Another influence was the paintery approach to tattooing taken by Marcus Pacheco from San Francisco's Primal Urge. He did a lot of the Cubist stuff, and was one of the leading new wave artist at the same time as the new skoolers.
A lot of our clients have been shifting to the neo-old school, and since we all enjoy that style we let everybody know we're the place to go for it. Houston has a strange climate for tattooing, one that's still pretty conservative, but everybody who's interested in good work finds their way to us. Sleeves are really popular,
he threw up about eight times. But we couldn't stop, that was the rules. It was pretty rough. We did have medical personnel present at all times to monitor his pulse, blood pressure, and so forth. And during those fifteen-minute breaks we put some food into our mouths.
My wife Marye fed me pizza while I was tattooing. And all the while the shop had to be open for business, another requirement of Guinness." When it was all over, you'd expect Dan went home to bed. "We slept for about four hours and then went to see Stevie and Christian play with their band (the Down and Dirties). My back was hurting, and I took a couple days off. Henry actually went into shock a couple days later and his body swelled, but he got over it and the tattoos looked great and healed as good as any of my tattoos with no scabbing or anything, just beautiful. We had five different TV channels over at the shop doing news stories. And about every other tattooer in town came in at some point during the tattooing to give us their support."
Taking the Guinness Book of Record effort in stride, Dan adds, "We try to recruit as many people into the tattoo community as we can. We're really letting people know what can be done to the skin rather than just slapping a design on them and getting them out the door. We also put together a pamphlet that informs people about all the safety issues for them to read before we even get them into a chair to talk abou
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