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Birth name: James Owen Sullivan
Also known as: The Reverend Tholomew Plague,
often shortened to The Rev
Born: February 9, 1981
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Died: December 28, 2009 (aged 28)
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Style: Hard rock, heavy metal, progressive metal, metalcore, avant-garde metal
Occupations: Musician
Instruments: Drums, guitar, bass, piano, vocals
Bands: Avenged Sevenfold, Pinkly Smooth, Suburban Legends
The Rev better known as the drummer for the heavy-metal band
Avenged Sevenfold
Sullivan grew up and lived in Huntington Beach, California. He got his first pair of drum sticks at the age of four and received his own drum set at the age of eleven. In high school, he started playing in bands. Before leaving to join Avenged Sevenfold as one of the band’s founding members, Sullivan was the drummer for the third wave ska band Suburban Legends. At the age of eighteen he recorded his first album with Avenged Sevenfold titled Sounding the Seventh Trumpet. His early influences included Frank Zappa and King Crimson. The Rev said in a Modern Drummer Magazine interview that “I was raised on that stuff as much as rock and metal.”
Later in life he was influenced by drummers Vinnie Paul, Mike Portnoy, Dave Lombardo, Lars Ulrich, and Terry Bozzio. He even had a “visual influence”, Tommy Lee, on which he commented that “I never thought I’d have one of those.” Sullivan’s signature ability which he called “the double-ride thing, just for lack of a better definition, because no one does it,” is a technique that can be heard on tracks such as “Almost Easy”, “Critical Acclaim”, and “Crossroads” in which Sullivan doubles up at a fast tempo between the double bass and ride cymbals.
The Rev at a7x MySpaceThe Rev was also a vocalist, songwriter, and pianist for Avenged Sevenfold. His piano-playing can be heard on the tracks “Warmness on the Soul”, “Seize the Day”, “Fiction” and “Save Me”. His vocals are featured in Avenged Sevenfold’s “A Little Piece of Heaven”, “Brompton Cocktail”, “Critical Acclaim”, “Crossroads”, “Gunslinger”, “Lost”, “Scream”, “Afterlife”, “Save Me”, “Eternal Rest” and “Fiction”. He also wrote the songs “Almost Easy”, “A Little Piece of Heaven”, “Afterlife”, “Brompton Cocktail”, “Save Me”, and “Fiction”. He also contributed to the making of “Critical Acclaim” and “Lost”.
Avenged Sevenfold also announced that they will be releasing a demo version of “Nightmare” including The Rev on an electric drumset and his vocals.
At the second annual Revolver Golden God Awards, The Rev won the award for Best Drummer.
image credit:myspace.com/avengedsevenfold
His family members and Avenged Sevenfold received the honor on his behalf.
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What I like about Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan is he has great technique and speed but not just bash away with running 32nd notes and double stroke snare riffs for the whole song but use it at the right time.
So, finally his fills just fit so nicely into the songs.
Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan have a cool signature which is a technique that can be Hear on tracks Such as “Almost Easy”, “Critical Acclaim”, and “Crossroads”
In this songs the rev doubles up at a fast tempo between the double bass and ride cymbals.
The Rev show off his great technique when fills to drum solo in the middle of the Beast and Harlot songs, .
Fast as hell.
You can see it at this video, including some videos of The Rev played drums
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The Rev used
DW drum collector series for the The Rev Drum set.
For Cymbal, The Rev used
Sabian.The Rev Drum Sticks, The Rev used
Pro-Mark AA Metal X CR.
