After Woodstock
Jon Cole left several months after the album release to pursue other production projects in which he had an interest. With the assistance of New York producer Tony Bongiovi, the other four members composed enough material to produce and record a second album for Cotillion, but which the label chose not to release. The remaining four disbanded Quill late in the spring of 1970.
Jon Cole spent a couple of years more in the music world, associated with Andy Pratt (known for his hit Avenging Annie) and Jimmy Thompson, a popular singer-songwriter/guitarist from Boston. He went on to form Mechania, a groundbreaking company focused on teaching customers how to fix their own cars, and later moved to Hawaii where he became an expert in off-grid power alternatives. Cole now heads a company, Light on the Earth Systems, devoted to the spread and worldwide adoption of solar power.
Dan Cole later ran Intermedia Sound Studios. He also produced many local acts and multimedia soundtracks, including that of the first US laser light show, Lovelight, which had a long, successful run at Boston's Hayden Planetarium. Cole arranged, through Michael Lang, then Joe Cocker's manager, for ASB to become Joe's band for a series of international tours and one album. He signed an independent production agreement with Island Records to produce ASB, who recorded two records with Island. Maurice Johnson later became the manager and producer of New Kids on the Block. Jon Butcher became known for his unique guitar, vocal and songwriting style, with several moderate hits. In the early 1980s, Dan Cole left the music business to pursue a career in the high-tech production hardware/software business, spending 12 years with Sony Professional Products Group. He left the corporate world to become a private investor and management consultant, and he still writes and produces his own material in his digital studio and is currently working on an album for general release.
After Quill disbanded, Roger North had a run as the drummer for the popular folk artist Odetta, and then ended up joining the post-Easy Rider version of Holy Modal Rounders, moving to Oregon with Steve Weber and the rest of the band (save Peter Stampfel, who remained in New York). He continued to perform with the HMR well into the 1980s, although he missed the opportunity to record with the band on what may be one of their best remembered efforts, Have Moicy!, a 1975 collaboration with Michael Hurley and Jeffrey Fredrick and the Clamtones. Roger went on to design the unique North Drums, still favored by some drummers lucky enough to have purchased a kit. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon and plays in the Freak Mountain Ramblers.
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