Martin Rev

And Suicide were a reaction, weren't they, to the Stooges as well? And so, you know, and they were great admirers of Lou Reed.

I mean, I spoke to Chris Needs, who doesn't feature much in the book, who's just... finished a biography of Marty Rev, who wrote a terrific book about suicide.

I don't know if you've ever spoken to Chris.

But he...

Marty Rev had a really interesting background that wasn't dissimilar to Lou's.

You know, profound love of doo-wop, profound love of free jazz and Pharoah Sanders and all of those people, just as Lou did.

And that free jazz fed into metal machine music as well.

A lot of this still has kind of an edge to it.

Martin Rev put out his self-titled record.

There's an Alan Vega record.

Is lighter on the synths than Suicide, and there is a Suicide record that year.

And bands like, you know, the G.O.

Suicide, Martin Rev and Alan Vega.

And John Peer would sort of touch, you know, like, bring that touch paper, like the touch paper, and you think,

wow, that's a bit different.

[rock music] Death.

Now, Suicide was an American musical group comprised of Alan Vega and Martin Rev.

The duo's pioneering music fused sparse electronic instrumentation, including synthesizers and primitive drum machines.

In Frankie Teardrop, the singer Alan Vega's bloodcurdling screams are so realistic that critics warn listeners, "Don't play this one alone at night.