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| NAME: Jon Cowell OCCUPATION: Guitar teacher BIRTHDATE: March 2, 1989 BIRTHPLACE: Peoria, IL BAND POSITION: Lead Guitar, Backup Vocals INFLUENCES: Styx, Guns 'N Roses, AC/DC, and Peter Frampton HOBBIES: Snowboarding, Skateboarding, Basketball, and Video Games NICKNAMES: Silent |
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| Jon got his first guitar when he was 5 years old and started taking lessons immediately after from Jeff Logston. He took lessons for 4 years, but got burned out and took a year off. Then, he decided to start playing again and looked for Jeff but found out he stopped teaching so he found a new teacher named Dan Grudder. After 3 and a half years of lessons, Dan told him that he couldn't teach him anything that Jon | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| couldn't teach himself. From then on, Jon taught himself songs--mostly by ear. At age 13, he hooked up a guitar player, Tyler Mustard, and a drummer, Taylor Moss, through one of his dad's co-workers. They played together for about 2-3 weeks when Jon and Taylor decided that Tyler wasn't doing very well. They then asked him to leave the band. Jon and Taylor jammed around for about 3-4 months and found a bass player named Neil Hoffman. He was also in the band for about 2-3 weeks and then quit. After trying another bass player, Mike Sutter, who didn't work out either, they found a guitar player who lived down the street from Jon. Ben, the 'guitar player down the street,' had walked by Jon's house one day when Jon's dad was outside. He asked him if he played guitar and if he wanted to come over to the house to play sometime. Ben didn't want to because at that time he felt his guitar playing wasn't up to par. A couple of months later, some of Ben's friends went over to Jon's house to hear him play. Then, they went to | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Ben's and told him how great he was. Ben passed Jon on the street and asked to hear him play guitar. A couple weeks later, Jon's dad saw Ben at a gas station and asked him if he wanted to go to one of Jon and Taylor's practices. Jon, Ben, and Taylor jammed around for awhile and then decided to leave Taylor and form what is now 2MASS Denial. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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