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I was surprised that this guy could sit down and play Glen Campbell and Roy Clark better than they do, and it blew my mind. And then he loves southern rock, the blues and country. It really blew us away.”
- Rickey Medlocke
Cool Tone. Cool Groove. Cool.
- Yngwie Malmsteen
If there was ever a musician who was an honorary member of Shred Guitar Society… Mr. John 5!
- Paul Gilbert
John 5 is a fucking shredder!
- Rob Zombie
For over 30 years, John 5 has been one of the most in-demand guitar players on the planet. As well as a guitarist for hire, 5 has shared the stage as axe-man for Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson and Rob Halford. He has also worked with an impressive array of names, from all walks of music, including KD Lang, Rod Stewart, David Lee Roth, Alice Cooper, Tina Guo and Steven Adler. He will next be seen as live guitarist for Mötley Crüe on their 2023 tour dates following the retirement of Mick Mars from touring. To call John 5 a shredder does not do him justice. There’s little he can’t put his hand to.
John 5 was born John William Lowery, on July 31st 1970, in Gross Pointe Michigan. His love of guitar began at age seven, when he began watching the Hee Haw series with his father. “I watched the guitar playing and knew that was what I wanted to do. My friends wanted to be astronauts and such but all I wanted to do was play and play and play”. Other notable influences included KISS and Jimi Hendrix.
John’s parents brought his first guitar for Christmas, and supported their son as he began playing in bars and clubs, on the pre-condition that he kept his grades up. This in turn led John to form his first band ‘Dirty Trixx’ who won a major battle of the bands contest when he was in sixth or seventh grade. In a subsequent high-school band ‘Vampirella’, John began to experiment with what is now the trademark make-up that he still wears today; “we looked crazy on stage. I’d already started wearing eyeliner anyway but the stuff we wore on stage was crazy“.