Band or song tattoo(s)?

[polliwog]

The only band tattoo I can imagine getting would be a Fall tattoo. Don't know what it would be, but their significance goes beyond being a favorite band - they basically explain the last decade of my life, even though they're at a low ebb at the moment, musically.

I would stop short of doing this, though: Is That Mark E. Smith on Your Trapezius? | Bleader | Chicago Reader

[kingofcosta]

I've got a Morrissey portrait (kinda trad crossed with black and grey realism) a skull with a candle dripping down it with a banner 'There is a light that never goes out'. I've got a DJ hanging by the neck with a banner 'Hang the dj'. I'm planning to get 'Fight The Power' across my stomach and also another Morrissey (but more stylized) with 'Now my heart is full'.

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[Dan]

my right arm

[Tight-Lines]

Hot Water Music - "Live your heart and never follow" in banners around a heart on my chest.

Jawbreaker - "Yell it out before it kills you" on a rose inside my arm.

I have other tattoos loosely inspired by Kid Dynamite and The Lawrence Arms, but they're not obvious lyrics or logos or anything. I am trying to book with Civ for a small "Start today" tattoo at the Richmond Convention, as well.

I also have a straight edge tattoo, and a plan to get at least one more before I'm no longer XXX years old.

I like your style.

[suburbanxcore]

@dcostello, haha, thanks. The Civ tattoo never happened. Instead I got a rose/dagger from Scott Sylvia with an Out of Step banner (in this month's contest thread).

[Tight-Lines]

@dcostello, haha, thanks. The Civ tattoo never happened. Instead I got a rose/dagger from Scott Sylvia with an Out of Step banner (in this month's contest thread).

The Civ one would have been awesome, but god damn scott's roses and daggers are rad. BTW, thats probably one of my favorite HWM chants ever.

[suburbanxcore]

@dcostello As I said in another thread recently, someday I'll get tattooed by Civ. I'm determined to make it happen!

[Ducky15568]

One album cover tattoo me and my wife has contemplated about getting is the cover to MGK's Black Flag album. We think it will transfer into a great tattoo. To us it is the album of the summer in which we got married. It also represents (for us) the refusal to never give up and to fight the good fight. Life is full of battles and we can accomplish anything together.

[RextanHuoston]

I always wanted to have the a tattoo of my favorite rock band "SUBLIME".

[Gloomy Inks]

Hello all. When I was 18, actually my 18th birthday, I sat down, like the mean, and terminally retarded, punker kid I was and I got Black Flag bars put on my inner left, lower arm. I didn't know how to talk in a shop as green kid, and I'm sure I came across looking very foolish. Foolish seems to be my watch word even today. Considering it was in the Speed Stick days I'm just happy I didn't come out of it with 18 tropical diseases.

I didn't know anything about anything. I said to myself, "There is a tattoo shop. I'm gonna get one."

Did I ask to see a book? No. Was there flash on the walls? No. Were they fly by night scammers? You bet you're sweet bippy, but hey, I got my first. Kathy, a former skinhead in retrospect, was kind to me. I'm really happy it wasn't say Tatts Thomas' place, so I didn't get the "shoe factory" treatment when I said, "How does that gun work?"

Kathy explained to me, as she realized I wasn't knuckle dragging mouth breather, well OK not much of, that gun should be eradicated from my lexicon. She told me about the coils, springs, set screw... just enough to wet my whistle.

She even told me a little about capacitors and Charlie Wagner too.

"You wanna hold it?" She asked with a sly grin.

I took the machine and it certainly didn't feel natural, but it sure did feel right in my hand. She waited a second and stomped on the switch and the Superior 8 wrap (I now know from the "chattering skull" set screw) came to life.

Blew my mind right off my shoulders.

"You seem nice," She said, "This is my 'bastard' machine. Figure you'll remember to call it a machine from here on out..."

About 45 min later I had a crummy tattoo, but it was there. Still is, and I took a ton of poo from my parents over it too. But I was the only guy in my class with a visible tattoo, so I had cred. Sorta.

I became a hang around. I ran errands, bought pizza (not that it hurt my feelings), and although I was paying them with my meager dishwasher's wage for apprenticeship that ended when they suddenly, and with out warning shut down, I knew that one day I wanted to be a tattooer myself.

Edited January 31, 2014 by Gloomy Inks
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