After the collapse of the Mercer Arts Center in 1973, Suicide played at Max's Kansas City and CBGB (before being banned), often sharing the bill with emerging punk bands. Just from the way we looked they started giving us hell already.' This sort of audience confrontation was inspired by Vega's witnessing of an Iggy and the Stooges concert at the New York State Pavilion in August 1969, which he later described as 'great art'. Vega once stated 'We started getting booed as soon as we came onstage.

Vega and Rev both dressed like arty street thugs, and Vega was notorious for brandishing a length of motorcycle drive chain onstage. David Johansen once played harmonica with Suicide in an early show there. Many of the band's early shows were at the Mercer Arts Center, alongside bands such as the New York Dolls and Eric Emerson and the Magic Tramps. Suicide emerged alongside the early glam punk scene in New York, with a reputation for its confrontational live shows. Some of the band's earliest posters use the terms ' punk music' and ' punk music mass'. It was the first band to use the term punk to describe itself, which the band had adopted from an article by Lester Bangs. Rev's simple keyboard riffs (initially played on a battered Farfisa organ combined with effects units, before changing to a synthesizer) were accompanied by primitive drum machines, providing a pulsing, minimalistic, electronic backdrop for Vega's murmuring and nervy vocals. He further explained, 'We were talking about societyвЂ™s suicide, especially American society. Their debut album Suicide (1977) was described by Entertainment Weekly as 'a landmark of electronic music', while AllMusic stated that it 'provided the blueprints for post-punk, synth pop, and industrial rock.' Rolling Stone called them 'an unmeasurable influence on the industrial dance, noise, techno, ambient, and electronic scenes of the 1980s and 1990s.' ДЄccording to a 2002 interview of Alan Vega, the name of the band was inspired by the title of a Ghost Rider comic book issue titled ' Satan Suicide'. Though never widely popular among the general public, Suicide have been recognized as among the most influential acts of their era. They were among the first acts to use the phrase ' punk music' in an advertisement for a concert in 1970. The group's pioneering music utilized minimalist electronic instrumentation, including synthesizers and primitive drum machines, and their early performances were confrontational and often ended in violence. Suicide was an American musical duo composed of vocalist Alan Vega and instrumentalist Martin Rev, intermittently active between 19. Red Star, ZE, ROIR International, Blast First/ Mute

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