Shinedown Announce New Members
Shinedown has announced the departure of guitarist Jasin Todd and the addition of Nick Perri, formerly of Silvertide. The band has also announced their new bassist, Eric Bass. Bass replaces Brad Stewart who left the band last year. A blog from front-man Brent Smith can be viewed here.
Shinedown’s new studio album ‘Sounds of Madness‘ hits stores on June 24th. The first single, “Devour”, goes to radio on May 6th.
Jason said:
Wow, his last name is Bass. That’s like me joining the golf tour. (My last name is Paar)
April 11th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Chris said:
I love Shinedown, but Nick’s style and Jasin’s style are two different styles…hopefully it will work though…
but… Brent’s blog did kinda make it sound like he could return
April 11th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Nick said:
for those of you unfamiliar with eric bass, he is arguably charleston’s biggest producer (he is part of ten star entertainment’s elite roster that includes rick beato and corey lowery) and he also did the tyler read cd.he was one of the founding members of deepfield actually,and he also toured with reveille back in the day too.
the guys, especially brent, spent quite a bit of time here in charleston last year working with eric on some demos and brent even bought him 2 3,000 dollar basses as a thank you gift.
anyway, thats prolly more than anyone wanted to know about mr. bass but his talent is unmistakable and i wouldnt’ miss a live show featuring this lineup for the world…
April 12th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Peter said:
yeah this situation is f’ed up. as far as i know this was not jasin’s decision, but Atlantic Records. complete bs if you ask me.
April 12th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Deuce said:
Damn. I loved Jasin, but Nick is one of my biggest influences in guitar right now. Its gonna bring some cool elements to the band, but at the same time I think their sound is going to change a lot
April 12th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Cfw828 said:
Shinedown is very successful, but that band changes members like sheets.
April 12th, 2008 at 3:00 am
Brandon said:
Does anyone know why Jasin left?
As for Bass. I wonder if one day he just kind of said “My name is Bass, so I can either be a fisherman, or…hey, this is way cooler.”
April 12th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Dude said:
Jasin didn’t “leave.” Atlantic fired him because he’s a drunken drug addict who wouldn’t clean up.
Makes me wonder how Brent’s kept his job ……….
April 12th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Mikel said:
yikes
I’ve heard these things before
April 12th, 2008 at 11:24 am
twistedriffster said:
yeah, chris i agree, they both do have different styles and i was hoping they would go a lil more back to their old sound. guess that won’t be happening. but hope jasin gets better.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
bigcurt said:
ShineDown will never be the same..period. It is incredibly hard for me to believe they can make up for a guitarist like that.
April 12th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
TaNbULL said:
I have seen Nick play with guys before, waaaay back in ‘05. it was amazing. and i cant think of a better replacement. and thank you nick, i knew Eric Bass sounded familiar and you just told me: Deepfield. sound wont change until after this album though.
April 12th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Mikel said:
“I have seen Nick play with guys before”
I’m really hoping that was a typo hahaha
and if it’s not a typo, then it’s even more disturbing that you thought it was amazing
However, if you’re referring to our tunelab nick then this wouldn’t surprise me
April 12th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
ohgreat said:
Whoa. It looks like it’s just Brent Smith and Barry Kerch remain as the orignial members while the ones like Jasin Todd and Brad Stewart decide to make their exits. Weird.
I guess this suits the best on what’s happening to Brent Smith overall. He IS the band’s main songwriter. It can happen often than one might think and it did just as Sound of Madness is about to make its drop on June 24th.
Instead of quartet, you get quintet. Cool how to see that will sound live.
April 12th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Dude said:
“Whoa. It looks like it’s just Brent Smith and Barry Kerch remain as the orignial members while the ones like Jasin Todd and Brad Stewart decide to make their exits. Weird.”
Niether Jasin nor Brad left of their own volition. The decision was made for them.
“Instead of quartet, you get quintet. Cool how to see that will sound live.”
Guess you didn’t see them in 2006; Zach Myers was the touring rhythm guitarist for much of that year.
April 12th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Chris said:
Supposedly Jasin had been clean for a few months
April 13th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Nick said:
yea what happened with brad anyways?
and i really don’t have a comeback for mikel right now
but revenge super, thanks for asking hah
April 13th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Chris said:
Think Atlantic forced Brad out also
April 13th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Peter said:
when Atlantic went after Brent, thats all they originally wanted.. so now, First Brad is gone, now jasin..
what’s next?? Barry leaves?
atlantic should burn in hell. enough said
April 14th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Chris said:
Brent was signed to Atlantic before Shinedown was ever even thought of
April 14th, 2008 at 11:30 pm