Charlie Colin, former bassist and founding member of Train, dies at age 58

Charlie Colin, former bassist and founding member of Train, dies at age 58


5/22: CBS Morning Information

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Charlie Colin, a founding member and former bassist of the band Practice, has died at age 58, his sister confirmed to CBS Information.

Charlie Colin throughout Practice In Live performance on the Hammerstein Ballroom July 22, 2003 – New York at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York Metropolis, New York, United States. 

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The small print surrounding his demise had been scarce, however TMZ reported the musician slipped within the bathe and fell whereas housesitting in Brussels, Belgium. On the time of his demise, his social media profile mentioned he was dwelling in Belgium.   

“He was THE sweetest man and what a good-looking chap,” Practice mentioned on social media. Let’s make a band that is the one cheap factor to do. His distinctive bass enjoying a lovely guitar work helped get of us to note us in SF and past. I am going to all the time have a heat place for him in my coronary heart. I all the time tried to tug him nearer however he had a imaginative and prescient of his personal. You are a legend, Charlie. Go attraction the pants off these angels.”

Based in San Francisco in 1993 by charismatic frontman Pat Monahan, Rob Hotchkiss, Jimmy Stafford and Scott Underwood, Practice shot to stardom in 2001 with their album and single “Drops of Jupiter.”  The track and album garnered the band Grammy nominations for File of the 12 months and Finest Rock Efficiency. 

Colin left the band in 2003 as a consequence of substance abuse, based on Selection, however continued to carry out in different bands, together with with former bandmates Hotchkiss and Underwood.