The merciless creativity of Smooth Old Fashioned High
At the end of the summer, Boise-based band Smooth Old Fashioned High played a paid corporate gig in West Boise. A typical business shindig, black uniformed waiters moved through the crowd with platters of pastry puffs and plastic cups of white wine. The small-talking crowd ignored the five men on stage, and the five men on stage paid no mind to the preoccupied crowd.
Enclosed in the bubble of their own music, they jammed and joked and crooned, impervious to the "there-to-network set," and put on a tight show with a truckload of personality. Lead guitarist Nick McDowell even played a solo with his Les Paul behind his …
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