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The Alternative-Rock Pop-Rock band Train began in 1994 when vocalist
Pat Monahan, an Erie, Pennsylvania
USA, native living in Los Angeles, met vocalist+guitarist Rob Hotchkiss.
After moving to San Francisco and appearing in coffeehouses as an acoustic
duo, they added guitarist Jim Stafford and bassist Charlie Colin, who
was previously in an L.A. band with Hotchkiss; Scott Underwood came on
board as drummer shortly afterward and Train was on the map.
Over the next two years, Train continued to tour and became a well-known
live-band in the Bay Area; opening slots for numerous national acts such
as Counting Crows, Hootie
& The Blowfish, Barenaked
Ladies and Cracker continued to expand
the band's following.
In 1996 they went to New York City to play a showcase date for Columbia
Records, two years later the quintet released their self-titled debut
album on Aware Records, a subsidiary of Columbia; the record started climbing
The Billboard 200 Albums chart reaching #76 while the first single, "Free",
peaked at #12 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks chart; its follow-up single,
"Meet Virginia", reached the #21 in the same chart, hit #15
on The Billboard Hot 100 and helped drive the album into platinum territory.
When Train's sophomore effort, "Drops Of Jupiter" arrived on
March 27, 2001, its title-track was already a hit on several U.S. charts,
it peaked at #5 on The Billboard Hot 100 spending a total of 53 weeks
on the chart, the single also hit #11 on The Modern Rock Tracks chart
and made an impressive impact on adult contemporary radio stations on
both sides of the Atlantic Ocean; the album crashed into the top 10 of
The Billboard 200 list with more than one million copies sold in the first
three months; the second single off the CD, "Something More",
was another top 20 hit on triple-A stations and "She's On Fire"
became an Active Rock top 40 hit. At the 44th annual Grammy ceremony the
song "Drops Of Jupiter" won Best Rock Song for Train, as well
as a Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist for Paul Buckmaster.
Early in 2003, during the recording sessions of "My Private Nation",
Rob Hotchkiss left the band; the album, which was released in June and
like its predecessor it peaked at #6 on The Billboard Top 200 chart, contained
the single "Calling All Angels" which reached the #19 spot on
The Billboard Hot 100; in September of the same year bassist Charlie Colin
also left.
Train could be heard on the soundtrack for the movie "Spider-Man
2" with their Adult Top 40 hit single "Ordinary"; the track
also became part of their first live concert CD, "Alive At Last",
recorded in June 2004 and released in November, the set included one more
newly-recorded studio track, "New Sensation".
The band's latest album, "For Me, It's You", showcased a revamped
and revitalized line-up: founding core members Monahan, Stafford and Underwood
were joined by bassist Johnny Colt, originally from The
Black Crowes and Atlanta keyboardist Brandon Bush; the CD was released
in early 2006 and peaked at #10 on The Billboard 200 chart producing two
Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks, "Cab" and "Give Myself To You".
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