| Jade Puget (full name Jade Errol Puget, born November 28, 1973) is the current guitarist for the band AFI. He joined the band in 1998. Before joining AFI Jade played in various bands, most significantly Loose Change (which shared a 7" with AFI in 1992 when the bands first started. This 7", titled Dork, was AFI's first vinyl), and Redemption 87.
Jade's recordings with the band include Black Sails (1999), All Hallows (1999), Days of the Phoenix (2001), and 336 (2002)and the full length CDs Black Sails in the Sunset (1999), The Art of Drowning (2000), Sing the Sorrow (2003) and Decemberunderground (2006). Jade's influence as a musician contributed to AFI's change over the years, as is evident from the differences between Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes (1997, pre-Jade) and Black Sails in the Sunset (1999, post-Jade). Jade shares the Straight Edge lifestyle with Davey Havok, AFI's singer. However, the band itself is not Straight Edge. Jade has a sister, a half brother named Gibson Casian, and a younger brother named Smith who is AFI's tour manager. Gibson Casian appears in the poem between the end of ...But Home Is Nowhere and the beginning of This Time Imperfect on Sing The Sorrow. Jade dropped out of high school, but still got into UC Berkeley. Jade joined the band after completing college (the rest of the band had quit college in order to continue with the band). He has a bachelor's degree in social theory. Jade has several tattoos, including an "18" on his arm (which was originally a "13"), a cat jumping through a 9 (a tattoo he shares with Davey and Nick 13 of Tiger Army), and the words "boys don't cry" - an homage to The Cure. He also sports a bleached fashion-hawk, as well as some tiny sideburns lovingly dubbed 'Jade-burns' by the fan community. Jade has a piercing on the skin between his teeth and his upper lip (also called a "smiley") and has ear piercings. |
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