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Alan Vega - Spit, Boston Summer [Probably July] 1981 (1981)

Track listing:
  1. Kung Fu Cowboy 4:42
  2. Intro 0:33
  3. Fireball 3:37
  4. Intro 0:23
  5. Hot Date 5:50
  6. Intro 0:25
  7. Jukebox Baby 5:20
  8. Intro 1:03
  9. Otis Redding 4:53
  10. Break 1:02
  11. Bye Bye Bayou 7:24
  12. Outro 1:25

Notes

could be Suicide (but probably not)

Soundboard > normal bias cassette


Not the best sounding, lots of distortion and at times the usual distance typical of small room soundboard tapes, with noises and feedback from Vega knocking the mic around but a rarity for Suicide/Alan Vega fans nonetheless. The band was probably a guitar with a drum machine and/or drummer and there may have been a keyboard. "Fireball" was cut short on the tape - seems that whoever was running the tape deck just stopped the recording. Alan was annoyed because he thought it wasn't loud enough and he complains about it a couple of times.


"Where I grew up in Brooklyn, man, a punk was like a wuss, the guy who ran away from the fight. 'You’re a punk. You’re a weasel. You’re nothing.' Now it has this connotation of being the tough-guy thing. The revolution, are you kidding? So I liked the word and used the term 'punk music mass,' maybe inadvertently trying to turn it into something else. One day I wake up and there’s the word punk all over the place. That’s when it became meaningless to me. Somebody said that Suicide had to be the ultimate punk band because even the punks hated us." (Alan Vega, 2008)