Sad to hear the news of Simeon’s passing at the age of 82; a true innovator in electronic music.
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Oh that’s sad. Proper pioneer. 82 is a pretty good stay. I just read he had a period driving an ice-cream truck. Of course he did. RIP
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Sad - a very forward looking musician. I had the pleasure of playing a few times with Jake Bell, a guitarist who had been in The Random Concept with Simeon (before Silver Apples) - This was around 1993. That is where I first learned of him and looked up his very important work.
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rip to a pioneer. Not enough credit given to silver apples.
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Ah 
The attitude character and personality is so strong in their music
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That’s pretty cool!
Some details about The Random Concept from an interview I published with Simeon some years ago:
I worked in the kitchen and washed the dishes were bluegrass musicians. They used to sit out on the back porch of the dining hall in between meals and play bluegrass, so I kind of fell in with that. I started singing back-up, I mean I have sort of a bluegrass background being from the South, so it was a natural feel for me. I got into the music, and that group of bus boys and waiters and bartenders gradually became The Random Concept . We eventually got amps, an electric guitar and a set of drums and started working gigs in the local area. Eventually we got quite a name for ourselves. This is between about 1963 and 1965, possibly pushing on into 1966 aways.
The Random Concept became quite a phenomenon up in Connecticut and in the New York club scene. We got a booking agent and started playing clubs in New York and living in hotels down there as a band, you know, everyone piled into a couple of rooms, that kind of living. We were in the Albert Hotel along with The Mothers of Invention , The Blues Magoos , The Lovin’ Spoonful and tons of other bands that were playing the same places that we were. We all got to know each other. It was that kind of a scene. And it was through that scene that I eventually got a job singing with The Overland Stage Band , that had Danny Taylor as the drummer. That’s how I met Danny, in the Greenwich Village scene of the mid 1960s.
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I’m glad I got to see Silver Apples play at Big Ears Festival a few years ago. His drummer for the gig, as I recall, was local to the area - Knoxville, TN
I think Terry Riley was watching from the back of the room. Such a great festival that year.
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Simeon and Jimi playing Star Spangled Banner
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Anyone seen that doco/movie, Silver apples on the moon? Recommend or pass?
Oscillations - could there have been a better dawn to the electronic pop age?
I think we’re all chasing what that song is celebrating.
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Some photos of Coxe’s synth rig. Some of the panels almost look like TB-303 panels.
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Those are maestro effects units.
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