“After his marriage in 1897 he worked as a painter of railway coaches, as a tinter of photographs, and as a housepainter.”
“He took on day jobs such as delivery driver, record shop assistant, trainee barber and car window tinter, producing thousands of hours of music in his spare time and storing the tapes in shoeboxes.”
“The formula was typed on the paint-spattered keyboard of a Gennex Fluid Management tinter, which then squirted the constituent colors — school-bus yellow, dark green, and black — into a can of oil-based white paint.”