AFI once stood for Asking For It! (Extended)

Interview proving that AFI once stood for "Asking For It", despite the Official Message Board's FAQ saying it's always stood for A Fire Inside.

Quote from the OMB:
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"Has AFI always stood for A Fire Inside?"

Davey, Adam, Hunter and Jade's band has always been called "A Fire Inside."
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This completely fails to answer the question. Davey, Hunter, Adam and Jade's band is AFI. And AFI did once stand for Asking For It.

Do not believe the lies!

This was outside the State Theatre in St. Petersburg, FL in 1998.

Davey talks about his friend in NJ giving the name. For the band. Not for their correspondence, lol.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• AFI
• Davey
• Havok
• Jade
• Puget
• interview
• Asking
• For
• It
• Fire
• Inside
• Miss
• Murder
• Love
• Winter

[syntheticrain]

you're misunderstanding the FAQ. It says that AFI (WITH ITS CURRENT LINEUP) has always stood for A Fire Inside. Nowhere does it say that before Hunter and Jade joined the band it didn't stand for Asking For It.

[TheSecretNinja337]

You are the one who completely misread the FAQ. Nowhere doe sit say "with its current lineup". Read the video description before you come here and play the smart guy.

kthxbye

[iamdorkette]

davey jade adam ad hunter's afi has always been a fire inside. that does not say that before the current line up it wasn't different.

and for the record it was anthems for insubordinates then asking for it.

[TheSecretNinja337]

Just for the record, Davey has said AFI NEVER stood for Asking For It.

[blinktom11guitar]

they were once 16 and their minds and ideas may have changed since then. now its a fire inside, live with that.

[canesrule96]

@HoosierMF

oh, I agree

but then I question why you pointed out anything to me because I never did say that

[HoosierMF]

@canesrule96 I was merely pointing out the fact that just because punk and hardcore are simple, doesn't mean it's immature.

[canesrule96]

@HoosierMF

yeah i get what you're saying "life's tough dont be a bitch"

i get it, so spare me your sympathy

but dont tell me youve never needed emotional relief or even stimulation

that goes beyond "suck it up"

if you ask me, expressing emotions through deeper forms of expression like poetry, (esp. if you cant put a name or face on the thing thats making you feel that way,) is a way better catharsis , and it definetly gives davey more credibility as a lyricist

[HoosierMF]

@canesrule96 "Deep and poetic" doesn't make it better or more "mature". Life is hard and that's what hardcore is about. It doesn't get any more real than everyday life. If you think that's somehow immature then I pity you.

[canesrule96]

@TheSecretNinja337

not really

i mean all the old songs are about punk conformatity, and life sucking

a lot of the newer songs even on DU are very deep and poetic

ex: summer shudder, the interview, and yes love like winter

and lets not get started on sing the sorrow

btw you're a link on wikipedia and thats rad

[HoosierMF]

@TheSecretNinja337 Thank you. I couldn't have said it better.

[rlmofreg]

@TheSecretNinja337 no i know where you're coming from and i love old afi, i have there entire discography and love all of it and have heard more than 2 fucking songs. i just think people should quit with the constant bitching about how they changed. they made a progression and whether they lost it or not with decemberunderground there is no right answer because you like what you like. and for the record dont make me ill is one of my favorite afi songs, just sayin :)

[TheSecretNinja337]

@rlmofreg This is the kind of answer that a new AFI fan gives. I would like to invite you to listen to more old songs, since apparently you've listened to only two. There are some older songs like The Mother in Me, Aspirin Free, Don't Make Me Ill that, if you read beyond the words, you'll find more meaning than in new shitty but "poetic" songs like Love Like Winter.

[rlmofreg]

@HoosierMF he's not a fucking sell out. did you expect him to sing about cereal wars and being a high school football hero for 20 fucking years?