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Brent Smith (Shinedown) · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: This is on with Mario Lopez Tu Girl.
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  Speaker 2: Mario Lopez joining me right now, the lead singer of
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  Speaker 2: the band That Shine Down, Brent Smith.
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  Speaker 3: How's it going, Brent, It's going awesome. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: you're such a part of my life.
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  Speaker 4: Because I'm in a hotel room where I basically live
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  Speaker 4: in hotels anyway. You're always on the lodge net, so
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  Speaker 4: I always see you as soon as I walk in.
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  Speaker 3: You're like a friendly face everywhere I go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that. I appreciate that, and hopefully you're
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  Speaker 2: not getting Mario.
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  Speaker 1: Overload, not at all bringing it well. Your new single
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  Speaker 1: three sixty five is just blown up.
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  Speaker 2: It's a song about loss though, right, Is that the
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  Speaker 2: backstory on this one?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think it's more of a song about the
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  Speaker 4: dynamic of you know, the people that are in our
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  Speaker 4: lives that are no longer physically with us. It's about
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  Speaker 4: understanding that you know, there can be this sadness because
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  Speaker 4: they're not with you anymore, but in reality they're everywhere
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  Speaker 4: like there's still a part of you, and you know.
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  Speaker 4: It is a song about that question of you know,
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  Speaker 4: if you had one more day with that loved one,
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  Speaker 4: or you even had just one more hour with you know,
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  Speaker 4: what would you tell them? You know, how would you
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  Speaker 4: say thank you? But it's understanding that you know, as
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  Speaker 4: human beings, there's so much that we deal with on
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  Speaker 4: a daily basis that when we lose a loved one
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  Speaker 4: it can be very traumatic.
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  Speaker 3: But you got to remember that.
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  Speaker 4: They're always right by your side, They're always in your heart.
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  Speaker 4: And that's a lot of what that song represents.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's beautiful man. And you also released another one
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  Speaker 1: called Dance Kid.
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  Speaker 3: Dance got a completely different kind of song.
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  Speaker 2: Much much heavier rock. Uh ye jam right there? And
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  Speaker 2: h is there a little social commentary going on right there?
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  Speaker 4: I think anything in Shine Doown there's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of social commentary. My whole thing is
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  Speaker 4: always like I want to be able to talk about
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  Speaker 4: things that sometimes will make people.
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  Speaker 3: It's not that we're trying to be uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 4: We're trying to have an open dialogue with each other
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  Speaker 4: so that we can understand one another.
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  Speaker 3: I think that people.
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  Speaker 4: Don't need to stop learning. I also think that people
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  Speaker 4: need to be good to each other. But we live
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  Speaker 4: in and we live in interesting times. My friend and
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  Speaker 4: I think that we have to take care of each
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  Speaker 4: other by challenging one another to you know, I want
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  Speaker 4: to know what someone thinks that maybe doesn't you know,
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  Speaker 4: I might have a different interpretation of that or a
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  Speaker 4: different opinion. But having an open dialogue about it helps
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  Speaker 4: you learn about each other and also gives you maybe
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  Speaker 4: information that you weren't aware of because you can have
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  Speaker 4: those conversations and shake hands and still be friends and
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  Speaker 4: still have a respect for one another. You don't always
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  Speaker 4: have to agree fully, but in order for us to
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  Speaker 4: move forward, we have to do that as a society.
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  Speaker 4: We have to do it together and respect one another.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely agree with you. That's a great, great message.
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  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. You got to have that healthy communication dialogue.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're working on your eighth studio album, Congraty's
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  Speaker 2: how's it going?
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  Speaker 1: You're almost done?
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  Speaker 4: So where we're at right now, we've been working on
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  Speaker 4: it for a little over a year and we're probably
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  Speaker 4: seventy five percent finished with it right now.
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  Speaker 3: But the other side of it, too is we're we're already.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of constructing what touring cycle looks like for twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty six and twenty twenty seven. Obviously, we have a
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  Speaker 4: tour that we're getting ready to do. But we released
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  Speaker 4: two singles as of right now, and we are also
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  Speaker 4: going to follow that up later on this summer with
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  Speaker 4: two more singles and then the announce of the album.
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  Speaker 4: We're hoping to be able to present that this year.
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  Speaker 4: But anybody that knows us knows that you know, when
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  Speaker 4: we're in the studio and it's time to write a
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  Speaker 4: shine down record, we have to make sure that it
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  Speaker 4: is one hundred percent authentic. So usually the album will
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  Speaker 4: talk to us and let us know when it's finished.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, we're almost there.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like you mentioned the tour you're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: with Bush Bear Tooth, Morgan Wade.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go summer tour right there? How do you how
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  Speaker 1: do you pick out a set list with the catalog?
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  Speaker 3: So our guitar player, Zach Myers is a big part
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  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 4: This particular, this is by far the wildest production that
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  Speaker 4: we've ever put together.
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  Speaker 3: This is definitely we're.
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  Speaker 4: Pushing the envelope here, just because we're kind of known
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  Speaker 4: for these very theatrical stage performances and the way that
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  Speaker 4: we design certain things. But for the first time ever,
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  Speaker 4: our goal is to make sure every single city gets
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  Speaker 4: a completely different set list every single night.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, there.
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  Speaker 4: Will be songs that we have kind of like the
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  Speaker 4: ten that we know, you got to play these ten songs.
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  Speaker 3: You're not gonna make it out alive if you if
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  Speaker 3: you don't play these ten.
