Bill Doss

Bill Doss is among the co-founders of the influential Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. based Elephant 6 Collective, and also one of the key creative forces behind The Olivia Tremor Control, one of the leaders of the collective, and later, following

Bill Doss is among the co-founders of the influential Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. based Elephant 6 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 joined New York based band Chocolate USA before heading back to Athens, Georgia.