Johnny Christttt

Johnny Christ is the bass guitar player for Avenged Sevenfold and his real name is Jonathan Lewis Seward. It was during high school that Johnny met up with the creators of the band, M.Shadows, Zacky Vengeance, The Rev and Synyster Gates. In 2002, he was invited to join the band as a bass guitarist and he of course agreed. It is said that he actually dropped out of school to join the band in touring and playing. He must have been really into playing with Avenged Sevenfold to actually drop out of school. I cant imagine his parents enjoying that too much. But really, I'm pretty sure he is making more money than all his other graduate friends. Lucky guy. That just proves that we don't need school! These are pictures of Johnny Christ playing with the band.

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On the Avenged Sevenfold DVD, “All Excess” while the members of the band were talking about how they got their stage names, Johnny said that when he first joined the band he would always sign “Johnny” when he was signing autographs, and the other members were ragging on him, stating that he needed a last name. Eventually Zacky Vengeance came up with Christ and said; “Hey why don’t you become Johnny Christ?”, to which Johnny replied, “That’s REALLY ballsy, everyone’s gonna hate that; so I should definitely go with that.”

Johnny is the younger brother of a schoolmate of Synyster Gates. He recalled being in high school and being picked on by Syn and The Rev. Later, when Avenged Sevenfold was created, he came down to the garage where they constantly practiced and tried to impress them with his bass skills.