| Gavin, or as he is commonly refered to as, Gavin the Moderator, was born on February 9, 1933 in a small town just north of Pierre, South Dakota. He grew up spending most of his tending to his family's sheep herd, and indeed decided to take out that 'e' and 'h' and add a 'p' and become a shepperd. Or sheep-herder, however you want to spell the Goddamned word. Anyway so the legend is that, one day, he woke up to find one of his sheep vandalized. Oh no!! The sheep was completely shaved, except for the letters "A.F.I." written in wool, you could say. Our dear child Gavin was quite suprised by this, but managed to continue on with his life. Sadly yet strangely, that sheep's wool never grew back, and it forever remained a mark of AFI. Later on in his life, Gavin continued into high school, graduating first in his class (partially because he saved the principal's cat from a burning building). Gavin was indeed considered to be somewhat of a genius, after receiving a 186 average in Arts & Crafts. After graduating high school with high hopes of one day being the lead singer in a punk band, he moved to San Diego, California to continue his college career. Mind you, Gavin is a very smart boy, and knows his shit. While searching through music records one day, he happened to come across the band A.F.I. Gavin remembered the incident back with that freaky sheep, and decided to purchase the record, at that time being Black Sails in the Sunset. He soon grew completely in love with AFI and their sound. He said to himself,* "Gavin, darling - this is what we must do! We must become a member of AFI!" He then proceeded on his journey to be part of AFI - finally meeting them at a show in his neighborhood about a half a year later. The boys of AFI fell in love with Gavin just as Gavin had fell in love with them. However he was turned down when he asked lead singer Davey Havok if he could join the band. Davey said, "Dude, you just aren't made to do this. You gotta FEEL it. DO YOU FEEL IT?!" and Gavin said, "Yes! Yes I do! Please Davey, I wanna sing in your band!!" and Hunter stepped in and added, "Too damn bad." And they all laughed at him. Our poor, poor Gavin had been rejected by his biggest idols.. a couple days later though, Gavin heard a knock upon his apartment door, and went to answer it. Standing there was the band, and Davey was holding a bouquet of flowers! Oh boy, was Gavin happy or what! They all hugged and told Gavin that changed their minds. They wanted him to handle the message boards at AFI's website, and that is how Gavin's job came around.* The boys all soon grew to love eachother and to this day are best friends. Gavin has worked on various web projects including the on-going AFI message boards. * - These accounts, unfortunately, cannot be confirmed. In other words, it didn't happen. We lied. Sorry. Gavin, in actuality, is probably not really this exciting. |
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