Paul Staack
Silver Laughter’s Paul Staack – Where Is He Now?
Not long ago I wrote a little article about our second drummer, Paul Staack, how we met in The Contents Are: and how he was the drummer on “Sailing On Fantasies”. Recently, he and I reconnected thanks to the Internet… 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 ›
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 ›
Silver Laughter’s Mick Orton and the Viet Nam War
During The Contents Are: days, the Vietnam War was going on. We were all opposed to it as was a lot of America, especially since the draft was being used, and we were of draft age. In the fall of… 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
“Turn Your Face Away” LIVE – from “Handle With Care”
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A Couple of Lame Jokes Silver Laughter Used for Live Performances
Okay, so we weren’t the funniest guys in the world, but we used to crack each other up quite often. In between songs we might banter a little on stage. Here are a couple of the “witty” remarks we used:… Read More ›