Columbia Records' TRAIN On-Board Matchbox Twenty Tour 2001 Beginning July 31 in Fargo, North Dakota.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--May 15, 2001 Band's New Album Drops Of Jupiter Certified Gold As Title Track Soars On Radio Currently enjoying the success of Drops Of Jupiter, the hard-travelin' rock band TRAIN will be joining the upcoming Matchbox Twenty Tour 2001, presented by VH1, beginning July 31 in Fargo, North Dakota “Fargo” redirects here. For other uses, see Fargo (disambiguation). Fargo is a city in Cass County, North Dakota in the United States. It is the county seat of Cass County, located in the Red River Valley region. (see itinerary following). TRAIN is currently on the road on a series of sold-out dates including headlining club, theater, and festival appearances culminating in a homecoming gig at San Francisco's historic Warfield Theatre on May 26. Released on March 27, Drops Of Jupiter debuted at #6 on the Billboard album chart with first week's domestic sales of more than 80,000 copies. "Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)," the album's title track and first single is an anthemic tribute to the power and mystery of love featuring lush orchestration by the legendary Paul Buckmaster (Elton John Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. , David Bowie). The track is currently a multi-format smash: AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association. (Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied. Monitor (#1 for ten weeks in a row!), Top 40 Adult Monitor (#4), Modern Adult (#3), Heritage Rock Monitor (#4), Modern Rock Monitor (#13), Mainstream Rock Monitor (#22), and Top 40 Monitor (#13). Now #21 on the Billboard Hot 100, the cut is currently reaching a combined audience of more than 55 million listeners. TRAIN'S recent video for "Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)"--lensed by director Nigel Dick (R.E.M., Oasis, Matchbox Twenty)--premiered on March 20 and is currently being played on MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. and MTV2 and is the on "Inside Track" VH1. The music press has been praising TRAIN and Drops Of Jupiter. Entertainment Weekly found the album filled with "...Music powered by guts and grit...." "Drops Of Jupiter is star-making," wrote the San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the , "loaded with both the roots-rock anthems that distinguished the first album and perfectly crafted moody-bluesy ballads. The first single is a lovely piano-driven rumination rumination /ru·mi·na·tion/ (roo?mi-na´shun) 1. the casting up of the food to be chewed thoroughly a second time, as in cattle. 2. about a restless lover that bears a resemblance to early Elton John epics like 'Madman Across The Water." "Don't miss this outing," urged Billboard in a review of the single. "It's one of those special ones that will click on its hook alone but soon foster real dedication as the vividly drawn words begin to penetrate." "Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)" is, like all the songs on Drops Of Jupiter, co-authored by all five members of TRAIN: Charlie Colin (bass, guitars & background vocals), Rob Hotchkiss (guitars, bass, background vocals & harmonica harmonica. 1 The simplest of the musical instruments employing free reeds, known also as the mouth organ or French harp. It was probably invented in 1829 by Friedrich Buschmann of Berlin, who called his instrument the Mundäoline. ), Pat Monahan (vocals, trumpet, sax, vibes & percussion), Jimmy Stafford Jimmy Stafford is the lead guitarist and founding member of the Grammy award winning band Train. Born in Morris, Illinois on April 26th 1964, Jimmy is the proud father of a young daughter. He resides in Las Vegas and Chicago. (guitars, background vocals & mandolin mandolin (măn'dəlĭn`, măn`dəlĭn'), musical instrument of the lute family, with a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. ), and Scott Underwood Scott Underwood is the drummer in the Grammy Award-winning band Train. Filmography "The View" Himself "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" Musician Guest "The Sharon Osbourne Show" Himself (drums, programming, keyboards & percussion). Five guys who are making it happen the old-fashioned way: by making great music and bringing it to live audiences. A veritable touring machine, TRAIN has crisscrossed criss·cross v. criss·crossed, criss·cross·ing, criss·cross·es v.tr. 1. To mark with crossing lines. 2. the country dozens of times and played hundreds of gigs since the release of the group's self-titled debut album in February 1998. As the band kept touring, the album was certified gold in November 1999 and platinum in March 2000, two years after its release. Following the group's highly-successful SxSW appearance in March, TRAIN went on to appear on "The Late Show with David Letterman “Late Show” redirects here. For other uses, see The Late Show. The Late Show with David Letterman is a multiple Emmy Award-winning hour-long weeknight comedy talk show broadcast by CBS from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City. " (on March 28), "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn Craig Kilborn (born August 24, 1962) is an American comedian and former talk show host. He was the original host of The Daily Show and Tom Snyder's successor on CBS's The Late Late Show. " (April 12), "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" (April 16) and will appear on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Jay Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer who is best known as the current host of NBC television's long-running variety and talk program The Tonight Show. Biography Leno was born in New Rochelle, New York. " on June 4.
