OFF: Silver Apples

Rich Lockwood rich-l at GEOCITIES.COM
Wed Nov 11 09:45:16 EST 1998


John McIntyre wrote:

> >From: Doug Pearson <ceres at SIRIUS.COM>
>
> >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"?

On a more musical note (arf arf), did anyone go to the recent Damon
Albern/Alex Wotsit, Silver Apples, Half Man Half Biscuit gig in London?
And if so, does anyone have a tape?

Cheers,

Rich.

** France is made of marbles **



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