Quill was a rock band that played extensively throughout New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states in the late 1960s, and gained national attention by performing at the original Woodstock Festival in 1969.
[citation needed] Quill opened for The Jeff Beck Group, The Who, The Kinks, Deep Purple, Buddy Guy, Blue Cheer, Sly and the Family Stone, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and the comedian Steve Martin.
On a still-soaking stage, but under a beaming sun, the band played a 40-minute set of four songs ("They Live the Life", "That's How I Eat", "Driftin'", and "Waiting For You")[citation needed] and was received enthusiastically by the 400,000-person throng.
The fact that the Quill footage could not be used for the Woodstock movie seriously disappointed Ertegün, and the band's record was never actively promoted, even though over the years it has attained some cult status.
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.
[citation needed] 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.
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.