Jade Puget
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Jade Errol Puget (born November 28, 1973) [1] is the guitarist for the American band AFI, which he joined in 1998. Before joining AFI, Puget played in various bands, including Loose Change and Redemption 87. AFI's first recording was a 7" split with Loose Change in 1992, entitled Dork.
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| Born | November 28, 1973 |
| Genre(s) | Alternative rock Punk Rock Hardcore Punk |
| Affiliation(s) | AFI Blaqk Audio Influence 13 Loose Change Redemption 87 |
| Label(s) | Interscope Records |
| Years active | 1998 - Present |
| Official site | Official website |
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[edit] AFI
Jade Puget's recordings with the band include the EPs Black Sails (1999), All Hallows (1999), The Days of the Phoenix (2001), and 336 EP (2002), as well as the full length albums Black Sails In The Sunset (1999), The Art of Drowning (2000), Sing the Sorrow (2003) and Decemberunderground (2006). He plays a Gibson Les Paul Studio guitar in most of his albums with AFI.
Puget's influence as a musician contributed to AFI's change over the years, as is evident from the differences between the albums Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes (1997, pre-Puget) and Black Sails in the Sunset (1999, post-Puget). The first song he wrote for AFI was "Malleus Maleficarum" off Black Sails in the Sunset, which he states in an interview on AFI's I Heard A Voice DVD.
Jade is the co-producer of "Something Quite Peculiar", the debut album by The Dear & Departed.
[edit] Personal
Puget has a sister, a half brother named Gibson, and a younger brother named Smith Leroy Puget who is AFI's tour manager. Gibson appears in the poem between the end of "...but home is nowhere" and the beginning of This Time Imperfect on Sing the Sorrow, or between the end of "Now The World" and the beginning of This Time Imperfect on the UK version of the album.
Puget claimed to leave high school early due to a feeling of uselessness at school. In an interview he said "I had a car and a license and felt that school was holding me back. Back then I just wanted to hang with my friends and get drunk, but now I know better. If given a second chance, I would have totally stayed in school." He later took prelimanary tests and got into UC Berkeley. He has a bachelor's degree in social theory.
[edit] Trivia
- He shares the straight edge lifestyle with Davey Havok, AFI's singer. However, the band itself is not straight edge.
- Puget has several tattoos, including an "18" on his arm (which was originally a "13"), a cat jumping through a 9 (a tribute to the band Nine Lives), a tattoo he shares with Nick 13 of Tiger Army, and Davey), and the word "Committed" arched across his stomach. On his arms, he has the words "Boys Don't Cry" (a homage to The Cure) and the words "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (a Joy Division tribute).
- He sports a bleached "mullet hawk" haircut, which was recently named 'Jadehawk' by some fans on the Official AFI Message Board, as well as tiny sideburns which he is well-known for and are often lovingly dubbed 'Jadeburns' by the fan community.
- He has a Chihuahua named Munch.
- He plays Gibson Les Paul Studio Guitars through Mesa/Boogie Dual-Rectifier heads and Marshall cabs. However, he has been known to play a Gibson SG on occasion. He uses D'Addario Exl115 11-49 gauge strings. He is also endorsed by D'Addario.
- Jade is also working on a side project with Davey Havok called Blaqk Audio. They recently released their first song, Bitter for Sweet, to the public.
- Jade Puget is a vegetarian, while AFI frontman Davey Havok follows the vegan lifestyle.
- Jade often paints his nails black with the exception of his pinky, which is pink.
[edit] External links
| AFI |
| Davey Havok | Jade Puget | Hunter Burgan | Adam Carson |
| Mark Stopholese | Vic Chalker | Geoff Kresge |
| Discography |
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| Albums and EPs: Dork | Behind the Times | Eddie Picnic's All Wet | This Is Berkeley, Not West Bay | AFI/Heckle Split | Bombing the Bay | Fly in the Ointment | Answer That and Stay Fashionable | Very Proud of Ya | Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes | A Fire Inside EP | Black Sails in the Sunset | Black Sails EP | All Hallow's EP | The Art of Drowning |The Days of the Phoenix EP | 336 | Sing the Sorrow | Decemberunderground |
| Singles: He Who Laughs Last | Third Season | Totalimmortal | The Days of the Phoenix | Girl's Not Grey | The Leaving Song Pt. 2 | Silver and Cold | Miss Murder | Love Like Winter | The Missing Frame |
| DVDs: Clandestine | I Heard a Voice |
| Related articles |
| Tiger Army | Despair Faction | Horrorpops | Loose Change | Dexter Holland | Nitro Records | Redemption 87 | Son Of Sam | Blaqk Audio |
| Categories: AFI | AFI Songs | AFI Albums |
