Brent Smith and Zach Myers of Shinedown Backstage at West Of The Fest 2025

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00:00Mix 94.7, it's John Mack backstage, West of the Fest 2025. Brent and Zach from Shine

00:14Down.

00:15Hello.

00:16How are we?

00:17Good to see you again.

00:18And we're back.

00:19And we're about to say, you guys, I'm not sure if we've had a repeat artist for West

00:22of the Fest that I can think of.

00:23Well, we're honored to, uh, if that's the, that's the case, let's go.

00:27Yeah. We were breaking records out here.

00:30How's y'all's Austin trip been so far?

00:32You literally just came from a showcase, right?

00:34We came for you.

00:35That's right.

00:36We're here.

00:37Excellent answer.

00:38If we could end the interview right there.

00:39No, no, no.

00:40Look, man, for a band that, you know, we, for years, Austin is a big deal.

00:44And then there for like the longest time, we weren't able to get to Austin and then,

00:49you know, finding this relationship with you and you guys and girls stepping out and supporting

00:53us as a band means the world to us.

00:55So now we're, we're making plans to frequent Austin much more.

01:00Awesome.

01:01Yeah.

01:02Uh, you guys are gearing up for an arena tour, of course, this summer.

01:03Uh, is there any, like, you know, things you're doing between now and then to get like physically

01:07mentally ready?

01:08This is a drain, like being out on the road for like, we've had time, we've had time to

01:13prepare for it though.

01:14We only did 12 shows last year, so we, this, you know, we're, we're ready to tour now.

01:18I think we have enough like mental break and I think now you just kind of start really

01:22working on your, your, your, your cardio and you're, you've got to run around a stage for

01:26two hours a night.

01:27Make sure you're, you're able to do that successfully.

01:30Yeah.

01:31It's always the same thing.

01:32It, it doesn't matter.

01:33Like you can go in and rehearse a lot, but the fact that, and you need to do that just

01:40to have your mentality kind of locked in for the choreography, the set list, if you're

01:44going to change things up.

01:45The thing that happens though, is like you're in an empty room, building a stage, going

01:50through it.

01:51And then the first night you have an audience in front of you, you can't necessarily predict

01:56those feelings.

01:57So like all these different emotions, all these different chemicals are firing.

02:00It's like a basketball team doing practice and then all of a sudden you're in front of

02:0320,000 people.

02:04You have to make a three ball.

02:05Yeah, man.

02:06It's like, you know what I mean?

02:07Your adrenaline is crazy and it adds so much to your cardio, like your heart rate, you

02:11know what I mean?

02:12You can, you can be in rehearsal, jump up and down and then like, you're still not sore.

02:16Right.

02:17And then you get off the, like first three shows is like Advil city.

02:20Right.

02:21I just started, um, and I'm not even joking about this, but I like just started the chapel

02:25road and like cardio thing in the gym.

02:28I'm driving people nuts probably in the morning and like the gym because I'm like running

02:33and jumping and singing at the same time.

02:35Full hot to go.

02:36Yeah.

02:37I didn't even think about that.

02:38She like, she did all that stuff on Tik TOK and like showed like how she got ready to

02:42like run around the way that she did and still singing key and like have breath control.

02:47So yeah.

02:48I'm taking a guitar on my treadmill next week.

02:50I'm taking tips from a hot to go.

02:52Okay.

02:53Yeah.

02:54Put that out there.

02:56Um, of course, like we're talking about the tour, I've been asking all our artists today.

02:59I'm really interested to hear y'all's answer on this.

03:01We're asking everyone's first concert they ever saw, the last concert they ever saw and

03:06the best concert they ever saw.

03:09Take the first concert.

03:10My first concert was the beach boys.

03:11I was six years old.

03:12I remember that.

03:13So good.

03:14The Coliseum?

03:15No.

03:16It was the, they, they opened the Thompson Bowling.

03:18Oh wow.

03:19Knoxville?

03:20Yeah.

03:21Knoxville.

03:22Yeah.

03:23UT.

03:24Um, mine was.

03:26We're all orange too.

03:27So yeah.

03:28But both orange.

03:29Yeah.

03:30You guys are burnt.

03:31His is ugly orange.

03:32Uh, and I'm from Tennessee as well.

03:33But you have McConaughey.

03:34That's true.

03:35We do.

03:36Yeah.

03:37They don't have McConaughey.

03:38Yeah.

03:39Yeah.

03:40Um, uh.

03:41We have Kane though.

03:42It's true.

03:43The big red machine.

03:44Leonard Skinner.

03:45ZZ Top.

03:46Damn Yankees.

03:47First.

03:48Wow.

03:49Damn Yankees.

03:50Damn Yankees.

03:51ZZ Top.

03:52Then Leonard Skinner.

03:53Uh, Mud Island amphitheater.

03:54You get a show where damn Yankees is the opener.

03:56I do not remember the last concert.

03:57The last show you went to?

03:58Yeah.

03:59I was probably with you.

04:00That you.

04:01No.

04:02You went to Lincoln Park.

04:03Oh yeah.

04:04You're right.

04:06Oh that's good.

04:07I did go to Lincoln Park at the Barclays Center.

04:08Yeah.

04:09With Emily.

04:10Yeah.

04:11Yeah.

04:12Last.

04:13I go to so many shows.

04:14You do.

04:15Um.

04:16I went and saw Sister Hazel a couple weeks ago.

04:17Love that.

04:18The last one before that me and my wife, uh, went and saw Garth Brooks in Vegas.

04:19Ooh.

04:20That's good too.

04:21And my best show ever also happens to be Garth Brooks, uh, in pieces tour, 90s.

04:24Six.

04:25Yeah.

04:26That sounds about right.

04:2796 or so.

04:28Just grooving to the music in the background.

04:29Yeah.

04:30Thunder rolling.

04:31The best show I ever went to or that I can recall, I don't know if it's a, you know what?

04:36It's, it's the one that sticks out in my mind the most was Lollapalooza in 1996.

04:40I knew it.

04:41Ooh.

04:42Um.

04:43Because it was.

04:44I was about to say, name all the people on that lineup.

04:45That's a good lineup.

04:46So check it out.

04:47It's like, basically get to the forefront of the day.

04:52The Ramones, Rancid, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, and Metallica.

04:58Yeah.

04:59One day.

05:00In one day.

05:01One day.

05:02That's a pretty damn good day.

05:03And I had, I was basically on the top of the hill cause it was in Bristol, Tennessee, literally

05:07at an airfield.

05:08Like, that's what it was.

05:09It was probably, I mean, at the time, I mean, there had to have been 40 or 50,000 people.

05:14Of course.

05:15There was this like slope, this, just this dirt slope.

05:19And I'm remember cause all I wanted to see was Soundgarden.

05:21Okay.

05:22But I wanted to be on the rail.

05:23Yeah.

05:24So I had to run through essentially Rage Against the Machine's pit to get past all that.

05:31Not a safe place to be.

05:32Yeah.

05:33I just remember being 18 years old and I just took off.

05:36Yeah.

05:37But I got to the rail for Soundgarden and sang, sang every single word with him.

05:42And 30 years later we're talking about it.

05:43So it was worth it.

05:45Yeah.

05:46Totally.

05:47For sure.

05:48Brett and Zach from Shine Down.

05:49Thank you guys so much for being here.

05:50Thanks for having us again.

05:51We appreciate you.

05:52And we're back at it.

05:53West of the Fest 2025.

05:54Let's go.

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