John 5

In this video, John 5 presents his rig and we can see the Lava Guitar at 00:47.

John 5 and Fender have produced a Custom John 5 Telecaster. It’s a “double humbucker rosewood Tele,” according to John 5 in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown video at (0:23). “The white stripe here from the fender custom Teles and stuff like that back in the ’60s, and you know, [it’s a] great guitar,” John 5 says. The “toggle switch is moved up here for the little movement stuff, and regular Tele headstock, not like my models that I usually have.”

Similar in design to the John 5 Custom Telecaster, the Subsonic Telecaster is “a baritone guitar…it’s tuned down to B,” John 5 says in this interview at (1:04).

“This is called a Flat Head that Fender made,” John 5 demonstrates in this interview at (3:07). “It’s got the nice neck design, and it’s great, you know, nice... Fits the body and it’s very light, and it sounds really, really good. I used to use this a lot during the last tour, but now, I’m just... I have it as a backup.”

“This is one of the first, my first John 5 model,” the Rob Zombie guitarist explains at (4:22). “It has the cool Bigsby on it, twisted Tele, hot rail pickup, and you know, I use it a lot too, and it’s got the cool headstock on here, and you know, this is one of the first ones. This is what I had on the cover of Vertigo and I do a lot of pictures with this guitar. It sounds great. I did all the Marilyn Manson songs with that guitar and [it’s] a great-sounding guitar.”

John 5 talks about his Squier Tele in this promo video for Fender. At :42s John says "it really has become my main telecaster I play all the time."

In this video, John 5 talks about his signature Squier Telecaster, the Squier J5 Telecaster. At 1:40, he says, "The guitar is just like my main Telecaster exactly. I mean, the exact same neck. The pickups are different, but the exact same feel and it sounds incredible. I mean, you can't really tell the difference in the sound."

In this music video of John 5's ''Noche Acosador'', There's a great shot at 0:57 of him playing the Martin D-28 Authentic 1937.

In this article taken from John 5's website, he shows off the gear he uses, including a Fender J5 Triple Tele Deluxe.

In this article taken from John 5's website, he shows off the gear he uses, including a Fender acoustic signature John 5.

Can be seen at 0:38 in the video.

At 5:01 onwards in Premier Guitar's "Rig Rundown - Rob Zombie's John 5 (2013)" video, John says "Just a great sounding guitar, this one is tuned down to C and I use this all the time aswell".

This is a John 5 Custom Shop version of Buck Owens Telecaster, John's has the same paint job in honor of Hee Haw which he explains at 5:25 "Is the reason I play guitar is because of Hee Haw and I would see them all pickin' on Hee Haw and just thought that the telecaster was the only guitar ever made".

At 8:34 in Premier Guitar's video "Rig Rundown - Rob Zombie's John 5 (2013)" he says about how this is an "LED Fender Tele" it runs on a large than 12 volt battery and fetures a easy to remove guard to repair the LED's.

In Premier Guitar's video "Rig Rundown - Rob Zombie's John 5 (2013)", John 5 says that "But I cannot find a Bowling Ball Tele, I cannot find a Bowling Ball Tele so Fender just reissued some and I just have this and actually I got it on Haloween and I played it on the Jimmy Kimel show and I didn't even check with it, I just put it on and played it and played it live on Jimmy Kimmel".

At 11:37 on Premier Guitar's "Rig Rundown - Rob Zombie's John 5 (2013)" video John 5 pulls this guitar out stating "This is one of those, the MC5 guitar and uhh, ya know, just rad and I put a DiMarzio in there and this one is actually made in Mexico but still sounds rad and I love playing it, it's really cool".

He a custom model back when he was endorsed by Ibanez

John 5 must've had this custom paint job done for him by Ibanez back when he was endorsed by them. He debuted this guitar at the 1998 MTV awards, which was his first live performance with Marilyn Manson as his new guitarist.

Another gold sparkle Ibanez that John used during the time of his endrosement with Ibanez

At 14:30 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, John 5 show us his JVM210H.

In this article taken from John 5's website, he shows off the gear he uses, including a Marshall JVM Series JVM410H head.

In this interview, guitarist John 5 shows off his amp at (6:15), the Marshall JCM 900. It’s “the 100 Watt High Gain Dual Reverb, and have a beautiful white… it’s great, you know. It’s all I need. It’s just a... just does the job, and then I’m running... On the other side, I’m running the Redhead, and it’s the same thing, JCM 900. So I’m running two heads on one side and then two heads on the other side.”

At the bottom of Premier Guitar's "Rig Rundown - Rob Zombie's John 5 (2013)" article it says "The amps power four Marshall 1960B 4x12 cabinets"

He used those during the Holy Wood tour.

Those were used due to their durability for the Holy Wood Tour.

We can see that John 5 is playing through a Fender Mustang II V2 that's sitting in the background.

(18:17) John 5 Interview