The Legacy of Smiling Politely
It started with three guys who went to school together, who loved music. Then they found a drummer who also loved music.
He was sacked.
We found another drummer who loved music and drugs. We kept him.
The Spheres gave birth to smiling politely during it's death. As The Spheres passed away into space, Smiling Politely took aim and fired at music, wounding, and eventually killing it.
Some Smiling Politely discs are as follows.
1. Smiling Politely - Abbey Lane . An album made of songs written while under the influence of a small town's various herbacious thoughts. Us young toughs found ways of gender and role playing to express ourselves in the studio of Jill Lane, engineered by the renowned Michael McCrea.
2. Smiling Politely - this disc found it's way into the hands of more people because we sold it very readily. It became an instant hit for very few priveleged un-people. They died, tragically. This disc was recorded at Sound Media Productions, a small studio in Northgate by the Wonderous and Brave Brandon Busch. He's Busch league, folks. He's good.
3. Smiling Politely - Cadmire .. This disk was a huge failure. And it caused the eventual breakup of the Great Empire of Musicians who semi-don't understand music but try to play it anyway.
SP spent some summer days in a small studio in Mill Creek laying down these tracks while smoking Lucky Strike cigarettes.. copiously...
Motifs present in the work are isolation and rebellion against personal goals.. a bit of studio magic made this piece of work sound like an even better piece of work.. GODLIKE! Following the release some awards were given. They were pissed on afterwards.
4. Smiling Politely - Yellow Smiles - this disc was the finale for the Politely camp. We shat all that we could shit, and it was done. Pure, unadulterated sexual calm conversation. This disc was recorded at Sound Media Productions. The group decided to go back to their roots for the last album that they didn't know was the last one.
It was good that they did, because on the way they discovered that they sincerely enjoyed receiving sexual favors in return for name-dropping on their new single "people we should probably make famous" (aka 10-4).
O'er the horizon, we saw change. And it enveloped us and swallowed us and surrounded us like so many fake vaginal things... And us, we said, "lube us up. we're going in."
scandal ensued.
