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Sunday, April 11, 2010

The Top-List in Music (Shinedown)

Aloha bloggers,
Last month, on March 6, 2010, Shinedown played their number one, newly released hits at Pipeline Café in Honolulu, HI. These insanely popular hits included Second Chance, Simple Man, Devour, Sound of Madness, The Crow & the Butterfly, and 45. Shinedown is an American hard rock band from Jacksonville, Florida formed in 2001. The band members included Brent Smith, Jasin Todd, Brad Stewart, and Barry Kerch until 2007 when Stewart and Todd were replaced by Zach Myers, Nick Perry, and Eric Bass. The band was signed by Atlantic Records in early 2002.

That's enough of the technical history of the band, now to the concert critique...

For any teenager out there, Shinedown is the band for you. They're not quite as sexist or indulgent as other Alternative bands such as Allstar Weekend or All-Time Low being as they put their own hard rock, meaningful twist on their songs. This brought them to where they are today as one of the top 20 artists in the USA. At Pipeline, the band had, what seemed like several hundred, teenage feet flying off the grounds, jumping in unison to the beat of their insanely catchy hits.

Shinedown contains two things teenagers look for most in a band... up-tempo beats, and good-looking members. When you put these two most important qualities together, you get a big shot at making it big time. Attending their concert in Hawaii, I felt like I was defying gravity. Many teens living in the moment did just that by crowd surfing onto the stage just to get a closer glimps at the truly talented singer, Brent Smith. However, one girl in particular got the closest.

When Shinedown was half way through their concert, the lead singer came down to the audience, right in front of the metal gate between the band and crazy teenage fans, barely visible with the dark lighting, and serenated a 14-year-old girl named Gabby. Of course everyone surrounding her reached their arms out just to get a tiny touch of the singer's glorifying tour jacket while Smith held her face, kissed her cheek, and sung right to her soul. As clarified by just about every teenage/early twenty-year-old there, a girl would die to be in her shoes.

That's it for this post on Shinedown's concert at Pipeline Café, Honolulu, HI. Check out next week's blog to find out more on music news in the Islands.

Thanks a lot,
musicbytori