The steel for the staging of Shinedown’s tour arrived in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in mid-April. So did the band’s frontman, founder Brent Smith, who was there to oversee the construction of the stage set that the band is taking to more than 30 arenas this summer.

It was going to take a couple days to put the production together. Then the other three members of Shinedown were set to join Smith at the Mid-America Center for a week of rehearsals before the show moved 120 miles east to Des Moines. That began a tour that brings the group to Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on Sunday.

“It’s very much built, in some ways, like a giant nightclub,” Smith said from Mid-America Center. “On top of that, too, the staging is very complex. But there’s not going to be a bad seat in the house, even if you’re al

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