Jade Puget
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| Jade Puget | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jade Errol Puget |
| Born | November 28, 1973 |
| Origin | Ukiah, California, USA |
| Genre(s) | Alternative rock, Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Electronic Body Music, Post-hardcore, Synthpunk, Horror Punk, Synthpop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizer |
| Years active | 1998 - Present |
| Label(s) | Nitro Adeline Interscope DreamWorks |
| Associated acts | AFI Blaqk Audio Influence 13 Loose Change Redemption 87 |
| Website | AFI.net |
| Notable instrument(s) | |
| Gibson Les Paul Studio Gibson Les Paul Special Gibson SG Modified Marshall Plexi Heads ("Billie Joe" Mod)- Main Amplifier In Studio & Live starting on "Sing The Sorrow" Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier (Studio Head up to "Sing The Sorrow"- Secondary Studio Head starting "Sing The Sorrow") w/ Marshall cabinets |
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Jade Errol Puget (born November 28, 1973 in Redwood Valley, California) is the guitarist for punk band AFI (joined in 1998), and the keyboardist/synthesizer operator for the electronic duo Blaqk Audio. He takes his stepfather's surname. Puget is a vegetarian, and is straight edge along with Davey Havok, the vocalist of AFI.
Jade has a half-sister- Alishea, a half-brother named Gibson, and a younger brother named Smith, who is also AFI's Tour Manager. Gibson appears in the poem in the beginning of This Time Imperfect on the CD Sing The Sorrow. Jade challenged the school system having straight A's all through his entire school career, he was able to drop out of school at the age of seventeen, yet still moving on to go to UC Berkeley, where he majored in social theory. After graduating from college Jade joined AFI(A Fire Inside). He has a various tattoos- an "18" (which was originally a "13"), a cat jumping through a 9 (a tattoo he shares with Nick 13 of Tiger Army and Davey Havok), 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).
Jade plays a Gibson Les Paul Studio and Mesa Boogie dual rectifier amp heads with Marshall cabs. He used several Les Pauls, a Gibson SG, a Fender Telecaster and Esquire for the recording of Sing the Sorrow. He has said that he doesn't usually play SGs, but he has been known to play a Gibson SG from time to time.
[edit] Musical career
Before joining AFI on November 2, 1998, Jade Puget played in various bands, including Loose Change and Redemption 87 [1]. His first album with AFI was Black Sails in the Sunset (1999). The first song he wrote for the band was "Malleus Maleficarum".[2] The band released The Art of Drowning in 2000, Sing the Sorrow in 2003 and Decemberunderground in 2006. AFI won a VMA for best rock video for "Miss Murder" in 2006. Puget is also a member of Blaqk Audio with AFI bandmate Davey Havok. Their debut album, CexCells, was released on August 14, 2007.
Puget recently remixed Marilyn Manson's newest single "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)", released as an international bonus track from the album Eat Me, Drink Me (2007), [3] and The Cure's song "Freakshow" from their thirteenth album 4:13 Dream. The remix appears on The Cure's 2008 EP Hypnagogic States. He also recently remixed the song Tiger Army's "Where the Moss Slowly Grows" off the band's latest album Music From Regions Beyond.[4] The song is only available through purchasing the album on iTunes. He also did some additional production on The Dear & Departed's debut album Something Quite Peculiar[5]. Additionally, he recently remixed Tokio Hotel's UK single "Ready, Set, Go!" from their first English album, Scream[6]. Also, his remix of The Static Age's song "Vertigo" (called "Airplanes") appeared as a bonus track on the band's album "Neon Nights Electric Lives.
[edit] References
- ^ AFI | Official Site
- ^ I Heard a Voice DVD
- ^ Jade Puget's Remix of 'Heart-Shaped Glasses' Available Now | Shoutmouth
- ^ http://www.tigerarmy.com/news.html May 18, 2007
- ^ MySpace.com - The Dear & Departed - ORANGE COUNTY - New Wave / Gothique / Rock - www.myspace.com/thedearanddeparted
- ^ http://www.tokiohotelamerica.com November 05, 2007
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