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  • 6/14/2025
Give Me a Word: The Collective Soul Story | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer | dG1fNEtBTUdZclptREU
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00:00How the fuck did I end up here?
00:17I would like to now invite you in to where Collective Soul started.
00:21October of 93.
00:24I didn't have a band. It was just me in a basement making these songs.
00:27And Brother Dean was going to Georgia State, and I said, just take this tape in there.
00:31He started playing Shine.
00:34And people loved it. It was crazy.
00:37People called in, what is this song? I want to hear more of it.
00:39It was like, within two months, we're number one on MTV, everything.
00:44We're a bunch of country bumpkins that just were like, what is going on?
00:48We were gone.
00:49My next guest, one of the most popular bands in music today.
00:52Please welcome Collective Soul.
00:57Now we're getting, like, parents bringing their kids, and it becomes a generational connection.
01:03People tell you how much it means to them, how much the songs mean to them.
01:07And we become the soundtrack to people's lives.
01:12I'm one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
01:14Cover a song in my room and win a Grammy.
01:16I have loved Collective Soul for more years than I can count.
01:23If I don't write, if I don't play an instrument in the day, I'm not me.
01:33He definitely has a lot of energy, because that dude does not stop writing.
01:36Always writing, always creating.
01:38My mind doesn't shut off.
01:40The idea comes quick, and then the song comes within an hour.
01:46Then I send it to Sean, and he goes, all right, keep working.
01:49It's not the same way ever I stumble without you.
01:58At 15, Ed was in a terrible car accident and lost his best friend.
02:02And then at 23, he lost Chris.
02:05Chris was my mentor in life in general.
02:08There is not a damn song I write that I don't think, what would he think?
02:13I wouldn't be here without him.
02:15Losing people that close to you at that age is devastating, and he's turned him into positive everything.
02:24God didn't promise our next breath.
02:25It's only the last one we just took.
02:27Making music.
02:28That's the time of my life, making music.
02:31I am his God's maiden, and I like what I am.
02:35People ask me all the time, what's the best song you've written?
02:37I haven't written it yet.
02:40I'm still searching.
02:41But it would not be anything without them.
02:44That's how we got here.
02:45Family.
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