Merry Effin Christmas, Eugene!

Ho ho ho! I'm heading down to Eugene tonight with the family to play at Luckey's Club Cigar with The Underlings! Our favorite friends will be joining us for a night of Rock n Roll - The Homemakers, the Swing Letters from Bend, which features my old friend Chuck from One Man Running circa 1991, and of course Eugene's best garage rockers the Soothesayers! Please come down and join us, it's going to be a fun night. 21+ 9pm music start. So much to do, so little time to do it all; spend a little time with us and we'll all love you for it. See you there!

Ed Cole - Volcanoes

A special message from me to you regarding volcanoes. P.s. pre-buy my new CD for only $10! Use the Paypal button to the right side of this page. Thank you!

I get by with a little help from my friends

Before I moved to Portland in April, 2012, I spent my final months in Eugene working out the 10 songs that eventually became my forthcoming release, Interim. Over the last two years, I've spent a lot of time corralling and cajoling my various musician friends to play on my home-recorded tracks. Since I've been in Portland, I've probably spent more time working with Hans than just about anyone else. Hans and I met in Eugene, I don't remember when, but it seems like I've known him through basement folk and punk shows and through various random meet-ups. We both live in PDX now and I love it when he comes over on a weeknight to play after the kids are in bed. We'll lurk down in the basement, combining intertwining banjo and guitar lines, or blending fiddle with alien slide guitar to a neat effect. He plays around as Nettles J Oakland and is one of Baby Gramps preferred sidemen, laying down some great fiddle textures to Gramps' fractured blues-folk-throat-singing-stomp-chant. Maybe he has music on the internet - I don't know. The most recent thing we did was record his fiddle on the song "Aliens are Coming" at Haywire studios during my mixdown session a few weeks back. He is a great creative player who understands the random human condition conveyed through music. Thanks, Hans! Here's a clip of him playing with the famous Baby Gramps in 2010:

I am Ed Cole - help fund my CD release

I made a video, asking for funding. Can you dig it? Getting a CD made 100% on your own is a difficult venture. I've put 2 years into this great project, I need your help to get it the final yards to the finish line. Pre-buy my disc (or usb drive) album and I will delivery it to you when it is complete in about 4 weeks. Thank You!

Upcoming Holiday Rock!

I'm looking forward to this killer show, hoping to see lots of Portland friends there. Come out and support these rad local bands and arm yourself for the War on Christmas 4.0!

p.s. thank you to those who have donated to my pre-sale CD creation fund. Hit the button to the right if you have $10 to spare! 

With a Renewed Vigor Unseen by MANY

Greetings and welcome to Ed Cole Rock and Roll! I'm Ed, I play the rock and roll. I was Born in a Boxcar,  raised in a barn, fed Foreign Sausage, learned all about Soapscum and how to Wipe it Up my hometown's other name was Loser Town. My past and present bands include Garden Weasel, the Naysayers, Ed Cole and the College Girls of Tora Bora, White Hot Odyssey, the Underlings and Thundering Asteroids! As this is written, November 29th, 2014, I am on the verge of assembling my newest official solo release, Interim. Started as a 4 track project in Eugene, Interim morphed into a medium-scale self-recorded CD of acoustic songs, aided and abetted by friends with instruments such as cello, mandolin, violin, dobro and harmonica. Some of the contributors include Amy Danzinger (cello), Sean Shanahan (mandolin), Hans Eichinger (fiddle) and Brian Gardiner (drums). Interim was conceived as a transitional song cycle, somehow mirroring my physical move and relocation from Eugene to Portland, Oregon, back in 2012. After many setbacks and procrastinations, Interim is now musically complete, needing only proper artwork and a physical format (CD/ usb flash drive, download and cassette.) I AM SOLICITING DONATIONS TO THIS END. I need about $1,000. If you want to contribute, please click the PayPal button on the sidebar and enter a dollar amount. I'm asking $10 for CDs, USB drives or downloads. Pay now and I'll give you a CD/USB/download later. I've sunk immeasurable amounts of my own money and time into this, I need your help to get me down the final stretch so that I can get this CD into production and start my renewed NW MUSICAL ASSAULT! Thanks and good night,
Ed