{"id":6349,"date":"2017-04-23T15:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T14:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2017-04-23T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T14:20:13","slug":"interview-john-5-talks-to-the-huffington-post-i-appreciate-and-love-music-so-much-this-album-is-really-who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2017\/04\/23\/interview-john-5-talks-to-the-huffington-post-i-appreciate-and-love-music-so-much-this-album-is-really-who-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"[Interview] John 5 talks to the Huffington Post: &#8220;I appreciate and love music so much. This album is really who I am&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3326\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2013\/03\/20\/guitar-international-asks-john-5-venomous-rat-what-does-it-all-mean\/john-5-interview-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/john-5-interview2.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-interview\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/john-5-interview2.jpg?fit=550%2C307&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/john-5-interview2.jpg?fit=550%2C307&amp;ssl=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/john-5-interview2.jpg?resize=550%2C307\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"307\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3326 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 550px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 550\/307;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the last dates on the <a href=\"http:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/discography\/season-of-the-witch-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">Season of the Witch<\/a> tour saw John 5 returning to his home state of Michigan. Ahead of that show he had a chat with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/famed-guitarist-john-5-talks-of-times-growing-up-in_us_58e56723e4b0ee31ab953471\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>As much as his collaborations have varied, his own solo material runs the gamut even more displaying influences of everything from heavy metal and hard rock all the way to country and bluegrass.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, John 5 released his solo project Season of the Witch, an album he rolled out in an interesting fashion by releasing music videos first before any of the actual music. I got to chat with John 5 recently about growing up in Michigan, why he took that route releasing his music, and the differences in making his own music compared writing for others<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the interview in full, please go here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/famed-guitarist-john-5-talks-of-times-growing-up-in_us_58e56723e4b0ee31ab953471\" target=\"_blank\">huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/famed-guitarist-john-5-talks-of-times-growing-up-in_us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 5 talks to the Huffington Post &#8220;about growing up in Michigan, why he took that route releasing his music, and the differences in making his own music compared writing for others&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3326,"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":[674,322,620,13,724,30,14,715],"class_list":["post-6349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-ace-frehley","tag-hee-haw","tag-interview","tag-john-5","tag-lynyrd-skynard","tag-marilyn-manson","tag-rob-zombie","tag-season-of-the-witch","tw-post-no-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/john-5-interview2.jpg?fit=550%2C307&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qFj4-1Ep","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6179,"url":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2017\/03\/04\/interview-john-5-speaks-to-digital-trends-about-the-changing-face-of-releasing-music-in-the-digital-age\/","url_meta":{"origin":6349,"position":0},"title":"[Interview] John 5 speaks to Digital Trends about the changing face of releasing music in the digital age","author":"Dillon - 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