Synyster Gates (real name Brian Haner Jr.) whose father played guitar with FZ
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Friday August 18, 2006
By Scott Kara
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=100&objectid=10396715
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Californian band Avenged Sevenfold are rising quickly through the
heavy metal ranks.
They play hard and party harder. No wonder young Californian metal
band Avenged Sevenfold are on the up and one of the biggest metal
bands on the planet.
They've just finished the Ozzfest tour - a 26-date, heavy metal
roadshow around the United States - where they were fourth on the bill
behind System of a Down, Disturbed, and the man himself, Ozzy
Osbourne.
"It's pretty big," says lead guitarist Synyster Gates (real name Brian
Haner Jr.). "There's lots of kids, and the bands playing on our stage
are pretty big, so they don't really turn up until it's time to go on
... But I hear the second stage is completely beserk," he says,
sounding as though he'd prefer to be partying over there.
[snip]
Gates says he was always going to play music for a living. Music is in
his blood - his father played guitar with freak rocker Frank Zappa.
But he admits his dad never had much time for him and almost
everything he knows about guitar playing he taught himself from books
and watching music videos.
[snip]
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Charles Ulrich
Shrike! <cal...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Fast and heavy metal with a vengeance
>
> Friday August 18, 2006
> By Scott Kara
> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=100&objectid=10396715
>
> "It's pretty big," says lead guitarist Synyster Gates (real name Brian
> Haner Jr.).
>
> Gates says he was always going to play music for a living. Music is in
> his blood - his father played guitar with freak rocker Frank Zappa.
From <http://www.carneyman.com/id9.html>:
> Brian Haner is a writer, performer and studio guitarist from Los
> Angeles, California. He has done studio work for the past twenty
> years and played for some of the biggest names in the business.
> (Frank Zappa, Kenny Loggins, Tower Of Power, Rose Royce, just to name
> a few).
So what is the nature of his "playing for" FZ in the last twenty years?
Did FZ sample his acoustic guitar playing? Did he audition for the 1988
band?
--Charles
Shrike!
> From <http://www.carneyman.com/id9.html>:
>
>> Brian Haner is a writer, performer and studio guitarist from Los
>> Angeles, California. He has done studio work for the past twenty
>> years and played for some of the biggest names in the business.
>> (Frank Zappa, Kenny Loggins, Tower Of Power, Rose Royce, just to name
>> a few).
>
> So what is the nature of his "playing for" FZ in the last twenty years?
> Did FZ sample his acoustic guitar playing? Did he audition for the 1988
> band?
Thanks for the follow-up. I've never heard of him.
--
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NINJA
Gary
>
> So what is the nature of his "playing for" FZ in the last twenty years?
> Did FZ sample his acoustic guitar playing? Did he audition for the 1988
> band?
Perhaps he strummed along in front of the living room stereo?