[3] In 2007, Fighting Gravity, along with Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies, Guster, and O.A.R., took part in the IZStyle Winter Tour, a series of concerts aimed at raising awareness of alternative and renewable energy sources.
Fighting Gravity has sold more than 800,000 albums of their 11 releases and performed before millions of people in the United States and abroad, including many foreign counties all over the world such as Tokyo, Japan and Honduras,[6] and has performed two USO tours overseas for United States troops.
[7] Originally when started at Virginia Tech the band consisted of founder David Triano "tree"(guitarist/songwriter/vocalist), founder David Peterson (songwriter/bassist/vocalist), singer Tim Greening, drummer Jamie Bruce, trumpeters Jane Roebuck and Tim Altman, keyboardist Dee Campbell, and saxophonist Johnny Edens.
The band relocated to Richmond, VA in the summer of 1989 and found their permanent lead vocalist Schiavone McGee "Vonz", followed by keyboardist Eric Lawson, trumpeter Jim Pennington, trombonist Chris Leitch, and drummer Mike Boyd.
Since the breakup, Mike Boyd took the position as the Director of Performing Arts at the Collegiate School in Richmond, Virginia.
[9] Schiavone McGee toured in support of a solo CD released in October 2010 entitled My Only Secret, and then went on to perform as a vocalist for the band In Full.
Rich Stine went on to form and play in Elevator to Space and toured with Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers for a short time before moving on to music production and engineering.