Bill Doss

Bill Doss, 2004

Bill Doss is among the co-founders of the influential Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. based Elephant Six Collective, and also one of the key creative forces behind The Olivia Tremor Control, one of the leaders of the collective, and later, following the band's break-up, The Sunshine Fix.

Doss is a native of Ruston, Louisiana, where he befriended Will Cullen Hart, Robert Schneider and Jeff Mangum. Before the Olivia Tremor Control Doss had recorded under the name The Sunshine Fix, and self-released Spiraling World of Pop, which later helped comprise Olivia Tremor Control songs. Doss, Hart and Mangum soon formed what was later to become the Olivia Tremor Control. After Mangum left the band to pursue his own Neutral Milk Hotel, Hart and Doss began to pool their musical influences, Hart being a proponent of experimentalism, Doss of 60's pop such as The Beatles and The Zombies. Before the Olivia Tremor Control, Doss had spent some time in the army, after which he joined New York based band Chocolate USA before heading back to Athens, Georgia, where he is still a resident.

After the release of the second Olivia Tremor Control album, Black Foliage, the band broke up, and Doss went on to re-start The Sunshine Fix. His first full length, Age of the Sun, was released in 2002, which was an album that found its roots in traditional pop harmonies owing much to The Zombies and The Beatles.

Since then, Doss has released the less well received Green Imagination with the Sunshine Fix, and currently produces albums in his own studio in Athens.

Contents

1 Perfoming Discography

1.1 The Olivia Tremor Control
1.2 The Sunshine Fix
1.3 Chocolate U.S.A.

2 External links

Perfoming Discography

The Olivia Tremor Control

Albums

Music From The Unrealized Film Script "Dusk At Cubist Castle" (1996)
(1998)
(1999)
Those Sessions (1999)
Singles and Beyond (2000)

EP's / Singles

California Demise (1994)
Split w/ Apples in Stereo (1994)
The Giant Day (1996)
The Opera House (1997)
The Olivia Tremor Control Vs. Black Swan Network (1997)
Jumping Fences (1998)
Hideaway (1998)

The Sunshine Fix

Albums

A Spiralling World of Pop (Cassette Only) (1993)
Age of the Sun (2002)
Green Imagination (2004)

EP's / Singles

Sunshine Fix (7") (1999)
The Future History of a Sunshine Fix (7") (2000)
That Ole' Sun (7") (2001)

Chocolate U.S.A.

Albums

Smoke Machine (1994)

External links

The Elephant Six Collective
Main Article
Bands in the Collective
The Apples in Stereo \| Beulah \| Black Swan Network \| Chocolate USA \| Circulatory System \| Dixie Blood Mustache \| Dressy Bessy \| Elf Power \| The Essex Green \| Frosted Ambassador \| The Gerbils \| High Water Marks \| Major Organ and the Adding Machine \| Marbles \| The Minders \| The Music Tapes \| Neutral Milk Hotel \| The Olivia Tremor Control \| Orchestre Fantastique \| Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't \| Secret Square \| The Sunshine Fix \| ulysses \| Von Hemmling
Other Noted Bands and Side Projects
American Revolution \| Bablicon \| Fablefactory \| Great Lakes \| A Hawk And A Hacksaw \| Icy Demons \| The Instruments \| The Ladybug Transistor \| The Late B.P. Helium \| M Coast \| Marta Tennae \| Midget and Hairs \| My First Keyboard \| Of Montreal \| Synthetic Flying Machine \| Thimble Circus \| Visitations
Related articles
Bill Doss \| Jeff Mangum \| Robert Schneider \| Will Cullen Hart \| Hilarie Sidney \| Laura Carter \| Jeremy Barnes \| Jill Carnes \| David Barnes \| Julian Koster

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