Guitarist John 5 released the “Sinner” album earlier this year, and he and his band will embark on the tour in support of it next week. “I am so happy and excited to get out there on the road,” he said. “It’s one of my favorite things to do in life, and I am excited to see all the familiar faces. I can’t wait to play some new songs off the ‘Sinner’ album and travel the country. It truly is going to be an amazing year.”
John 5 has played with a variety of artists in his career including David Lee Roth and Rob Zombie, but from 1998 to 2004, he worked with shock rocker Marilyn Manson. Recently during an interview on Sirius XM’s “Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk,” the guitarist recalled the 2003 story of when he threw his guitar down on stage and pushed Manson in the chest during a live performance of “The Beautiful People” at the Rock Am Ring festival in Germany. This came after Manson kicked him in the chest.
“What happened was my sister passed away, my sister died unexpectedly,” John 5 explained. “And I was shocked. I was in Europe and I was coming down the stairs, off a stage after a concert, and they told me my sister died. And I was in a state of shock; you just go into a state of shock. And here’s the strange thing that happened to me: I didn’t sleep for days and days and days. It was the strangest thing. I just wasn’t tired. And I remember going to the bandmembers’ rooms, going, ‘I can’t sleep. I just can’t sleep. I haven’t slept in now two days’ or blah blah blah.”
“So anyways, fast forward to the [Rock Am Ring] show,” he continued. “Now, what Manson did, that happened all the time. He didn’t do anything wrong. I just snapped. It was weird. I went nuts. I didn’t even remember. I just snapped. And I feel terrible watching it now because it really was my fault. You can’t really hear what he’s saying, obviously, but he’s saying, ‘Pick up your guitar.’ ‘Cause it looks like he’s going, ‘Come on. Come on.’ But he’s saying, ‘Pick up your guitar. Pick up your guitar,’ because he knew what was going on. And I feel horrible about it. But it was just a bad situation at that time… It was terrible because he was so nice during that time and all that stuff. I was in such a weird place, and it was just a bad time. I don’t even remember it happening. It was just terrible.”
Upon his departure from Manson’s band in 2004, John 5 explained to ElectricBasement.com that the split was amicable. “What actually happened was, at the end of the tour, we were just on different roads. It was completely amicable. He just wanted to write with other members of the band, and I wanted to do other things.”
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