John Lloyd "J.T." Taylor (born March 23, 1982) is an American musician. Not to be confused with the bassist of Duran Duran who shares the same name, he is best known as the

lead guitarist Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

and musical director for the

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band the Jonas Brothers, from 2005 to 2013. He is also in the band formerly known as Bulldozer, now known as Ocean Grove, consisting of himself and the rest of the Jonas Brothers' band:

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, Ryan Liestman (formerly), and Jack Lawless.

Music

John Taylor helps the Jonas Brothers' music production by playing lead guitar for the band. John's name is used in the Jonas Brothers' hit song "Lovebug". "No way, John Taylor!" can be heard clearly in the background at 1:05. Also in the song Burnin' Up.

Performances

John Taylor has played guitar alongside the Jonas Brothers as they performed with Stevie Wonder,

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, Dan Aykroyd, Demi Lovato,

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, and

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Television & Film

Like bandmates

, Ryan Liestman and Jack Lawless, John Taylor has performed alongside the Jonas Brothers. He has performed on many television and awards shows, such as the Grammy Awards, ''

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'', ''

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'',

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, '' Dancing With the Stars'', MTV Video Music Awards, The Much Music Video Awards, The '' Good Morning America'' Summer Concert Series, the ''

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'' Summer Concert Series, and FN MTV. He also made several appearances on ''

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'' and many other talk shows like ''

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'', '' Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He also played at the Disney Channel Kids Inaugural He has appeared in several episodes of '' Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream'' with the Jonas Brothers. He performed in the Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert and Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. He also featured in episode 5, "Band's Best Friend", of the Jonas Brothers TV series, ''

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'' as Joe's history teacher. He appears in Demi Lovato's 2017 YouTube documentary '' Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated'' as well as the 2019 Amazon Prime Video documentary ''Jonas Brothers: Chasing Happiness'', which he directed.

Personal life

John Taylor graduated from

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State College, Pennsylvania State College is a home rule municipality in Centre County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is a college town, dominated economically, culturally and demographically by the presence of the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania Sta ...

before attending Berklee College of Music and Pennsylvania State University.

References

External links

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