Gamble Scott Hall

Today was to be Gamble´s 40th birthday. We miss him so much, and he passed too young. He was larger than life, well-loved and just a really good person. Gamble was talented, creative, hard working and loved his family and friends. He just adored his two boys. I am so grateful to have had him in my life. I am so grateful that he experienced success and happiness.

Gratitude is a powerful quality. In these past few months, Gamble told me he was grateful for me and that he thought, after I had been away so long, that our relationship was finally back. Several weeks ago, I was devastated when he quit calling me and said, "I just can´t do this alone." It was then that he disappeared from my life.
Gamble was a bright and shining star. He at once amazed and terrified me. He always had big dreams and ambitions, and was so focused on building his businesses that, as you may have noticed, he spent little time on his own clothing or food. He was quick to realize when something wasn´t working and made changes accordingly.
I am so grateful for the last four months I was able to spend with Gamble. We had long conversations on the phone and in person, and I visited him and the kids often. He would send me photos of the kids when I wasn´t there, or of Nellie, his beloved dog.
Gamble so loved his two boys and was such a great father. He was always teaching and engaging them in various activities: counting, how to shake hands, drawing, climbing a ladder, and using the phone. They loved to go in the backyard and find snakes, toads, and an owl, and to pick blackberries. He took them to a trampoline park, a monster truck event, and was looking forward to taking them fishing at the Rainbow Trout Farm as well as swimming. He often talked about how much he loved his boys and what he looked forward to doing with them.
He was passionate about his art and tattooing. He always wanted to show me his most recent tattoos and would tell me he was making some of the best tattoos of his life. One day, when I was at the house, he spoke to someone who wanted to sponsor him at a tattooing conference in Florida in the fall, fully paid. I asked him if he was going to do it. He said, "Damn right." I input all the emails from Nexus Tattoo Studio´s customers, and he created a Constant Contact account and sent out a newsletter-something he said he had been wanting to do for a long time.
He spoke in detail about his successful investment account and how much he enjoyed doing that. Of course, he wanted me to invest too and was frustrated when I declined. I don´t know how he learned about investing, but what I do know about Gamble is that he would excel at anything he was passionate about: wrestling, snowboarding, glassblowing, drawing, and tattooing. He had spent many months in the fall working on Z Brush, often getting up at 4 am to improve himself. He was a lifelong learner. He was a gifted and talented artist who didn´t take the traditional path and succeeded.
A hole opened up in my heart when my Gamble passed on June 2. This was not intentional. The hole has been filled these last five days with so much love, support, compassion, and remembrances of Gamble from both my friends and Gamble´s friends. There have been countless texts, calls, emails, messages, and visits, and my heart is filled with gratitude. There is so much good in the world, and I thank you. Gamble had a heart of gold, as I heard over and over. That is true. Several weeks ago, I watched him give money to a man in a store who was short.
Gamble and Felecia had it all. He adored her, and they had a beautiful home, two amazing boys, Cash and Aksel, a great dog, and a successful business that Gamble was passionate about. So much to be grateful for.
Gamble was good. He was inspiring, smart, had character, integrity, and was honest. He is loved beyond measure and will remain in our hearts.

Gamble was a very sweet and gentle guy. For me he was a real life example of don´t judge a book by its cover. Every time I saw him he gave me the best hug and made me feel better about who I was just by being near him.

Gamble was my brother-in-law, we used to talk about the stuggles of life and we could relate to eachother in that way. He was a man who loved his family, that I know first and foremost. He was a good husband and father and a hard worker. He has left us sooner than anyone could have expected and he will be missed. Rest in Peace brother and may God hold you in His embrace.

My first memory of Gamble was of him charing his home group "Spirit of NA". I was fresh out of prison & it was good to hear from someone who looked like me, "Tattooed & quiet". This made me feel "A part of" by him just sharing his experience, strength & hope.
Much later, earlier this year my friend Aaron began working at Nexus. As the months passed, he was a fixture in the corner of that shop and I started to break through that quiet brick wall, those of you who knew him, know what I'm talking about.
We began planning the electrical portion of the remodel at the shop set to start on Monday June 3rd. As I was under the needle, we playfully argued about how he was going to pay me, I told him not to worry about it, & we went back and forth about how I wouldn't take his money, & him telling me "BUT MAYBE I WANT TO PAY!" He one the argument and I agreed to let him do a piece on my right hand. Aaron, Gamble and I laughed about it as he put his backpack on and told me he would call me on Sunday night or text.
My last conversation with him was at 8:34 p.m. the night he passed. We talked about how to de-energize the circuitry until I could get there Monday morning to safe It off and begin the electrical portion of the remodel.

I was Shell shocked the next morning when I heard the news.

Rest in peace Gamble, you gave me hope in one of the darkest times of my life, (my reintegration back into society from prison) by just telling your story and being you.

A good dude!

Gamble took me into his tattoo shop as an apprentice and did everything he could to nurture my career.
He was very caring and very passionate as well as ambitious. He was a pillar of success in our community and will be remembered as a wonderful person and amazing artist. His art was his heart and soul and will live on with us forever.

I loved hanging out and all the laughs with gamble.lots of tattoos from him. I will definitely miss him. Love you brother

I also lost my son in his thirties as his battle against life´s struggles! The pain too great as a parent...but the community of friends and family is all that will help you through! While we say our prayers together for strength, healing, and peace!

Everything about my Son in law Gamble is & will be cherished memories for me for all of time. He was one of a kind. He was passionate & a man of integrity as I knew him. He was full of character & could easily make me laugh. Gamble was extremely talented & did not waste those skills he possessed. Gamble was a wonderful provider to his family. Gamble, the father of Cash & Aksel, will be my one & my only ever Son in law. You are truly missed by so many.

The day I met Gamble, he walked into the glass studio I was working at with his flat brim yankee hat pulled over his ears and just above his eyes. I swear he was as wide as he was tall. To say he didn´t look like anybody interested in glass or art would be a massive understatement. When it was his turn to make ornaments with me he sheepishly said, " I used to blow glass". I was stunned, but thought, great let´s see it. I let him take the reins instead of leading him through the process. He took his first gather in what he would later tell me was 7 or so years and it looked like he hadn´t missed a day. I knew he was talented. At the end of the class we exchanged numbers and what seemed like the very next day he was working by my side and becoming one of my closest friends. We would go on to build a shop under my name but there is not a surface, tool, or product in that shop that gamble did not have a hand in. I always said, I only needed one gamble. He truly was one of the hardest working and most talented people I have ever had the privilege of knowing. You will be forever missed and never forgotten.