Articles: Biography for Synyster Gates

Just post random info about him so that we can smash it all up into one big happy biography, mmkay?

His real name is Brian Haner (I think xD).

Gustavatron.:

His real name is Brian Haner (I think xD).

Jr.
He has a brother named Brent.
I shall remember more later. When I'm not dead >_<

He was born on July 7th.

mollerskates:

He was born on July 7th.

1981 to add to that =P

learned guitar from his dad (brian haner sr.)

loves his fedoras.

plays/played with a gibson les paul custom, a schecter stock (which i do not remember the model), and a few schecter customs.

RevsVengeance:

mollerskates:

He was born on July 7th.

1981 to add to that =P

learned guitar from his dad (brian haner sr.)

loves his fedoras.

plays/played with a gibson les paul custom, a schecter stock (which i do not remember the model), and a few schecter customs.

Wasn't the guitar a Les Paul (studio?) alpine white something? I don't know, but it looks like that.

LASL:

RevsVengeance:

mollerskates:

He was born on July 7th.

1981 to add to that =P

learned guitar from his dad (brian haner sr.)

loves his fedoras.

plays/played with a gibson les paul custom, a schecter stock (which i do not remember the model), and a few schecter customs.

Wasn't the guitar a Les Paul (studio?) alpine white something? I don't know, but it looks like that.

it might be a stock les paul standard in alpine white but i put custom cuz i'm sure he changed the pickups and whatnot.

RevsVengeance:

LASL:

RevsVengeance:

mollerskates:

He was born on July 7th.

1981 to add to that =P

learned guitar from his dad (brian haner sr.)

loves his fedoras.

plays/played with a gibson les paul custom, a schecter stock (which i do not remember the model), and a few schecter customs.

Wasn't the guitar a Les Paul (studio?) alpine white something? I don't know, but it looks like that.

it might be a stock les paul standard in alpine white but i put custom cuz i'm sure he changed the pickups and whatnot.

Yeah, I bet he has, but that makes it a modded Gibson LP Standard.. Anyway..

Is dating Michelle DiBenedetto, Valarys sister (I think she maybe her twin even...)

Went to Musicians Institute In Hollywood as part as the GIT program when he was 19, and studied jazz guitar.

He met the rest of the band through The Rev.

Full name...Brian Elwin Haner Jr.

I'm not really sure I believe all these middle names Wikipedia has given then O.o;

^^I found them on some other forum...I don't even know what the forum was...I googled A7x and one of sites listed was a non-a7x forum...now I can't find it. It listed all their middle names. Last time I checked Wikipedia didn't list their middle names, just the first and last. (unless they updated it.) *shrugs*

*edit* Here's the wikipedia page, and I checked all their pages, and their middle names are not listed. I'll see if I can Google that forum again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenged_Sevenfold

I'm pretty sure I was talking with sarah, ans she found them on Wikipedia...

I dont know. It'd just suck pretty hard if someone randomly put fake named on Wiki, and everyone took them to be the truth, and thus posted them everywhere. Thats all I'm saying ^^;

Damn sorry. I don't know if those are their real middle names or not...but whatever. I was just posting them, cause I thought that maybe it would help. I thought maybe someone could verify if they're infact real or not.

I wan't meaning to be rude =[ Im really sorry it came across like that...
I was mostly just... thinking aloud, or something. But to be rude or snappy in any way was my last intention.
>.<; I feel bad now. Sorry.

Its okay...its really late for me and I'm about to fall asleep, I'm kinda delirious so I think looked too much into it...or something. lol. Don't feel bad. And You're right, someone could have just made them up. But I didn't even think about that at the time. lol. Oh well.

Theres every chance theyre not made up ^^; I was just... i dont know. Stating a possibility, or something.
Just so long as you know I didnt mean to sound nasty =] Thats not me at all.

killer_odd_sock:

I'm pretty sure I was talking with sarah, ans she found them on Wikipedia...

I dont know. It'd just suck pretty hard if someone randomly put fake named on Wiki, and everyone took them to be the truth, and thus posted them everywhere. Thats all I'm saying ^^;

I did indeed find them on wikipedia but wikipedia have since taken them down from lack of source or something like that, so they might not be true. Some people on wikipedia do like to add things to pages for a laugh.

Synyster Gates (born Brian Elwin Haner, Jr. on July 7, 1981) He attended Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California as part of the GIT program, and studied Jazz guitar. He is also a member of the band Pinkly Smooth, a side project with The Rev (Avenged Sevenfold's drummer). He is the son of Brian Haner, Sr., also a musican and songwriter who helped with guest guitar work on the album City of Evil. He says his biggest influences are Dimebag Darrell (Pantera, Damageplan), Slash (Guns N Roses, Velvet Revolver) and John Petrucci (Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment). Synyster and Zacky Vengeance often play guitar back-to-back since Synyster is right-handed and Zacky is left-handed, this is visually appealing and has become a mainstay of the band's live shows. In an old magazine article, Synyster claims to have come up with his name when he was seventeen years old. "I was out with Jimmy Sullivan (aka The Rev). We were drinking a lot and driving around the park in Jimmy's car. I was driving, as drunk as a fuck and all of a sudden I just blurted out, 'I am Synyster Gates and I am awesome!" I don't know why I said it (laughs) but now that's my name!"

Jeez...lmfao
is his middle name really Elwin?
I mean, i heard it was, but is it true?