OFF: Silver Apples

[Doug Pearson]

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:02:02 -0500, John McIntyre <MCINTYRE at PA.MSU.EDU>
queried:

>>Silver Apples [New York], who took their name from a work by experiemtal
>>composer Morton Subotnick ("Silver Apples of the Moon")
>
>Doug, as you know people close to the band, perhaps you can offer a
>definitive answer to this question.  Was the name of the band *really*
>taken from Subotnick's title or from Subotnick's source, William Butler
>Yeat's poem "Song Of Wandering Angus":  "And pluck till time and times
>are done/The silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun"?

Good question ... I've seen interviews where Simeon mentions Subotnick,
Stockhausen, etc. as influences, so I always assumed that the name did come
from ole Mort, but I couldn't state this with 100% certainty.  It could
even be that the name was picked because of both sources ... I once named a
band after a Stockhausen composition, not because the band sounded the
least bit like an avant-garde work, but because the philosophies were
(vaguely) similar, and the German word was an appropriate description of
the band's sound ...

But sorry I don't have the DEFINITIVE answer.

BTW the latest word on Simeon is that he is alert and stable in the
hospital, even able to make slight movements with parts of his body, which
is certainly good news.  The bad news is that (like most musicians) he had
no insurance, so watch for a benefit concert near you, and please attend if
there is one!

        -Doug
         ceres at sirius.com