Dan S
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Seems that Photobucket doesn't like some of thse old pix I've been putting up, don't know if someone complained, or they just have some old bluenose that sniffs through everyone's stuff to find a pic of a nipple, but anyhow, here are retouched pix to replace those that have been, or may be, taken down by PB. Sorry if they make some duplicates, but if they are still there in a few weeks, or whenever, hey, take 'em down!
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But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Sorry...couldn't help myself!!! Welcome to LST, and most definitely can't wait to see your gallery! Hope you find plenty to interest you, and enjoy your stay.
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A long and far-reaching career! Thanks for joining LST, I'll look forward to seeing your work and reading your posts, and I'm sure I'm not the only one!
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Hi Sammy, welcome to LST. Where are you posting from???
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I'm a lightweight, only been worked on by a coupla people. Me. I did a shitload of hand-tattooing on myself at a MUCH younger age, now all but one piece safely covered. Some of it was pretty decent, but nothing says jailhouse like jailhouse tattoos! Dale Grande. Dale did quite a bit of work on me. Mark Miller. Apprentice of Dale Grandes, did one piece on my arm. Miles Maniaci, also worked for Dale Grande, did a full sleeve on one arm. Nick Colella, multiple pieces and more on the way.
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Dale Grande-multiple Miles Maniaci-multiple Nick Collela-multiple. Myself, multiple, all but one now safely covered-up!
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If you draw them, and you give someone else in your shop your drawing to do the tattooing, is that a Squid Pro Quo?!?!?!?! - - - Updated - - - Hate to tell ya this, but records have been called vinyl's ever since they were the hi-tech ticket. I wouldn't say, "my inks", but I would say "my ink". I imagine that's a prime no-no, but it was/is common usage in the Chicago area.
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Excellent tighty-whiteys! Had to have been taken in Japan...they had some truly brutal censorship laws there. A shame, that's a truly Kool pic...I'da loved to have seen more of them.
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If he wasn't fighting a case right now, I'd put up some pics of one of my Brothers work. Castles with turrets for years, webs around his elbows n armpits, walls with searchlights, the whole nine-yards. Boy did ten the hard way in the 'ville here in Illinois. Not a nice place.
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Got my right arm done around a few existing pieces, and covering up a few others. Layout and outline took 6.5 hours, and then did 2 more 6 hour sessions and one of about 3.5 hours. Lots and lots of shading and changing color gradients. I took maybe two weeks in-between sessions to let everything cool off and settle in. I believe for a really large piece you're better off at least letting the outline heal before doing the color, but that's just me.
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I hear the owner is actually a pretty decent guy, so yeah, I will probably swing by. Just kinda set my teeth on edge when I read the article he was interviewed for in the Reader. Hear tell it's not really your typical shop, more like a "salon" where you can get a tattoo.
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Damn...things are getting bad when even old slang get forgotten. A "pogue" is a very weak, sissified, stupid person, and was used as a pretty serious insult. "Pogy-bait" was candy or other treats used to lure a young pogue into a situation where he would be exploited.
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Well, won't be Thursday...I have to be in the Loop at 9.30 & nick doesn't get in till 16.00...I'll try for next week, or maybe go in on Saturday to check out the BBQ show around the corner.
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I hear that... Stopping in to see Nick about a fairly large piece on my left arm Thursday.
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Is this guys name really POGUE?!?!?!?!?!? Any of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children here to comment on that??????
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Might have to stop in and take a look...I'd be especially interested to hear how tattooing has been "in the dark ages" in Chicago until this gentleman with eight years of experience opened his doors. Guess it's easy to get carried away when someone is taping you!
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Hey, I'm old, so I've got old-skool (did I just piss someone off with that k?) about things...times have changed so much in the last few decades, and so much has found it's way into the popular culture, that I doubt work like that would cause you any hassle. Unless you do it with a machine made from a tape-player and a bic pen, and use india ink!!!
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Ah, the bad old days! Ya know, if you aren't as ancient as I am, you probably wouldn't notice, but a LOT of the tattoos are copies of artwork, especially Dave Mann stuff, that appeared in Easyriders in the early years.
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I do believe he did, but the connotation of doing time goes back long before Lyle was a dirty thought in his daddy's head! Spiderwebs, brick walls, towers, empty clock faces, bars, all that type of thing, they've been around as convict tattoos for way longer than any of us have. When I was a shorty, there was an old guy in the 'hood, must have been in his eighties, and he was pretty well covered in jailhouse. He had done time in the old Joliet back in the twenties...lots of time. Bad, bad, bad place...spend ten or twenty years there, and mark yourself as a dues-paying member, you might be inclined to do something anti-social to a kid wearing what you view as a badge of honor.
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Webs have nothing whatever to do with the Brand, or with ANY racist organization inside. They are strictly a mark of doing a bit. I've seen 'em on cons of all colors. It's probably just an old-time attitude, but whenever I see a college kid with a web tattooed on his elbow, all I can think of is "best to ALWAYS keep a few C-notes tucked in your wallet just in case"! Personally, I think it's lame and dangerous to start trying to use symbology owned by a group of people who earned it the hard way...they tend to get a little testy about it at times. - - - Updated - - - What people freeside call "racism", cons call survival. It's easy to be all welcoming and inclusive when you aren't being threatened with extortion, rape, and death on an hourly basis. Cons join cliques because of that, not because they are "racist".
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Intersting. Tatts Thomas would explain a lot...her work looks somehow older than it is, and Tatts had been workign for a looooong time by the mid-fifties. I imagine she would have only been able to see him, tho', if what I've read about her is correct, she didn't start getting tattoed until the early sixties. I think it's the placement of the pieces that makes me think the work is older looking, that and the type of pieces. Gonna hafta try and dig up some more pix of her-what a trip!
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Might get a minor chuckle out of this one...
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Excellent shots, Kyle. Do you think that the styles have "evened-out" betwixt the States and England? I mean, I know those are older pix, but they look more like pix from the States from maybe the late fifties, and Rusty started getting work in what, 61 or 62?
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Yeah...bout the time you get to the bottom of your foot!