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  Music World (Short Interview and overcast) We're just a rock & roll band looking for a good time." And they have certainly found it. Over the past two years, this Stockbridge, Georgia-based fivesome called Collective Soul has had two multi-platinum albums, an appearance at Woodstock '94, and has opened for Aerosmith and Van Halen. Sounds like a pretty good time. The success of their first release, Hints, Allegations And Things Left Unsaid, was completely unforeseen, especially since it was supposed to be a songwriter demo for the band's lead singer and guitarist Ed Roland. Radio stations in the South got hold of their debut smash single "Shine," and people began to listen, especially executives at Atlantic Records. In March of 1995, Collective Soul went back into the studio and recorded their true "debut" album as a band, and entitled it simply Collective Soul to underscore its debut status. It includes rock radio mega-hits "Gel," featured on The Jerky Boys soundtrack, "December," and "The World I Know." They have been headlining smaller venues for some time now, spreading their catchy, riff-based rock ballads all across the States. With songs and performances that are reminiscent of the arena rock era (Journey, REO Speedwagon), Collective Soul gives every show their all. The band Ñ rounded out by Roland's younger brother Dean on guitar, guitarist Ross Childress, drummer Shane Evans and bassist Will Turpin Ñ delivers high energy and sing-along choruses. "We enjoy what we do," says Roland, "and hopefully the crowd will too." Sounds like a pretty good time. |
