Collective Soul
founder Ed Roland studied music composition and guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. His prior band from the late 80s to early 90s was called Marching Two-Step, but they were a club band without a record contract.In 1993, Roland's song "Shine"
from the Rising Storm label release of Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid
became an underground hit. Roland teamed up with Shane Evans, his brother Dean Roland, Will Turpin and Ross Childress as the new band lineup.
Ed Roland was reading Ayn Rand
's novel The Fountainhead
and came across the phrase "collective soul.". Rand uses the phrase "collective soul" as a threat to the main character's sense of individualism. Roland has said that the choice was not in support of "Ayn Rand, objectivism, egoism, or anything...we just dug the name."
Collective Soul
Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid
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