Tattoos on a theme: Rock’n’roll, the words.

Certainly tattoos and music go hand in hand, and every time I update there are band logos, portraits, song quotes, and other musical tattoos. But rock’n’roll is more than just a catalog of sounds — it’s a philosophy, and sometimes people choose to simply declare their affiliation to music as a whole… thus this mini-gallery of declarative rock’n’roll word tattoos!

Oops… dunno how that last one slipped in there…

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“This is a snakeskin jacket, and for me it represents
a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom.”

Assorted Trivia

Looks like the power outage in Los Angeles may have temporarily knocked Needled offline, so I guess the pressure is on me to make sure you have something to look at. How about this puzzle-piece picture of a skin removal that the “owner” had framed… two pieces of art for the price of one!

That piece is on/off BigDaddyIsaac in Oregon.

Then there’s VeganJarret… he really, and I mean really likes Star Wars. It’s certainly not unusual for me to see Star Wars themed tattoos, but it is very unusual to actually see the movie titles tattooed (done by Kris Roberts at Electra Art Tattoos in Corpus Cristi, Texas).

Speaking of tattoos that are unusual in theme or nature, while I do see “I love (whoever)” type stuff all the time, it’s not so common to see the opposite, so I was kind of surprised to see this “I DON’T LIKE JENN” tattoo… Perhaps it’s a clever pop culture reference, but if it is, it’s going over my head.

That said, it’s no I’M GONNA KILL YOU, RAY ROMANO. That one wins hands down.

Goofball Tattoos

I like tattoos that make me laugh. On the left are Solanum‘s mexillant tattoos (signifying his profound love for burritos), done by Brett at PURE (NYC), and on the right is John’s tattoo done at Delicious Ink in Rockford, IL — he would like everyone to know that he is “very afraid of spiders”. Maybe that’s not really funny in and of itself, but that someone would be so petrified that they’d put a WARNING: NO SPIDERS logo on their arm cracks me up.