For almost 30 years, John 5 has been one of the most in-demand guitar players on the planet.
Friday 16th October 2026
Plus Support: Dan Byrne
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Doors at 19:00
For almost 30 years, John 5 has been one of the most in-demand guitar players on theplanet.
As well as a guitarist for hire, 5 has shared the stage as axe-man for Rob Zombie, and Rob Halford. He has also worked with an impressive array of names,from all walks of music, including KD Lang, Rod Stewart, Dave Lee Roth, Alice Cooper,Tina Guo and Steven Adler.
John 5’s solo career turned out not to be a flash in the pan, and he has now released 9 studio albums, a live album and a remix album . He has worked with several special guests on those albums, including Albert Lee who called John 5 “one of the nicest guys I’ve worked with“, Steve Vai who called John “underrated”, Joe Satriani, Jim Root, Eric Johnson and many more. As well as his solo albums John 5 teamed up with the vocal talents of Joe Grah (formerly of Texas band Jibe) to form “radio rock project” Loser. Their first single, "Disposable Sunshine" featured on the Fantastic Four soundtrack.
Although John 5 does less “hired gun” work, he has contributed to work with Lynryd Skynrd, Meatloaf, Ricky Martin, Rod Stewart, Motley Crue and Rod Stewart.
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