I remember the media at the time was saying that we were done because of that, but when Barry and I met Zach and Eric, our whole lives changed. We have good relationships with them still, but the band needed to go in a different direction. I had to let two members go, 'cause the band just wouldn't have furthered. There was a lot of turbulence in the band when that album came out. Each of our albums is so different because they're just snapshots of our life.Īfter the success of Sound Of Madness, was there pressure to put you guys into some sort of box? When NWA was inducted into the hall of fame, they said that 'rock and roll was a spirit,' and they're right. Jacques Disciples at Yaarab Shrine Center, Atlanta, GA, USA. We're looking at every single lane, and what we present holds merit and there is a reason behind it. Performed by Shinedown 1 Performed as a song (by any artist) 2. 04:05 © 2019 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the united states and WEA international, Inc. That's very valid, and the truth is when you separate genres apart from each other, people try to put you in a box and say, 'Well, what are you?'-and frankly, we're just Shinedown. All of your albums have been well-received by both fans and critics, and you guys have continued to somehow evolve your sound without going in a more pop direction, like the other bands you came up in the industry with. Well, you guys are clearly good at embodying that mindset.

Well, Eric had the piano part for a while, and I'm normally quick with lyrics, but I said I'm gonna take it back to the hotel, sit with it, and come back tomorrow. So 'GET UP' was part of that in-house process? When you tell a record label you're going to do everything yourselves, they think you're gonna build a spaceship. So our bass player, Eric Bass, who is way more than just a bass player, actually producedĪttention Attention!, and it was the first album we did in-house as a band. So as a whole, though, how did the song come about? We're in good company-is the way I look at it. So we thought we'd just put out a little something. The song itself was very instrumental forĪttention Attention!, and we just celebrated the album's first birthday, actually, on May 4th-and anytime you can share a day with Star Wars, it's a good day. You also just put out a piano version of your single 'GET UP'? For me, personally, I'm on the road 280 days out of the year, so it's kinda in our DNA. This is what we do, and we've always had the same outlook on things in regards to being performers. We've been professionally touring for two decades, and you're either built for it or you're not. We're headlining about nine different festivals this month, and we got some residency shows in Florida and Atlanta, so it's kinda a unique month of touring.Īfter all this time, does touring that extensively ever exhaust you guys?Ībsolutely still energized by it. We just started our new tour about three days ago, and we've just hit the ground running.

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