The latest issue of Alternative Press magazine featured a page dedicated to musicians’ tattoo experience – both the good and the bad kind. And our own Pierre Bouvier was featured there with his story about his worst tattoo experience regarding his sleeve tattoo, which you can read about below or on the scan from AP in the gallery (thanks to PB.net for the picture):

“When I started working on my first sleeve, we were recording our third album. I really wanted it to be done in time for shoots that were just around the corner, so I flew my tattoo artist, Aaron Della Vedova, to Montreal to complete the piece. The first day he arrived, I got tattooed for nine hours straight, followed by a five-hour session the next morning. I was hopped up on painkillers and alcohol, so the tattooing wasn’t all that bad, but the next day my arm was swollen like a big sausage roll. It came down after a week, only to reveal that I was having a bad reaction to the red ink. After a month and a half, my body accepted the ink. It turned out looking great, but for a while there I was thinking I was scared for life. Since that day, I limit myself to five-hour sessions and try to keep the red to a minimum.” – Pierre Bouvier (Simple Plan)