John Marshall (born January 4, 1962) is an American musician, best known as a former guitarist for the heavy metal band

Metal Church Metal Church is an American heavy metal band. They originally formed in San Francisco, California in 1980 and then relocated to Aberdeen, Washington the following year and briefly using the name Shrapnel. Led by guitarist and songwriter Kurdt ...

(1986–1996, 1998–2001). He was the

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for Metallica's lead guitarist

Kirk Hammett Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962) is an American musician who has been the lead guitarist and a contributing songwriter for heavy metal band Metallica since 1983. Before joining Metallica, he formed and named the band Exodus. In 2003, ...

. Marshall also became the fill-in rhythm guitarist for Metallica's James Hetfield on two occasions when Hetfield was injured. First in 1986 (while still performing his duties as guitar tech) while Hetfield's wrist was broken, and again in 1992 when Hetfield was recovering from burn injuries. Marshall joined the band onstage for a performance of "

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" during Metallica's four-day 30th anniversary concert in December 2011 at the Fillmore in San Francisco. He also briefly played in progressive thrash metal band Blind Illusion (which also featured

Les Claypool Leslie Edward Claypool (born September 29, 1963) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and author. He is best known as the founder, lead singer, bassist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the ro ...

and

Larry LaLonde Reid Laurence "Larry" LaLonde (born September 12, 1968), also known as Ler LaLonde, is an American musician best known as the guitarist for Primus, a position that he has served since 1989, where he is known for his experimental accompaniment t ...

of Primus). Marshall stands 6' 7" (200 cm). Marshall also has

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. As of 2010, Marshall also worked for

Mesa/Boogie Mesa/Boogie (also known as Mesa Engineering) is an American company in Petaluma, California, that manufactures amplifiers and other accessories for guitars and basses. It has been in operation since 1969. Mesa was started by Randall Smith as a sm ...

Amplification, being an employee since 1995. He currently works in the company's R&D department, and was the lead designer for Mesa Rectifier "Reborn" series, which was released in 2010.

Discography

;With Metal Church * '' Blessing in Disguise'' (1989) * '' The Human Factor'' (1991) * '' Hanging in the Balance'' (1993) * ''

Masterpeace ''Masterpeace'' is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Metal Church released on July 22, 1999 via Nuclear Blast. It features the return of vocalist David Wayne, absent since '' The Dark'' (1986), being the band's final studio al ...

'' (1999)

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External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20080913140506/http://www.metalchurchmusic.com/discography.asp American heavy metal guitarists Living people American male guitarists Blind Illusion members Metal Church members 1962 births {{US-metal-guitarist-stub