We met at Williams Junior High School in Davenport, Iowa. I can’t remember which class we had together, but I do remember this guy looking really out of place with his white dress shirt and neatly combed hair. Because I… Read More ›
iowa
From the “Sailing On Fantasies” Album – “Bad News”
“Bad News” This song was our attempt to write a Little Feat number with our own Silver Laughter spin on it, of course. The bass line is probably the first thing that I started playing around with when we started… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“I Wanna Be With You” I think we do a decent version of this Raspberries song, though the low end seems to be missing. One can hear the bass lines, but the warmth is not there. I am singing lead… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“Good Day Sunshine” This song was cut from the Beatles Tribute Show #1 so it is an abbreviated version. During the interludes where the Beatles are talking, we would switch instruments; Jon from 6 string to 12 string, Ken from… Read More ›
“Don’t Want To Lose” LIVE – from “Sailing On Fantasies”
“Don’t Want To Lose” This song was very hard to do live since we really did it so well in the studio. There were lots of layered effects, but we did our best to perform this energetic composition by Ken… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“We’ve Got To Get You A Woman” Here is a song on which Ken sang lead. One of his favorite artists has always been Todd Rundgren. I think we did two of his songs. This one had me playing the… Read More ›
BMI Royalties Statement for Silver Laughter
As you can see from this royalties statement from BMI, the song “Lover” got a little bit of airplay. Several other songs from the first album also made it to the air waves. “Lover” was released as a single before… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“Dear Prudence” One of the things I liked about our Beatles tribute was that we tackled songs even the Beatles never dared do on stage live. These days Paul McCartney does some of them, but with a group of musicians… Read More ›
Half of Silver Laughter – Mick and Paul play on The Contents Are: LIVE Original “All Around”
“All Around” I love posting our music on this site. It gives people a chance to hear what we were doing back in the early to late 70’s. This song was written by me when I was with The Contents… Read More ›