5 Facts About the Band Silver Apples
- Silver Apples consisted of only two members: Simeon Coxe on electronics and vocals, and Danny Taylor on drums and percussion.
- Coxe played a homemade synthesizer called the “Simeon,” which he built from oscillators and filters.
- The band is known for pioneering electronic rock music in the late 1960s.
- Their sound relied on repetitive, hypnotic rhythms created by Taylor’s drumming and Coxe’s electronic pulses.
- Silver Apples released two albums in 1968 and 1969 before disbanding due to legal issues.