Here is another snapshot from Carl’s Archives. It shows four of the five Silver Laughter members, possibly in between personnel changes? The totem pole starts from the top with Jon Ludtke on guitar, Steve Elliott still on bass, Denny Walton… Read More ›
Well, it’s finally raining here in Northern California. Believe me, we need it. Thanksgiving has just passed, and yesterday we got our Christmas tree before the wet stuff started coming down. This weekend we will be decorating the house. Fun,… Read More ›
This is exactly 2 years since the first post on this website. Tonight I am putting up 5 photos from the Carl Collection of the band in various stages of our career. The first two are early ones of Jon… Read More ›
Here is a an early photo of Silver Laughter which Carl sent. It looks like it is a rehearsal. From the left is Jon, then behind the speaker is John Carstensen and Denny Walton. On the right is Steve Elliott…. Read More ›
Oops! I already had this tidbit in the original post! Sorry, friends!
The first week of November had us finishing up a week at the Kongo Club in Mitchell, SD on a Sunday night. Monday and Tuesday we had off before Jon and I flew to New York to try and sell… Read More ›
We hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving. It is a time to look back and be grateful. One of my biggest thrills was having our band, Silver Laughter, inducted into the Iowa R&R Association’s Hall of Fame for this… Read More ›
These few photos are, again, from Carl’s Collection of photographic memories. They relate happier times when all of us were making good music together. Notice in the first picture all of us are wearing Silver Laughter t-shirts… except for Ken…. Read More ›
Carl sent this photo of three of us onstage somewhere. It looks like the ceiling is about to fall in! Mick Orton
Here are three pictures all taken by our manager, Art Stenstrom, from three different sessions. I have posted selections from these sets elsewhere on this site, but have never put three together to show the progression of 1) our clothes,… Read More ›