Collective Soul (Ed Roland) - Here Till Eternity
The SDR Show w/ Ralph Sutton and Dov Davidoff
GaS Digital Network
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Collective Soul frontman Ed Roland joins Ralph Sutton and James Mattern and they discuss, Ed Roland attending Berklee College of Music and dropping out based on advice from a random mailman, Collective Soul getting signed when Ed Roland was 30 years old, growing up as part of a church and being brought to concerts by his father, listening to Elton John as a child then moving on to befriend and work with him as an adult, being gifted a piano from Elton John and a guitar from Eddie Van Halen, first session ended up being with RuPaul in the early 80s, Ed Roland getting his first song on the radio without actually having a band yet, writing the song Shine with his brother at home in their living room, Collective Soul getting into a lawsuit with their manager and Ed Roland having to move back to Georgia into a cabin, the origin of the band name Collective Soul, Ed Roland liking to rent houses to record songs in including Elvis Presley's house, what musicians do in their downtime, Ed Roland tipping open mic bands to do surprise shows, Ed Roland meeting his wife during a ticket delivery and never parting since, online rumors that Ed Roland had died, Ed Roland's first concert, first drug and first sexual experience and so much more!
(Air Date: June 7th, 2024)
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| 0:00.0 | Fill her up. |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to the gas digital network. |
| 0:06.0 | What is up my fellow Alex Ross on the SCR show this week we have a very cool dude, Ed Rowan of Collective Soul. |
| 0:12.0 | We had some connectivity issues but overall a really |
| 0:15.3 | fun interview good guy out on tour with Hootie and the Blowfish and Edwin McCain. I think Shannon |
| 0:20.0 | and I are going to go see them in August, I think that's one that is. But remember this is only |
| 0:24.8 | about a half the interview. If you're a fan and you want to hear the rest of it, go to Gas Digital.com, |
| 0:29.3 | use the code SDR, you're going to get 20% off your subscription and see every interview we've ever done, unedited, uncensored, all the |
| 0:36.4 | gas digital.com. Use that code SDR to get 20% off. And here it is right now, the Collective Soul episode of the SDR show. Rock and all this is a hit show me a hit show please someone walk the hole |
| 0:54.7 | it's weed I peen it's hocus and blow it's art it's part you need to know the |
| 0:58.7 | SDR show sex drugs and rock and roll show and behind the scene before we started everybody |
| 1:10.4 | it was Chaos James didn't have data Our guests couldn't get his camera on, |
| 1:15.0 | but you wait and rock and roll gods will shine upon you and it will all work out. |
| 1:20.0 | James Madden in a very sparse background which is not indicative of the normal James |
| 1:25.8 | matter and I will say that James. Well I have to figure out a way I mean I'm going to |
| 1:29.3 | pay someone and more artwork to my walls I've been saying that for three years but it's going to happen. I have stuff |
| 1:34.4 | I can put here. When you're in the... Let's go get a can of spray paint. |
| 1:40.8 | Yeah, yeah. Let's go from Chaos to Anarchy, Pure Anarchy in the Upper East... of Funko pop thingies and pans and misplace shit but there it's very sparse it's the |
| 1:55.1 | misplace shit you mean my wonderful new uh my wonderful Nebraska Bruce Springsteen vinyl |
| 2:02.0 | and some Ronnie Dkerville vinyl. |
| 2:03.7 | I think they shouldn't be in a kitchen. |
| 2:05.7 | Yeah, you know what else should be in the kitchen? |
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