Charlie Colin

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Charlie Colin
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Colin in 2017
Background information
Born(1966-11-22)November 22, 1966
Newport Beach, California, U.S.
Diedc. May 17, 2024(2024-05-17) (aged 57)
Brussels, Belgium
Genres
Instruments
  • Bass
  • guitar
  • vocals
Years active1992–2024
Labels
Formerly of

Charlie Colin (November 22, 1966 – c. May 17, 2024) was an American musician. He was the bassist for the rock band Train, of which he was a founding member. He also played guitar and provided background vocals for many other bands after his departure from the group in 2003.

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Early life

Charlie Colin was born in Newport Beach, California on November 22, 1966. [1] [2] He began playing guitar at about eight when he lived in Virginia. Later, his family moved back to Newport Beach, California. At Newport Harbor High School surfing, playing water polo, and the guitar became his constant companions. [3] [4]

Career

Berklee College of Music

Colin attended University of Southern California to explore his artistic gifts; then he transferred halfway to focus primarily on his musical gifts at Berklee College of Music in Boston. [5] Attending Berklee got Colin fully immersed in music. He started playing with seniors for lessons and so he could learn more. Pat Metheny was quite a discovery, as well as other kinds of music discovered during Berklee. [6]

Shortly afterwards, Colin got an offer from some friends to go to Singapore to write and play jingles. [3]

Apostles

After Singapore, Colin, Jimmy Stafford (Train's future lead guitarist and mandolin player), and Rob Hotchkiss moved to San Francisco and started the group Apostles. [3] The group got a record deal and recorded the album Apostles in 1992, [7] but when the label folded, the members went their own ways. But they had a hunch that one day they would end up back together. [8]

Train

Hotchkiss headed to San Francisco and met Pat Monahan, Train's future lead singer. The two collaborated on songs in the Bay Area and invited Jimmy Stafford to be the guitarist and Colin as the bassist. Colin brought in Scott Underwood to play drums. Thus formed in 1993 [9] Train became very successful. [10] Train scored their first Top 20 hit with 1999's "Meet Virginia," although their big breakthrough came with 2001's "Drops of Jupiter", which reached No. 5. The album Drops of Jupiter reached No. 6. on the Billboard 200. [9] The group toured nationally, opening concerts for Hootie & the Blowfish, [11] Sheryl Crow, [3] Counting Crows, [12] and Barenaked Ladies. [13]

In 2003, Colin was fired from the band after an emergency meeting due to his substance abuse. [14]

Food Pill

During the autumn of 2002, after Train finished promoting Drops of Jupiter with Matchbox Twenty, Scott Underwood and Colin moved to a "huge psychedelic mansion" called The Paramour in West Hollywood to collaborate and record music. [15] They decided to call the collaboration Food Pill and their first album was called Elixir. [15]

In 2014, Colin replaced Jesse Vest of Days of the New on bass so the band could continue touring. [16]

Painbirds

In 2015, Colin and Hotchkiss put together a band called Painbirds, with Sausalito singer-songwriter Tom Luce from Luce, whose ear candy hit "Good Day" cracked the Top 40 in 2001. [17] This band released six songs on an eponymous debut EP.

The Side Deal

The Side Deal is an American band from Newport Beach, California. [18] The band was formed in 2017 Colin, Stan Frazier of Sugar Ray and brothers Joel and Scott Owen of The PawnShop Kings. [19] Side Deal performed live with other notable artists such as Jeff "Skunk" Baxter of The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, and Alice Cooper. [20]

In 2019, Colin appeared on guitar/bass and vocals while recording Featherborn for musician and vocalist Danny Beissel at the iconic Blackbird Studio in Nashville with veteran engineer John McBride. [21]

Colin was a longstanding curator, art collector, homeless-artist advocate, and philanthropist. [22] [23] [24]

Later life and death

Colin later moved to Brussels, Belgium to teach a music master class at a conservatory. [25] At the time of his death, he also was serving as musical director for the Newport Beach Film Festival, per his social media profiles. [26]

Colin was found dead in a friend's home in Brussels on May 17, 2024, having fallen in a shower. [25] He was house-sitting for the friend at the time of his death. [26] [27]

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

Publications

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