Johnny D Young

Johnny Young is a multi-instrumentalist/Photographer/Videographer and sound engineer from Southern Ca. Currently working as the touring guitarist for Nita Strauss (Alice Cooper/Demi Lovato)

Johnny started playing guitar at the age of 14 in his hometown of Palm Springs, Ca. In 2006 Johnny moved to Los Angeles and enrolled at The Musicians Institute, where he studied from 2006-2008 with the likes of Paul Gilbert, Marty Friedman, Guthrie Govan and many more.

In early 2008, he was contacted by Logan Mader (Machine Head/Soulfly/Once Human) and Lucas Banker (Dommin/Junkie XL) of the Dirty icon Productions and asked to join the LA based Death Pilot.

In 2009 Death Pilot showcased for Virgin/EMI, later announcing the groups signing to Virgin Records as The Kill Corps. Around this time, he also started writing new music for other LA and So Cal based artists and groups.

In the fall of 2011, Johnny started working on music with drummer Phil Gonyea (Against All Will) vocalist Adam Ryan (Death Pilot/TKC/Alphamega) & guitarist Nikki Stringfield (Iron Maidens) forming the group ‘Before the Mourning’. B4TM released its first single "Dismember" on Feb 14th 2012.

In 2012, Johnny was approached by Logan Mader to record music with Nita Strauss, Bill Hudson (Trans Siberian Orchestra/NorthTale) and a massive ensemble of other talented artist for the ‘Metal Gear Rising’ soundtrack under the production of Logan Mader and Jamie Christopherson for Konami Inc.

Johnny continued writing music and created The Augments Project in the summer of 2015 with vocalist Jimmy Trigger, bassist Frankie Sil (Static X, New Years Day) drummer Josh Alves (Rivals) and keyboardist Matt Belluardo. The first EP and Music Video "Awaken" released in April of 2015.

In 2016 Johnny began working with the AZ based ‘Message To The Masses’ (Artery Records) during which time they released 2 singles ‘Masquerade’ and ‘Perceptions’ produced and engineered by Nick Morzov and Johnny himself.

In summer of 2019, Johnny was approached by Nita Strauss to fill in on backing/rhythm guitar for a few so cal based shows and has been continuing to do so ever since.

Johnny uses:

ESP Guitars Seymour Duncan Pickups Dunlop Picks Hercules Stands Levy’s Straps Shure Wireless Systems NUX EFX Fusion Gig Bags