Tod Ashley

Tod A
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 Shithäus^[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]

Discography

Cop Shoot Cop Year Name Ref 1990 Consumer Revolt [4] 1991 White Noise [5] 1993 Ask Questions Later [6] 1994 Release [7] Firewater Year Name Ref 1996 Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire [8] 1998 The Ponzi Scheme [9] 2001 Psychopharmacology [10] 2003 The Man on the Burning Tightrope [11] 2004 Songs We Should Have Written [12] 2008 The Golden Hour [13] 2012 International Orange! [14]

Other appearances Year Name Artist Ref 1994 Forces You Don't Understand Lubricated Goat [15] 1995 Gash Foetus [16] 1996 Null/Void Foetus [17] 1997 Red Expendables Red Expendables [18] 2010 Combat Disco Casbah Figli di Madre Ignota [19] 2010 Gecekondu Baba Zula [20]

External links

• The Tod Hole - A Firewater, Cop Shoot Cop, and related band depository
• 90.3 WCPN Cleveland - Podcast interview with Tod A.

Tod lived in Bali for three years until 2010.

References

1. Fayers, Adam. "SHITHAUS - CRUSH: LIVE CRUSH 84 - 85", 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."
2. 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.
4. allmusic ((( Consumer Revolt > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
5. allmusic ((( White Noise 89-92 > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
6. allmusic ((( Ask Questions Later > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
7. allmusic ((( Release > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
8. allmusic ((( Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
9. allmusic ((( The Ponzi Scheme > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
10. allmusic ((( Psychopharmacology > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
11. allmusic ((( The Man on the Burning Tightrope > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
12. allmusic ((( Songs We Should Have Written > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
13. allmusic ((( The Golden Hour > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
14. allmusic ((( International Orange! > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
15. allmusic ((( Forces You Don't Understand > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
16. allmusic ((( Gash > Credits ))) Allmusic. 2011-11-26.
17. allmusic ((( Null/Void > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
18. Red Expendables Discogs. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
19. allmusic ((( Combat Disco Casbah > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
20. allmusic ((( Gecekondu > Credits ))) Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-11-26.