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Colin attendedUniversity of Southern California to explore his artistic gifts; then he transferred halfway to focus primarily on his musical gifts atBerklee 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 toSingapore to write and playjingles.[3]
After Singapore, Colin, Jimmy Stafford (Train's future lead guitarist and mandolin player), and Rob Hotchkiss moved to [Los Angeles 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]
Hotchkiss headed to San Francisco and metPat 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 albumDrops of Jupiter reached No. 6. on the Billboard 200.[9] The group toured nationally, opening concerts forHootie & the Blowfish,[11]Sheryl Crow,[3]Counting Crows,[12] andBarenaked Ladies.[13]
In 2003, Colin was fired from the band after an emergency meeting due to his substance abuse.[14]
During the autumn of 2002, after Train finished promoting Drops of Jupiter withMatchbox Twenty, Scott Underwood and Colin moved to a "huge psychedelic mansion" called The Paramour inWest Hollywood to collaborate and record music.[15] They decided to call the collaboration Food Pill and their first album was calledElixir.[15]
In 2014, Colin replaced Jesse Vest of Days of the New on bass so the band could continue touring.[16]
In 2015, Colin and Hotchkiss put together a band called Painbirds, with Sausalito singer-songwriter Tom Luce fromLuce, whose song "Good Day" cracked the bottom of the Adult Top 40 in 2001.[17] This band released six songs on an eponymous debut EP.
In 2019, Colin appeared on guitar/bass and vocals while recordingFeatherborn for musician and vocalist Danny Beissel at the iconicBlackbird Studio inNashville with veteran engineer John McBride.[21]
Colin later moved toBrussels, 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 theNewport 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]
^ab"Biography".Food Pill. Archived fromthe original on March 15, 2008.Charlie and I were able to walk from our bedrooms to a beautiful studio, and record this music we loved in a huge psychedelic mansion in Hollywood. We decided to name the band Food Pill, and title the record Elixir.
