Wire Train
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| Background information | |
| Genre(s) | Alternative Rock New Wave |
| Years active | 1983—1992 |
| Associated acts | Translator Romeo Void Red Rockers |
| Former members | |
| Kevin Hunter Kurt Herr Anders Rundblad Frederico Gil-Sola Brian MacLeod Jeffrey Trott |
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Wire Train was a United States based group who produced five albums in the 1980s and early 1990s. The band was originally formed as the Renegades in April 1983 in San Francisco by San Francisco State University students and guitarists and singers Kevin Hunter and Kurt Herr with the rhythm section of Anders Rundblad (bass) and Frederico Gil-Sola (drums). Wire Train signed to the local 415 Records label, also home to acts like Translator and Romeo Void, all of which found themselves with a national distribution deal when 415 entered into a deal with Columbia Records.
Wire Train's first album, In a Chamber, made the national charts in 1984, but the group began to suffer personnel changes. Gil-Sola was replaced by Brian MacLeod for the second album, Between Two Words, after which Herr left, to be replaced by Jeffrey Trott. Their third album, Ten Women, charted in 1987. The group's last two albums, Wire Train (1990) and No Soul No Strain (1992), appeared on MCA Records. Wire Train's "I Will Not Fall" appears on the soundtrack for the film Point Break. Wire Train's "I'll Do You" appears in the game Scarface: The World Is Yours.
