Art “Smart” Stenstrom was a very enterprising guy. As I have stated before, it was a mistake for us to dump him in the last days of Silver Laughter’s existence. Jon agreed. Stenstrom released singles from “Sailing On Fantasies” (probably… Read More ›
“I Can’t Believe In You” Today we have already had visitors from the US, Canada, Russia and South Africa who may have never heard either of our LPs. Click on the link above to hear one of the more popular… Read More ›
Here is a photo I dug up of Mark Zaputil right before he went on the road with Silver Laughter. Note: Today we have had visitors from the US, Brazil, France and Lithuania.
Here is a picture of Ken playing Hugh Hofner onstage during the Beatles Tribute when I switched to piano. I am sorry I do not remember the venue.
Here is another Carl Contribution of Silver Laughter in the early days. It shows four young men who are “outstanding in their field”. Sorry, an old Iowa joke. The four Silver Laughter members are literally out standing in the field… Read More ›
This crumpled up piece of paper was salvaged by Carl somewhere along the line. The document shows an early list of songs meant to accompany a tape that promoted the band back in the early ’70’s. It was done at… Read More ›
I don’t remember ever having seen this one before, at least I don’t recall it being in our regular promotional package. It’s kind of a funky photo selection and sort of high contrast. But it indicates we had already had… Read More ›
Here is a brochure that Carl picked up for the studio where we recorded our second album. Westminst’r Sound studio was in a converted barn on Frank’s parent’s farm, if memory serves.
I don’t know if they still do it, or if this was just an Iowa thing, but at Halloween school kids were encouraged to sign pledges instead of doing “Tricks”. As a gift for signing the pledge, kids could attend… Read More ›
Among the stuff Carl sent me, this is one of the mementos from his treasure trove of Silver Laughter material. Looking back at the April 1978 booking calendar on April 14 I had marked down Drake’s University as the venue… Read More ›