T.S.O.L. frontman Jack Grisham is selling his tooth on eBay, according to the Orange County Weekly… or rather was selling his tooth, since the item was removed shortly after the announcement. But you can still see a nice picture of Grisham’s upper left molar with a bit of blood on it, here. The singer-writer, who even had a column in the Weekly magazine for a little while, had for some reason decided to sell his tooth, and the bids had reached the whooping sum of $91 before disappearing.
Why would he do that? The item very probably disappeared because eBay doesn’t authorized the sale of body parts, but Grisham had told the Weekly: ‘I thought it might be a fun Christmas gift for someone. It’s also illegal (or so I’ve heard).’
The eBay listing (now gone) was reading like this:
Tooth from Jack Grisham from T.S.O.L. the Joykiller, Author of An American Demon
‘On offer, one extremely fucked-up tooth that has seen more action than a $5 hooker–I mean seriously, this tooth has accompanied me on burglaries, beatings, ball-busting, and break-outs. It’s proselytized and prophesied, its been up against more nipples (sorry mom) than even the creepiest perv and until a recent nasty infection took it out it was still willing to roll. What do we bid for this gnarly piece of O.C. Punk history?’
Jack Grisham is a weird and interesting guy, I saw him fronting his new band ‘The Manic Low’, and also presenting his autobiographical novel ’An American Demon’ at Vacation Vinyl a few years ago. He turned his back to the sociopathic and violent behavior of his youth and he has also become a hypnotherapist these days. I am not sure whether this eBay auction was motivated by money or not, but it is highly possible it was. In the past he did launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund one of his writing projects – I am not sure how you can justify asking money for writing in the comfort of your home, but it was a successful campaign! So yeah, may be the teeth was more than a cry for attention.
