What’s this? Mark dug this out of his archives. It is a photo of me playing someone’s (probably Jon’s) Gibson Les Paul. We may have been working on an original tune, OR I was trying to figure out the chords… Read More ›
Quad Cities
Silver Laughter’s Mark Zaputil Onstage at the Cavern Club – 1975
Remember the club I mentioned that was underneath a parking lot? This is it. The Cavern was made to look like the inside of a cave, and, as I have mentioned before, it is where we met up again with… Read More ›
Silver Laughter – “Sailing On Fantasies” – Lyrics to “Sunny Day”
This is another of my favorite songs on “Sailing On Fantasies”. Jon came to our song-writing session with most of the tune in his notebook, and we quickly hammered out the rest of the lyrics and worked on the arrangement… Read More ›
1975 Photo of Silver Laughter Onstage in… Don’t Know!
In the continuing stream of pictures sent to me by our old guitar player, Mark Zaputil, here is a great one of us onstage somewhere in 1975. He doesn’t remember where it was, and neither do I. It’s a little… Read More ›
Silver Laughter’s Mick Orton Rehearsing
Talk about losing brain cells! I have no recollection of this photo, where it was taken or when. Mark forwarded this one to me along with several others which I will be posting later. Here is the little electric piano… Read More ›
Silver Laughter’s Steve Elliott Unearths This Gem!
I love seeing all these old photos of the band. This is another one I lifted from Steve Elliott’s Facebook page. He also makes some funny comments to go with each photo. Here is what the lineup looked like when… Read More ›
Random Photo of Silver Laughter’s Paul Staack and Mick Orton Rehearsing
While we are in the time machine, here I am jumping back to the early ’70’s. I had forgotten this little gem which came from Craig Hute’s collection. It is of The Contents Are: (or Tabernash as we were later… Read More ›
Early Days With Silver Laughter – Ken Wiles
I am not sure how this photo came about, but it was in the Mark Zaputil collection. My guess is there was some overlap where both Ken Wiles and Mark were traveling with the band, though only one of them… Read More ›
More and More Photos of Silver Laughter 1974-75 are Showing Up
Thanks to Mark Zaputil and now Steve Elliott has gotten into the act by posting old band photos which are on his Facebook page! Here I have included two of Mark’s contributions here. One is of a sign from the… Read More ›
Silver Laughter – “Sailing On Fantasies” – Lyrics to “Dreams Still Live On”
This was a very short song that leads into “Sunny Day” on the “Sailing On Fantasies” album. The guitar work is Jon and Ken playing two guitar parts together to imitate the same effect the Beatles used on “Dear Prudence”…. Read More ›