John 5

Divergent Promotions presents by arrangement with TKO 
For almost 30 years, John 5 has been one of the most in-demand guitar players on the
planet. As well as a guitarist for hire, 5 has shared the stage as axe-man for Rob Zombie,
Marilyn Manson 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.

To call John 5 a shredder does not do him justice. There’s little he can’t put his hand to.
John 5 was born John William Lowery, on July 31st 1970, in Gross Pointe Michigan. His love of
guitar began at age seven, when he began watching the Hee Haw series with his father. “I
watched the guitar playing and knew that was what I wanted to do. My friends wanted to be
astronauts and such but all I wanted to do was play and play and play”. Other notable influences
included KISS and Jimi Hendrix.

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. 

In 2006, John 5 was invited to join Rob Zombie for a short Ozzfest tour. Despite being told “not
to get too comfortable”, the pairing brought a resurgence in Zombie, who at the point was
turning his hand to directing movies and taking a break from music, they began work on 2006’s
‘Educated Horses’. As a consequence John 5 had to make the decision to leave his fledgling
band Loser. “Being the founding member of Loser, my decision to leave was not an easy one.”
In 2015, following a series of web shows to celebrate the release of his solo album ‘Careful With
That Axe”, John 5 decided to take his solo set on tour, and formed The Creatures band to support
his live shows. Initially joined by long-term friend Rodger Carter on drums, the band continues
touring to this day, and now work as a unit on 5’s solo albums, including ‘Season Of The Witch’,
the live album ‘It’s Alive’ and 2019’s ‘Invasion’. The current line-up includes John 5, Ian Ross
on bass and drummer Logan Miles Nix.

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. 
“I’m busy, constantly busy with work but I look at who I am in the studio with or sending music
to and I think I don’t ever want it to stop.”