Terri and I attended the Shinedown concert at the Verizon Wireless Theater on August 22nd. It was pretty good

We arrived late and I am not sure why. As we got onto the floor Deepfield was finishing up their set. I know they have a song on the radio called “Get It” so I was disapointed not get to see them. We did meet the guys from Deepfield after the show so I had them autograph a CD for me. Apparently the lead singer was locked in the bathroom so we missed him.

My disapointment soon ended when SURPRISE! Operator rolled their way onto the stage. Those dudes are freaking awesome. One of my favorite songs right now is “Soulcrusher” and they closed the set with it. Here’s a video I found on YouTube.

He kind of sounds like Chris Cornell from Soundgarden/Audioslave.

After Operator finished up it was time for Shinedown to come on. Shinedown’s stage presence has matured a ton since Terri and I saw them on the Glimsmack tour when they opened for Rob Zombie and Godsmack. The lead singer took control of the crowd and even broke up a fight! The music sounded really good but the mic kept cutting off the vocals through the first part of the show. So that was a letdown because this guy can really sing. Terri’s favorite part of the concert was when Shinedown did an acoustic rendition of Lynard Skynard’s Simple Man. I found a video of it from another concert.

Dude can blow!

And here is the video for it if you want to hear Shinedown’s LP version.

It was pretty awesome. But my favorite part of the concert was still SOULCRUSHER!!!…
After the concert we headed to Whataburger for some taquitos and then back to the cabin.

Here are some horrible pics.