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  Speaker 4: So it's the other ten that you have to kind
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  Speaker 4: of construct and you know, throw, you know, a few
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  Speaker 4: curveballs that the audience is always fun. So really, we
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  Speaker 4: just did four full days of band rehearsal and went
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  Speaker 4: through forty one songs.
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  Speaker 3: It was a lot.
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  Speaker 4: And then looking at all that because we have thirty
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  Speaker 4: three singles as a band between seven records, but it's
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  Speaker 4: a lot more.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you wonder when you go into rehearsal, are
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  Speaker 3: we even going to remember some of these songs?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The thing is that it's kind of like riding a bike.
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  Speaker 4: The muscle memory is still there, and then there's some
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  Speaker 4: it's like yo, man, if you're gonna play this, we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to practice this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, But.
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  Speaker 4: The goal with this particular tour is for each city
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  Speaker 4: to get a completely different set list than the other.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's cool, that's very cool and not lazy like it.
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  Speaker 4: No, Yeah, we're just trying to make it as difficult
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  Speaker 4: as we can on If I'm being honest, how hard
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  Speaker 4: can we make it?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Keep you on your toes there.
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  Speaker 2: A couple months back, you joined Jelly Rool on stage
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  Speaker 2: and the first Responders benefit here in LA You're saying,
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  Speaker 2: Leonard Skinner simple Man together.
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  Speaker 1: That was really cool.
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  Speaker 2: And he toured with you guys before, right, Yeah, yeah, Back.
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  Speaker 4: In twoenty and twenty one we did a festival together.
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  Speaker 4: I had never met him, but I was probably one
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  Speaker 4: of the first fifty thousand views of the song saved
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  Speaker 4: me because I just remember when I saw that for
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  Speaker 4: the first time, I was like, like a lot of people,
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  Speaker 4: I was just enamored by what I was watching and
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  Speaker 4: what I was hearing.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, who is this? This is completely like unexpected.
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  Speaker 4: And so in twenty twenty one, we were on the
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  Speaker 4: same festival together and I met him and then I
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  Speaker 4: went in and I asked him. I said, Yo, do
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  Speaker 4: you want to come up and do Simpleman with us tonight?
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  Speaker 4: And he was like yeah, So he came up. We
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  Speaker 4: had an absolute blast. I got his number, and then
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  Speaker 4: towards the back half of that year before the following
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  Speaker 4: year in twenty twenty two. Right around January of twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty two, I gave him a call and I said, listen,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to do this tour in the summer, late
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  Speaker 4: summer in amphitheaters. It's about forty two dates. We'd love
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  Speaker 4: it if you would be main support for this. And
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  Speaker 4: he agreed to it. And I think a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people around the band at the time, you know, there
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  Speaker 4: were people that said to myself and Zach and.
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  Speaker 3: Eric and Barry, they were like, who is this?
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  Speaker 4: And I said, you're just going to have to trust
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  Speaker 4: me because this dude is going to get in a
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  Speaker 4: rocket ship in a minute and sky's a limit.
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  Speaker 3: Let me put it to you this way.
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  Speaker 4: That dude is one thousand percent necessary and the world,
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  Speaker 4: the world made the right guy famous.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's cool to hear, man, that's very cool to hear.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he really appreciates that.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, now, he's the absolute best man. He is about
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  Speaker 4: as authentic as they come. All of his success and
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  Speaker 4: everything that he's doing. It could not happen to a
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  Speaker 4: more When you talk about the real thing, he's the
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  Speaker 4: real thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. That's I love to hear those kind of stories.
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  Speaker 1: Last questions. You still in the hot sauce.
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  Speaker 3: Business one thousand percent. We're doubling down on. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Man, it's pretty wild, to be honest with you, but
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  Speaker 4: I got it.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the thing. Torch Bear and Barry Kirch, Like, Barry worked.
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  Speaker 4: So our drummer worked so hard with this company, Torch Bearer.
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  Speaker 4: And then so there's three sauces altogether. The one that
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  Speaker 4: got the most, the one that's kind of at the
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  Speaker 4: kind of at the top, is the first one we released,
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  Speaker 4: which was the Symptom Sauce, which is a Chipotle hot sauce.
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  Speaker 3: But last year it did it.
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  Speaker 4: We did it the very first the Brooklyn Hot Sauce Convention,
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  Speaker 4: which is one of the biggest ones in North America.
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  Speaker 3: That sauce actually took first, first place, first time.
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  Speaker 4: Ever in the Chipotle category. And then I think the
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  Speaker 4: Devour the Jerk sauce got a third place.
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  Speaker 3: And I want to say the Attention Attention.
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  Speaker 4: Sauce, which is probably the hottest sauce of the three,
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  Speaker 4: it got an award too. But you very rarely see
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  Speaker 4: a hot sauce first year out at these conventions get
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  Speaker 4: a first place. So, yeah, man, we've got a lot
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  Speaker 4: of stuff coming with the Hot Sauce. It's pretty remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And first of all, I did not know there was
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  Speaker 2: a Hot Sauce convention. I'm gonna start googling that shit
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  Speaker 2: of them.
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  Speaker 3: See.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is awesome. Hey, well, congratulations on everything. It's
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  Speaker 2: always nice to talk to you, Brent, and listen everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Please be sure to check out Shine Down's new music
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  Speaker 2: right now on your iHeartRadio app or wherever you stream music,
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  Speaker 2: and hit up on right dot com for the band's
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  Speaker 2: upcoming tour dates.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for checking in, Brett.
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  Speaker 4: Mario, you the best man. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 4: giving me the time.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you my pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: Take care of the all right.
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  Speaker 3: Later on with Mario Lopez.