Alan Vega Limited Edition 12” Vinyl Single You Pay /Too Many Teardrops out Today (Velvet Elk Records)
One of Vega’s Final Unreleased Recordings (with Mr. Pharmacist)
Hear “You Pay / Too Many Teardrops”
“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.”– Alan Vega
“If Elvis was born again. he would be Alan Vega.” – Bruce Springsteen
Velvet Elk Records is proud to releaseYou Pay /Too Many Teardrops, one of the last recordings by the great Alan Vega. Produced and co-written by Vega’s friend and collaborator, Mr. Pharmacist (Gregg Foreman) – who used the same equipment as Suicide – this limited edition 12” single features remixes by Jim Sclavunos of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Jim Thirlwell of Foetus, with contributions from Nick Zinner and White Hills.
Too Many Teardrops is available for purchase here.Proceeds will benefit xxxxxx, supporting music education programs nationwide.Velvet Elk Records is co-owned by Jesse Malin and Don DiLego.
“Alan Vega is one of the great revolutionary voices in rock & roll,”said Bruce Springsteen, who made Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream” a live staple.“The bravery and passion he showed throughout his career was deeply influential to me….The blunt force power of his greatest music both with Suicide and on his solo records can still shock and inspire today. There was simply no one else remotely like him.”
“In the beginning Suicide stood out because there was nobody like us.There still isn’t” said Vega. “I have known bands who try to sound like us and some of them do a fairly decent job but they’re not like us. They don’t have the intensity. Back in the day people used to say to us: ‘Oh you guys are ahead of our time’ but I don’t believe in that stuff. I thought we were right on our time – everyone else was behind the time.”