With their catchy, melodic pop/rock and mildly distorted but warm guitar
tone, Collective Soul leapt out of Stockbridge, Georgia to the top of
the 1990s AOR world. Vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Ed Roland, whose
parents prohibited listening to music, originally founded the band in
the mid-'80s after dropping out of the Berklee School of Music due to
lack of funds and getting a job in a 24-track recording studio. The
band drew no interest whatsoever from any label, and a disheartened
Roland called it quits in 1992 to put together a songwriter's demo in
hopes of finding work. A demo of "Shine" caught the attention of several
radio stations and eventually Atlantic Records, and Roland hastily put
together a new version of Collective Soul with his brother Dean on guitar,
Ross Childress on lead guitar, Will Turpin on bass, and original drummer
Shane Evans. "Shine" became an AOR smash and was an inescapable hit
on MTV and radio during the spring and summer of 1994; it helped the
band's debut album, Hints, Allegations
and Things Left Unsaid, sell over a million copies by the end
of the year. Their self-titled follow-up was released in 1995 and spawned
the radio hits "Gel, " "December, " and "The World I Know." Disciplined
Breakdown, Collective Soul's third album, was released in March
1997; Dosage followed two
years later.
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