Here is one of my favorite Beatles songs from the movie, “Help”, “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl”. Jon is singing lead with Ken and me on backups. Ken does a nice version of the George Harrison lead guitar solo. This… Read More ›
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Another Silver Laughter Original – “Any Word You Can Say”
Click here to listen to “Any Words You Can Say”. This is the album version, not a live rendition. Back in March of 2013, I posted this original tune from the “Handle With Care” album, but I didn’t want it… Read More ›
Silver Laughter’s John Carstensen To Be Inducted By IRRMA
One of the early members of Silver Laughter, John Carstensen, will also be inducted into the Iowa R&R Hall of Fame for 2014. I “borrowed” these two photos from Mark Zaputil’s Facebook page along with his captions. “John on stage… Read More ›
Silver Laughter Performs “Sing Me Your Love Songs” Live 1978
Click here to listen to Silver Laughter’s live performance of “Sing Me Your Love Songs”. As I said the other day, I did not want our live original music to get lost in the shuffle since this was posted back… Read More ›
Time to Review – A Silver Laughter Live Original Song!
Click here to listen to “Angela”. Note there is a bit of dead air at the end of the clip. I was new to my music editing software and did not realize it created a fixed length to new tracks… Read More ›
Silver Laughter Photos from October 29, 1978 in Rock Island
Okay, I couldn’t resist. After posting a bunch of stuff already today, I went into the third set of photos and just could not stop laughing. Judging from these outtakes, we were having a GREAT time. In later posts you… Read More ›
VERY RARE Find – Art Discovers Silver Laughter Chord Charts from “Sailing on Fantasies”
Art “Smart” and I talked last week on the telephone, and I discovered he still had a bunch of negatives from the Silver Laughter band days. Fortunately for us he also found some other very rare stuff which I will… Read More ›
Silver Laughter at TJ’s In Davenport – 1974
This photo needed a lot of retouching so you can see from its condition that it must have been MUCH worse! Mark sent it along with the others I posed yesterday to see if I could work any magic on… Read More ›
Silver Laughter Photos from Sheldon, IA -1974
These three photos were apparently taken at roughly the same time during a job in Sheldon, IA. These pictures show the Silver Laughter lineup during the earliest days of being on the road. They are kind of fuzzy and faded,… Read More ›
Time to Revisit Silver Laughter’s Beatles Tribute
Art “Smart” (Gus) Stenstrom put together all the promotional material for our shows after he became our manager. While we were busy perfecting our music for the live performances, Art was busy working on the promo stuff. This page from… Read More ›