“Don’t Feel Bad” This is the last of the outtakes that I have in my possession from the “Sailing On Fantasies” album. The title of the album itself was a play on words. The original working title was “Sailing Ships… Read More ›
Ken Wiles
Silver Laughter Plays The Pomp Room – So Does Aerosmith… Much Later
Here’s kind of an interesting story. This is the copy of the contract to play the Pomp Room in Sioux Falls, SD. Apparently this was after we decided to leave manager Art Stenstrom and go out on our own and… Read More ›
Silver Laughter LIVE Photo from Beatles Tribute!
Updated 4/10/13 – This is a GREAT find by our manager, Art “Smart” who sent me some stuff he found from the Silver Laughter days. Here is a live shot of us on stage in the middle of our Beatles… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“Feels Like the First Time” Updated: 3.15.2014: I sang lead on this Foreigner cover of “Feels Like The First Time”. It is obviously at the top of my range and was challenging to sing… on key. But I think it’s… Read More ›
“Rainbow” LIVE – from “Sailing On Fantasies”
“Rainbow” Jon sang the first verse and I sang the second. The Mort and Mary Jane that Jon is talking about while introducing the song is my mom and dad who were obviously in the audience that night. I am… Read More ›
Silver Laughter’s “Working Man”… our “Taking Care of Business”
As I have said before, a lot of our music for “Handle With Care” was already written for other groups before we combined them into a single album. But a few of the tunes were written after I joined the… Read More ›
Extraordinary Find – A Silver Laughter NEWSLETTER in my guitar case…
This was addressed to my sister, Marjie Orton, back when she lived in Olema, CA which is near where I now live. Every quarter (I think) we did a newsletter which went out to our fans who signed up for… Read More ›
More Silver Laughter Memorabilia – Side 2
Here is the second side of the four-fold promotional brochure Art did for us. Our job was to place these on every table in the house where we were playing. Mick Orton
More Silver Laughter Memorabilia – Side 1
Here is more of the promotional material that Art did for the band. These were four-fold brochures that we put out on tables in the clubs we played. This is side one of two. Mick Orton