Shinedown - A Symptom Of Being Human (Live/Private Show at El Patron, Riverside CA - June 26, 2023)

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An up close and personal, private show of Shinedown singing A Symptom Of Being Human at El Patron Downtown Riverside, CA on June 26, 2023, provided by Hot 103.9 to a limited set of radio contest winners.

Watch the super talented Eric Bass, normally the bassist for Shinedown, pick his acoustic guitar with perfect accuracy, while Brent Smith belts out amazing vocals as usual, all while trains whizz through Riverside blaring their horns!

A Symptom Of Being Human is about struggles with mental illness and the social stigma surrounding it, according to Brent Smith. Here's an excerpt from Psychology Today in the article "What Brent Smith Understands About Being Human", posted March 28, 2023 by Michael Friedman Ph.D.

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Drawing on his own experience with anxiety, Smith hypothesized that many people may have been experiencing a similar sense of panic during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the song “A Symptom of Being Human," Smith utilized the image of being in “a room where I don’t belong” as a metaphor for panic. “I was really thinking about what a lot of people on the planet were probably going through. And that idea … Sometimes I'm in a room where I don't belong. And the house is on fire, and there's no alarm, and the walls are melting, too,” he explained. “The house is your mind … the thoughts that you're left alone with at night, when you're by yourself.”

From Smith’s perspective, while the experience of the panic can be overwhelming and painful, it can also be an opportunity. In fact, he has reframed his anxiety not as a sign that something is wrong with him — but rather that something is right with him. “I've been doing this professionally for two decades now. And one of the most comfortable places I feel at home is on stage — whether it's in front of five people, or it's in front of 500,000 people … But what never changes for me is I am literally terrified. And when I say terrified, I mean before I opened my mouth on the first song of the set, I'm terrified,” Smith said. “I would be more nervous if I wasn't nervous because it lets me know I'm alive. It lets me know that I care. It lets me know that the people that are in front of me, I'm here to perform for them. Because … our goal for the people that walked in is to make sure they float out. We want to lift them up.”
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Link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brick-by-brick/202303/what-brent-smith-understands-about-being-human
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Written by Brent Smith and Eric Bass
Recorded at Big Animal Studio in Charleston, South Carolina
Released on February 22, 2023
Album: Planet Zero
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