Shinedown Gift Banner to Dinosaur Pile-Up; Brent Smith Posts Video of Vocal Warm Up [VIDEO]

We’ve often said that Shinedown are some of the nicest and most genuine guys in the business. That statement was proven by their actions on a recent tour with Badflower and Dinosaur Pile-Up. Dino had been out on the road for years with a tattered and torn stage banner… that is until Shinedown stepped in. Check out the video of Shinedown surprising Dinosaur Pile-Up with a brand new stage banner.

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Yo. This is important. There is so much more happening in this video than it appears✨ What you can see is us up on stage last night in Phoenix AZ playing maybe our 300th show or more with our tiny battered backdrop, that was so torn up we couldn’t even hang it up anymore (so we just threw it over our amps) and a new, much larger backdrop being revealed behind us. That larger backdrop, was paid for, delivered and set up on stage - all without our knowledge - by @shinedown, as a gift. You should know; backdrops are EXTREMELY expensive and there is no way we could have afforded a new one, especially of this size, for the foreseeable future. We’d therefor decided that we’d just keep rocking our little beat up one until it literally fell apart✨ What you can’t see in this video, is us being taught what it is to be a truly great band, and that being a truly great band begins with music and genre, but in the end surpasses them both and comes to rest in your actions as people. When we went to find Brent, Barry, Eric and Zach after the show to thank them for their insanely generous gift, they said they didn’t want our thanks, and that they just wanted us to have success of our own, and that when we did get that success - we would pay it forward and help someone else out that needed it, as they’d helped us out, and as they’d experienced in their own journey to where they are now. In all of our 12 years of touring in DPU, we have never experienced generosity from a headlining band like this. That is what you can’t see in this video. Something far more valuable than just an insanely generous gift. A shining example of what it is to be truly great. So, to Brent, Barry, Eric, Zach and their amazing crew; from the bottom of our hearts, thank you. For truly leading by example, and for helping us out. We promise to pay it forward. Matt, Mike and Jim. XXX 🙏🙏🙏 @thebrentsmith @bkerchofficial @ebassprod @zmyersofficial

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Shinedown frontman Brent Smith also shared a video of him performing vocal warm-ups in the bathroom before a show.

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