Simeon Coxe, co-founder of the pioneering proto-synthesizer outfit Silver Apples, has died at the age of 82
, Kapp’s marketing wing concocted a partnership that allowed the band to shoot the cover photo in the cockpit of a PanAm airplane, so long as the company’s logo was also visible. The final photo, however, featured some subtle drug paraphernalia, while the back photo notably found Coxe and Taylor sitting among the wreckage of a plane crash. PanAm was furious, a judge ordered an injunction, and the record was yanked off the shelf.
The snafu forced Kapp to shutter and Silver Apples to shelve the third album they’d recorded after realizing they’d effectively been blacklisted throughout the music industry. Silver Apples split and Coxe moved to Alabama, where he drove an ice cream truck for a brief period of time and worked for several decades at WKRG TV in Mobile.
In 1996 — as Silver Apples increasingly became a definitive touchstone for groups like Portishead and Stereolab — Coxe revived the group with a new lineup featuring Xian Hawkins. They released two albums, 1998’s; while in 1998 Coxe and Taylor also reunited for a string of shows and to release their “lost” third album,But then Coxe broke his neck in a car crash, and by the time he was well enough to play again, around 2005, Taylor died of a heart attack.
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