Tod Ashley
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Background information | |
Birth name | Tod Ashley |
Born | November 30, 1965 |
Instruments | Bass guitar |
Associated acts | Cop Shoot Cop Firewater |
Tod Ashley is a musician better known by the stage name Tod A. He founded the rock music groups Cop Shoot Cop and Firewater, and is a singer-songwriter and bass guitarist.
Ashley also spent time while in art school in a band called [1] with Jon Spencer, later of The Blues Explosion.
Ashley was living in Bushwick, Brooklyn when he decided that he wanted to travel the world.[2] In 2005, putting his musical career on hiatus, Tod spent most of the year traveling the Far East, including Calcutta, India and Bangkok, Thailand. He has published a written account of his travels in a blog, which he calls Postcards From the Other Side of the World.[3] He lived in Bali for three years until 2010.
In 2019, Ashley published his first novel, Banging the Monkey[4] based on his experiences abroad.
Discography[]
- Cop Shoot Cop
Year | Name | Ref |
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1990 | Consumer Revolt | [5] |
1991 | White Noise | [6] |
1993 | Ask Questions Later | [7] |
1994 | Release | [8] |
Year | Name | Ref |
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1996 | Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire | [9] |
1998 | The Ponzi Scheme | [10] |
2001 | Psychopharmacology | [11] |
2003 | The Man on the Burning Tightrope | [12] |
2004 | Songs We Should Have Written | [13] |
2008 | The Golden Hour | [14] |
2012 | International Orange! | [15] |
- Other appearances
Year | Name | Artist | Ref |
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1985 | Crush: Live Crush 84–85 | [16] | |
1994 | Forces You Don't Understand | Lubricated Goat | [17] |
1995 | Gash | Foetus | [18] |
1996 | Null/Void | Foetus | [19] |
1997 | Red Expendables | Red Expendables | [20] |
2002 | Obtanium | Skeleton Key | [21] |
2010 | Combat Disco Casbah | Figli di Madre Ignota | [22] |
2010 | Baba Zula | [23] |
References[]
- ^ Fayers, Adam. "SHITHAUS – CRUSH: LIVE CRUSH 84 – 85" Archived November 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Get With It, December 28, 2005. Accessed November 6, 2007. "Shithaus is a pre-Pussy Galore band featuring Jon Spencer, Tod Ashley, Tom Fry, Stephan Harshman and James Joaquin. They released at least one cassette in 1985."
- ^ Holub, Annie. "Travel Record: A trip through Asia and into the Middle East colored Firewater's music", Tucson Weekly, June 5, 2008. Accessed June 8, 2009.
- ^ "Postcards from the other side of the world".
- ^ "Banging the Monkey".
- ^ allmusic ((( Consumer Revolt > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ allmusic ((( White Noise 89–92 > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ allmusic ((( Ask Questions Later > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ allmusic ((( Release > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ allmusic ((( Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ allmusic ((( The Ponzi Scheme > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ allmusic ((( Psychopharmacology > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ allmusic ((( The Man on the Burning Tightrope > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ allmusic ((( Songs We Should Have Written > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ allmusic ((( The Golden Hour > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved September 24, 2012.
- ^ allmusic ((( International Orange! > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved September 24, 2012.
- ^ "( Crush: Live Crush 84–85 > Credits )". discogs. March 15, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ^ allmusic ((( Forces You Don't Understand > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ allmusic ((( Gash > Credits ))) Allmusic. November 26, 2011.
- ^ allmusic ((( Null/Void > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ Red Expendables Discogs. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ "( Obtainium > Credits )". discogs. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ^ allmusic ((( Combat Disco Casbah > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
- ^ allmusic ((( Gecekondu > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
External links[]
- American male singers
- American rock bass guitarists
- American male bass guitarists
- Songwriters from New Jersey
- American industrial musicians
- Cop Shoot Cop members
- Firewater (band) members
- Noise rock musicians
- Singers from New Jersey
- People from Bushwick, Brooklyn
- People from Middlesex County, New Jersey
- Living people
- 1965 births
- Guitarists from New Jersey
- Guitarists from New York (state)
- 20th-century American bass guitarists
- 20th-century American male musicians