Silver Apples live @ The Knitting Factory + Silent Barn

Silver Apples at The Knitting Factory Tap Bar (74 Leonard St btw Church and Broadway, Manhattan)$10 advance / $12 at the door. Wednesday, September 12.

Silver Apples are also playing a ToddP show tomorrow night, Thursday, September 13 at Silent Barn.

In the late 60s in New York, the Silver Apples were making music that was truly unlike anything else around. The duo, Danny Taylor, who played percussion, and Simeon, who sang and played an instrument that consisted of "nine audio oscillators and eighty-six manual controls" (basically an early synthesizer), predated the fusion of drone and rock even of pioneers Spacemen 3 and Suicide. Their sound was driving and shimmering, with rhythms shifting in and out to make w! ay for bending ambience and hums--really beautiful and powerful stuff. After two albums, the band disappeared, never to be heard from again until the mid-90s, when Simeon reformed the band with a new percussionist to tour and record another couple albums. Had it not been for a van accident that left Simeon with a broken neck just after the reformation of the band, we may have heard a lot from them after that comeback, but the injuries sidelined him. Miraculously he's recovered fully over the years, and though performances are rare, they do occur from time to time. Tonight's one of those times, and it absolutely shouldn't be missed.

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