Shinedown’s Zach Myers Defends Using Backing Tracks in Concert

One of the most popular debates within modern rock and metal scenes is whether it is good for the bands to use accompaniment clues through live shows. In a new interview with American Musical Supply, Shinedown guitarist, Zach Myers, defended the bands using concerts of accompaniment clues, citing a specific legendary rock as proof of why it is acceptable.

What myers said

Speaking to Ryan Dacey de Ams at the Festival Welcome to Rockville this year, Myers discussed a lot of songs, including its exclusive PRS guitar, how Shinedown comes with song lists and being a father.

At the beginning of his conversation, Myers talked about Shinedown’s clicks to click before mentioning: “There are some songs, obviously, we still do it because we run Stracks and things like that.”

Dacey replied: “Well, you have to do it. I mean, if you are going to recreation something that was essentially perfect In the study, you want to bring it there and you want to represent it as a good representation of it without not taking into account that it note the same. “

“Absolutely!” Myers replied, adding:

I think there is a big mistake about, as, I see all these bands that they like, it has become a great trend to show off not using clues. [Myers looks into the camera] How, shut up, friend! Who cares? Queen did, so shut up. If Queen did, shut up. Don’t say anything else, and if you want to do it, that’s great. But, as, people want to listen to the symphony about “Second Chance”, and I don’t feel like mentioning

Now, if you are running voices and you are running guitars and you are not touching things, I am not in favor of that. That is, yes. I think people think that when you run clues, that’s what you’re doing. I am like, “friend, there is no, like, … a guitar track.

You can see Myers’ full interview with AMS, which went up to the American Musical Supply YouTube channel on June 20, then.

In addition, let us know if you agree with Myers, you don’t agree with him completely or land somewhere in the middle!

Zach Myers discusses the backup clues + more with the American musical supply

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The previous thoughts of Myers on the support tracks

Myers previously gave his opinion on the bands that use support clues in a 2024 appearance in Jeremy’s White show. Explained [as transcribed by Blabbermouth]:

We never push this band you use. . . I think because we talk about clues, people think we are this band that uses all these clues and that is not true.

Here is the thing: all these people who complain about it, and even [SiriusXM radio personality] Eddie trunk [who has been vocal about his dismay for the use of backing tracks during live shows]I agree with certain things they said. If there is a single guitar and the boy is not alone, friend, that’s shit. I agree with that. If there is someone who pretends to play the piano, I agree with that. If there is a boy up there [pretends to be singing without making a sound] And he is not singing, I agree with that. We only use it to fill. . . We do not want to hire another band member or two more band members. I do not want to play a xylophone in both seconds that I am not playing the guitar. I don’t want to hold the keyboard and hold the guitar at the same time. I can, I do it in “state of my head.”

Later, he continued [via Blabbermouth]:

I think they are ways to make it great that you don’t want to bring other people on stage with you and ruin the dynamics of what your band is. And I definitely think there is a way to do it. I do not get angry with these old types of “getting out of my grass” that they are, like, “oh, well, I don’t think so.” The curious thing about Trunk, for me, is that two of his favorite bands are def leppard and kiss, and I am, as: “You don’t say they do it, man.” Friend, Def Leppard invented clues. They and queen. I can’t think of two other bands that did first.

Here is the thing, again: if you are paying money to go to see a program and everything is on your way: friend, I am with you, man. That is shit. Go see a play. But here is the thing, and I would invite Eddie Trunk to do this: come to our show, take an ears game, put them and silence the clues that are rolling and can tell an damned Difference. I agree that if the bands can take the stage and not do it without it, that is a problem. I can’t tell you the number of programs that our tracks have lowered and nobody knows. Us I know, but nobody knows. We finished so many shows where the system went out. “Very good, we will end the show.”

What else are there new with Shinedown?

Earl this year, Shinedown launched two singles (“Dance, Kid, Dance” and “Three Six Five”) from his next follow -up to 2022s Zero PlanetAnd they also launched their 2025 epic fashion tour in April.

In addition, Shinedown made our list of 6 great things that happened in Welcome to Rockville 2025 by taking the guitarist Rickey Medlocke and singer Johnny Van Zant for his famous cover of “Simple Man” by Lyryrd Skynyrd. Medlocke started the song and Van Zant performed main voices before Shinedown joined.

More about the debate of the backup tracks

As already mentioned, people inside and outside the industry have a long leg discussing the pros and cons of the bands that depend on the backup tracks. In fact, there have been doxes of rock and metal artists who have shared their thoughts on the matter.

For example, Sebastian Bach told Ultimate Classic Rock in 2021: “There will be a time when these bands of tape will really have, and people will go,” this is a fucking joke. “And I only know that real musicians hit your heart much more than boys who mimic a tape.”

On the contrary, Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx said on a 2019 tweet: “We have used technology since 87. I have been using sequencers, subtons, more Vox background clues more substantial singers and we are separate the cello and cells.

There are also numerous bands that have admitted to using accompaniment clues, such as Shinedown, which fall in reverse, Wasp and Fozzy. However, in 2023, the leader of Mudvayne, Chad Gray, unbridled the use of accompaniment clues as an “epidemic” within the industry before detailing how the group manages to keep their quality of study on stage With I need the controversial technological tactic.

“We brought a public services player, literally, someone just to help us. But he is really singing, he is really playing the guitar,” Gray and his friend and guitar Rafferty said. “Our music is fucking honest and our music has to reproduce that way. And I don’t care if the body says a negative shit about us to have Marcus. That was our response to try to be like Emore.”