RIP Simeon Coxe (Silver Apples)
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35449 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- addled muppet weed
- 111297 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
legend!
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- KVRAF
- 8117 posts since 13 Jan, 2003 from Darkest Kent, UK
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- KVRAF
- 8112 posts since 26 Jul, 2018
damn. Vurt is right, Legend.
Definitely one of those albums/artists that stopped me in my tracks the first I heard it. Still sounds strange, bizarre and wonderful. R.I.P.
Definitely one of those albums/artists that stopped me in my tracks the first I heard it. Still sounds strange, bizarre and wonderful. R.I.P.
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- KVRAF
- 6466 posts since 18 Jul, 2008 from New York
Sad news. I was fortunate to see an amazing gig in New York at The Cooler in the 90s with the Silver Apples, Alan Vega of Suicide, and Peter Kember (of Spacemen 3) performing as E.A.R.
Simeon was leading a reformed Silver Apples with his big homebrew synthesizer. Alan Vega did a couple of numbers with them as well as performing on his own. Pete Kember performed with a suitcase VCS 3 and a cheap, handheld Casio keyboard. All of these mavericks playing on the same bill was unforgettable.
Simeon was decades ahead of his time. He will be missed.
Simeon was leading a reformed Silver Apples with his big homebrew synthesizer. Alan Vega did a couple of numbers with them as well as performing on his own. Pete Kember performed with a suitcase VCS 3 and a cheap, handheld Casio keyboard. All of these mavericks playing on the same bill was unforgettable.
Simeon was decades ahead of his time. He will be missed.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111297 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
nice! never saw ear (or suicide or members at all) but did catch silver apples and sonic boom together about 10/15 years back, in a poxy little club with about 100 people topsFrantz wrote: Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:46 am Sad news. I was fortunate to see an amazing gig in New York at The Cooler in the 90s with the Silver Apples, Alan Vega of Suicide, and Peter Kember (of Spacemen 3) performing as E.A.R.
Simeon was leading a reformed Silver Apples with his big homebrew synthesizer. Alan Vega did a couple of numbers with them as well as performing on his own. Pete Kember performed with a suitcase VCS 3 and a cheap, handheld Casio keyboard. All of these mavericks playing on the same bill was unforgettable.
Simeon was decades ahead of his time. He will be missed.
well, on the same bill, they didnt actually play together
and i have seen spacemen3 once not long before the split.
and yes, simeon was way ahead of his time.
the two albums are relatively unknown classics!
would have loved to have caught suicide at some point
oh well, cant have everything i guess.-
- KVRAF
- 2734 posts since 15 Apr, 2004 from Capital City, UK
I managed to catch him at the Victoria Park festival gig a couple of years ago (the day of the London Bridge terror attack); it was him or uziq.. I knew he had a mad setup, and his songs are all pretty mental sounding.. but I'll never forget watching him on stage twiddling his knobs for the crowd. a room full of old guys standing and watching and young folks dancing to the sonic madness.
you can tell when people have an affinity with their equipment. and he did. and it was beautiful.
you can tell when people have an affinity with their equipment. and he did. and it was beautiful.
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- KVRAF
- 2593 posts since 15 Feb, 2006 from Another Green World
Silver Apples had a rigorous austerity to their approach that was really unique, RIP Simeon!