/liCoiei.jpg "tom-waits-2[1].jpg")
he's next, /mu/....
>>66457637
Talentless hack
(((Boruch Alan Bermowitz)))
>>66457637
Rest in peace.
>>66469167
>>66469167
You can see on wiki that he had to pretend to be 10 yrs younger all the way to his 70th birthday. It has his Jewish, Mediterranean heritage that allowed him to pull it off.
What a guy
>>66469294
sly
Had no idea he was as old as he was.
>>66469167
MC Ride must have been in his early thirties for Ex Military
R.I.P love and light ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4jrOmkY8J8&index=1&list=PLTv2uWE_5ylNJHbMgwRySid-TLuumm8LM
MAKE A GODDAMN STICKY
WHO THE FUCK CARES HOW SOCIALLY RELEVANT HE IS TO NORMIES THIS IS FUCKING /MU/ HOME OF AVANT TEENS AND POPTIMISTS AND ACTUAL FECES
