“Getaway Woman” Jon Ludtke sings lead with Mick, Ken and Kim on backup vocals. Ken does an excellent guitar harmony duet with himself on this one! Updated 4/17/14: Kim Ludtke played drums on all of the selections from “Handle With… Read More ›
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How Could We Have Forgotten Glenn Stone?
Tonight I spent some time on the phone with a fellow whom I have yet to mention on this website. Near the end of our time together as Silver Laughter, we were going to replace sound and light man, Carl… Read More ›
MORE Lost Recordings of The Contents Are: Found
“Head Collect” STUDIO VERSION Since there were two members of The Contents Are: who joined Silver Laughter (and almost three if you count Dave), I thought it was important to show how the music and song writing evolved. While The… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“Day Tripper – Nowhere Man – And Your Bird Can Sing” Medley When you do a tribute to the Beatles, it is important that you at least try and sound like them. “Day Tripper” was never released on an album… Read More ›
From the “Handle With Care” Album – “Look Again”
“Look Again” This song was written by Jon and me. and once again, we sang lead together. I think the verse was mine and the middle 8 was Jon’s. We both did lyrics, but Jon usually had a notebook full… Read More ›
From the “Sailing On Fantasies” Album – “Hand In Hand”
“Hand In Hand” This song is already on YouTube posted by one of our fans, so I don’t mind posting it here again. I have a lot of fond memories about this song written and sung by Paul Staack. He… Read More ›
Silver Laughter History – Mick meets Jon
We met at Williams Junior High School in Davenport, Iowa. I can’t remember which class we had together, but I do remember this guy looking really out of place with his white dress shirt and neatly combed hair. Because I… Read More ›
From the “Sailing On Fantasies” Album – “Bad News”
“Bad News” This song was our attempt to write a Little Feat number with our own Silver Laughter spin on it, of course. The bass line is probably the first thing that I started playing around with when we started… Read More ›