John L. Reese

John L. Reese (born 1961) is a Phoenix-born music executive who got started in the music industry by owning a concert security company in Phoenix. That led to Guns N' Roses manager Doug Goldstein hiring him to become the band's tour manager for their 1989 Los Angeles Coliseum concerts with the Rolling Stones, then as the tour manager for the massive Use Your Illusion Tours and then as a partner and personal manager with Big FD Entertainment, representing a number of artists including Guns N' Roses, The Stone Roses, Blind Melon and many more.

Reese began his career as an artist manager in 1991 and has worked with many multi-platinum artists. He has personally managed The Used, Candlebox, Danzig, Story of the Year, and Goldfinger, among many others, and has worked with Doug Goldstein as a co manager on Guns N' Roses and The Stone Roses. Reese was also a career consultant for The Cure and in that capacity he produced the 2004 Curiosa Festival. Bands that Reese has worked with have sold in excess of 80 million albums and have played to over 40 million fans.

John was the co-founder with Ross Robinson of I AM Recordings, and with Robinson signed Slipknot, Glassjaw, Amen and The Cure among others while with I AM Recordings from 1995-2003.

In 2005, Reese co-founded the Rockstar Taste of Chaos with fellow industry executive, producer and entrepreneur Kevin Lyman. The tour is the only worldwide traveling lifestyle music festival and as of 2010 has played over 400 shows to over 2 million fans in 23 countries, including Australia, Japan, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria and the UK.

In 2007, Reese and Lyman co-founded the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. In 2008, 2009, and 2010 the festival performed at 108 major Live Nation amphitheaters in the U.S. and Canada and is currently the largest traveling hard rock music festival in the world and has performed to over 1.5 million fans. Reese also co-founded the college Rockstar Get a Life Tour playing 27 college venues throughout the U.S. in 2008.

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