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Article: Dan Erlewine's Mod Squad.(RIFFS)
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- Guitar Player
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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Meet the Mod Squad's resident hippie, Jonah Powell. Hailing from northern Michigan, Powell was only half an octave away from receiving his master's degree in opera at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, when he quit school to join the Mod Squad. As do all mod-squaders, Powell learns the craft on his own guitars or those of his friends. One of his early assignments was to match the color and touch up the finish on his metallic blue Les Paul Studio. It's a plain-Jane, but cool, LP model, and it was relatively inexpensive since he bought it with a messed-up peghead.
Following my advice, and insistence that he use only inexpensive tools that would be readily accessible ...