Education
Pennsylvania State University.
Pennsylvania State University.
Not to be confused with the bassist of Duran Duran who shares the same name, he is best known as the lead guitarist and musical director for the popular popular rock band the Jonas Brothers. He is also in the band formally known as Bulldozer, now known as Ocean Grove, consisting of himself and the rest of the Jonas Brothers" band: Greg Garbowsky, Ryan Liestman (formerly), and Jack Lawless. Like bandmates Greg Garbowsky, 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, Saturday Night Live, Dick Clark"s New Year"s Rockin" Eve, American Awards, Dancing With the Stars, Music Television Video Awards, The Much Video Awards, The Good Morning America Summer Concert Series, the Today Show Summer Concert Series, and FN Music Television. He also made several appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and many other talk shows like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Live with Regis and Kelly, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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 also featured in episode 5, "Band"s Best Friend", of the Jonas Brothers television series, JONAS as Joe"s history teacher.
John Taylor graduated from State College Area High School in State College, Pennsylvania before attending Berklee College of and Pennsylvania State University.