John 5 records new album with David Lee Roth

Former Marilyn Manson guitarist John 5 and Van Halen’s David Lee Roth have teamed up to record a new album. The heavy rocker, real name John William Lowery, landed his big break when Lee Roth hired him for his 1998 album DLR Band and now the two old friends have reunited in the studio to work on a new California Sessions project.
John 5 tells Canadian blogger Mitch Lafon, “It’s 11 of the greatest songs you’ll ever hear, and it’s just me and Dave, and we had Gregg Bissonette play drums on it. And it’s unbelievable.
“There’s a song called Somewhere Over The Rainbow Bar & Grill and just great, great songs. And hopefully sometime it’ll see the light of day. But he’s (Lee Roth) busy with Van Halen, all that stuff. But it’s an incredible record.
“I would just go over to his house during the day and write this music and then he would book the studio at night. So we would go into A&M Studios… and we’d record. It sounds like just Dave from that Van Halen I or II or Women And Children First era.”
And Lee Roth isn’t the only rock god John 5 has been working with – he has collaborated with Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford on the 2WO project. The guitarist is also currently working with Rob Zombie.