Gibson Guitars' The Name Game: The Top 10 Guitarist Stage Names.

Gibson Guitar’s have compiled a list of “The Top 10 Guitarist Stage Names” and Synyster Gates made the list at #1.

1. Synyster Gates
The Avenged Sevenfold axeman is not, you may have guessed, the son of a Mr. and Mrs. Gates. No, he is really Brian Elwin Haner Jr. On the Avenged Sevenfold DVD All Excess, Gates claimed that his name was created on a drunken drive with Sevenfold drummer The Reverend Tholomew Plague, who is really called James Owen Sullivan. Gates’ father is a professional comedian. Ah, now it all makes sense.