{"id":660625,"date":"2019-11-01T16:51:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T16:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/?p=660625"},"modified":"2020-01-07T14:47:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:47:38","slug":"john-5-speaks-to-metal-insider-about-horror-films-sobriety-and-staying-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2019\/11\/01\/john-5-speaks-to-metal-insider-about-horror-films-sobriety-and-staying-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"John 5 speaks to Metal Insider about &#8220;horror films, sobriety, and staying busy&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalinsider.net\/interviews\/a-conversation-with-john-5-on-horror-films-sobriety-and-staying-busy\/?ref=john5website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metal Insider<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>John 5 is one of the hardest and perhaps most loyal working musicians out there. Between his solo career with John 5 and the Creatures and his role with Rob Zombie, he\u2019s still working with other artists. As we were lucky to see the guitarist <\/i><i>perform this past spring<\/i><i>, John 5 has returned for another round of tour dates in support of his latest effort, Invasion, as his <\/i><i>fall tour <\/i><i>kicked off just in time for Halloween. We recently caught up with John 5 to discuss the new album, his favorite horror films, living a sober life, and always staying busy.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>To read the interview in full, go here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalinsider.net\/interviews\/a-conversation-with-john-5-on-horror-films-sobriety-and-staying-busy\/?ref=john5website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">metalinsider.net\/interviews\/john-5-horror-sobriety-busy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 5 chats to Metal Insider to discuss the new album (Invasion), his favorite horror films, living a sober life, and always staying busy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":717847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-cover.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[620,824,13,559,809,30,876,14],"class_list":["post-660625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-interview","tag-invasion","tag-john-5","tag-john-5-and-the-creatures","tag-knights-in-satan-service","tag-marilyn-manson","tag-queensryche","tag-rob-zombie","tw-post-no-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/john-5-metal-insider-magazine.jpg?fit=1980%2C1485&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qFj4-2LRf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6948,"url":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2018\/02\/15\/john-5-speaks-to-metal-insider-about-its-alive-im-very-proud-of-it-thats-why-i-wanted-to-put-it-out-tour-it-and-celebrate-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":660625,"position":0},"title":"John 5 speaks to Metal Insider about &#8216;It&#8217;s Alive&#8217;: &#8220;I\u2019m very proud of it that\u2019s why I wanted to put it out, tour it, and celebrate it&#8221;","author":"Dillon - 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