Live/Collective Soul Tour Confirmed by fan at Lancaster Show Options

[Heather]

Well I know Collective Soul never misses Canada when they tour. They seem to be pretty popular there. Hopefully the tour will come near you!

[EvilOne]

I love the idea of these two touring together. I've only been to one collective soul concert but that was awesome and their fanbase seems to be along the same age, general mentality of Live fans so it's a perfect match in my mind.

[Heather]

I love the idea of these two touring together. I've only been to one collective soul concert but that was awesome and their fanbase seems to be along the same age, general mentality of Live fans so it's a perfect match in my mind.

Amen to that!

[beau99]

They just need to come to AZ.

I just don't see an outdoor show happening.

[jennabeck]

Riverbend Music Theater in Cincinnati would be a great spot. I see myself in Section 300 right in front of CT but my feet will not be on the ground....

[SecretInsomnia]

hey people, what do you all think is the chance that 'summer tour' means 'touring also outside the USA'?
More than 0%?

[SJN1279]

hey people, what do you all think is the chance that 'summer tour' means 'touring also outside the USA'?
More than 0%?

Well since they plan on filming a DVD in Brazil, its a very strong chance. If the tour really is around 30 dates, I would imagine some would have to be in Canada or abroad.

[aLIVEinNORWAY]

I have never heard of Collective Soul here in Norway. I just downloaded some of their albums, and it sounded o.k. Are they "big" in u.s?is their a link between Live and them since they are going on a tour togheter.

[Heather]

I wouldn't say they are big here but they have a pretty good fanbase. They took several years off before their last cd came out and they are on their own label. They did get some decent airplay last year with their singles though. They were big in the 90's around the same time Live was at their biggest.

I don't know what the connection between the two bands would be and its kind of weird because I can't imagine how this whole tour idea (if it happens) came about. With CS on their own label and financing their own tours I'm not sure how Live fits into that whole thing. As far as I know Live and CS have only played together once or twice at festivals so I doubt they really know each other that well. Maybe CS or Live were just looking for a band to tour with and figured it was a good match based on a similar fan bases, music style and the fact that they were huge in the 90's.

[aLIVEinNORWAY]

I wouldn't say they are big here but they have a pretty good fanbase. They took several years off before their last cd came out and they are on their own label. They did get some decent airplay last year with their singles though. They were big in the 90's around the same time Live was at their biggest.

I don't know what the connection between the two bands would be and its kind of weird because I can't imagine how this whole tour idea (if it happens) came about. With CS on their own label and financing their own tours I'm not sure how Live fits into that whole thing. As far as I know Live and CS have only played together once or twice at festivals so I doubt they really know each other that well. Maybe CS or Live were just looking for a band to tour with and figured it was a good match based on a similar fan bases, music style and the fact that they were huge in the 90's.

Thanks

[Heather]

Looks like Collective Soul might end up becoming a bit more well known now and not for a good reason. Seems the Virginia Tech shooter was a big fan:

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/music/ar...ective_soul.php

http://www.mongrel.ie/blog/index.php/2007/...ctive-soul-fan/

This post has been edited by Heather: Apr 18 2007, 12:45 pm

[SJN1279]

I don't know what the connection between the two bands would be and its kind of weird because I can't imagine how this whole tour idea (if it happens) came about. With CS on their own label and financing their own tours I'm not sure how Live fits into that whole thing.

Since Live is without a label maybe they figured it'd be more cost effective to split the financing among the two bands?

[tswart1]

Two roommates of Virginia Tech gunmen Cho Seung-Hui told CNN's Gary Tuchman on Tuesday night that the 23-year-old English major listened to a lot of Zeppelin and Nirvana on his laptop, but he mostly played the same song over and over again: Collective Soul’s “Shine,” the 1993 release off of the Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid album.

Any time an individual indulges in anything over the top before committing a crime, lawyers salivate (the Twinkie defense) and the media overblow (consider us part of the problem as we head this off at the pass). By 11:17 pm last night, the Wikipedia entry for the song already included information about Cho Seung-Hui’s listening habits. (It was removed from the entry by 1:30 am. Editor's note: It's back now at 3 pm.) The creepy guy who supposedly used to stalk some women on the campus and wrote shitty plays, ended 32 people’s lives this week. Virginia Tech will be sued, over and over and over again. The media were quick to pin blame on the university for not warning students sooner, and you can be sure today they will start to pin blame on the counselors and police who interacted with this Cho Seung-Hui in the past and didn’t lock him up for good.

Should be a day or two before they add “Shine” to the pantheon of the deranged alongside The Beatles’ “Helter Skelter” (which Charles Manson claimed to be the diagram for the coming apocalypse after directing the Tate and Labianca murders), U2’s “Exit” (which Robert John Bardo claimed drove him to kill My Sister Sam actress Rebecca Schaeffer), Ozzy Osbourne’s “Suicide Solution” (one of the many songs nineteen-year-old John McCollum listened to in the Osbourne canon before shooting himself in the head in 1984), and KMFDM’s “Son of the Gun” (the Columbine douches). KMFDM had to go as far as put out a public statement in the wake of those school shootings.

Compared to these songs, “Shine” — with lines like “Teach me how to speak/Teach me how to share/Teach me where to go/Tell me will love be there. . . Oh, heaven let your light shine down" — sounds like a church hymn. (Though in McCartney’s defense, "Helter Skelter" was evil in its chords and blisters rather than its going-down-the-slide lyrics). Dolly Parton covered “Shine” — hell, she won a Grammy for it in 2002. But that’s not going to stop someone from tracking down Ed Roland for analysis on how his band helped usher in the post-grunge era with a limp, whimpering spiritual — and how it may never be played in Virginia again, thanks to some asshole, who like so many other assholes have throughout history, woke up one morning, decided to end it all, and thought it prudent to take some innocents down with him.

[Gertjan]

In this respect, I remember a dispute about a song by Live being related to a killing in Australia. Anyone here with the details?