Silver Apples were a psychedelic electronic music duo from New York City composed of Simeon Coxe III, who performed as Simeon, on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising, and drummer Danny Taylor. The group was active between 1967 and 1969, before reforming in the mid 1990s. They were one of the first groups to employ electronic music techniques extensively within a rock idiom, and their minimalistic style, with its pulsing, driving beat and frequently discordant modality, anticipated not only the experimental electronic music and krautrock of the 1970s, but underground dance music and indie rock of the 1990s as well.
do youse like em? apparently they're playing at the knitting factory in september. i'm so there. wikipedia tells me the other guy died in 05, so i guess it's just simeon and his simeon these days? do they play much anymore? what does he get up to? other than looking like a washed out ol hippie, that is...
yep, fucking awesome! he plays with his son, doesn't he?
Can't believe there wasn't already a thread on these guys. Contact is a great album. I've been listening to their electro-bluegrass number 'Ruby a lot lately.
Gods among men.
i dunno 666! didn't even know they were still around til i saw them listed in a NY gig guide. got very excited
I started a thread on old mono about them.
I got a 7'' off m&n actually that's simeon and his son, light years ahead of their time!
I have the album with the 2 stencilled apples on the front. Very awesome band!
i like it.
''You and I'' is one of the greatest songs ever.
I was trying to bring about a girl group cover of it a couple of years ago, to no avail.
thread needs more jealousy
i have the Lake of Teardrops ep from ''Spectrum & Silver Apples''
(ie: Pete Kember Spectrum that is)
creepy, heavy, electro zombie music
Wow, Simeon's got his own recording studio (''ChickenCoop'' in Alabama). I'm going there.
TONIGHT FOR ALL MOTHERFUCKERS IN BERLIN.
nah just me an gorn. youse can all lick the surpurflous jism from our cocks.
Fuck yeah! See you at 9:30. Any supports tonight? Any idea of cost?
just looking for you now...
12 euros. Not too bad, but no supports.
VERY envious right now.
You can kinda see him in this photo. This was at ATP Portishead in December. One of the highlights.
Surpurflous is not even a word! And if you meant 'superfluous' how do you decide which jism is and which isn't? HOW IS THE QUANTITY WE HAVE TO LICK DETERMINED?
I know, I know, I'm just angry 'cos you are seeing Silver Apples and I'm not.
I would say any amount that comes out of a purveyor of such a sentence would be superfluous.
What if it met an egg? Good heavens.
But it's jimmytrash! Or jismytrash as he will now be known forevermore.
If it met an egg it wouldn't be superfluous. Isn't that the way it works? My understanding of these matters is limited.
I just read that sentence as ''If I met an egg, it wouldn't be superfluous.'' You got an unnecessary laugh out of me. YOU OWE ME.
NO, you owe ME!
What does she owe you? Jism?
Simeon looks like a Byron Bay hippy in that third pic. He's probably pointing at his scented scrotum, waiting to sex it with a dolphin.
Yes, we must offset that disturbing image.
Thanks. You saved the day.
ARRGHGHGHGHG
totally great.
Just Simeon, on his own.
All the electro geat was still old school stuff, but the drum machines were pretty new.
Still, hypnotising, authentic and charming.
Fucking great.
Thanks.
electro ''gear''
soirry. Drunk.
so awesome. Great venue too, right in the old Berlin wall death strip!
a guy i work with knows a surfer dude who does it with sharks...i kid you not. the dude is a weird dude...
Are you serious? In what hole?
Gorn, what venue was it?
Place called Maria, next to the Spree on the border of Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg.
I love Maria, it's definitely my favourite venue around that size I've ever been to. When they open up the whole place/have two rooms for music it's even better.
Yeah definitely a very cool vibe
Joanna Newsom likes to dance to Silver Apples.
True Story.
Rocket From The Crypt released a cover of 'You and I' - good stuff!
so... melbourne sideshow. they're playing with spiritualized? anything else??
I've got my ticket. Ubu's got his ticket. What else do you need to know?
shunt is a spiritualized-ist.
You're being shuntist.
pox on you is a great song
it's perfectly acceptable though.
any others shows! will be seeing spiritualized at ATP but don't really wanna pay to see em twice
no wonder i'm a shuntist.
just go you dork. spiritualized are amazing live.
I need to bump this as I'm sick of you dorks ranting about Spiritualized.
Silver Apples, yay.