![]() Your gender, age, sex, religion or the colour of your skin – none of that matters. “Seeing that story on the news broke my heart, but I find it hard to listen when I’m being screamed at let’s have a conversation and create an actual plan. The murder of George Floyd inspired Not Mad Enough as a plea for a meaningful dialogue, rather than anarchy and violence. That was the principal point, but with these covers we’re not making carbon copies, and that’s what makes them fun.” ”ĭid you look at some of those fan-sourced suggestions, from Post Malone, INXS and the like and think, ‘No fucking way!’ ![]() I wasn’t sure about calling it Smith & Myers as it sounded like a law firm, but three years later we did 22 shows and to our surprise they all sold out. We allowed them to pick the songs we covered. “In 2014, at the request of the fans, we released two EPs. Tell us about the formation of Smith & Myers. He was among the sweetest, kindest people I knew.” I was lucky enough to hang out with Eddie during the early days of Shinedown. “I cried the day that Eddie Van Halen died. To my band’s credit, they pulled the slack for me. We played at The Mayan Theater in Los Angeles and the withdrawal made me feel like I was going to die. In 2014 I had a bad slip-up with my addiction and the following year, when we were touring Threat To Survival, I was clean, but man… it takes a while to get the residuals out of your system. “I’ve had a lot of bad moments on drugs, I’m lucky to be alive. What’s been your worst experience on drugs? Although there was a 10-foot gap between the audience and the stage, I ran from the drums to dive out into them. It was my first time facing a crowd of 30,000 and that felt massive. In 2003, Shinedown played at Memphis In May, a multi-genre event that over the course of a week attracts a million and a half people. “I don’t think of myself as a rock star, except when I’m onstage and that’s performance. It can be rough here and there, but it's what I do, and she respects that, and she's been with me a long time.When was the first time you felt like a rock star? ![]() It's just a song about the person that you love and that you miss and that you still believe in, and that's the only thing that you have to hold onto sometimes. "At least a hundred times, I've awakened at 4:03 in the morning, and it's usually from missin' her. ![]() "For some reason, I would always wake up, and I still do to this day,” he said. It becomes apparent in talking to Smith that his girlfriend became a major factor in his recovery, his return to the studio (where the album took 18 months to complete), and his eventual return to the road where, like the song says, he has trouble sleeping at night when Ashley isn't there. He told Smith to take all the time he needed.īy this time, Smith had crossed paths with his old friend Ashley again in Florida, and friendship had turned into love. But Kallman - an "amazing guy,” Smith said - apparently thought the singer had earned a break. "He was like, ‘Are we going to gonna get another record in six months?' And I said, ‘There's no way in hell.' And he said, ‘Well, what do you need from me?' And I said, ‘No time limit at all.' And he was like, ‘Well, does that mean like a year, does that mean a year and three months?' I just said, ‘That means no time limit.'”Ī lot of other industry suits would have shown this guy the door. ![]() When he was rested enough to make the trip, Smith paid a visit to Atlantic Records Chairman Craig Kallman in New York. "I'd gone through tons of addictions, and my body was just beat up, and my brain was just gone, and I had to take some time off from everything.” "Honestly, I had to take about a month and a half off after we finished ‘Us and Them' to just kind of decompress, because I just wasn't myself anymore,” he said. Meanwhile they were earning a rep as one of the hottest live bands on the festival circuit with a nonstop touring schedule that was beginning to take its toll on Smith. "Us and Them” followed in 2005 with more fierce yet melodic guitar-vocal attacks that racked up gold-level sales. Shinedown went on to record and release its first album in 2003, "Leave a Whisper,” which unleashed the hit singles "Fly From the Inside” and "45” on its way to platinum status. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |