![]() All in all, it was memorable evening in Greenville for sure!” by DAve (Concert #647) Greenville, SC Bon Secours Wellness Arena There was a huge sing-a-long to ‘Simple Man’, Brent commenting back, ‘You might possibly be the best crowd on this tour!’ The evening began with two opening artists, Diamante, and The Pretty Reckless, both were energetic and musically talented, but neither were particularly moving. The set list itself was well designed, let’s face it with new album material and 29 top 5 songs, one has to be creative in order to please an audience in general. As he sang, so it was, ‘Don't sell yourself short, you might be bulletproof’. There it was, pure energy and bodies moving everywhere! The theme of the band’s music to me has been ’overcoming adversity with positivity’ and it was no different last evening as singer Brent Smith shared with us that this very much could have been a cancellable show as he performed the full 2 hour set with Bronchitis. ![]() Next was a passionate intro to ‘Get Up’, from Brent Smith assuring the audience, ‘You are necessary, original, and you have a 100 percent have a purpose!’ Ticket holders had received a notification from the venue earlier, ‘GVL, look out for each other in the pit’, well this was a first for me and I didn’t quite understand it until the ‘1-2-3 Jump’ intro to ‘Enemies’. I needed that as the person sitting next to me photobombed a nearly perfect full video by getting up to pee. Brett announced, ‘Did you bring your dancing shoes tonight? Well let’s get to it!’ At the song break I experienced my first ever artist led rock n roll meet-and-greet, turning left, then right, all around were handshakes, fist bumps and knuckles. The pyrotechnics were intense, they obviously have to know exactly where to stand… watch your tape offs and ‘x’ marks! The band entered on stage walking side by side from rear to front backlit in silhouette as if they were going to take a final bow. During band member intros we were informed that Zach Myers himself (guitarist) was stage designer. Entering the arena and getting a glimpse of the stage I got myself ready for an amazing visual experience, and that it was: flames, explosions, strobes, light bars, video walls, a piano riser, pivoting lighting rigs to 45 degree angles raised and lowered by cables. ![]() This is the music video for the biggest hit song of Shinedown's career, "Second Chance".“Shinedown (self described as ‘pure rock’) is one of a few 2000’s rock bands that make me still believe quality music can still be produced. Shinedown has even made appearances in the wildly popular annual heavy metal music festival known as X-Fest in both 20. Not only have they played a tour to promote the release of each one of their albums, but they have also been the opening act for hard rock masters like Godsmack and Rob Zombie. Shinedown is a band that places great importance on playing in concert. In 2012, Shinedown will releae their 4th studio album titled Amaryllis. In 2007, Shinedown released the album The Sound Of Madness which included both their second number one hit, "Devour" and the biggest hit of their career, "Second Chance". Shinedown topped the success of Leave A Whisper with the even more popular 2005 album, Us and Them, which earned the band their first number one single with the song, "Save Me". ![]() Shinedown began its rise to success with their 2003 debut album, Leave A Whisper which produced the successful singles "Fly From The Inside", "Burning Bright" and their hugely popular cover of the Lynryd Skynyrd classic "Simple Man". Currently comprised of only 2 original band members, vocalist Brent Smith and drummer Barry Kerch, along with relative newcomer guitarist Zach Myers and bassist/pianist Eric Bass, Shinedown is a post grunge, alternative rock band that has released 3 hit albums and 13 chart topping singles since its 2001 birth as a band.
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