Keith Alexander on WPKN, 1994 (Patreon)

"And in a morbid way, a record of my predilections that will hopefully live on after I die, on some server, somewhere. Grandiose? Maybe. Maybe I just have the balls to admit it. Maybe one day, in the year 2201, a relation of mine will see these zeros and ones, and say, "Damn, he had fun." That is, if we don't annihilate one and other" - Keith Alexander. 

It's been seventeen years since Keith Alexander passed away. He was, at heart, an iconoclast and ballbreaker who thrived on progress and change, often spending years mastering a discipline only to move on once he'd reached the apex. 

When he was a piercer, he strived to be the best of the best, and when he was considered as such by his clients and peers, felt the need to move on to something new, starting at the beginning and moving his way up to become a respected personality amongst his new peers. 

This interview, from 1994, was when he was still working at the NYC Gauntlet location. He'd later open his own shop - Modern American Bodyarts - before leaving the piercing industry behind. 

Special thanks to Brian Sowden for his assistance in digitization.