Dan Cole

US vocalist and percussionist (1949). Together with the brother Jon, he began to playing in a school band. The two brothers had the opportunity to meet music manager Ray Paret (Ultimate Spinach) who with his partner David Jenks introduced the Coles to Phil Thayer, Norm Rogers, and Roger North. Short afterwards they start the band Quill that quickly became well-known in New England clubs and eventually began to open for “name” acts who came to New England to play. The group had the privilege to play at Woodstock in August 1969 and the next year to release an album. Quill disbanded late in the spring of 1970. Then Dan Cole worked as a business consultant after years as an executive with Sony’professional audio-visual products division. He currently lives in Portland, OR.