6/22/2023 0 Comments Collective soul songsIt's just more that I imagine what my solo sound would be like. Q: I also listened to your solo album, "Serengeti Drivers." How does your approach to a Collective Soul song differ from your solo work?Ī: It's still creating, but most of my solo stuff starts with a piano, or the Whirly, or the Rhodes sound. And if the flow is right, then the emotion gets in there. We let the technical side of our brains go. You're only young and new and cool once, but in our 50s, we’re making music and doing it in a real mature way and still trying to find that emotion that everybody's attracted to when it comes to rock 'n' roll. It's really one of our best records from beginning to end. Q: How did it feel having to sit on it for three years?Ī: It kind of sucked because it's so good. We did get together and record some other stuff during quarantine, but that record actually had been tracked already. We don't really sit there in the studio and listen to Shawn (Grove) mix. How did quarantine affect that album's process?Ī: Actually, we had finished recording that one right before quarantine, so we were just listening to mixes during quarantine, but that’s easy. Q: I assume a lot of the production of the new album happened over quarantine. He comes to us with the framework and we try to turn it into a Collective Soul song. He has a lot more fleshed-out ideas than he used to when he was younger. And we do that a little bit now, but Ed's songwriting has gotten more prolific as well. Ed would have a riff and we would just see where it goes. Then we would make a lot out of jam sessions. How has the songwriting evolved over time? Does Ed bring the songs or is it more of a collaborative thing now?Ī: It's become more collaborative. Q: Collective Soul formed nearly 30 years ago. They were like, “We're coming down to your place to record.” They drove down and we had a blast. They got to open up a few shows for us, and then we became friends. I'll be done mixing it in maybe about a month. Chris (Scott) and Mike (Hennel) came down about six weeks ago. And I've even got a band that I'm producing right now from Cincinnati – the Summit. It wasn't Southern Tracks, but my dad did a good job of putting together a professional studio. We all had opportunities to learn in the studio before anybody even played in high school. So between Ed being six or seven years older than the rest of the band, and being a full-time engineer, we were basically all studio rats. Ed was one of the head engineers at my father's studio. How did your sound come together? Did growing up in a studio environment influence your tastes?Ī: Definitely. Then I went back to read about the band and I gathered that your first album was basically a bunch of demos, which was really surprising. When I heard your earlier singles as a kid, I was blown away by the production. Q: You grew up in Stockbridge, Georgia, and your father owned Real 2 Reel studio there. Some of the first times we came through Cincinnati, shows were packed out there. Everybody's got some crazy stories from Bogart's. I got to go to opening day of baseball there. Question: Do you have any stories about coming through Cincinnati?Īnswer: We've always had fun in Cincinnati. Their catchy up-front riffs on hits like “Shine” and “Heavy,” and lush orchestral production on “The World I Know” and “December,” tethered by singer Ed Roland’s uplifting baritone, are earworms of '90s alternative-rock nostalgia.īassist Will Turpin and I recently discussed the new tunes, the band’s early days working at his father’s studio and his current work with Cincinnati rockers the Summit. Collective Soul returns to Cincinnati on Tuesday, July 26, to share songs from the band's new album, “Vibrating,” due out Aug. 12.
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