Chords for AFI's Davey Havok - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?

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_ [E] _ _ _ [N] Hey everyone, it's Guram here from Loudwire.
To my left, AFI's Davey Havoc, and we're going
to do some Wikipedia Factor Fiction.
Let's do it.
Alright, thank you so much for coming
first of all.
My pleasure, thanks for having me.
Alright, so firstly, you were born David
Payden Passaro.
That is correct.
That's correct, okay good.
That is correct, that is true.
That's good that they got that right because they got Leta Ford's name wrong at one point.
I think it said like Carmelita Ford or something.
What is her name?
Leta Ford.
It's just Leta
Ford.
It's a real name.
_ But then it says that your father passed away when you were three.
Five.
There you go, that's why we do this stuff.
Five, five years old.
So five, and
when your mother remarried you took the name of your stepfather which was Marchand.
That
is correct.
This is all on Wikipedia.
You haven't looked at your page?
I don't spend
a lot of time looking at my mirrors.
This will be good.
They tend to distract me more
so than sentences about myself.
You know, this is interesting because since you were
five when he passed away, I thought that you were three because of what it said, so I was
going to ask is there any memories you have of him?
[F] I do have a few memories of my father
before he [N] passed away. _
He would come and pick me up and I remember he gave me [F] my first skateboard
which was a little plastic skateboard and he seemed very [E] beloved in New York and Rochester
where [Ebm] I was born and he would take me to different places where [F] the owner of the greenhouse,
[E] Marvin Gardens, would give me a star cactus which is an actually uncanny creation that
doesn't exist I'm [N] told.
It's some weird hybrid of cactuses.
But have you seen these
Do you own something that didn't exist?
Well, no, they exist but they were a matter of science.
They would clip a piece of one cactus and put it on another _ cactus.
And he would take me to
burger spots.
There was a place called Vic and Herbs that I remember.
He would take me and
we'd get red hots and burgers.
This was obviously before I realized that I needed to evolve with
the rest of my species and become a vegan.
I _ remember those experiences and I actually spoke
of an experience he was involved in off this camera in Santa Cruz where he took me to an arcade. _ _
It says in high [E] school one day you and your friends, Mark and Vic, decided to start a band
even though none of you owned or played an instrument.
Correct.
Very true.
[F] We were,
I can remember it like it was yesterday, sitting [N] in our section of what was a tri which was a
sunken concrete triangle [F] in the center of the school and there were designated areas for
cliques.
Of course.
We were a clique of three.
_ _ Inspired by the DIY ethic of hardcore bands from
DC and Los Angeles, we said, let's start a band.
And we did it.
We called dibs.
You called dibs?
On instruments.
Really?
So did you immediately want to go?
Yeah,
Mark's like, dibs on guitar and Vic said dibs on bass.
I said, I'm singing and they said,
we know choir boy.
And this is in Southern California?
This is in Northern California.
This is in Mendocino [N] County.
Okay, gotcha.
But you did, it says, you went to UC Berkeley
and you planned to double major in English and Psychology.
This is true.
I declared a double
major and then after finishing the pre-reqs for both of the majors, that's when I dropped out.
Okay.
So how many years was that?
Just two.
Two years?
Just two.
It was two before I quit.
Okay.
Was it just to focus on the band?
Okay.
Yeah.
As you mentioned, you're an outspoken
advocate of the vegan lifestyle.
Did I mention that?
I think you did.
And also the straight
edge lifestyle as well.
True.
Was that [C] sort of [Ab] from your influence of like the DC hardcore bands?
Very much so.
Well, I mean, to be honest, my distaste [Db] for drug culture pre-existed
to my knowledge [Fm] of straight edge.
And I was [N] a part of the underground music scene and the
punk scene and the hardcore scene [Eb] and the self-destructive nature of it never appealed
to me in the same way it didn't appeal to me in the [N] mainstream and recreational drug use as a
mandatory form of [Fm] recreation never appealed to me and I never understood it.
And then I discovered
Minor Threat and I discovered a community of people in a movement that shared my outlook,
not only on drug use, but we had artistic [Eb] affinities, artistic affinities that were
similar.
And [N] from that moment on, I said, wow, this is what I am.
I'm straight edge.
_ _ _ _ This one really interested me.
It says in the year 2000, you were approached by Roadrunner
Records to become the new singer of the Misfits, but you declined.
I think that is true.
I think
_ so.
A man named Mike, Mike Gitter, and I'd forgotten about this, but people I now I recall,
but I'd forgotten about it for years and someone brought it up and I forgot about it entirely.
But it happened.
Yeah, Mike called me up and it was around then.
And _ he said, hey,
Misfits are getting back together.
Or maybe they already had it.
No, they had because after yeah,
they [Ab] had already, yeah, they had already, they'd already done it.
And [N] yeah, he asked me if I wanted
to sing, but it wasn't something that was an easy decision.
Yeah, it was pretty easy.
Wow.
Uh, _ you're a big fashion guy.
Absolutely.
I'm a fan of style.
Yes.
As you can see.
Well,
thank you.
You launched the clothing line Glitter Boy.
Yes.
First.
Yes.
And then it was Paden.
And the next one.
And the next one was Zubu Tea.
Correct.
[Gb] Which is actually a vegan line.
Mm hmm.
There's a lot of vegan themes that would run through the designs, but not entirely.
[F] A lot
of it was music influenced as well.
But yeah, those were [N] the three _ collapsed lines that that I
attempted.
But so is the world, isn't it?
Isn't it?
Isn't that the case in the fashion world?
The
doggy dog fashion world?
I wouldn't know. _ _
_ _ And you worked with Macbeth footwear.
Yeah.
To create a
limited edition shoe.
Yes.
But it said that the government had seized your website domain.
They
did.
I can't.
I can't.
_ But they did.
I didn't have anything to do with Macbeth.
_ But the Macbeth
shoes were very exciting.
My friend Jimmy Throckmorton worked for Macbeth and he approached
me about doing a collaboration.
And that's with Mark Hoppus.
And Mark, that was his shoes.
Yes.
Right.
And, and Jimmy approached me about about doing an original shoe.
And I said, well, can I
cover it in rhinestones?
And he said, yes, as long as it's vegan, we've got a deal.
And they created
a nice little shoe bag for me.
It was really cool. _
_ Last one with you and Jade, a guitarist for AFI,
of course, you have matching tattoos of a cat jumping through the number nine.
That's correct.
We do.
What's the significance of that?
It's just a piece of flash _ created by an East Coast
native, [F] Dan Higgs, that we were a fan of.
And we had our then friend and still friend, Eric Hogan,
rest in peace, put it on us [N] as a friendship tattoo.
We liked the flash and we wanted to get it.
So
we said, yeah, let's just get it.
Well, thank you so much for stopping by.
Thank you for setting the
record straight on these very important things.
A lot of truths.
A lot of truths.
They did well.
They did well by you.
Good job.
I'll get you next time.
I promise.
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