WARREN — Thirty years ago, Ed Roland wrote a batch of songs and recorded demo versions in hopes of finding a publishing company.

Instead those songs gave birth to a band – Collective Soul.

The group is waiting until 2024 to celebrate its 30th anniversary, since 1994 is the year Atlantic Records signed the band and re-released those demos “Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid.” It sold more than two million copies and spawned the chart-topping mainstream rock hit “Shine,” a song that remains in steady rotation on many stations today and has been played in every concert the band has performed.

“You’re gonna hear a lot of us next year,” said bass player Will Turpin, who has been with the band since Roland first assembled a group to play those demos live.

The release of the “quintessential Collective Soul documentary” and a major multi-band package tour playing all major markets are among the plans for 2024, according to Turpin.

Those plans mean the band is focusing on smaller markets in 2023, which brings them to Packard Music Hall in Warren on Wednesday.

The hits didn’t stop with “Hints.” Collective Soul — Ed Roland, lead vocals and guitar; Dean Roland, rhythm guitar; Turpin, bass and backing vocals; Jesse Triplett, lead guitar and backing vocals; and Johnny Rabb, drums and backing vocals — have enough mainstream rock hits to fill a set on their own, including No. 1 singles “December,” “The World I Know,” “Where the River Flows,” “Precious Declaration,” “Listen” and “Heavy.”

Making room for the hits as well as including new material (the band released “Vibrating,” its 11th studio album, last year), deeper cuts and what the band members want to do can be a challenge.

“Some stuff has to excite us as well, the crowd likes that too,” Turpin said. “We try to get all of those elements in there. We try to get a deeper cut, all the hits, try to get in some of the new stuff. It’s really just about what’s feeling good. And then we work with the flow and the ins and outs. There are certain combinations we have that just work, like three-song combinations that are sticking together over the years.

“It’s just a great position to be in. It’s something we experiment with over the course of a tour and we usually have a couple of different options, but what a great dilemma to have — too many hits and too many deep cuts and too many new songs. It’s just about that energy on stage and how we keep everyone going, the same ups and downs. Sometimes certain songs don’t feel the same when they’re following another song, so there’s a bit of experimentation on what’s going to feel good for the flow. But it’s really just about flow and vibe and trying to get all of those elements in there.”

Collective Soul already has its next album in the can, which was recorded in January at a house in Palm Springs, Calif., once owned by Elvis Presley.

“A friend of a friend purchased Elvis’ old house, and as soon as we found out about it, our ideas was, ‘Can we record there?’ It took two years to plant it, to get all parties to agree to what we were going to do … It was definitely in disrepair, and it was left how Elvis left it. You couldn’t help but know where you were and feel some sort of vibe.”

It’s a process the band has used for several of its albums.

“We started liking that model a long time ago – go away for a month, three weekend and see what we come up with. We think that works well to get away from the other part of your life and be isolated with your band and focus a little more on the project at hand.”

It’s not like the band doesn’t have ready access to a recording studio. Turpin now owns Reel 2 Reel, the recording studio started by his father outside of Atlanta in 1976. Acts ranging from Toby Keith to Sevendust to Klymaxx have recorded there, and the studio has done post-production work on music by Alabama, Kenny Chesney, Hall & Oates, Electric Light Orchestra and many others.

Its impact on Turpin and his bandmates can’t be overstated.

“There wouldn’t be a Collective Soul if my dad hadn’t opened that studio,” he said. “It affected all our recording acumen, all of the knowledge we had as a young band. We look back and realize a lot of band didn’t have that. We hear it in our records. Our records in the early days sounded like we were a seasoned studio band, and we grew up in the studio.

“Ed had the opportunity to be head engineer in my father’s studio for six, seven years and working on his craft. Me and my friends were coming up six, seven, eight years younger than Ed and watching him work on his craft. That studio became the hub, and without that studio we don’t come out of the cannon shooting fire like that, man.”

When Turpin isn’t recording or touring wit hCollective Soul, he can be found at Reel 2 Reel.

“I always produced people on the side when I had the time, but now my three boys are older — only one is left in high school and he’s a senior — I’ve been enjoying spending time and energy investing in my passion for producing other people and keeping that studio alive. I’ve poured a lot of energy in the place and renovated it, and what a gem it is … When dad passed four years ago, I knew I couldn’t let it go. It was too nice and too cool. Right now, it’s back on point and running really strong.”

If you go …

WHAT: Collective Soul, Strange Daze and The Delaneys

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday

WHERE: Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave NW, Warren

HOW MUCH: Tickets range from $42.50 to $72.50 and are available at the Packar box office and through Ticketmaster.