Jim Louvau: So,
would you say that
when you’re not on
tour or practicing
guitar that most of
your time is spent
writing, whether it’s
for yourself or other
people?
John 5: I’m always
writing everyday and
it occupies my brain.
I really wouldn’t know
what to do if I wasn’t writing or creating. It’s weird,
whenever I see myself not
playing or writing, I find
myself cleaning like a mad
person.
Jim Louvau: Tell me about
your fascination with tattoos
at an early age.
John 5: I loved Sunset Strip
Tattoo, that was my place and
I’d hang out there and it was
like Cheers or something. This
was back in the day when Nikki
Sixx and Tommy Lee would come
in and Axl and Slash and everyone would hang out there. The
tattoo shop would have these parties and rent a boat and I remember
sitting there with Axl just talking
about tattoos. Robert Benedetti who
owned the shop would tattoo me all
the time and educate me on tattoos.
That was my home and I remember
when a tattoo artist would leave to go
work in another shop and I was kind of
devastated. It was like a band member
leaving a band.
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