Well, it’s finally raining here in Northern California. Believe me, we need it. Thanksgiving has just passed, and yesterday we got our Christmas tree before the wet stuff started coming down. This weekend we will be decorating the house. Fun,… Read More ›
Mike Orton
Thank You for Two Years of the Silver Laughter Website
This is exactly 2 years since the first post on this website. Tonight I am putting up 5 photos from the Carl Collection of the band in various stages of our career. The first two are early ones of Jon… Read More ›
Revisit of Silver Laughter’s Booking Calendar for November 1978
The first week of November had us finishing up a week at the Kongo Club in Mitchell, SD on a Sunday night. Monday and Tuesday we had off before Jon and I flew to New York to try and sell… Read More ›
Happy Thanksgiving 2014 from Silver Laughter and IRRMA Hall of Fame Induction Photos
We hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving. It is a time to look back and be grateful. One of my biggest thrills was having our band, Silver Laughter, inducted into the Iowa R&R Association’s Hall of Fame for this… Read More ›
Back In the Studio with Silver Laughter During the Recording of “Handle With Care”
These few photos are, again, from Carl’s Collection of photographic memories. They relate happier times when all of us were making good music together. Notice in the first picture all of us are wearing Silver Laughter t-shirts… except for Ken…. Read More ›
Another Silver Laughter Memory of Being Onstage
Carl sent this photo of three of us onstage somewhere. It looks like the ceiling is about to fall in! Mick Orton
Silver Laughter Photos from 1976, ’77 and ’78
Here are three pictures all taken by our manager, Art Stenstrom, from three different sessions. I have posted selections from these sets elsewhere on this site, but have never put three together to show the progression of 1) our clothes,… Read More ›
In the Studio with Silver Laughter During the Recording of “Handle With Care”
Below are a couple of photos of Silver Laughter in the studio during the recording of our first album. The first shows Carl leaving the booth before I lay down a bass track. The second shows Ken on guitar getting… Read More ›
Bonus Post – Silver Laughter from Backstage!
This is a photo of Silver Laughter backside… I mean back stage… Just to give you an idea of how many people were in the audience the night of our induction concert, check out this photo which was taken by… Read More ›
Let’s Not Forget Silver Laughter’s 2014 IRRMA Induction
I still have a lot of photos from the August weekend where Silver Laughter was inducted into the IRRMA Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2014. The most fun was playing onstage with my old mates even though we… Read More ›