Handle With Care Front Cover

Updated 1/14/2014 – I wanted to explain the reason for a change in the Silver Laughter header picture. As I have said before, there were only 4 of us on stage at any one time after I joined the band. So the pictures are of the main 5 people who contributed to our recording days.

“Handle With Care ” featured Jon on guitar, Ken on lead, Kim on drums and mandolin and me on bass and piano which was also our lineup on stage. Steve Elliott, one of the founding members, came back to play steel guitar and banjo on one of the tracks (“Whiskey Heaven”), but I don’t have a good photo of him to include in the header.

Sailing on Fantasies Front Cover

“Sailing on Fantasies” featured Jon on guitar, Ken on lead, Paul on drums and me on bass and piano.

For this reason I have removed Mark Zaputil from the header photo.

Mick Orton

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