Father-Son Stage Collabs Are Stealing the Show During Train’s Summer Tour With Barenaked Ladies

This summer’s Drops of Jupiter: 25 Years In the Atmosphere Tour is offering some chips off the ol’ block amid performances by headliner Train and supporting act Barenaked Ladies .

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Train brings out frontman Pat Monahan’s 14-year-old son Rock to sing and play guitar on a cover of Journey’s “Stone in Love” — going toe-to-toe with lead guitarist Butch Walker on the solos — as well as Dirty Heads’ “Vacation” (Monahan senior featured on a 2021 version) and the group’s own “Save Me, San Francisco.” Barenaked Ladies’ ranks, meanwhile, include Ed Robertson’s multi-instrumentalist son Lyle, 26, as a utility player handling guitar, bass, keyboards and backing vocals throughout the band’s hour on stage.

You can bet the papas are not hiding their pride in having their sons be part of the family business.

“It’s been pure joy, really,” Pat Monahan tells Billboard via Zoom, seated alongside Rock.

He says his son “was born a 40-year-old man.

He’s always been a mature, well-mannered guy that has a great sense of humor and talent and is easy to be around.

It’s a thrill because he’s got a great work ethic; when people bring their kids on stage, if they’re not adults, people immediately go, ‘This will be cute.’ Then when it’s great they go, ‘Oh, sh-t! Karen, get your phone!’ It’s really fun to watch.” On the BNL front, Lyle Robertson was initially intended as an on-call substitute for bassist Jim Creeggan, whose father passed away last month.

Lyle also played with the group last November and December as well during its nearly five-week run on the CPKC Holiday Train.

“The original plan was to have Lyle on retainer in case Jim needed to slip home last-minute to help (his family),” Ed Robertson explains.

“The idea was we would fly Lyle out and he could cover bass stuff.

Then we thought, ‘Why not keep Lyle out here? He’s already here.

He can play some guitar, do some vocals, and if Jim needs to split in a hurry he can slide over to bass.’ Jim’s the one who said right away, ‘Lyle’s a great musician, such a great player.