As a guy pushing 40 w/family, mortgages, company exec. blah blah, band forums are not places I normally visit. Heard a station playing Save Me and scrambled for a pen so I could recall the name and buy cd asap. I've seen Maiden,Who,Dead,Ozzy,sex pistols and many more. While new to me,I can see Shinedown turning on a lot of people for a long time. Lyrics are not faux depth. There is genuine creativity with these guys (Pete Townshend & Jim Morrison like) and the music kicks. Us and Them is outstanding and in my player. Best of luck and I will look for tour dates to see some shows.
Being that you're a big fan of Us And Them... you should also look for their first release if you haven't yet... it's called Leave A Whisper... every bit as fantastic as Us And Them... and definitely get out to see them if you get the chance, they have an amazing stage presence... welcome to the world of Shinedown!
Posts: 64 | Location: Morehead, KY | Registered: 10 October 2005
Originally posted by nl: As a guy pushing 40 w/family, mortgages, company exec. blah blah, band forums are not places I normally visit. Heard a station playing Save Me and scrambled for a pen so I could recall the name and buy cd asap. I've seen Maiden,Who,Dead,Ozzy,sex pistols and many more. While new to me,I can see Shinedown turning on a lot of people for a long time. Lyrics are not faux depth. There is genuine creativity with these guys (Pete Townshend & Jim Morrison like) and the music kicks. Us and Them is outstanding and in my player. Best of luck and I will look for tour dates to see some shows.
Don't feel too out of place there are a few older ones here. These kids are fun though.
I'm past 50 and my kids (young kids, 3 of them under 15) turned me on about a month ago to Shinedown. All of us saw them in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago with 3 doors down and alterbridge and they flat out rocked! Their song writting and stage shows are absolutely the best!! Like you and many others on this site appreciate depth to our music and shinedown delivers. To your point The Who, and Doors come to mine, I would through in Led Zepplin as well.
I checked out of the executive ranks about two months ago and have begun to enjoy life much much more....time with the kids, less stress...so I can't buy all the toys but who cares it is the "neat' stuff like discovering Shinedown with the kids that makes life all worth it.
Do yourself a favor and and pick up the CD "Leave a Whisper" It is a killer cd couple of my favorites "Lost in a Crowd" "45" "burning light" and Simple Man....remember Lynrd Skynrd.
Remember take time to smell the roses........
Oh btw this is my first forum I have EVER joined.......and the young kids are way cool
Hey nl & bigtimefans, thanks for wanting to be with us "kids." You two sound more enthusiastic to be with us then some teachers are to be with their students. Yeah, I've had some like that. Anyway, glad you both discovered Shinedown & you won't regret buying Leave a Whisper.
"Shinedown is a gift."- 98 Rock Baltimore
"Carve your place in time" and "leave a whisper."- High Holy Days and Shinedown
Posts: 679 | Location: PA | Registered: 11 October 2005
WELCOME!! age doesnt matter besides, at work i feel about 50 (i run the shop) and on the way home, i pop in U&T, and feel about 18 trying to teach myself how to hit brent's high notes... not working well hehe voice a bit deep for the higher stuff.. so umm.. if ur driving around jax, and hear someone in a red SUV screeching out a wannabe high note.. wave, its me!
Thanks for the welcome. I am pumped to get the other cd. Will pick up on wkend. To the other parents in the crowd, funny side note: took kids to see Ted Nugent recently. His guitar kicked ass and the kids learned 200 new ways to use the F-bomb. I earned meathead father of the year with that one!
ahhhh welcome to our place and hope you like shinedown forever!!!!!!!!rock on to shinedown all night and all day!
YOU ARE MEANT TO DANCE WHILE OTHERS KEEP TRYING
Posts: 374 | Location: modesto california rocks ,but we dont have that many rock concerts altough shinedown did come to the red lion hotel with the 96.7 rock expo oh i love the guys so much they are everything to me and their music rocks!!!kissessss to you all | Registered: 11 October 2005
Thanks for the welcome!! My wife and kids tell me I'm the biggest kid they know.......what a complement! No Midlife crisis here....Jammed all day to Shinedown while installing a subwoofer in the ride. I guess I'm going to have to find tickets to the Shinedown concert next week at the Voodoo Lounge in Kansas City......Ordered the live DVD today to hold me over.
I'm past 50 and my kids (young kids, 3 of them under 15) turned me on about a month ago to Shinedown. All of us saw them in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago with 3 doors down and alterbridge and they flat out rocked! Their song writting and stage shows are absolutely the best!! Like you and many others on this site appreciate depth to our music and shinedown delivers. To your point The Who, and Doors come to mine, I would through in Led Zepplin as well.
I checked out of the executive ranks about two months ago and have begun to enjoy life much much more....time with the kids, less stress...so I can't buy all the toys but who cares it is the "neat' stuff like discovering Shinedown with the kids that makes life all worth it.
Do yourself a favor and and pick up the CD "Leave a Whisper" It is a killer cd couple of my favorites "Lost in a Crowd" "45" "burning light" and Simple Man....remember Lynrd Skynrd.
Remember take time to smell the roses........
Oh btw this is my first forum I have EVER joined.......and the young kids are way cool
I wish people still refered to me as a kid. It's like this as an adult.....you remember when you were small and had to sit at the kids table for like Thanksgiving or X mas dinner. You spent every year screaming about wanting to be grown and sit at the adult table, well you grow up and durring those dinners all you can do is try to figure out a way to get back to the kids table, cuz the adults are so damn miserable. You spend your childhood trying to make it to the grown up table and the rest of your life trying to make it back to the kids table. Basically put simply, you spend all your childhood trying to be grown and all your adult hood trying to be a kid again.
i am coming from stlouis to kc on 11/04 at the voodoo lounge, maybe ill see u. biker kat has long blonde curley hair and dressed in black leather.....................................
Posts: 12 | Location: st.louis | Registered: 22 October 2005
I'll be at the KC show @ the Voodoo Lounge on Nov 4th!! Maybe I'll see some of yas! I'll be the guy rockin out the most, lol. At the last show a buddy and I drove down to Oklahoma to the show in Tulsa and the cops (for some reason) decided to shine their spotlight on us, lol. It was great! Can't wait to be there this comin' Friday.
"And as we wind on down the road...our shadows taller than our souls...there walks a lady we all know...who shines white light and wants to show...how everything still turns to gold...and if you listen very hard...the tune will come to you at last...when all are one and one is all...to be a rock and not to roll.
