![]() Join thousands already receiving our daily newsletter. Tickets: $16 advance, $18 day of, available at Smith’s Tix locations (800-888-TIXX, Info: (801) 456-0000, Newsletter “We’re trying to pack them in there as much as we can,” he said. Smith said fans can expect to hear the hits from “Leave a Whisper” along with a healthy cross-section of songs from “Us and Them” Shinedown figures to continue enjoying momentum as the group tours this fall with Godsmack. The effort has paid off, as “Us and Them” has kicked out a string of rock radio hits. Smith was candid in admitting that as the band’s chief songwriter, he felt considerable pressure to deliver another hit CD with “Us and Them.” When Shinedown finally came off the road in spring 2005 after some 400 shows, “Leave a Whisper” had topped 1 million copies sold. I was really given a one-in-a-million (second) shot.”Īt the suggestion of Atlantic A&R representative Steve Robertson, Smith relocated to Jacksonville where one by one he met the other future bandmates - Todd, bassist Brad Stewart and drummer Barry Kerch.įrom there, the band’s success was built mainly the old-fashioned way - with a combination of two years of heavy-duty touring behind “Leave a Whisper” and a series of singles that all went top five at rock radio. It was signed for nine months and then I was dropped and then I was signed two weeks later to a development deal (with Atlantic). “It was a band that never, ever saw the light of day. “What basically happened is I was signed to Atlantic with another band,” Smith said. In fact, the wheels were in motion for Smith to succeed well before there was a Lynyrd Skynyrd connection. Shinedown certainly doesn’t need to apologize for its success - which has continued unabated with the band’s second CD, “Us and Them.” It really helped the band and brought us to another audience.” “The Skynyrd cover, it wasn’t a planned thing,” Smith said. The song got posted on the station’s Web site, where listeners downloaded the song some 500,000 times. Shinedown was asked to play “Simple Man” by a deejay at a Boston radio station, WAAF. The cover of “Simple Man,” was hardly a calculated attempt at getting airplay by covering a popular song. ![]() All rights reserved.For one thing, Smith and Todd met at a studio in Jacksonville where Todd was working, and it wasn’t until later on that Smith found out about Todd’s relationship with his future wife, Melody. “There’s a lot of triumph in this album.”Ĭopyright © 2022, ABC Audio. “There’s an empowerment to this album,” Smith says. One thing Planet Zero does not do, though, is give up on humanity. “It’s about telling the truth,” he shares. “With the flip-flopping of everything that was going on, where certain outlets were, like, ‘Well it’s this.’ ‘Well, actually, no, it’s this.’ ‘Well, we thought it was this, but now it’s this.'” ![]() Join Songkick to track Shinedown and get concert alerts when they play near you. “You can’t really tell who’s telling you the truth,” Smith says. Shinedown On tour: yes 2023-2024 tour dates: 25 concerts Next concert near you: 6 months (Danville) 632,154 fans get concert alerts for this artist. For example, the record’s title track, which premiered earlier this week, is a reaction to media coverage of the pandemic. The result became Planet Zero, a journey that reflects a world in crisis. “But then everything just kept getting worse.” “‘No one’s going to want to talk about this, we’re going to want to move on.'” On Wednesday, the 'Riptide' singer released a soothing video live performance of his single 'Dont Fade,' the first release from his forthcoming album. “‘Let’s try and write three years from now,'” Smith recalls thinking. Remembering back to those early days of the pandemic, Smith says that he and his band mates tried to “crystal-ball-method” writing new music. “It ultimately was inspired by the last two years, that everybody on the planet Earth…what we’ve all dealt with,” Smith now tells ABC Audio. Two years later, Shinedown will release Planet Zero, a record that could not help but be influenced by what’s been going on in the world since the COVID-19 pandemic began. His response? “I don’t think anybody’s ever gonna wanna talk about this. When ABC Audio spoke with Shinedown‘s Brent Smith at the end of March 2020, we asked him if the band’s next album would be called Isolation or Quarantine - then two words the world was just learning about. Shinedown hail from Jacksonville, Florida, home of the Jaguars, the 2020 Republican National Convention, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and The Good Place ’s Jason Mendoza.
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