{"id":4372,"date":"2014-08-03T14:35:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T13:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2014-08-03T18:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T17:14:51","slug":"john-5-talks-careful-with-that-axe-with-revolver-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2014\/08\/03\/john-5-talks-careful-with-that-axe-with-revolver-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"J5 talks &#8216;Careful With That Axe&#8217; with Revolver Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4373\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2014\/08\/03\/john-5-talks-careful-with-that-axe-with-revolver-magazine\/john-5-rob-fenn\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/john-5-rob-fenn.jpg?fit=550%2C307&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"550,307\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"john-5-rob-fenn\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/john-5-rob-fenn.jpg?fit=550%2C307&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/john-5-rob-fenn.jpg?fit=550%2C307&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4373 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/john-5-rob-fenn.jpg?resize=550%2C307\" alt=\"John 5 Rob Fenn Rob Zombie\" width=\"550\" height=\"307\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 550px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 550\/307;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In just a few days (Aug 12), John 5 will release the digital version of his eight studio album &#8216;Careful With That Axe&#8217; (<em><a title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/John5official\/photos\/a.10150138924111175.285938.125240136174\/10152180724656175\/?type=1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/John5official\/photos\/a.10150138924111175.285938.125240136174\/10152180724656175\/?type=1\" target=\"_blank\">a special edition CD version will be released later in the year<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>He speaks in the following interview, with <a title=\"Revolver Magazine John 5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.revolvermag.com\/news\/interview-john-5-talks-new-solo-album-careful-with-that-axe-and-rob-zombie-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\">Revolver Magazine<\/a> about the album, and working on various Rob Zombie projects.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-order your copy of Careful With That Axe here:\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #bf0a0f;\" title=\"http:\/\/smarturl.it\/CarefulWithThatAxe\" href=\"http:\/\/smarturl.it\/CarefulWithThatAxe\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/smarturl.it\/CarefulWithThatAxe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To read excerpts from this interview and to follow for the full interview, click &gt;&gt;&gt;\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Interview: John 5 Talks New Solo Album, \u2018Careful with That Axe\u2019 and Rob Zombie Projects <\/strong>by\u00a0Sammi Chichester<\/p>\n<p>To read the interview in full:\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.revolvermag.com\/news\/interview-john-5-talks-new-solo-album-careful-with-that-axe-and-rob-zombie-projects\" href=\"http:\/\/www.revolvermag.com\/news\/interview-john-5-talks-new-solo-album-careful-with-that-axe-and-rob-zombie-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\">revolvermag.com\/john-5-talks-new-solo-album-careful-with-that-axe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>John 5 is one busy dude. In between touring with Rob Zombie, making a new Zombie record, and scoring Zombie\u2019s latest film, \u201931,\u2019 he has found time to craft his eighth solo album, \u2018Careful with That Axe,\u2019 which will be out August 12 via 60 Cycle Hum. The guitarist\u2013who has also known for playing with Marilyn Manson, David Lee Roth and others\u2013recently chatted with Revolver about each of those projects, as well as serial killers and playing guitar in the bathroom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>REVOLVER Your new solo record, \u2018Careful with That Axe,\u2019 is almost out. How do you feel now that it\u2019s done?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHN 5<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s really exciting for me because this is what I think music is really about. I fund this whole thing by myself and I don\u2019t do it for money, it\u2019s just for the love of the guitar. I think people really understand that. I\u2019ve been doing instrumental records now for a long time and built up this little fan base which is worldwide and it\u2019s incredible how big it\u2019s gotten. People really enjoy these records. Even the title, \u2018Careful with That Axe,\u2019 when you get a guitar when you\u2019re a little kid, you don\u2019t know where that guitar is going to take you\u2014if it\u2019s going to bring you happiness or sadness, success or poverty. I\u2019m going to be doing three live streaming concerts\u2014one for America\/Canada, one for Europe, and one for the Pacific Rim. That\u2019s going to be in October and I\u2019m going to play the record live with the band. It\u2019s going to be cool. The guys from \u2018The Tonight Show<i>,\u2019\u00a0<\/i>the Jay Leno one, are putting it together. I\u2019ll have someone host it. People will be able to call in.<\/p>\n<p><b>Can you tell me about that single, \u201cThis Is My Rifle?\u201d\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nThat is the beginning of the record and introducing when I was a kid like, \u201cOK, this is my guitar and I love it and I sleep with it. I play it all the time and it\u2019s my whole life.\u201d That\u2019s where \u201cThis Is My Rifle\u201d comes from. It is performed live, which is really cool, because a lot of people go into the studio and overdub and blah blah blah. I do it for the love of the guitar and hopefully to inspire people to play because that\u2019s what happened to me\u2014I was inspired by these players and it was such an epiphany for me. It ended up ruling my life and I have such an obsession with it. There are so many other styles of music on this record that people will enjoy\u2014there\u2019s bluegrass, Western swing, and flamenco. If this was the last instrumental record I was ever going to make, I\u2019m so proud of this record.