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\"John<\/p>\n

Before going on his March tour with The Creatures, John 5 conducted an interview with Reverb.com*. In it he chats “about his writing relationship with Rob Zombie, the particulars of his signature guitar and what hundreds of guitars are in his collection<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

To read the interview in full, go to:\u00a0reverb.com\/interview-john-5<\/a><\/p>\n

*\u00a0interview published after the tour<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John 5 talks to Reverb.com about Rob Zombie, his signature guitar and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5445,"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":[620,13,559,14],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-interview","tag-john-5","tag-john-5-and-the-creatures","tag-rob-zombie","tw-post-no-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/john-5-rob-zombie.png?fit=550%2C307&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qFj4-1pO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":483543,"url":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2019\/02\/28\/john-5-speaks-to-consequences-of-sound-the-guitar-is-strong-and-powerful-and-will-never-die\/","url_meta":{"origin":5444,"position":0},"title":"John 5 speaks to Consequences of Sound: “the guitar is strong and powerful and will never die”","author":"Dillon - 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