Read the article here. “A few days ago I got an e-mail from Mick Orton whose message requested I print a letter he included talking about his band Silver Laughter. You are able to read that letter below. At first I was a… Read More ›
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MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“Couldn’t I Just Tell You” As I have said before, Todd Rundgren was and still is one of Ken’s favorite musicians. Therefore, we did several of his tunes in our show. Here is Jon singing lead with Ken, Paul… Read More ›
The Things We Roadies Did for Silver Laughter!
Note: Glenn Stone was our sound and light man who trained with Carl Frisch near the end of our band days. This was the period when we were trying to change our image away from the “Beatles Band” and develop… Read More ›
Paul Staack – Silver Laughter’s Salesman!
Paul Staack sells Silver Laughter T-Shirts and Albums I heard from Paul Staack this weekend via e-mail. Here’s what he asked me: “I think I used to kind of be in charge of selling the T-shirts and recorded material. Is… Read More ›
Silver Laughter’s Kim Ludtke Leaves His Mark
“Tequila Sunrise” When Kim left the group during the recording of “Handle With Care”, we had been performing a lot of Eagles tunes on stage. Kim was a big fan of theirs, and so we incorporated many of the Eagles… Read More ›
Clarification about the Silver Laughter Header
The header for the Silver Laughter website is a composite of all the band members from when I joined until the band broke up in 1979. There were always only four of us on stage at any one time! Phase… Read More ›
Old Photos of Silver Laughter
Some of these may have been posted elsewhere on this site, but I realized that I had scanned them and may never have put them up. So just to be sure, here they are again. “Sailing On Fantasies” Studio Photos… Read More ›
From the “Handle With Care” Album – “Getaway Woman”
“Getaway Woman” Jon Ludtke sings lead with Mick, Ken and Kim on backup vocals. Ken does an excellent guitar harmony duet with himself on this one! Updated 4/17/14: Kim Ludtke played drums on all of the selections from “Handle With… Read More ›
