From left: Craig Hute, Dave Neumann, Paul Staack and missing Mick Orton.
In my continuing effort to share some musical history of the band, Silver Laughter, it has to be mentioned that there are roots in The Contents Are:.
During The Contents Are:’s time in Colorado, the band toyed with changing the name to Tabernash. I am not sure what prompted the idea. In fact, Craig told me recently it was a dumb thing to do since we had already built up some notoriety in Denver as The Contents Are:.
On a trip west without me, the guys took a picture of a sign for the almost empty town of Tabernash that inspired the name change idea. Notice they even left a place for me. We could have used Photoshop back then! But personal computers were not even invented yet. Computers were huge mainframes inside bank buildings and government installations!
Mick Orton