
Growing up in Ohio, Rob Fetters wasn’t even sure he liked music. And although he was playing guitar by his mid-teens, it wasn’t his planned career path. “I went to college to be a journalist,” he tells Guitar World. “But in my first semester, I dropped a hit of really good LSD and saw the light. I called my dad and said, ‘You’re wasting your money!’”
Fetters took his beloved Les Paul Gold Top around the Ohio area with his band, The Raisins, meeting fellow Mid-Western guitarist Adrian Belew along the way and forming a lifelong friendship.