一聽音樂網

故事的開始并沒有什么傳奇性或者驚人之處，那是20世紀90年代初期（1991）美國加利福利亞州Ukiah的四個高中小子戴維·哈瓦克（Davey Havok）、亞當·卡森（Adam Carson）、維克（Vick）和馬卡斯·史托夫里斯（Markus Stopholese）在他們家鄉小鎮上為了打發課余那些無聊的時光而在車庫里弄出些噪音來的結果，標準也是夠噪夠狠就行。那時候他們的效仿對象就是諸如 “黑旗”（Black Flag）、“一群死雷子”（Sick Of It All）等硬核朋克樂隊，而且給自己起了個非常標準的名字：A Fire Inside，然后樂隊就取了三個詞的詞頭來表示隊名，即AFI。A Fire Inside，內部火焰，他們就是把他們最初的“內部火焰”燃燒到了他們的樂隊中去，壓根也沒想過什么成名成星，或許連他們自己也沒有想到的是，這恰恰是燎原星火的第一點火星。 哥兒幾個也照樣分了工，主唱是哈瓦克、吉他手是史托夫里斯、貝斯手是維克，鼓手則落在了亞當·卡森身上。然后樂隊的歷程就和大多數朋克樂隊差不多，技術平平但也搞了幾場小演出，在小鎮上也算有點小名氣。不久，維克被吉奧夫·克萊斯格（Geoff Kresge）頂替。本來平時的課余時間就不少，哥兒幾個死磕了差不多一年時間，也算是練出點技術，歌也有了那么幾首像點樣子的（當然現在聽來是十分不成熟的），就和當時的同鄉樂隊“脆弱變化”（Loose Change）一起發行了一張名為《落后于時代》（Behind the Times）的7寸EP唱片。 We started in the Summer of '91 in Ukiah, CA. My friend Mark,Vick and myself wanted to start a hardcore/punk band. I could sing, Mark said that he can play guitar, and Vick could play bass. We had one problem, who was going to play drums?? Mark said that his friend Adam can play drums, and this is when AFI formed. Vick was no longer in the band after 8 months, and we got Geoff to play bass. We had Geoff and we played for a while. Then we put out a split 7 inch with another Ukiah band called Loose Change. After that, we put out a EP called Behind the Times, and then basically we played some show's around here, some at a place called the Phoenix Theatre. Nobody really cared for us though. Mark, Adam, and myself graduated from High School, and the band broke up. I moved to Berkeley to go to college at UCBerkeley, Adam went to Santa Cruz, and Mark went down to Southern California. Geoff went to New Jersey to join the band,Blanks 77. So that happened and we were broken up. Then on December 22, while everyone was home for Christmas break, and we did a reunion show at the Phoenix Theatre. We had such a great time that we determined that we must get the band back together. People came up to us and told us that we should get back together. Before that show nobody gave a fuck about us, and after that show people kept telling us that we were great. So we got back together, and everyone knew what they needed to get to the bay area; which was bascially quit school, and worry about it later. Everyone quit school and we just decided to do the band full time. We recorded a live 7" called Eddie Picnic's All Wet, which was from the reunion show at the Phoenix Theatre. We recorded a 7" called Fly in the Ointment and we put it out on Wedge Records. We did our first tour with the Swingin Utters in 94, and that was great!! We did our second tour with them too. We have been recording and touring ever since. Geoff has officially left the band, his last Bay Area appearance was at Slim's on March 25, and his last show ever was in New York City at the conclusion of the recent tour with Sick Of It All. After AFI's recent U.S Tour, Hunter joined the band, as the new full time bassist. They then released the new disc called Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes on Nitro Records. AFI parted ways with old guitarist Mark during the fall of 98, and got a new guitarist, Jade, who used to be in a old school hardcore band called Redemption 87. They realeased a full length entitled Black Sails in the Sunset on Nitro Records in 99.