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My buddy saw me wearing my red DMs recently and stated that he had two pairs from “the 90s” that didn’t fit him and asked if I wanted them. Not knowing if they’d fit, I said that I’d at least like to check them out.

He brought them over before we went to see my favorite band on Friday, MyLife with the Thrill Kill Kult. Lucky for me, the blue pair fit me perfectly, while the brown pair fit my eldest son.

I’ll be cleaning up the brown pair and replacing the laces soon.

I wore the blue pair as is to work today.

Aside from the friendship (we met in 1995 in the barracks, then moved “out in town” together, the price was the best part: free!!!

The synthetic tongue on the blue pair threw me off, I don’t remember if my 1460s that I bought in Iceland in 1992 had leather or synth tongues.

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult is my favorite band. I put two of their logos on each side of three of the Zippos for Groovie Mann (vocals) Buzz McCoy (keys and vocals), and Mimi Star (bass). Their drummer, Justin Bennett also plays for Skinny Puppy so I put an SP logo on one side for him.

I was surprised that the laser didn’t eliminate the “red metallic” paint like it has on all the other Zippos.

Regardless, it made a cool effect.

TKK is my favorite band and this was my 18th or 19th time seeing them.

They often hang out a bit after shows so I used my laser engraver to put logos on the lighters.

Pictures include:

The zippos

Merch

Stills from the show