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Shane Evans
(September 2005 Issue)
Collective Soul Embracing The MachineName the musician who
said, "I got more interested in sampling
honest sounds, like throwing a
wrench at a sheet of metal, getting some crazy sound, finding the
rhythm in the chaos, then
sampling and looping it." Let's see, Moby -
Trent Reznor - Norman "Fat Boy Slim" Cook - No, no, no.
The
correct answer? Shane Evans of Collective Soul. "I was a
pure drummer early on, and I was totally scared of loops and stuff
like
that," Evans explains. "I was always interested in electronic drums,
but I also knew that the technology wasn't there
yet for electronic
drums to take the place of acoustic drums."
Nevertheless, when the band started to work on the
1999
release Dosage, things changed for Evans. "I was a little scared
because I saw where a loop could take over," he says.
"But as I got to
learn more about loops, sampling, and the process, I was intrigued by
it and discovered that this was another
avenue to take for drumming.
It's a tool, and in order to expand your education and knowledge of
everything about
drumming, you should focus on learning things like
programming, looping, and sampling."
That's not to say that
Evans has thrown away his kit for an
electronic outfit. To the contrary, Blender, the band's latest
offering, is chock-full of
good old-fashioned rock with a soul twist.
Without a moment's hesitation, Evans picks the tune "Boast" as the
one
where the band came together solidly. "I think that's the one song that
combines what I love about Collective Soul,"
he says. "It has a great
riff, a great chorus, and I like the whole concept where the verses are
slamming and then you bring it
back down for the chorus. That song
seems to define what a lot of Collective Soul is about."
David John Farinella
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