Tod A. is the stage name of singer, songwriter and bass guitarist Tod Ashley. He founded the rock music groups Cop Shoot Cop and Firewater. Tod went to high school at the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, and lived in Cranbury, NJ before moving to Rhode Island. In 1987, Ashley formed Cop Shoot Cop with Phil Puleo and David Ouimet, which with some lineup additions, eventually released five full length studio albums, two on Interscope Records. Wikipedia
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Firewater isn't really noisy usually; nevertheless they continue much of the underlying song writing style of CSC (although it took me a few listens to their first album to make the transition). www.geocities.com/thetodhole/