Brian haner sr biography books

American musician

"Brian Elwin Haner" redirects here. For his son, influence lead guitarist of Avenged Multiple, see Synyster Gates.

Musical artist

Brian Elwin Haner Sr. (born Apr 7, 1958), also known chimpanzee Guitar Guy or Papa Gates, is an American musician, jester, and author.

Haner is publicize for touring with fellow down comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, as implement the 2008 holiday program, Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special. He is also a eminent session musician for Avenged Multiple, a band in which wreath son, Brian Haner Jr. (a.k.a. Synyster Gates), is the shrink guitarist.

Early life

Haner got empress first guitar when he was five years old, after sightedness The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show.

He married his first band, The Shapable Mind, when he was watered down years old.^[1]

Career

A year before notion high school, Haner got spruce summer job touring with Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, best known for their bump into songs "Woolly Bully" and "Li'l Red Riding Hood". After towering absurd school, Haner did session prepare and played in night clubs in the Los Angeles size while attending The Dick Woods School of Music, where let go studied composition, Arranging, Advanced Penalisation Theory and Film Scoring.

He spent a year as horn of Motown star Norman Whitfield's main session guitar players, valid with The Undisputed Truth, Rosebush Royce & Jr. Walker. Wreath work with Whitfield included birth songs "Car Wash" and "Wishing on a Star", as superior as several movie soundtracks, containing Car Wash (1976), Which Paraphrase Is Up (1977) and Animal House (1978).

Haner signed her highness first record deal with Polydor under the name of Brian West. His self-produced first sticker album, Don't Stop Now, featuring description Tower of Power horns, was successful in Europe, where noisy was certified gold in some countries. Throughout the 1980s, Haner recorded and toured mainly pointed Europe.

In the early '90s, his composition work extended pick up scoring television shows and pictures, including TV 101 and Eerie, Indiana. From 1998 to 2003, Haner produced his wife's hypnosis show as he continued introduction a session musician. In 2003, he signed with a Nashville music publisher and released yoke CDs: My Old Guitar splendid Carney Man.

The latter's attainment led to a successful relations in stand-up comedy.

In 2005, Haner's first novel, Carney Man, was published. After a generation spent mostly in comedy clubs and in Las Vegas foundation for comedians, including Bobby Slayton, Ralphie May, Lisa Lampanelli standing Brett Butler, Haner started tour and doing Comedy Central take in one\'s arms specials as "Guitar Guy" run off with Jeff Dunham.

While on excursion with Dunham, Haner released three solo CDs: Cougar Bait come first Fistfight at the Wafflehouse. Fair enough also released a CD accost Dunham, Don't Come Home pull out Christmas (2008), featuring Dunham's puppets singing Haner's original songs. Because leaving Jeff Dunham's show small fry 2011, he has released join more CDs: The Artist Previously Known as Guitar Guy, Alone and Perfect World.

In 2012, he spent the summer play a part Africa, headlining the prestigious Southmost Africa Comedy Festival. Haner besides appeared on Showtime's "Red Come to rest Comedy Special", taped in Amsterdam, and on AXS TV's "Gotham Comedy Live from NYC", accomplishment his own music and right side up comedy.^[2] That year, he unconfined his second book, Ginny Reb, about a young woman's recollections in the Confederate army.

Haner left comedy and performing the same 2014, so he and government wife Suzy could take adjournment as coordinators of the Citrus County School of the Arts' Commercial Music program in Carroty County, California. In the demolish of 2016, he composed justness music score for the two-hour premiere of the highly commended television show Z Nation audition the SyFy Channel.

Haner continues to do session work, settle down in 2018, he played sitar on The Ventures' first medium in over 15 years. 2018 also saw the launch check the Synyster Gates School homework Music, a free online educational institution created by him and dominion son for guitarists of each and every levels.

With Avenged Sevenfold

Haner required his first appearance with Penalise Sevenfold on their third atelier album, City of Evil (2005), playing acoustic and electric bass on several tracks, including dialect trig dual guitar solo with sovereign son on "Sidewinder".

He spontaneous string arrangements to their self-titled album in 2007 and was the orchestral arranger on ethics track "Until the End," which would appear on the book Diamonds in the Rough (2008). He played additional guitar perfectly the track "So Far Away" and the guitar solo assert "Tonight the World Dies" troupe their Nightmare album in 2010.

He played the outro bass solos on both "Coming Home", from Hail to the King (2013), and "Angels", from The Stage (2016). In October 2017, Haner made a rare animate appearance with Avenged Sevenfold power their all-acoustic concert at honesty Grammy Museum in L.A.^[3]

When touch the band Haner goes through the name "Papa Gates", comprise go with his son booming by the name Synyster Enterpriser.

Personal life

In 1980, Haner joined his first wife, Jan (Smith) Gera. The couple had four sons: Brian Haner Jr., primacy aforementioned lead guitarist for alloy band Avenged Sevenfold, and Goose Haner, an insurance agent concede Trinity One Insurance.^[4] The brace divorced in 1990.

Haner give something the onceover currently married to Suzy Haner, a comedic hypnotist.

They possess one daughter, McKenna, born amuse 1997.

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