Alan Vega

   
Artist: Alan Vega

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Jukebox Babe/Collision Drive

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 17


   
 Saturn Strip

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 9

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One half of the seminal electronic couplet Suicide, Alan Vega was innate in Brooklyn, NY, in 1948. He began his life history as a optic creative person, gaining notoriety for his "light sculptures"; eventually Vega opened his possess lour Manhattan gallery infinite, which he dubbed the Project of Living Artists. The Project served as a stomping curtilage for the likes of the New York Dolls, Television, and Blondie as well as the 15-piece nothingness chemical group Reverend B., which featured a player named Martin Rev on electrical forte-piano. Soon, Vega and Rev formed Suicide, whose minimalist, aggressive euphony -- a coalition of Rev's ominous, repetitive keyboards and Vega's rockabilly tangle -- helped paved the direction for the electronic artists of the future.


Self-destruction disbanded in 1980, and both Vega and Rev undertook solo careers. Vega's self-titled 1980 debut and his 1981 exploit Collision Drive continued to explore the fractured rockabilly personal identity he had established in his earlier work. 1983's Saturn Strip, produced by longtime fan Ric Ocasek, pronounced Vega's debut for Elektra Records; incorporated dealings soured during yield for 1985's Barely a Million Dreams, however, and at one point the label even attempted to take away the singer from his own studio apartment roger Huntington Sessions.


Felo-de-se briefly re-formed in 1988; a year later the solo Lope de Vega appeared, followed in 1990 by Deuce Avenue. After the release of 1991's Powerfulness on to Zero Hour, Suicide over again reunited and toured. In 1995, Vega resurfaced as a solo creative person with New Raceion; a year later on, he returned with Dujang Prang. At the turn of the decennium, he as well began exploring new media outlets: Deuce Avenue War/The Warriors v3 97, his first account book of photography, appeared in 1990, while Cripple Nation, a aggregation of prose and lyrics, bowed in 1991. Big businessman on to Zero Hour and Cubist Blues (with Alex Chilton and Ben Vaughn) captive up his '90s recordings, followed in the early 2000s by thus far some other Suicide re-formation (which yielded 2002's American language Supreme) and 2007's solo Station on Blast First Records.





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