TRAIN Tour Dates
Date City/State Venue
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05/11/01 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
05/12/01 Albany, NY Northern Lights
05/13/01 Toronto, ONT. The Opera House
05/15/01 Pontiac, MI Clutch Cargo's
05/16/01 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre
05/18/01 Pittsburgh, PA Gazette Star Lake Amphitheater
05/19/01 Washington, DC DC 101 Chili Cookoff
05/20/01 Providence, RI Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
05/21/01 Ottawa, ONT. Barrymore's
05/22/01 Ottawa, ONT. Barrymore's
05/23/01 Montreal, QUE. Cabaret Music Hall
05/24/01 Vancouver, BC The Commodore
05/26/01 San Francisco, CA The Warfield Theatre
Matchbox Twenty Tour 2001 with special guests TRAIN
Date City/State Venue
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7/31 Fargo, ND Fargo Dome
8/1 St. Paul, MN Excel Energy Center
8/3 Chicago, IL The World
8/4 Cleveland, OH Blossom
8/5 Toronto, ONT. Molson Amphitheatre
8/7 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center
8/8 Columbus, OH Polaris Amphitheatre
8/10 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
8/11 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake
8/12 Scranton, PA Coors Light Amphitheatre at Montage Mountain
8/14 Buffalo, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
8/15 Hershey, PA Hershey Park Pavilion Stadium
8/17 Boston, MA Tweeter Center
8/18 Hartford, CT Meadows Music Theatre
8/19 Saratoga, NY SPAC
8/21 Holmdel, NJ PNC
8/23 Camden, NJ E Center
8/24 Wantaugh, NY Jones Beach
8/31 Atlanta, GA HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
9/7 San Antonio, TX South TX Amphitheatre
9/8 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
9/9 Dallas, TX Smirnoff Amphitheatre
9/12 Oklahoma City, OK Myriad Convention Center
9/14 Little Rock, AK Alltel Arena
9/15 St. Louis, MO Riverport Amphitheatre
9/16 Kansas City, KS Sandstone Amphitheatre
9/18 Denver, CO Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre
9/20 Salt Lake City, UT E Center
9/21 Bozeman, MT MSU Brick Breeden Fieldhouse
9/22 Spokane, WA Gorge Amphitheatre
9/24 Sacramento, CA Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre
9/25 Concord, CA Chronicle Pavilion
9/28 Anaheim, CA The Pond
9/29 Phoenix, AZ Desert Sky Pavilion
For more information on TRAIN, please contact Neil Lawi, Columbia Records For the Columbia Records label which was a unit of EMI, see . For the Columbia Records label in Japan, see . Columbia Records is the oldest surviving brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as , Media, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , 212-833-5858; email: neil_lawi@sonymusic.com Tour press, please contact Renee Pfefer, Columbia Records, Media, New York, 212-833-4424; email: renee_pfefer@sonymusic.com Online press, please contact Lisa Linder, Columbia Records, Online & Emerging Technologies, New York, 212-833-6666; email: lisa_linder@sonymusic.com TRAIN online: http://www.trainline.com Columbia Records online: http://www.columbiarecords.com |
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