Alan Vega
Alan Vega
Boruch Alan Bermowitz, known professionally as Alan Vega, was an American vocalist and visual artist, primarily known for his work with the electronic protopunk duo Suicide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
CountryUnited States of America
audiences berlin couple england
We started out in England with a couple of shows, and then in Berlin and then France. It was really amazing. The audiences have been wonderful.
again listened time ya
I'm going back in time to re-listen to the things I listened to years ago and discovering it all over again with new ears, ya know?
ad commercial company hot
No, it was a company called CRASH. They're a very hot ad company in England. A very commercial ad company, one of the biggest, does all these commercials.
came everybody hated suicide
Everybody came in to see Suicide to be entertained, and all we did was give them back the street, in all its glory, and that's what they hated us for.
dumped finally kinda though time turned
And when I finally got dumped from Elektra, which was pretty good, though at the time it was kinda painful, I just turned things around.
hell life thirty took wondering
Life is a gamble. And I took a chance, man. And here I am, talkin' to you today, thirty years later, wondering what the hell I did in the first place!
real men thinking
That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!
nice today buttons
That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.
nice believe men
Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!
couple years able
I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.
falling-in-love rap gangsta
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.
saws pops changed
It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.
men thinking numbers
Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.
space guy cash
But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?