Bruce
Springsteen FAQ: All That's Left to Know about the Boss by John D.
Luerssen. Paperback book published by Backbeat Books 2012, 437 pages
with black and white photographs.
“Long
before he sold 120 million albums globally in a career that has
endured artistically and commercially like no other performer s in
the rock era, Bruce Springsteen was a working-class New Jersey kid
with a dream and a guitar.”
On the
July 16, 2016 Alan Vega (Boruch Alan Bermowitz) passed away. He was
78 years old.
Over
recent years I have often thought about which musician or group (living and gigging) I
would still like to see performing in a live situation. The answer
has always been Suicide of which Alan Vega was half thereof. As far
as I'm aware, Suicide never toured here in Australia (...correct me
if i'm wrong) and now they never will. It's hard to explain how
important that first Suicide album was/is if you don't know it... and
there are plenty of people who if they did know it would hate it
anyway...
…despite
it being fairly straight down the line rock n roll... albeit with a dark
primeval twist to disturb the status quo/everything. Unlike Bruce Springsteen
there weren't any guitars, no stadium gigs, no 120 million sold albums, no mega stardom, just a deep respect from those in the know.
Now
you're probably wondering why i'm writing about Alan Vega in a blog
entry about a Bruce Springsteen book. The truth is that I don't have
any books about Suicide or Alan Vega at the moment, nor have I ever
come across any in my second hand book searching expeditions, but I
really wanted to write something about him. Bruce Springsteen was/is
a fan. He has also rather famously covered Dream Baby Dream:
A nice
version... but here's Suicide.
Goodbye Alan.
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