'Unholy Confessions & Fan Plays Lead Guitar' Avenged Sevenfold@Giant Center Hershey, PA 5/8/14

Unholy Confessions & Fan Gets Invited to Play Lead Guitar on this Track, Avenged Sevenfold, Giant Center, Hershey, PA; May 8th, 2014; Shepherd of Fire Tour Spring Tour 2014, Final song before the encore

[TroySpartan]

I love how Gates lounged around until he realized the kid doesn't sing backup, and gets up like, 'oh shit, I forgot!'

[pao]

The dude with the beer who did the back vocals must be very lucky to meet the lead guitarist of A7X

[kabenhanson]

I love how Syn lays down and is probably thinking, "I'm getting paid an ass load of money just to lay here"

[rblackman]

Thanks for posting, Jim. Steve is my son, and this made his night (and probably his year!)

[joemendoza]

This looks like when you’re playing guitar hero but you choose an avatar instead of one of the band members.

[michealr]

dual soloing with zacky
life goal accomplished

[kylelawrence]

Few people realize how hard that probably was to play without those headphones. A7X doesn't use stage monitors, they use in-ear, so that kid had to basically play the whole song without clearly hearing himself or the band, and he still ripped it.

[Gabingus]

“Gates your fired” lol.

Damn..Avenged Sevenfold is so cool for doing this. Very wholesome gesture. And the way Matt is encouraging Steve the whole time..you can tell Matt knows how to be a good father 😥

[Zliner]

I was there and I gotta say Steve killed it. Especially under the pressure that
1. Syn wasn't backing him up on guitar
2. He's playing with these guys (I don't know about anyone else but if shit my self and screw up
3. He's playing in front of ALOT of people.
Steve you're freakin awesome and so is sevenfold for doing this for their fans

[Suprchkn]

Gates must be the first person to take a nap during an A7X concert

[SuperSallySteak]

All of a sudden, everyone on here are professional performers hitting 100% perfection and a masters degree in music

[wesleyrevels]

All the people who have negative comments are just jealous of that guy because he got to play with a awesome band and did a amazing job at that.

[randyhall]

i hope he looks back on this moment when hes on hard times

[Southernswag]

Props to this guy. His head set fell off which gives him “real time audio” with the band so he was having to hear and try to play on time with stadium echo in the background and that’s hard to do and he aced it.

Amazing job my friend!

[Smithysmithin]

Can you blame him for messing up? He's up on stage playing the lead with the ACTUAL BAND there. And the lead guitarist watching..

[fettahyldz]

This dude didn't steal only Syn's place, he stole your girl as well

[SamLCFC]

Perfection isn’t the goal of bringing a fan on stage. The band connects with the crowd and gives a fan an experience they’ll never forget. That’s it.

[georgeparzival]

I love the fact the A7X are so down to earth and giving this fan a time of his life. Missed the Rev thou 😥

[idk-wbpu]

Imagine if syn just said "keep the guitar, you earned it."

[CrustyTheMoist]

3:58 can only imagine how badass that felt.