The Rev started playing drums – for fun - when he was about 5 years old and took some lessons, and resumed at the age of 10, his teacher said that he was playing Metallica on his little toy drumset, and she was mind blown after knowing that he was playing Metallica without a real drumset! Pinkly Smooth and A7X weren’t the only bands Jimmy “The Rev” contributed with he was a member of Suburban Legends from 1998-2000 and he worked with the musician and comedian Brian Haner (Papa Gates), Synyster Gates’s father in 20.Īfter knowing all these bands and instruments Jimmy played with, I can tell he is a real octopus, not only on the drum set (I’ll explain that later) but also in real life. The Rev was also the lead vocalist and pianist in Pinkly Smooth but known as “Rathead”, with his fellow, childhood best friend and lead guitarist of A7X Synyster Gates, The Rev and Syn were so close to each other since their early days, they were the two that can’t be separated. He was a drum genius that many talked about. The Rev wasn’t only a member of the band he was an icon. The Rev wasn’t only the drummer of A7X, but he was also a vocalist, pianist and a song writer who wrote many of A7X’s top songs such as: ‘Chapter Four’, ‘Afterlife’, ‘A Little Piece of Heaven’ and ‘Almost Easy’.
