Here is another snapshot from Carl’s Archives. It shows four of the five Silver Laughter members, possibly in between personnel changes? The totem pole starts from the top with Jon Ludtke on guitar, Steve Elliott still on bass, Denny Walton… Read More ›
Here is a an early photo of Silver Laughter which Carl sent. It looks like it is a rehearsal. From the left is Jon, then behind the speaker is John Carstensen and Denny Walton. On the right is Steve Elliott…. Read More ›
Here is an early Silver Laughter photo sent to me by Carl Frisch. It looks like it was also taken on the Ludtke pony farm. The band members in the picture are Jon Ludtke, Steve Elliott, John Carstensen, Denny Walton… Read More ›
This falls into the “where are they now?” category. Occasionally founding Silver Laughter member, Steve Elliott, posts information about his 3 piece band, Hi-Fi, performing in the Quad Cities area. They also have a Facebook page which contains current photos… Read More ›
Today my daughter, Angela, sent me a text she had gotten from one of our family friends, Tony, who lives out here in Marin County, California. He said he was chatting with a woman and talking about his days as… Read More ›
This picture is another one of Carl’s contributions. It has a really nice composition featuring band members Kim Ludtke, Steve Elliott and Jon Ludtke standing with Carl Frisch seated in front of the wagon wheel. Mick Orton
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 ›
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
Here is the last of the equipment photos from Carl’s collection. Some of them I do not recognize so they may have been taken when Denny and Steve were still in the group. For example, I do not recall any… Read More ›
Here is another batch of equipment photos taken by Carl for insurance purposes. These will probably only be interesting to the real equipment nerds in our audience, but they are part of the Silver Laughter experience, so I thought I… Read More ›