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Soul Exertion

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The current incarnation of Soul Exertion started at the Waffle House in Madison at the Wall Triana/Madison Boulevard intersection. Ryan Wood (lead guitar) was eating breakfast while thinking about trying to restart Soul Exertion after it’s prior incarnation broke up.The same morning, Will Henley (keyboards), was sitting at the same Waffle House after getting off of work griping to one of his coworkers about his non-starter of a music career. Strangely, Ryan heard none of this conversation, and walked up to Will thinking "what the hell, he looks like a musician so I may as well ask".
Ryan and Will got together at Will’s house the next weekend, and Will saw a lot of potential in Ryan’s songs, while Ryan saw a lot of potential in Will’s keyboard playing and synthesizer programming.
After a few months, the band recorded three songs at Jam Sessions studios, and upon hearing it Mike Wood (rhythm guitar) offered to join the band. Mike brought a much tighter and harder edge to the Soul Exertion formula. After cycling through two bassists and two drummers, the band finally found Dan Lambert as a drummer, and is still currently looking for a bassist.

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Music:

Member Since: 03/02/2006
Band Website: http://www.soulexertion.net
Band Members: Mike Wood- Vocals & Guitar
Ryan Wood- Guitar and Vocals
Will Henley - Synthesizers

Influences: Nirvana, Alice in Chains, STP, Soundgarden, Tool, Led Zeppelin, A Perfect Circle, KMFDM, Skinny Puppy, Rammstein, And One, Front Line Assembly, Chevelle, Incubus, Staind, Deftones, breaking Benjamin, 3 Days Grace, and various others
Sounds Like: my soul being served to your ear on a silver platter
Record Label: Jam Sessions

My Blog

Soul Exertion Parts Ways

from Ryan,Will and I have been doing this for two years. in that period of time we have gone through 5 bass players and 4 drummers. When Mike joined the band we were both pretty excited. Finally we ha...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:07:00 GMT

drummer and bassist needed

the drummer and bassist that we had for a while did not work out. they both just had too much going on to be in a band at this time. so we are, once again, on the search for a drummer and bassist. if ...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:28:00 GMT

new member

After a two month break Soul Exertion is back together and playing once more. Wes Russel joined the band today on bass, the band played with him for one practice and it clicked pretty quick. the band ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:37:00 GMT

songs finished

i have posted the finally finished versions of the songs we allready had posted. the volume problem in the chorus of both satanic panics have been fixed. the introto satanic panic has been cut almost ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:55:00 GMT

updates

Mike Wood, brother of Guitarist and singer Ryan Wood, has joined the band. he is replacing Ryan as lead vocalist and he is playing backing guitar. Ryan is moving to lead guitar and backing vocals. Big...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:30:00 GMT

the songs

two of the newest Soul Exertion songs have now been posted. we posted two versions of Satanic Panic but make sure and listen to both of them all the way through. we have not posted My Will yet and won...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:41:00 GMT

Introduction to myself

Hello, my name is Will Henley, and I do strange and bizarre things with synthesizers.Recently I ran into Ryan totally by chance at a Waffle House out in Madison, and he came over last week and we work...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:52:00 GMT

Soul Exertion breaks up

this is going to be a long blog entry so grab a cup of tea. ladies and gentlemen, the members of Soul Exertion have parted ways. due to personal reasons, shawn decided to leave the band. after i began...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:12:00 GMT

the meaning of Soul Exertion

i have had quite a few people ask me "what does soul exertion mean?" the word exertion, in the dictionary means: the act of working hard, energetic activity, effort. when we play music we put our soul...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:53:00 GMT

SE on the radio

Soul Exertion premiered on Rocket 95.1 at 11:45 on July 25th. they played Umbillical. comparing us to a young alice in chains, fat seemed to very much enjoy the music. i called him up toward the end o...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:11:00 GMT