Charlie Colin, founding member of the pop-rock band Train, dies at 58
Recording artist Charlie Colin arrives at the Friendly House Los Angeles Annual Awards Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 26, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Rodrigo Vaz/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
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Charlie Colin, bassist and founding member of the American pop-rock band Train, best known for their early-aughts hits like "Drops of Jupiter" and "Meet Virginia," has died. He was 58.
Colin's sister Carolyn Stephens confirmed her brother's death to The Associated Press Wednesday. He died after slipping and falling in the shower while house-sitting for a friend in Brussels, Belgium, celebrity website TMZ.com reported.
Colin grew up in California and Virginia and attended Berklee College of Music in Boston.
He played in a group called Apostles after college with guitarist Jimmy Stafford and singer Rob Hotchkiss. The band eventually dissolved, and Colin moved to Singapore for a year to write jingles.
Eventually, Colin, Hotchkiss and Stafford relocated to San Francisco, where Train formed in the early '90s with singer Pat Monahan. Colin brought in drummer Scott Underwood to round out the group, according to an interview with Colin and Hotchkiss in Berklee's alumni magazine.
As a founding member of Train, Colin played on the band's first three records, 1998's self-titled album, 2001's "Drops of Jupiter" and 2003's "My Private Nation." The latter two releases peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart.
"Meet Virginia," from Train's debut album broke the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, but it was their sophomore album, "Drops of Jupiter," that confirmed the band's success.
Members of the rock group Train, Rob Hotchkiss, left, Patrick Monahan, Scott Underwood, Jimmy Stafford and Charlie Colin pose in New York, Feb. 15, 2002. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper)
The eight-times platinum title track "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" -- which features the Rolling Stones' session pianist Chuck Leavell and Leonard Cohen's string orchestrator Paul Buckmaster and was written about the death of Monahan's mother -- hit No. 5 on the same chart. It also earned two Grammys, for best rock song and best instrumental arrangement accompanying vocalist(s).
Colin left Train in 2003 due to substance abuse. "Charlie is one incredible bass player, but he was in a lot of pain, and the way he was dealing with it was very painful for everyone else around him," Monahan told NBC San Diego.
In 2015, he reunited with Hotchkiss to start a new band called Painbirds, alongside Tom Luce.
In 2017, he formed another band, the Side Deal, with Sugar Ray's Stan Frazier and the PawnShop Kings' Joel and Scott Owen.
On Wednesday, a tribute to Colin appeared on the official Facebook and X social media pages for the band Train. "When I met Charlie Colin, front left, I fell in love with him. He was the sweetest guy and what a handsome chap. Let's make a band that's the only reasonable thing to do," it reads.
"His unique bass playing a beautiful guitar work helped get folks to notice us in SF and beyond. I'll always have a warm place for him in my heart. I always tried to pull him closer but he had a vision of his own. You're a legend, Charlie. Go charm the pants off those angels."
Prior to his death, Colin documented his time in Brussels, writing "Officially my favourite city," in a March Instagram post.
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