{"id":689912,"date":"2019-12-06T16:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/?p=689912"},"modified":"2020-01-07T14:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:21:49","slug":"interview-john-5-talks-to-heavymag-as-he-prepares-for-2020s-australian-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2019\/12\/06\/interview-john-5-talks-to-heavymag-as-he-prepares-for-2020s-australian-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"[Interview] John 5 talks to HeavyMag as he prepares for 2020&#8217;s Australian shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/heavymag.com.au\/john-5-prepares-for-aussie-invasion\/?ref=john5website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HeavyMag.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>John talks more about Invasion, why he has chosen to stay instrumental on his solo albums instead of using guest musicians, the difficulties in connecting with the listener in a piece of music without lyrics, coming up with song titles with no narrative for inspiration, what we can expect from next years tour and plans to record the shows live, the differences between playing in bands and doing his solo stuff, his early days when he moved to L.A as an 18-year-old and being robbed on his first night, the lucky break that gave him his start in the music industry, the biggest influence on his career and more.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"snax snax-post-container\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adace-slot-wrapper adace-after-content adace-align-center adace-slot-wrapper-main\">\n<div class=\"adace-slot\">Listen to the interview in full below.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=20514770&amp;theme=dark&amp;autoplay=false&amp;playlist=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this interview with John 5 from Heavy Mag as he prepares for his first ever John 5 and The Creatures show in Australia in April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":717740,"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":[466,620,886,13,559],"class_list":["post-689912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-australia","tag-interview","tag-invasion-2020","tag-john-5","tag-john-5-and-the-creatures","tw-post-no-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/john-5.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/john-5-israel-perez-hortal-large-1.jpg?fit=1980%2C1485&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qFj4-2TtC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":482028,"url":"https:\/\/john-5.com\/main\/2019\/02\/26\/listen-john-5-talks-to-mitch-lafon-about-his-new-tour-and-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":689912,"position":0},"title":"John 5 talks to Mitch Lafon about his new tour &#038; 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