Tod Ashley

Tod Ashley (born November 30, 1965), better known by the stage name Tod A, is an American singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist. He founded the rock music groups Cop Shoot Cop and Firewater.

Tod A.
Ashley performing in 2008
Background information
Birth name	Tod Ashley
Born	(1965-11-30) November 30, 1965 (age 59) Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Instrument(s)	Vocals, bass guitar
Years active	1987–present
Labels	Bloodshot Records Noisolution Records
Member of	Firewater
Formerly of	Cop Shoot Cop

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] 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
1990	Consumer Revolt	[5]
1991	White Noise	[6]
1993	Ask Questions Later	[7]
1994	Release	[8]

Firewater

Year	Name	Ref
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
1985	Crush: Live Crush 84–85	Shithaus	[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	Gecekondu	Baba Zula	[23]