John 5 pays tribute to his friend and greatest influence, Eddie Van Halen, with this previous unreleased footage from ‘Live Invasion’, featuring Michael Anthony, Corey Taylor and Fred Coury.
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From Monkees to Metallica, John 5 shares with Revolver Mag, stories behind the records that shaped his life.
John 5 shares the ten albums that changed his life
John 5 shares with Classic Rock Magazine the guitar albums that influenced, inspired and moved him.
On his upcoming album, God Told Me To, guitarist John 5 covers Michael Jackson’s Beat It – and does a spot-on rendition of Eddie Van Halen’s famous solo. “It’s one of the most incredible leads ever,” he admits. “For me to play it any other way would have been wrong somehow. A solo like that, you have to do it perfectly.”