I'm Not Zacky Vengeance

Posted by Zach Baker Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:01:00 GMT

So every few months, I get an awkward-sounding call at home from a stranger. They ask if Zacky is there, or if this is Zacky. Zacky? Even my parents never called me Zacky. I think some of the kids in high school P.E. class called me “Zacky Farms” when I went up to bat in softball.

It turns out these callers are looking for this guy, the guitarist for Avenged Sevenfold, an O.C. metal band. It’s always been (apparently) teenage girls calling, until the last time when it was a dude. Come on, dude, what were you thinking?

So anyway, Zacky has the exact same name as I do, which is a little weird. I don’t even know more than a handful of Zacharys, period. Lucky for me he went for the pseudonym or I might’ve ended up like the guy in Office Space.