Synyster Gates: "Jim Root is a great friend of mine and we've sat together and played a lot of stuff together"

Synyster Gates was interviewed by Ultimate Guitar, here's an excerpt:

Do you have much of a chance to swap guitar licks with the other bands at these festivals? 
Yeah, definitely. I find that drummers are the coolest people in the world. I play a little bit of drums so I kind of definitely do a lot more jamming with drummers and stuff like that. But Jim Root is a great friend of mine and we've sat together and played a lot of stuff together. 

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