Here are some camera-shy men I met at a Concord Ballet Orchestra Players /Moon Pie/ Space Tigers/ Turtle Ambulance show at P.A.’s Lounge.
Jeff, of Most Bitter and Concord Ballet Orchestra Players
“My nephew made it for me.”
Billy O
“I got this while I was incarcerated. It’s an Irish Claddagh ring. I’m half Greek and half Irish, but I represent the Irish side.
“In jail, you don’t have no ink. We took butter and a shoe lace or something and put it over aluminum and took the soot from that to make the tattoo.
“That time in my life is over. You can read about it in The Art of the Heist. I’m in a couple of chapters.”
For the record, Billy doesn’t think anyone, not the Boston Globe, not anyone, will ever figure out the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist.
