On October 28, 2010, Blabbermouth.net posted an interview with Brent Smith of Shinedown perhaps best known at the StalloneZone for their song “Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)” which appeared in trailers for “The Expendables.” The band got to meet Sly and here’s what Brent had to say about that…
“It was really, really awesome to meet him and it was really cool ’cause he [Sly] was like a kid,” he [Brent] said. “He was excited to show us, you know, what he was doing, and it’s really refreshing to see a man, you know, that’s been in the business for so long and has just played some legendary, I mean legendary characters, still be excited about art and movies and blowing stuff up and making people go, ‘Wow,’ you know.”
You can read the full piece here.