“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 ›
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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 ›
Silver Laughter History – Mick meets Jon
We met at Williams Junior High School in Davenport, Iowa. I can’t remember which class we had together, but I do remember this guy looking really out of place with his white dress shirt and neatly combed hair. Because I… 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 ›
BMI Royalties Statement for Silver Laughter
As you can see from this royalties statement from BMI, the song “Lover” got a little bit of airplay. Several other songs from the first album also made it to the air waves. “Lover” was released as a single before… Read More ›