ARTISTS WORKED WITH

John 5 started his career as a ‘hired gun’. Over the years he has worked with a number of artists as a writer and contributor, as well as being full-time guitarist for numerous world-renowned bands including Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson.

John-5.com has compiled a full list of the artists he has worked with and the projects he has worked on.

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AS BAND MEMBER

WITH 2WO (TWO) (1996 – 1998)
Album
  • 1998: Voyeurs
Singles

1998: I’m A Pig, Deep In The Ground

Music Video Appearance

1998: I’m A Pig

WITH MARILYN MANSON (1998 – 2004)
Albums
  • 1998: Mechanical Animals (live guitarist)
  • 1999: The Last Tour on Earth
  • 2000: Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
  • 2003: The Golden Age of Grotesque
  • 2004: Lest We Forget: The Best Of (Album credit thanks, released after 5’s departure)
Singles
  • 1999: Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes
  • 2000: Disposable Teens
  • 2001: The Fight Song, The Nobodies, Working Class Hero, Tainted Love,
  • 2003: mOBSCENE, This Is the New Shit,
Music Video Appearances
  • 1998: I Don’t Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me, The Dope Show
  • 1999: Rock Is Dead, Coma White, Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes (Stop-motion video for MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch)
  • 2000: Disposable Teens, The Fight Song
  • 2001: The Nobodies, Tainted Love (for Not Another Teen Movie)
  • 2003: mOBSCENE, This Is The New Shit,
  • 2004: (s)AINT
VHS and DVD
  • 1999: God Is in the T.V.
  • 2002: Guns, God and Government
  • 2003: Doppelherz (The Golden Age of Grotesque bonus DVD)
  • 2004: (s)AINT (released through Manson’s website and as a limited number disc with sales of Lest We Forget)
  • 2009: Guns, God and Government — Live in L.A.
WITH LOSER (2005 – 2006)
Album (unreleased)
  • 2006: Just Like You (Island Records did not commercially release the album but some promotional copies were distributed at the time and can be found on reseller sites like eBay and Discogs)
Singles

2005: Nobody Knows, Disposable Sunshine (featured on Fantastic Four soundtrack)

Music Video Appearance

2005: The First Time

WITH ROB ZOMBIE (2005 – 2022)
Albums
  • 2006: Educated Horses
  • 2007: Zombie Live
  • 2010: Hellbilly Deluxe 2
  • 2013: Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
  • 2015: Spookshow International: Live
  • 2016: The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser
  • 2018: Astro-Creep: 2000 Live
  • 2021: The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy
Film Scores
  • 2012: The Lords of Salem (co-composer with Griffin Boice)
  • 2016: 31 (composer)
Singles
  • 2006: American Witch, Let It All Bleed Out, Foxy Foxy
  • 2010: What?, Sick Bubblegum
  • 2013: Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown, We’re An American Band
  • 2016: Well, Everybody’s Fucking in a U.F.O., In the Age of the Consecrated Vampire We All Get High
  • 2018: Helter Skelter” (with Marilyn Manson)
  • 2020: The Triumph of King Freak (A Crypt of Preservation and Superstition)
  • 2021: The Eternal Struggles of the Howling Man
Music Video Appearances
  • 2006: Foxy Foxy, American Witch
  • 2010: Mars Needs Women, Sick Bubblegum
  • 2012: Crushing the Ritual (for The Lords of Salem movie. John 5 and Piggy D feature as masked characters.)
  • 2013: Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown, We’re an American Band
  • 2015: Ging Gang Gong De Do Gong De Laga Raga (Live),
  • 2016: Well, Everybody’s Fucking in a U.F.O., In the Age of the Consecrated Vampire We All Get High, The Life and Times of a Teenage Rock God, Medication for the Melancholy, The Hideous Exhibitions of a Dedicated Gore Whore, Get Your Boots On! That’s the End of Rock and Roll
  • 2020: The Triumph of King Freak (A Crypt of Preservation and Superstition)
  • 2021: The Eternal Struggles of The Howling Man, Crow Killer Blues, Shadow of a Cemetery Man
  • 2022: Shake Your Ass-Smoke Your Grass
DVD

