When I was in high school my friend John Gilbert started Trinity Records, put out the first Temperance 7″, worked on a zine, had an awesome Rev collection and booked a bunch of shows, but my best memory of John was when he got a fake ID so he could get tattooed even though he was only 17. The ID looked awful but it was his picture, claimed he was 22 years old and from Maine. He did a bunch of research on the area of Maine he was supposed to be from and got all psyched up to get tattooed. A bunch of us went to the tattoo shop (Wheels Tattoo in Woonsocket, RI which closed and kind of reopened as Renaissance Tattoo also in Woonsocket) and watched as John had no problem getting his tattoo from a guy named ‘Wheels’ who was paralyzed from the waist down due to a motorcycle accident, but he still rode a custom built trike motorcycle with a spot for him to hang his wheel chair. When he tattooed you, you had to work the footswitch yourself which always seemed odd.
Anyway, John sat down and a few hours later walked out with the gorilla off the GB 7″ permanently inked on his back… or so we thought! Fast forward about 10 years, Wheels past away after getting in another motorcycle accident and Johns gorilla tattoo had just about completely disappeared. Apparently the rumor was that Wheels used to water down his inks and John’s body just completely absorbed the tattoo and it was gone. Weird stuff! Now I’m gonna try to find a post to work in the story about when Wheels gave me a 1/2 stick of home-made dynamite in exchange for a ride home.
So if you trying to fill a hole in your GB collection or you don’t have a copy of this yet then try and scoop this 3rd press copy from ryanaircraft

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