Carl Frisch

Promo Label from Silver Laughter Single, “Lover”

By The Silvers on March 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

Carl sent me this last year. It is one of the promotional labels that Art used to put on singles to send to radio stations in hopes for some airplay. In this case, the label is for the single from… Read More ›

A 1975 Cheever’s Flyer for Silver Laughter

By The Silvers on March 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

I am pretty sure the graphic was done by Steve Elliott. Carl says this is a 1975 Cheever’s flyer for Silver Laughter who played there April 14-26, a two week engagement. If memory serves, the first club we played in… Read More ›

1976 Silver Laughter Itinerary

By The Silvers on March 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

This seemed to be an orphaned page from one of our newsletters. It was in the stuff Carl Frisch sent me on CD. Recently it came to our attention that South Dakota also has a Rock and Roll Music Association… Read More ›

Silver Laughter Newsletter from May 1977 – Page 2

By The Silvers on February 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

A couple of days ago I posted the first page of our May 1977 newsletter. Today I wanted to continue with page two which finishes up with a note from Carl. Then there is information about our upcoming eight week… Read More ›

Centennial Ballroom, Fairbault, MN – Another Silver Laughter Venue

By The Silvers on February 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

Carl sent this flyer/schedule from the Centennial Ballroom where we played back in 1977. As you can see some bigger named acts also played there like Tommy James and The Trashmen (Surfin’ Bird). Fairbault, MN was the home of this… Read More ›

Silver Laughter “Don’t Feel Bad” Station Request Cards

By The Silvers on February 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

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 ›

Promo Photo Outtake of Silver Laughter ca. 197?

By The Silvers on February 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

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 ›

Old Silver Laughter Memorabilia

By The Silvers on February 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

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 ›

Westminst’r Sound – Where Silver Laughter Recorded “Sailing On Fantasies”

By The Silvers on February 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

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.

A Couple of Silver Laughter Performance Photos

By The Silvers on February 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

Here are two more photos from our performances from Carl’s Collection. The first shows Ken on his red Gibson. The second one shows Jon singing lead on one of our songs. I can’t remember which cover tune we did that… Read More ›

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