tattoo artist, illustrator, photographer, painter, graphic designer, musician...

my name is Dave Temby, but most people know me as Bleach Methane. I started working at a tattoo shop in 1995 in Madison, Wisconsin where I am from. My job there was to answer phones, deal with customers, and to keep everything neat and clean. I was not hired as a tattoo apprentice, but was told that if I work hard and show real dedication that "MAYBE" they would think about giving me a chance. So, at the end of my very first night, I was supposed to sweep and mop the floor. now, I had come from working in the food industry since I was 14. and when you mop a floor at a restaurant, you use bleach in the water. what I did not know was that you do not use bleach on a waxed linoleum floor! As I poured bleach in the mop bucket, one of the tattoo artists (Paul Block) asked me if I was sure I knew what I was doing? I looked at him like he was crazy and said "yeah! been doing this for years!" He rolled his eyes and said ok then. when I finished mopping the floor he asked me what that smell was, and I said that I must have put a little too much bleach in the water.
So "here's the thing" (to quote my friend Pedro), bleach mixed with floor wax creates chlorine gas, which when inhaled, burns the lungs and you die! Luckily no one was there until the next morning. But all the windows were foggy all the next day even after they had all the doors open to air out the place.
on the good side the floors were very white and clean. on the bad side, they had just payed a couple hundred bucks to wax the floors.
When I got to work my boss (and step-brother) Brian Jansen told me that I have the new nickname Bleach. "why, cause of my hair?" ( I had bleached hair back then) He said no and then told me the story...

So that's how I got the name Bleach

I started a band with a good friend of mine called GODS OWN METHANE that was going to be a punk band and both of us were going to use methane as a last name. But that band went nowhere. Out of the blue we started making electronic music using only a PlayStation and we called that project the METHANE BROTHERS.

So there you have it, Bleach Methane was born.
now that I have this story in great detail, in black and white, I now no longer have to tell this damned story ever again!!!! If someone asks again, I'll just say "go to my website and see for yourself. YAY!!!!