After this post I will be all caught up and then only two more days until I can go back to posting my usual baloney about whatever happens to pop into my mind. Today's band will be...
Shinedown!
I know, you all hate Second Chance by this point because it was overplayed by radio DJs everywhere for two entire years. But I promise, if you ignore Second Chance (which wouldn't have been bad if it had been played more sparingly), they have some really good stuff, I promise.
Shinedown currently consists of Brent Smith on lead vocals, Barry Kerch on drums, Zach Myers on guitar, and Eric Bass on bass (tehehe), piano, and backing vocals. Man, Eric is talented! Way to go, Eric.
...anyway. Shinedown has produced three studio albums and one live album. Their first album was Leave a Whisper in 2003 on Atlantic Records. Their next release was Us and Them in 2005, also on Atlantic. You know what? I'm just gonna save myself some time; all their albums have been on Atlantic. At any rate, the next album was the one that made them famous--at least, more famous. That would be the Sound of Madness album, released in 2008. Their live album, Somewhere in the Stratosphere, was just released in 2011.
They have also had a whole slew of songs that have been in movies. I don't know what order they go in, so I'm just gonna tell you about all of them and you can do it yourself. There was Her Name is Alice, which was in the newest Alice in Wonderland movie. Then there was Devour, from the Sound of Madness CD; that one was in The Final Destination--that being the fourth one, if you were wondering. And in The Expendables they had Diamond Eyes. I feel like there may be others, but it's late and I'm not really sure.
Brent Smith is an interesting person. He used to be addicted to cocaine, but he's clean now. He promises, or maybe I just made that up cause it sounds good. But he is clean, even if he doesn't promise. And that song you hate? Second Chance was written after the birth of his son. He also once did a duet with Shaun Morgan from Seether, which was awesome and basically made my life temporarily when I found it.
Barry Kerch is married to a (probably) nice woman named Lori. He has a degree in anthropology, so he's probably fun to talk to as well. But that's about all Wikipedia will tell me (am I ruining whatever small amount of credibility I had by mentioning Wiki so much? Oh well...), and I'm not about to go looking for more. Oh and also, he and Brent are the only remaining original members of the band.
Zach Myers is from Tennessee. He is also in another band, The Fairwell, where he sings and plays guitar. He manages a band from Memphis called Sore Eyes. I don't know how he find the time; personally just one band would probably kill me. But more power to you if you can handle three!
Eric Bass doesn't have a Wikipedia page of his own yet. So I'm real sorry for all the injustice and badness, but he doesn't get a good paragraph.
Shinedown began in Florida, where Brent and Barry are from, in 2001. Oh and apparently they will be releasing a new album sometime in 2012, name unknown, but it will be on Ocean Way Recording instead of Atlantic, which is odd because it seemed like this was one band that might be loyal to its label. A single from said album is set to be released on January 3, 2012, and you'd best bet I'll be listening for it. That song is called Bully. Also I will probably buy that album when it comes out, because I have their other three studio albums--I don't usually buy live albums because it's all the same music, just with an annoying audience in the background. But anyway.
That's all I have for Shinedown. With six minutes to go before this post is officially late, I will bid you adieu and goodnight.
--Razza Ragazza
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