<\/p>\n<p><b>In the past, you had themed song titles after serial killers\u2014is that on here, too?<\/b><br \/>\nThere is. Like I was saying with the title, you never know where this guitar is going to take you, so the song titles, \u201cVillisca,\u201d \u201cPortrait of Sidney Sloan,\u201d and \u201cThe Dream Slayer\u201d\u2014these are all references to axe murderers. \u201cEl Cucuy,\u201d the Spanish-style one, means boogeyman in Spanish. There\u2019s not one title or one song that\u2019s just thrown in there. Everything has a lot of thought to it\u2014even the intro, \u201cWe Need to Have a Talk About John,\u201d because I would just sit in my room and play guitar and watch movies when I was a little kid. My parents got so worried about it and they would talk to me and tell me to go outside and play, which is fine because I would do the same thing as a parent if my kid just sat in a room all day. If you really get into certain records, then they have a certain meaning to them because you really let it get into your life and starts meaning a lot more.<\/p>\n<p><b>How much do you play a day?<\/b><br \/>\nWell, here\u2019s the best example\u2013if I wasn\u2019t talking to you right now, I\u2019d be playing guitar. I play every chance I get\u2014even if I go to the bathroom. I play all the time,\u00a0<em>all the time<\/em>. The reason why is it\u2019s very comforting to me. I don\u2019t do any drugs or drink so it\u2019s kind of like having your blanket with you.<\/p>\n<p><b>Considering how much music you\u2019ve created, how do you continuously find inspiration?<\/b><br \/>\nYeah, I always look for inspiration. If I find something that\u2019s inspiring, I\u2019m so excited because it\u00a0<i>is<\/i>\u00a0very hard to find something inspiring. I can get inspired, like anyone, from movies or music or TV or a certain way people think. I\u2019ve always liked people that were obsessive with something. I love watching documentaries on people like clean-freaks because it\u2019s just so interesting to me for some reason. [<i>Laughs<\/i>] Sounds weird, but it\u2019s the truth.<\/p>\n<p><b>And you\u2019re doing the score for Rob\u2019s next horror film, right?<\/b><br \/>\nYeah. His next movie is called \u201931\u2032 and I\u2019m actually doing the score with Rob, which is exciting. I did the last score to \u2018Lords of Salem\u2019 and it\u2019s a lot,\u00a0<i>lot, lot, lot, lot<\/i>\u00a0of work so it\u2019s going to be really fun. We\u2019re also working on a new record. All of this going on and I feel like I have to take a nap or something.<\/p>\n<p>To read the interview in full:\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.revolvermag.com\/news\/interview-john-5-talks-new-solo-album-careful-with-that-axe-and-rob-zombie-projects\" href=\"http:\/\/www.revolvermag.com\/news\/interview-john-5-talks-new-solo-album-careful-with-that-axe-and-rob-zombie-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\">revolvermag.com\/john-5-talks-new-solo-album-careful-with-that-axe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just a few days (Aug 12), John 5 will release the digital version of his eight studio album &#8216;Careful With That Axe&#8217; (a special edition CD version will be released later in the year).<br \/>\nHe speaks in the following interview, with Revolver Magazine about the album, and working on various Rob Zombie projects.<\/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":[533,620,13,80,534],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","tag-careful-with-that-axe","tag-interview","tag-john-5","tag-revolver-magazine","tag-rob-fenn","tw-post-no-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qFj4-18w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4277,"url":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2014\/06\/13\/john-5-premieres-new-song-this-is-my-rifle-with-revolver-magazine\/","url_meta":{"origin":4372,"position":0},"title":"John 5 Premieres New Song, \u201cThis Is My Rifle\u201d with Revolver Magazine","author":"Dillon - Team John 5","date":"June 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"John 5 has given our friends at Revolver Magazine, first dibs on the first single from his new album 'Careful With That Axe' - 'This Is My Rifle'.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"This is my Rifle John 5","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HIMR-J-5.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HIMR-J-5.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HIMR-J-5.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":616170,"url":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2019\/09\/09\/john-5-speaks-to-revolver-mag-about-marilyn-manson-playing-for-prince-new-rob-zombie-album-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":4372,"position":1},"title":"John 5 speaks to Revolver Mag about MARILYN MANSON, PLAYING FOR PRINCE, NEW ROB ZOMBIE ALBUM &#038; more","author":"Dillon - Team John 5","date":"September 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"John 5 speaks to Revolver Magazine about his new album Invasion, Marilyn Manson, the new Rob Zombie album and much more.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Interview&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Interview","link":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/category\/interview\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"John 5 Revolver Magazine Interview","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/john-5-revolver-magazine.jpg?fit=550%2C307&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/john-5-revolver-magazine.jpg?fit=550%2C307&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/john-5-revolver-magazine.jpg?fit=550%2C307&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4364,"url":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2014\/07\/28\/john-5-contemplates-his-axe-with-examiner-com\/","url_meta":{"origin":4372,"position":2},"title":"John 5 contemplates his axe with examiner.com","author":"Dillon - Team John 5","date":"July 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"2014 has been a busy year for John 5. 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