Old tattoo photos

[abees]

Saw Bon Scott and AC/DC live in Oxford in 1976.

Bon hurt himself when he fell off the stage. He carried on the last couple of numbers sitting on a chair.

Great band!

Just out of interest, where did you see them? (i'm from Oxford).

& Here's a link to some flash, from the Motor City Tattoo Museum -

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and the site it's self -

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[jade1955]

Just out of interest, where did you see them? (i'm from Oxford).

I'm pretty sure it was at the New Theatre.

[Our Endless Days]

i wish i had soemthing to contribute. i love looking at older pics of tattoos.

[Dan S]

Rummaging around in the shop tonight, and took down one of my binders of old Easyriders mags. Leafing through it-the issues in it were from 1980, shortly before they sold-out and became a porno rag with never-ridden show bikes-I came across an issue devoted soley to tattoo photos people sent in.

What a rush. Really, took me back to the day...some of the pix go back into the 60's and some, the style or design is really apparent. Lots of work by Cliff Raven in there, pages of cards from different shops, all kindsa good stuff.

I guess I need some guidance from Lochlan on this...I can scan a lot of it in and make it into a PDF, but where do we hit copyright infringement? The company that published it is long out of business, but did the company that bought it inherit the copyrights? I'll scan the pages of cards, those are essentially ads, so there shouldn't be an issue with them.

Admins, ponder on this, and if you think it's okay, I wll start working on it. Hellluva view of motorsickle culture back in the day. Might even start the argifying about tattooing swastikas again!

[Dan S]

Found some old-ass pix of some early Grande stuff, before it got wrapped up in other work. Pix are so old there's still some red left on the parrot!

[hogg]

Admins, ponder on this, and if you think it's okay, I wll start working on it. Hellluva view of motorsickle culture back in the day. Might even start the argifying about tattooing swastikas again!

Green light from me! And we can head off the swazzi arguments easily with this one. if people don't understand that 1%ers were/are trying to shock and offend, well...there's not much to explain there. :)

[Kev]

Oh hell yes @Dan S!

[Dan S]

Okay Mr. Boss, I will start on it directly!

[Kev]

I'm not a mod though, just wanted to say that sounds cool

[Dan S]

I'm not a mod though, just wanted to say that sounds cool

Hey Carnal, Hogg greenlighted it out front, so it's on him!

It is a trip, at least for me...even got a Brother I used to party with in there.

[Lochlan]

Very cool @Dan S as long as you say what they are and where from I think it should be cool. Like when people put articles up on the site they just have to have the back link to the source.

If you need help you can ask @steve1461686340 or our new community leader who also has tech experience @slayer9019

[Steve]

Very cool @Dan S as long as you say what they are and where from I think it should be cool. Like when people put articles up on the site they just have to have the back link to the source.

If you need help you can ask @steve1461686340 or our new community leader who also has tech experience @slayer9019

This is a public forum, as long as you feel you are complying w/ copyright laws, then you should be ok posting it. if they ask us to take it down - we will comply with their wishes.

[Dan S]

Short attention span and a pain-in-the-ass scanning setup. I'm gonna post the front and back cover, and about 20 pages, and see if y'all think it's worth doing. There are A LOT of pages in the mag, so it may be better if I scanned it into a PDF and gave it to an admin to set-up as a download?

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[bulldog]

@Dan S keep em coming, cool as fuck them pics...;)

[hogg]

Huge thanks, @Dan S! I know that many LSTers will likely look at those images and shudder at the quality of the artwork--I'll admit that I'm not jonesin' to wear a lot of what's shown there--but I still love it and recognize that those folks really paved the way for people like me.

It's funny to look at the relatively small scale of some of those tattoos as compared to the full backpieces/sleeves/suits people get left and right these days, but it's important to remember just how insane that stuff was at the time. And the ladies with face tattoos...my god, I can't even get my head around how nuts that must've been!

And how funny is this? An old friend emailed me last night with a Wild Bill story. He's the guy with the full suit (largely by Ed Hardy) posing with two naked ladies in your third pic down.

Thanks again.

[Androosh]

Huge thanks, @Dan S!

And how funny is this? An old friend emailed me last night with a Wild Bill story. He's the guy with the full suit (largely by Ed Hardy) posing with two naked ladies in your third pic down.

I think Wild Bill has a shop in Roseville.

And yeah, these are a lot of fun to look through. Thanks Dan S.

[jade1955]

No photos but some fascinating posts on this forum re:Bill/Rusty Skuse

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@Dan S Thanks for posting the Easyriders stuff. That backpiece with the horse is fuckin something else.

[jade1955]

The beautiful Rusty Skuse.

[Jake]

keep em coming @Dan S !!!

[slayer9019]

@Dan S that is some seriously cool stuff! Keep 'em coming! Also @hogg @Lochlan as far as public forums (or websites in general) if it is sourced correctly (especially out of print stuff) it should be fine but there is a clause in the laws (USA at least) that LST must comply with the wishes of the copywrite holders to take down anything if they ask. As far as I'm concerned I think this might fall under "fair-use".

[kylegrey]

Cliff Raven doing his best Joe Strummer or vice versa .

[Dan S]

Huge thanks, @Dan S! I know that many LSTers will likely look at those images and shudder at the quality of the artwork--I'll admit that I'm not jonesin' to wear a lot of what's shown there--but I still love it and recognize that those folks really paved the way for people like me.

It's funny to look at the relatively small scale of some of those tattoos as compared to the full backpieces/sleeves/suits people get left and right these days, but it's important to remember just how insane that stuff was at the time. And the ladies with face tattoos...my god, I can't even get my head around how nuts that must've been!

And how funny is this? An old friend emailed me last night with a Wild Bill story. He's the guy with the full suit (largely by Ed Hardy) posing with two naked ladies in your third pic down.

Thanks again.

Glad 'yall are enjoying these...I will try to get another 20 pages up today or tomorrow.

Bikers, sailors, and convicts, ya know?! When I started getting tattooed, that was pretty much the clientele. Oh, not exclusively, but damn near. I remember that CTC had club colors on the wall that they put onto new members of the club-I'm not gonna say which one, but it wasn't a Chicago-based club, and you could usually find a motorsickle or two in the area.

A lot of that work, if you look closely, is prison-made. There is some really excellent stuff given the conditions and equipment. The not-so-good stuff you see? Well, all you gots to do is look at the backpage ad for S&R to explain that!

Anyhow, I guess those times sum up the way I look at my work. It's a testament to places and faces, runs and fun, fights and bad times, just a life lived. If a line isn't perfect, or there's a tiny flaw in the color, well shit, that's life.

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Cliff Raven doing his best Joe Strummer or vice versa .

That's goodie, Kyle! Always got a kick out of "Old Town Tattoo"...if he had called it "in the middle of the ghetto tattoo", no one would have gone near it, but sure nuff, Larrabee n Armitage was a good ways out of Old Town.

[Our Endless Days]

dan s holding it down. this thread is so awesome.

[MadeIndelible]

Painless Tryon by Gus Wagner:

Tommy Stephens by Bert Grimm:

Unknown:

[Kev]

I know it's Frazetta based, but I could see someone like Brooks, Hundahl or Lehi updating this:

Reference (adding the snake would've kicked ass):

Ha-Google is my friend. Hundahl viking tattoo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/headovmetal/3604128128

http://www.flickr.com/photos/headovmetal/3603329651