Carl sent this photo from our “Handle With Care” recording session. All four of us are on the mics so it’s possible this was during the recording of “Angela”, one of the few songs where all of us sang at… Read More ›
Ken Wiles
Revisit of Silver Laughter’s Booking Calendar for October 1978
The end of September put us in Hastings, MN at the Ivanhoe. Our tenure there ended on Sunday, the first day of October. On the second day, we packed up and played one night at The Mermaid Club. I have… Read More ›
More Photos in the Studio with Silver Laughter during Recording “Handle With Care”
Needless to say, another photo from the “Carl Archives”. This one pictures Ken, Jon and me doing vocals for one of the songs on “Handle With Care”. To this day it’s surprising Ken would wear headphones as it messed up… Read More ›
More Live Performance Photos of Silver Laughter – ca. 1976-77
Continuing on with photos from Carl Frisch here is another one taken during a live performance somewhere. I think that’s Paul Staack on the drums in the back of this very small stage! Mick Orton
Live Performance Photos of Silver Laughter – ca. 1976-77
This photo from Carl is the start of a series of live performance photos and appears to be the period when several of us tried to get permanents in our hair. At least, that’s how it looks to me. Now… Read More ›
Silver Laughter in the Studio for “Handle With Care”
Since these photos are new to this website, I am going to post them separately. The first is a photo of the two engineers who recorded tracks for the “Handle With Care” album. It was done at Graphic Studios in… Read More ›
Silver Laughter in the Studio for “Sailing On Fantasies”
These photos have all been posted before, but I thought I would put them together in one post. Carl sent these for us to enjoy.
Matchbook Collection from Various Silver Laughter Venues
Carl was quite the collector. The photo here shows all the matchbooks from many of the places Silver Laughter performed. Of course, that was back when smoking was allowed in bars and clubs! Mick Orton
Four Performance Photos of Silver Laughter… Somewhere…
Carl didn’t tell me where these photos were taken, but he did send a lot of live performance photos from around 1976. His comment was, “If I had to guess, most of these performance pictures were taken at the Red… Read More ›
Custom Silver Laughter T-shirts
I believe Jon’s dad, John Ludtke, is the one who had these t-shirts made up for us. Later on Art got in on the action, but these were not his creations. The first shows us from the back. That’s Jonny… Read More ›