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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=679467" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=125 BGCOLOR="#AAAAAA" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03c467d1euxmic.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Kristi Singer</b></FONT><B>     </b><B>|     </b><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kristi Singer"><U><B>home</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Catching Red"><U>Catching Red</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id218.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chicago"><U>Chicago</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id104.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Clarence Carter"><U>Clarence Carter</U></A>   |   <B>Collective Soul</b>   |   <A HREF="id143.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Color"><U>Color</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id83.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cowboy Mouth"><U>Cowboy Mouth</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cravin Melon"><U>Cravin' Melon</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id243.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Crossfade"><U>Crossfade</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Writing Samples"><U><B>Back to Articles</b></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Collective Soul</div> <div> <B>Collective Soul teams up with music legend for newest release                  </b></div> <div> Friday, November 24, 2000 </div> <div> <B>Kristi Singer, Morning Star correspondent</b></div> <div> <I>Wilmington Morning Star</I></div> <div> Copyright 2000 Wilmington Star-News</div> <bR> <div>      <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >When Elton John is available, you want to honor every request he has. Especially when that request is to accompany you on piano and record a hit for your newest release. </FONT></div> <div>      Just ask Collective Soul's Dean Roland. </div> <div>      "(Mr. John) has been a supporter and fan of the band for four years, so we've all become friends with him," Mr. Roland said. </div> <div>      "We asked him to (record) and he said he'd do it under one condition- if he could play piano." </div> <div>      The band enthusiastically agreed. "That was a pretty amazing experience," Mr. Roland said. "We're all big fans."</div> <div>      After the collaboration was planned, and the song was chosen by Mr. John and Ed Roland, there was only one problem - the lyrics weren't finished. </div> <div>      Ed Roland didn't finish them until the morning Mr. John arrived to record. </div> <div>      "It was kind of a last minute thing," Dean Roland remembers. </div> <div>      The title of the album, Blender, was chosen from a "Collective Soul-ection" contest. Twelve thousand fans suggested their ideas for the album title in May in the contest sponsored by radio station WNNX in the band's hometown of Atlanta. </div> <div>      "(Blender) was one word that seemed to work for the entire record," said rhythm guitarist Dean Roland about why the name was finally chosen. </div> <div>      The first single from Blender, Why Pt. 2, is about "the frustration within a relationship," Mr. Roland said.</div> <div>      The song is on its ninth week on the Billboard Modern Rock chart, moving its way up to No. 19. </div> <div>      This single seems to be following in the successful footsteps of those before it, including Shine, December, Where the River Flows and The World I Know.</div> <div>      "We really try to make music that we feel good about. Ed tries to write lyrics that are real, from experiences," Mr. Roland said.</div> <div>       Even at the last minute. </div> </td> </tr></table></body>