Carl sent this a few days ago along with a few pics I have put up previously. This is very early Silver Laughter playing at the Col Ballroom in Davenport in 1971. Two photos made up this (almost) panorama shot…. Read More ›
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Davenport’s Quad-City Times Newspaper Recognizes Silver Laughter Achievement
Linda Cook of the Quad-City Times compiled an article regarding the Silver Laughter induction into the Iowa R&R Hall of Fame. As you can see from this photo submitted by Carl Frisch of the band from the very early 1970’s,… Read More ›
Quick Post Before Heading off to Silver Laughter Rehearsal
Good morning Davenport! Yesterday started out with thundershowers, but today the sun is out. It would be great golfing weather except that I would have to get up too early in order to fit in a rehearsal which starts at… Read More ›
Silver Laughter Invades the Quad Cities
Well, folks. The band is back together… most of it anyway. Though Ken Wiles, Steve Elliott and John Carstensen are not playing, Jon, Kim, Paul, Mark and I got together this morning to run though our set. While it went… Read More ›
1970 Ad for Silver Laughter At Teen Fair
Steve Elliott sent me this little advertisement from 1970 where Silver Laughter played the Teen Fair on the bill with a couple of other groups. I do not know what venue they used or how long each band played (I… Read More ›
Shapes of Things To Come? Silver Laughter and The Contents Are: Share a Stage!
I thought I would do another quick post this morning before I head off to take care of business. Talk about a blast from the past! As I have stated elsewhere, our two bands, The Contents Are: and Silver Laughter… Read More ›
CORRECTED: Silver Laughter in Late 1974
Here is a very rare photo of the band after one of its early personnel changes taken on the Ludtke farm (I think) in Davenport. Thanks to Steve Elliott for sending me this one. Featured on top of the structure… Read More ›
Silver Laughter – The Early Years!
I want to send out a huge thank you to Steve Elliott, one of the original Silver Laughter band members. We finally figured out how to get the photos to me using Dropbox. After seeing how big some of the… Read More ›
New Old Photo of Silver Laughter from Worthington 1976
Here is yet another photo from the 1976 Worthington, MN sessions which was right after Paul Staack had joined the merry band of… band. One of Kim’s pictures was on the same set of negatives so he must have been… Read More ›
A Beatles Selection from The Executives – Silver Laughter Pal, Tom Kelley’s Band
“Keeping the ’60’s alive” is the motto of the band, The Executives. Tom Kelley was the lead guitarist and singer/songwriter with me in the Todd Beat Group from Davenport, Iowa while we were still in high school. Today his band… Read More ›