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Bassist, vocalist and co-song writer for THE SILVERS! What have we done?
1) NEW HIT SINGLE (2 songs)
2) FREE What are You Christmas?
3) After The Laugher (14 songs including 2 above)
4) End of Summer EP (6 songs)
5) FREE Sing Another Christmas Song
6) PLAY! (14 songs)
7) Another summer EP (7 songs including re-recording of Running Away)
8) FREE Silvers Bells (4 Christmas songs)
9) Soul surrender (14 songs to be released May 2018)

And don't forget the animated videos of some of these songs!

• Silver Laughter – Mark Zaputil Plays the Drums While Kim Plays Piano

  By The Silvers on January 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  When I first joined the group, one of the songs that was a staple of the Silver Laughter song list was “Color My World” by Chicago. For this tune, Kim switched from drums to the little electric piano while Mark… Read More ›

• Old Outtake Photo of Silver Laughter

  By The Silvers on January 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  This photo was taken when I first joined the band. We obviously didn’t use this one. Everyone looked so serious. The one we chose was a color photo of us around a seated Jon Ludtke which may be found elsewhere… Read More ›

• One of the Places Silver Laughter Played – The Kaiserhoff in New Ulm, MN

  By The Silvers on January 21, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  While talking to my good friend, Denise, who is from New Ulm, she found this photo of a place Silver Laughter used to play which is on the Kaiserhoff website. According to her they stopped having bands shortly after Silver… Read More ›

• Silver Laughter – Union Musicians

  By The Silvers on January 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In order to play on the road, the members of Silver Laughter had to belong to a union. I think it was Jon or Kim who found a musicians local in Muscatine, IA just down the Mississippi River from Davenport…. Read More ›

• Quad City Times Recognizes Silver Laughter’s IRRMA Induction for 2014!

  By The Silvers on January 19, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  Our friend, Lily, sent this to me today from the Quad City Times website. In case you aren’t aware, Davenport is part of the Quad Cities which includes Davenport, Rock Island, Moline and East Moline. Bettendorf should actually be in… Read More ›

• KICD AM And Several Other Iowa Radio Stations Post News of Silver Laughter’s Induction into IRRMA Hall of Fame

  By The Silvers on January 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Just found an article from January 3 on the KICD website. Title: Iowa Rock ‘n Roll Music Association Announces Hall of Fame Class Arnolds Park (IRRMA)–The Iowa Rock ‘n Roll Music Association is proud to announce the distinguished 2014 Hall of… Read More ›

• One Last Picture of Silver Laughter’s Ken and Mick as Double Shot

  By The Silvers on January 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  I had one more slide that I converted to a JPEG. It’s strange that I do not recall where this photo was taken or who took it. It was a very small stage so it had to be one of… Read More ›

• WQAD in the Quad Cities Recognizes Silver Laughter as IRRMA Inductees

  By The Silvers on January 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Updated 1/16/14 – This is a correction to the January 10th post I did about: “Silver Laughter” and “Hall of Fame” and found another article about us being inducted into the Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Excellent news!… Read More ›

• Silver Laughter – “Sailing On Fantasies” – Lyrics to “The Showdown”

  By The Silvers on January 14, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  As I have said before, in the beginning I think Jon meant the showdown to be between two lovers. But it ended up as a gunfight at the OK Corral! We had the synthesizer do the wind at the end… Read More ›

• Former TODD Beat Group Member, Thomas Kelley, Found an Original Sheet of Silver Laughter’s “Don’t Feel Bad” Lyrics!

  By The Silvers on January 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Tom Kelley and I have been communicating quite a bit lately. Seems he dug into his archives from the TODD Beat Group days and found the original lyrics to “Don’t Feel Bad” which he posted on his Facebook page. I… Read More ›