This is an open letter to Andy Babiuk, the author of the FANTASTIC book, “Beatles Gear. It is my opinion that he may be one of the best researchers of Beatles equipment ever and might be the only person in… Read More ›
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Several New Performance Photos of Silver Laughter Founding Member, Jon Ludtke
Once again, Carl has saved the day by sending me these photos of Jon Ludtke onstage during one of our performances. The first shows him singing his heart out while on guitar. On his left you can see Paul in… Read More ›
A Couple of Performance Photos of Silver Laughter’s Mick Orton
I really wish I had more pictures of the whole band onstage, but I don’t. Another thing I regret is not having more photos of us with Kim, but cameras were pretty new back then :-). Anyway, Carl sent me… Read More ›
Silver Laughter’s Gear – Insurance Photos – Part 2
Here is another batch of equipment photos taken by Carl for insurance purposes. These will probably only be interesting to the real equipment nerds in our audience, but they are part of the Silver Laughter experience, so I thought I… Read More ›
Back to the … Past with Silver Laughter
This photo is one of three that Carl sent this morning. It shows Jon, Ken and me onstage. As I am singing with my eyes closed, they are clowning around behind me for the camera. Please notice in this photo… Read More ›
Silver Laughter’s Mick Orton LOVES His Hofner Bass
I wanted to do a shout out to Hofner about the quality of their latest line of “economy” violin basses. The one I have stays in tune beautifully even after days of rehearsing… which I have been doing frantically since… Read More ›
Some Thoughts About “Sailing on Fantasies”
I was listening to some of the cuts posted at Somewhere There Is Music as well as those posted on YouTube and remembered how crisp the bass is in many of the later cuts. If anyone listens closely, they can… Read More ›