![]() You recently got off the road with Styx, didn’t you? How are you doing? Are you all rested and ready to go out for another tour? Hope you enjoy reading this interview as much I loved doing it. But longtime fans may appreciate Dean’s very honest and heartfelt thoughts about everything and everyone from Tommy Shaw (Styx) and Eddie Van Halen to unreleased Collective Soul albums and songs both new and old. It ran about half an hour, so it’s edited down a bit. On Wednesday, August 11, I had the honor of speaking by phone with Collective Soul rhythm guitarist and co-founder Dean Roland, younger brother of singer/main songwriter Ed Roland, about his career with CS and their upcoming late summer/fall tour with Better Than Ezra and Tonic. The 2019 Blood LP and 2020 Half & Half EP are their latest releases, and as you will read below, Collective Soul is not even close to slowing down. ![]() Mainstream fame would naturally decrease over time in an always-changing musical landscape, but CS still churned out some popular albums like 1997’s Disciplined Breakdown, 1999’s Dosage ( “Run” and “Heavy”) and 2000 LP Blender (“Why, Pt. Their 3x platinum self-titled LP followed in 1995, featuring hits “December,” “The World I Know,” and “Gel.” By then, CS had opened for Aerosmith and Van Halen, and appeared at Woodstock 1994 (and later on, Woodstock ’99). Formed in 1992, the band rocketed to stardom with hard rock hit “Shine” and its accompanying 1994 major label debut, Hints, Allegations & Things Left Unsaid. song by Collective Soul their awesome.For nearly 30 years, Atlanta, Georgia rock quintet Collective Soul has built up a rich discography that as of 2019 includes 10 studio albums, which is no small feat. Jacob from Houston, Tx"Heavy" is my favor.Dani from Boston, MaThis has a great use of the guitar, I just love listening to the opening over and over again!.I quickly became a beleiver and now have multiple copies of their stuff around the house,car etc. Dana from Biloxi, MsI never paid much attention to this band until I saw them perform this live at the "Last" woodstock.Tom from Hershey, PaMore Collective Soul PLEASE on songfacts!! What a great Band!.This is just te tip of their body of work. By the time I'm done, I have a cleaner house and I'm not mad anymore. I put it on loud enough to shake the windows then do housework. Lalah from Wasilla, AkThe beginning guitar rift deserves to be as recognizable as the beginning of "Spirit In The Sky".My favorite song is run and just like all their other songs on the dosage album, it brings back awesome memories of when i was littler and my 4 brothers would blast collective soul on their stereos Nathan from Sherwood, OrI think collective soul should be getting way more recognition than they are getting right now.Kayla from Oklahoma City, OkI think this is Collective Soul's best song.Ryan from Anahola, HiWhat is this song about?.If I'm right I can relate, I know people like that. Zero from Nowhere, NjI'm pretty sure this song is directed at someone with a lot of emotional baggage and he/she makes it the burdon of the singer.Another great band from the great state of GA. He studied musical arrangements at Berkley. That's what I like about Collective Soul is the instrument arrangements and Ed Roland isn't a rookie in that department either. Mike from Lexington, ScBeing an accomplished guitar player I have to say that learning this song correctly was tricky and to really get the vibe of the song correctly it requires three guitars doing different things.
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