{"id":2035,"date":"2012-04-03T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2012-04-11T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T16:11:14","slug":"examiner-interviews-john-5-rob-zombie-is-like-a-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2012\/04\/03\/examiner-interviews-john-5-rob-zombie-is-like-a-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Examiner interviews John 5: ‘Rob Zombie is like a brother’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u00a0The Examiner.com<\/a> recently caught up with John 5 for an interview ahead of the release of his new album God Told Me To and before he and the rest of the Rob Zombie band head out on a co-headliner with Megadeth.<\/p>\n

Exclusive Examiner.com Interview with John 5 of Rob Zombie<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Elliot Levin<\/a>\u00a0NY Hard Rock Music Examiner<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Guitarist\u00a0John 5<\/a>\u00a0is slowly but surely becoming a premier name in the heavy metal world.\u00a0<\/strong>Between tenures in Marilyn Manson and with David Lee Roth, writing songs for A-listers like Lynyrd Skynyrd, and his 5th solo album coming out next month, one can almost forget that he\u2019s also been Rob Zombie\u2019s guitarist for half a decade as well.
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With Rob Zombie and Megadeth coming to the PNC Arts Center on May 11th, John 5 took some time to talk to me about his name, his projects, and… his love of NWA?<\/p>\n

Examiner<\/strong>: Hi John, thanks for talking to me today. How\u2019ve you been?<\/p>\n

John<\/strong>: Good! Very busy, but good.<\/em><\/p>\n

Examiner<\/strong>\u00a0: Well yeah, you\u2019re a busy guy. You\u2019re putting out another solo record, playing with Rob Zombie, scoring movies, and I just read that you\u2019ll be doing a track with Steven Adler too. Do you ever feel overwhelmed?<\/p>\n

John<\/strong>: Oh yeah. I think I\u2019m overwhelmed now. It\u2019s just a lot, you know? The tour coming up and everything else, it\u2019s a lot.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Examiner<\/strong>: How did the Steven Adler track come about?<\/p>\n

John<\/strong>: Oh he just called me up. Everybody calls me to do stuff lately, and I respect Steven and I\u2019ve known him for a long time, I\u2019ve known Slash and all those guys for a long time, and of course. They\u2019ve gave me so much great music over the years, it\u2019s the least I can do.<\/em><\/p>\n

Examiner<\/strong>: Besides music, what do you do for fun?<\/p>\n

John<\/strong>: It\u2019s mostly music, but sometimes I\u2019ll go to a movie just to shut off. But that\u2019s about it. Fun would be, I go on a summer tour like the one coming up with Megadeth, that\u2019s going to be fun. It\u2019s like a vacation. You get to run around with your friends and play loud music and play concerts and hang out and that\u2019s fun to me. Especially in the summertime man, there is nothing like that.<\/em><\/p>\n

Examiner<\/strong>: What I really enjoyed about your last record was that it wasn\u2019t just instrumental metal, it hit all styles of music. Do you consider yourself a metal player first and foremost?<\/p>\n

John<\/strong>: I consider myself a musician. I like to play everything. I really truly love all styles of music. A lot of people say that, but the first station they turn to when they get in the car is a rock station. I don\u2019t always do that. I really enjoy everything. But of course, I\u2019m a rock shred guitar player first.<\/em><\/p>\n

Examiner<\/strong>: The classical influences in your solo work are obvious. Would you say you\u2019re a fan of country and hip hop as well?<\/p>\n

John<\/strong>: Oh I do tons of country on all of my albums. Tons of country and bluegrass. I would say rock, and then country second. But I used to not like hip hop at all. I did not like hip hop. And I\u2019ve never talked about this, okay? Because there\u2019s not a lot of guitars, it\u2019s just not my cup of tea. But just lately, I put on NWA and I was like listening to it and I was like \u201cOh my god, this is unbelievable.” And I had a total epiphany. And this was only like a week ago, maybe not even a week ago. So I really had an epiphany for NWA, it\u2019s really wild.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Continue reading on Examiner.com<\/strong>\u00a0Exclusive Examiner.com Interview with John 5 of Rob Zombie – New York Hard Rock Music | Examiner.com<\/a>\u00a0http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/hard-rock-music-in-new-york\/exclusive-examiner-com-interview-with-john-5-of-rob-zombie#ixzz1qyK6AgMh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Examiner.com recently caught up with John 5 for an interview ahead of the release of his new album God Told Me To and before he and the rest of the Rob Zombie band head out on a co-headliner with Megadeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[262,620,13,14],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","tag-examiner-com","tag-interview","tag-john-5","tag-rob-zombie","tw-post-no-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qFj4-wP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2226,"url":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2012\/05\/27\/in-the-now-magazine-interviews-john-5-video\/","url_meta":{"origin":2035,"position":0},"title":"In the Now Magazine interviews John 5 [VIDEO]","author":"Dillon - Team John 5","date":"May 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Thomas Lamb and Amanda Craigg of In The Now Magazine caught up with John 5 backstage before a show on the recent Megadeth\/Rob Zombie co-headliner. 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