Where Is Collective Soul From?
Collective Soul is usually noted as being from Atlanta, but they are origianlly all from a small town 20 miles from Atlanta called Stockbridge. But Atlanta is home to most of them, at least part of the time. How Did The Band Members Meet? The guys have known each other pretty much their entire lives. In Stockbridge they actually lived within a 1 mile radius of each other except Shane who was only a few more miles away. How Was Collective Soul formed? In 1989, Ed Roland and Shave Evans were part of a Georgia-based band called Marching Two-Step, which also included a female vocalist. They added lead guitarist Ross Childress in 1991, after a band he was in opened for Marching Two-Step in Atlanta. In 1992, with the departure of the female vocalist, they decided to harden Marching Two-Step’s sound and thus changed the name to Collective Soul in the process. Will Turpin, who had often lent his percussion skills and backing vocals to both Marching Two-Step and Collective Soul, became the offi
