Silver Apples

For the band's 1968 debut album, see Silver Apples (album).
Silver Apples
Simeon Coxe of Silver Apples performing in Barcelona in 2008
Background information
OriginNew York City, United States
Genres
Years active1967–1970, 1996–1999, 2006–2016
Labels
Past membersSimeon
Danny Taylor
Xian Hawkins
Michael Lerner
Websitewww.silverapples.com
Ad for The Silver Apples album, 1968

Silver Apples were an American electronic rock group[2] from New York, active between 1967 and 1970, before reforming in the mid-1990s. It was composed of Simeon (born Simeon Oliver Coxe III,[4] June 4, 1938 – September 8, 2020),[5] who performed on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising; and, until his death in 2005, drummer Danny Taylor. The duo were among the first to employ electronic music techniques outside of academia, applying them to 1960s rock and pop styles.[6]

As part of New York's underground music scene, the band released two albums—Silver Apples (1968) and Contact (1969)—to poor sales.[7] They began recording a third album before a lawsuit by Pan Am, owing to the use of their logo in the artwork of Contact, forced the end of the group and its label Kapp in 1970.[7] In the 1990s, German bootleg recordings of the band's albums raised their profile, and Simeon reformed the group with other musicians and released new music.[7] In 1998, he reconnected with Taylor, and the two completed their original third LP The Garden (1998).[7] After Taylor's death, Simeon continued releasing Silver Apples projects using samples of Taylor's drumming.[2]

  1. ^ Smith, Ethan (May 28, 1998). "Still Beating". NY Mag. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Wray, Daniel Dylan. "The great 60s electro-pop plane crash: how pioneers Silver Apples fell out of the sky". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  3. ^ Brend, Mark (2012). The Sound of Tomorrow: How Electronic Music Was Smuggled into the Mainstream. Bloomsbury. p. 186. ISBN 9781623561536. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  4. ^ Statton, Charles (2008). As a Tree Grows: A Genealogy of the Cox and Allied Families of Northwestern North Carolina. iUniverse. ISBN 9781440101908. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  5. ^ Simeon Coxe III. Legacy.com. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  6. ^ Cuzner, Russell. "Brothers Of Invention: Silver Apples & Graham Sutton In Conversation". The Quietus. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  7. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference Ankeny was invoked but never defined (see the help page).