Former Train bassist Charlie Colin dead at 58 after falling in shower
22.05.2024 - 20:53
/ nypost.com
TMZ reported that Colin passed away after he slipped and fell in the shower while house-sitting for a friend in Brussels, according to the musician’s mother. He was found when his friends returned home from their trip, she said. In Belgium, Colin was teaching a master class at a conservatory and was making a film, his mother told the outlet.
Train is best known for the hit songs “Drops of Jupiter” and “Hey, Soul Sister.” Colin was a bass player who co-founded the San Francisco band in the ’90s alongside Pat Monahan, Rob Hotchkiss, Jimmy Stafford and Scott Underwood.Their breakout album was 1998’s “Train.” Originally from Newport Beach, California, Colin met Hotchkiss in seventh grade. Each attended Berklee College of Music before moving back West and forming the band. “In essence, I was trained since I was a child.
We rebranded and in 1996, we got things going well. By the end of that decade, we had hits, the Grammys, stadiums and all that stuff,” Colin said on Dan Clark’s podcast in an April 2022 interview. “On a good note, I was a worldly guy.
I ended up being accomplished and successful. At the same time, because I was always in a band, with a schedule and somewhere to be, and most of the people around me were either buying a ticket to see us or are working for that organization or something, I didn’t get a lot of people telling me the truth about myself. I didn’t grow up in a lot of ways,” Colin said.
He continued, “On the one hand, I was more experienced and worldly than a lot of my friends, but on the other hand, I never had to go out there and figure it out the hard way, because I always had something that I was good enough at that led the way. All of a sudden, I was 40 and all this time had gone by. I looked in
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