“Any Day” Back in March I posted an article about an album I have in my possession called “The Class of ’99”. I think the 99 stands for the number of the FM radio station on the dial, not the… Read More ›
Music
One Half of Silver Laughter Plays on Marjie Orton’s “Coast Is Clear”
“They Say” – Sample I have written before about my sister and her musical ability. It was also mentioned that Ken and I played on her studio album “Coast Is Clear” under the band name Island Fever. For this reason,… Read More ›
MORE Lost Recordings of The Contents Are: Found
“Head Collect” STUDIO VERSION Since there were two members of The Contents Are: who joined Silver Laughter (and almost three if you count Dave), I thought it was important to show how the music and song writing evolved. While The… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“Day Tripper – Nowhere Man – And Your Bird Can Sing” Medley When you do a tribute to the Beatles, it is important that you at least try and sound like them. “Day Tripper” was never released on an album… Read More ›
From the “Handle With Care” Album – “Look Again”
“Look Again” This song was written by Jon and me. and once again, we sang lead together. I think the verse was mine and the middle 8 was Jon’s. We both did lyrics, but Jon usually had a notebook full… Read More ›
From the “Sailing On Fantasies” Album – “Hand In Hand”
“Hand In Hand” This song is already on YouTube posted by one of our fans, so I don’t mind posting it here again. I have a lot of fond memories about this song written and sung by Paul Staack. He… Read More ›
From the “Sailing On Fantasies” Album – “Bad News”
“Bad News” This song was our attempt to write a Little Feat number with our own Silver Laughter spin on it, of course. The bass line is probably the first thing that I started playing around with when we started… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“I Wanna Be With You” I think we do a decent version of this Raspberries song, though the low end seems to be missing. One can hear the bass lines, but the warmth is not there. I am singing lead… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“Good Day Sunshine” This song was cut from the Beatles Tribute Show #1 so it is an abbreviated version. During the interludes where the Beatles are talking, we would switch instruments; Jon from 6 string to 12 string, Ken from… Read More ›
“Don’t Want To Lose” LIVE – from “Sailing On Fantasies”
“Don’t Want To Lose” This song was very hard to do live since we really did it so well in the studio. There were lots of layered effects, but we did our best to perform this energetic composition by Ken… Read More ›