Jade Puget – Programmer

Name: Jade Errol Puget

Birthdate: November 28th, 1973

Hometown: Santa Rosa, California

Jade Errol Puget (born November 28, 1973 in Santa Rosa, California) is the guitarist for rock 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.

Jade has a half-sister- Alishea, a half-brother named Gibson, and a younger brother named Smith. The latter being AFI’s Tour Manager. Jade dropped out of school at the age of seventeen, yet still moving on to go to UC Berkeley, where he majored in social theory.

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).

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). He also recently remixed the song Tiger Army’s “Where the Moss Slowly Grows” off the band’s latest album Music From Regions Beyond. 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. Additionally, he recently remixed Tokio Hotel’s UK single “Ready, Set, Go” from their first English album, Scream (or Room 483). 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.”