Collective Soul

Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts. Keep in mind that Deep Purple was split up from 1977 - 1983.
. In 2003, Deep Purple released their first studio album in five years, the highly prasied Bananas, and began toruing in support of the album immediately. They scored a Top 10 Rock smash with "Counting The Days" the same week. The group continued forward until 2002, when founding member Jon Lord (who, along with Ian Paice, was the only member to be in all incarnations of the band) announced he was leaving the band to pursue personal projects (especially orchestral work). Rock keyboard veteran Don Airey (Rainbow/Whitesnake, etc.), who had helped Purple out when Lord was injured in 2001, joined the band. The album entered at #66 on the Billboard 200, after a string of promotional club/radio appearances, including a sold-out show at Los Angeles' Roxy Theater, performing a high-energy show. Most of this period was spent on the road via constant touring.

They released "Youth" under their own label, El Music Group. The revitalized band enjoyed success throughout the rest of the 1990s, releasing the critically acclaimed Purpendicular in 1996, and Abandon in 1998. On November 2004, Collective Soul released sixth studio album "Youth" with new guitarist Joel Koesche. The band auditioned guitarists, and Steve Morse of Dixie Dregs impressed them enough to get the gig. In 2001, the lead guitarist, Ross Childress, left the band, eventually being replaced by his own guitar tech, Joel Koesche. Joe Satriani was drafted in, so the live dates (in Japan) could be completed. Satriani was asked to join full time, but declined. Subsequent singles flopped, such as "Perfect Day" (a duet with Elton John) and "Vent", which barely cracked the Top 40 on the Rock chart. Blackmore walked out, never to return and leaving the band in a fix.

It entered at #22 on the Billboard 200 but produced no more than one bona fide hit with "Why Pt 2" peaking at #2 at their strongest format. During the support tour in mid-1994, tensions between Gillan and Blackmore came to a head yet again. In 2000, Collective Soul released fifth studio album "Blender" which achieved modest success. Blackmore relented and the classic lineup recorded The Battle Rages On in 1993. Collective Soul was one of the Top 5 most played bands on the Mainstream Rock format in the 1990s. With the tour done, Turner was forced to go as Jon Lord and Ian Paice realised they needed Gillan back in the fold. At the end of 1998, "Heavy" was the #2 rock song of the year. This line up recorded just one album,Slaves and Masters (1990), and toured in support of it.

It garnered moderate success on alternative, hot AC and the Top 40 formats but became somewhat of a cult favorite. His replacement was former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner. (Since then, the record for the longest stay at #1 was broken in 2000 by 3 Doors Down, who stayed at #1 for 21 weeks with "Loser") "Run", a softer ballad, was released to mainstream radio and was featured in the movie "Varsity Blues". In 1989, Ian Gillan quit the band again, as his relations with Blackmore soured. The former became a Top 5 Alternative smash and a #1 hit on Rock radio for a record-breaking 14 weeks. While in the UK a new version of "Hush" was released to mark 20 years of the band. Two tracks, "Heavy" and "Run" were simultaneously released to radio. The line-up recorded and toured The House of Blue Light in 1987 though to lower sales, a live album Nobody's Perfect (1988) was culled from US shows on this tour.

In 1998, Collective Soul released "Dosage" amidst critical acclaim. The weather was famously bad but 80,000 turned up anyway. However, it added two to Collective Soul's tally of #1 hits. The UK homecoming proved mixed as they elected to play just a single festival show (with main support from The Scorpions). Third studio effort "Disciplined Breakdown" did not fare as well, producing no real crossover hits. It was a tremendous success. Both were #1 Mainstream Rock hits, with "December" repeating "Shine"'s success by winning the Billboard award for the Top Rock song of 1995. The album Perfect Strangers was released in October 1984 and the tour followed, starting in New Zealand and winding its way across the world into Europe by the following summer.

Their second album bore five hit singles, along with two crossover smashes, "December" and "The World I Know". It was announced on BBC radio's The Friday Rock Show that the "classic" early 70s lineup of Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, and Paice was reforming and were recording new material. The band signed a deal with Polydor in Europe and Mercury in North America. Subsequent single "Breathe" did not fare as well on the charts but the band returned to the studio to release their best-selling album to date, the self-titled Collective Soul. Then in April 1984, 8 years after the demise of Deep Purple, it happened. "Shine" also became the #1 Album Rock Song of 1994 and won a Billboard award for the Top Rock song that year. Subsequently, most of the past members of Deep Purple would go on to have considerable success in a number of bands including Rainbow (band), Whitesnake and Gillan, while there were a number of promoter-led attempts to get the band to reform especially with the revival of the hard rock market in the late 70s/early 80s. The multi-format smash also became an MTV staple. As a result, Deep Purple broke up.

"Shine" became a #1 rock smash for 8 weeks, peaked at #4 on alternative and hit #8 on the pop chart. After a particularly traumatic tour to promote Come Taste the Band, Tommy Bolin died of a heroin overdose. Collective Soul broke through in 1994 with their hit "Shine". He had a drug habit - heroin, which made matters all the worse. Collective Soul eventually paved the way for bands such as Matchbox 20 to achieve enormous success. Bolin himself turned out not to be ready for the job of filling Blackmore's shoes, suffering hostility from some crowds while turning in peformances of highly variable quality. These bands created a sound of their time following the grunge movement in the early 1990s which took the international music world by storm, led by Nirvana and Pearl Jam. However the subsequent album, 1976's Come Taste the Band, for all its quality, proved unpopular with die-hard fans and didn't attract any new ones.

Collective Soul achieved the most success among bands in the mid-1990s rock scene which produced hooky melodic clean rock, such as the Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra and Live. On the face of it Bolin was just what the doctor ordered. Ed Roland cites Elton John and the Cars as main influences, though their music can be as heavy as Led Zeppelin. The gap was filled by the prodigiously talented Tommy Bolin who had established himself as a vivid imaginative guitarist with acts such as Zephyr, James Gang and Billy Cobham. Collective Soul enjoyed much more success on mainstream rock radio, as they created hook-laden melodies on top of crunchy guitar riffs reminsicent of classic rock bands from the '70s and '80s. With Blackmore's departure, Deep Purple was left to fill one of the biggest vacancies in rock. Throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, they enjoyed moderate popularity on alternative rock radio. Blackmore was not happy with the results, and after the release of the Made in Europe (taken from shows on the Stormbringer tour), the founding member left Deep Purple in 1975.

Collective Soul is an alternative rock band from Stockbridge, Georgia, USA. Hughes and Coverdale added a funky R&B/soul sound to the band's heavy metal elements, a sound that was even more apparent on the 1975 release Stormbringer. 2005 "Better Now". This new line-up continued seamlesly into 1974 with the album Burn, another highly successful Purple album. 2004 "Counting The Days" #8 (so far). The classic lineup continued up through the album Who Do We Think We Are? (1973) at which point both Gillan and Glover left. They were replaced by an unknown singer named David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes on bass and vocals. from Youth