2014: The Zombie Horror Picture Show

Misc
  • 2021: I’ve Been Everywhere (LA Rats supergroup with Rob Zombie, Nikki Sixx & Tommy Clufetos for the movie The Ice Road)
WITH MÖTLEY CRÜE (2022 – Present )
Albums
  • 2019: The Dirt (before joining as member. Tracks 1, 16 and 17)
Singles
  • 2023: Dogs of War
  • 2024: (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)
Music Video Appearance

2023: Dogs of War

CONTRIBUTED TO

1990’s*
  • 1990: Rudy Sarzo: Sun King (Although the band had signed to Giant Records, it disbanded before releasing any music.)
  • 1994: Red Square Black: Square EP (With Randy Castillo. Lead guitar)
  • 1994: Lita Ford: (Touring guitarist. Video footage from the San Antonio show on April 19, 1994 can be found on YouTube)
  • 1996: Ryan Downe: Hypocrite (Guitar on track 9 “Japan”)
  • 1996 – 1997: k.d Lang: (Touring guitarist for world tour. See ‘Live in Sydney’ VHS)
  • 1996 – 1998: Leah Andreonne: (Guitar on Veiled, I Feel The Earth Move & Alchemist)
  • 1998: David Lee Roth: DLR Band (Co-writer/guitars)

* As John Lowery

2000’s
  • 2003: David Lee Roth: Thug Pop (From Diamond Dave. Co-writer/guitars.)
  • 2003: Garbage: Never Be Free (additional guitars)
  • 2005: Rick Springfield: The Day After Yesterday (Guitars on tracks 4, 14)
  • 2006: Meatloaf: Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose. (Co-written with Nikki Sixx. Guitars)
  • 2006: Paul Stanley: Where Angels Dare. (From Live To Win. Co-writer/guitar)
  • 2007: Saliva: Black Sheep. (From Blood Stained Love Story. Guitar)
  • 2007: Static-X: Cannibal. (Credited as first guitar solo)
  • 2007: Scorpions: Humanity Hour 1. (Guitar on Track 1 “Hour 1”)
  • 2008: Filter: Anthems For The Damned. (Co-writer on tracks 2, 8)
  • 2009: Lynyrd Skynyrd: God & Guns. (Co-writer on tracks 3, 4, 5)
  • 2009: Halestorm: Halestorm. (Co-writer on track 7 “What Were You Expecting?”)
  • 2011: Ricky Martin: Música + Alma + Sexo. (Co-writer/arranger)
  • 2011: Sixx:A.M: This Is Gonna Hurt. (Co-writer on track 2 “Lies of the Beautiful People”)
  • 2011: Sebastian Bach: Kicking and Screaming. (Co-writer on track 3 “TunnelVision”)
  • 2011: Alice Cooper: Welcome 2 My Nightmare. (Solo guitar on track 8 “Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever”)
  • 2012: Lynyrd Skynyrd: Last of a Dyin’ Breed. (Co-writer on tracks 7, 11 standard release. Track 1 of special edition and Track 14 of Classic Rock edition)
  • 2012: Steven Adler: Back From The Dead. (Lead guitar on “Good to Be Bad”)
  • 2013: Rod Stewart: Time. (Co-writer on track 3 “It’s Over”)
  • 2014: Sebastian Bach: Give ‘Em Hell. (Co-writer on track 4 “Temptation”)
  • 2015: Tina Guo: Cello Metal (Guitar on “Iron Man”)
  • 2016: Ace Frehley: Origins Vol.1 (Guitar on tracks 3, 8)
  • 2018: Steve Perry: Traces (Co-writer/guitars on track 6 “Sun Shines Gray”)
2020’s
  • 2020: Tommy Lee: Andro (Guitar on Track 1 “Knock Me Down”)
  • 2020 – 2021: David Lee Roth: Giddy-Up, Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bar and Grill, Lo-Rez Sunset. (Although released during this time frame, the tracks were written and recorded in the mid 2010’s)
  • 2022: David Lee Roth: Nothing Could Have Stopped Us Anyway (although the track was recorded in 2007, it was only released by Roth in 2022)
  • 2023: Dolly Parton: Rockstar (Guest guitar on track 22 “Bygones”)
  • 2024: Billy Morrison: The Morrison Project (Guitar on “The Ayes Have It”)
  • 2024: Sebastian Bach: Child Within The Man (Co-writer and lead guitars on track 2 “Freedom” )
  • 2025: Carla Harvey/The Violent Hour: Guitar on track “The Sick Ones”