I seem to remember we were popular in a lot of clubs we played. If you look at our booking calendar and the itinerary that’s on the newsletter, you can see we were invited back to a lot of the… Read More ›
History
Changing Times and Guitars…
The other Silver Laughter guys each had several guitars they used on stage and in the recording studio. Up until “Sailing on Fantasies”, I only had my Hofner Beatle Bass. It was nice and light and sounded good for our… Read More ›
Extraordinary Find – A Silver Laughter NEWSLETTER in my guitar case…
This was addressed to my sister, Marjie Orton, back when she lived in Olema, CA which is near where I now live. Every quarter (I think) we did a newsletter which went out to our fans who signed up for… Read More ›
FOUND: A bunch of lost Silver Laughter contracts from 1979
As members of Musician’s Union Local 551, our band was able to get contracts when we decided at the end of 1978 to leave Art and manage ourselves… Not so “smart” as I look back on it now. Thinking about… Read More ›
From the Silver Laughter Booking Calendar for October, 1978
See how the memory is. I wrote on this post that we were trying to get into the Kongo Klub, however, in looking back to January, we started off the year playing there! A mind is a terrible thing to… Read More ›
Silver Laughter Antics – Seldom Told Stories
We used to party with the owners of the clubs after hours. This almost always involved a lot of drinking. Sometimes we would stay after, drink, then drive to the next job. It’s a wonder we didn’t hurt ourselves or… Read More ›
Silver Laughter’s Mick Orton and the Viet Nam War
During The Contents Are: days, the Vietnam War was going on. We were all opposed to it as was a lot of America, especially since the draft was being used, and we were of draft age. In the fall of… Read More ›
Song Writing – A Challenging Art Form
No offense to those of you who like Journey, and I do know that “When the Lights Go Down In The City” is one of the most listened to songs on YouTube. However, I never really liked it. After all,… Read More ›
A Couple of Lame Jokes Silver Laughter Used for Live Performances
Okay, so we weren’t the funniest guys in the world, but we used to crack each other up quite often. In between songs we might banter a little on stage. Here are a couple of the “witty” remarks we used:… Read More ›
Just Found a Site that Mentions The Contents Are: and Silver Laughter!
Go to Chris Bishop’s site and take a look. the article is particularly about The Contents Are: where Paul Staack and I came from. Although I did not play on those records (Paul did), it’s nice that the Midwest groups… Read More ›