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So who else could have done without that half time show?
Atleast we have a BUNCH of new submissions, log on today and vote for your favorites! I just wish we could have voted on who performed at half time......
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- What's everybody bitchin' about... I have had a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol Love you all...
- You got that right
More snow.....more ice.......this ain't nice!
We're looking to hit the Mass Tattoo and Art Festival up in Sturbridge this coming March! So make sure you swing by the booth and say WHAT UP! We have some new shirts and a LOT of freebie deals coming so DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW! Follow the link for details and WE WILL SEE YOU THERE!
I don't know how many of you are from the Connecticut area but DAMN!!!!!!!!!! Almost all of our highwats are closed and the snow was just insane! Don't worry though, NOTHING is stopping us from getting to the Am-Jam tommorow! Follow the link for all the info on the 25th Anniversary of the convention! http://am-jam.com/
The countdown to the AM-JAM BEGINS! This coming Friday up in Liverpool NY at the Holiday Inn. Special pricing just for this convention and three new shirts! More to come..........STAY TUNED!
Apparently no one wants $500.............I find that hard to believe peoples. You know you have some stuff laying around so why not put it to good use? Free advertising for your art and a chance to win loot! Sounds like a win win to me! YOU CAN DO IT!
We want to see your stuff and maybe, just maybe, PAY YOU $500! You can't win if you don't submit a design! Three new, real members, are about to be announced and guess what? THEY ALL WON $500! WANT TO BE NEXT? Click here and submit! http://www.tatshirts.com/subterms.php
Well, my team fought a good fight but in the end they blew it. DAMN YOU RAVENS! Atleast the Pats lost too I guess. Enough about me, WE WANT YOU TO TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO SIGN UP! I want another 100 people before the Super Bowl. WE CAN DO THIS!
That's right party people, our spot is booked for the upcoming 25th Annual AM-JAM Tattoo Convention! Click here for all the details http://am-jam.com/ and I BETTER SEE YOU ALL THERE! We have SPECIAL PRICING for this convention ONLY in honor of thier amazing 25 year celebration! DON'T MISS OUT!
We have some new submission on the site so now it's your turn! Log on and vote for your favorites! The artists on the site need you so HELP THEM OUT....VOTE!
We have a couple going on ALL the time. First the $500 Design Contest and second the Tattoo Contest where the winners get $100 toward thier next tattoo! It's all 100% FREE to enter so do not delay!
I can't believe all the artists who are passing on this great design contest. $500 is just sitting here waiting for you! All you need to do is enter! I know you have stuff laying around. Get your work, and free advertising I may add, published for the entire world to see! NOW IS YOUR CHANCE AND IT'S FREE!
We have more money to give away and we want it to be you who gets it! Scan your designs and enter our contest for your chance to win! YOU CAN DOOOOO IT!
I know you artists out there have a bunch of artwork just laying around collecting dust. I think it's time you start scanning those pieces and enter them into our design contest! That one design you've had for years could win you $500! We've given out thousands of dollars and we have more to give away! WHY NOT YOU DAMMIT! YOU DESERVE IT!
OMG! Wait till you see what we have coming your way! I am so freakin excited! Coming sooooooooooonnnnnnnn! HA! WHOOT!
Sorry i haven't been around for a bit! Holidays + new job = HOLY BUSY BATMAN! So I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and I hope you all have a very safe and Happy New Year! We have some new stuff coming your way so check Tatshirts.com often in the next couple of weeks. We think you're gonna like what we have in store! LATER PEOPLES!
Front hub assembly went on the truck. $86 for the part $100 labor. Fixed right? NOPE! The one I replaced last year was the one that is shot. $86 for the part again, not sure about labor. If you're keeping track that's $272 in a day. Looks like a few people aren't getting X-mas presents this year. GREAT STINKING TIMING MURPHY! Jerk.
On a lighter note...............sorry don't have one. Anyone else with Holiday horror stories? I'd love to hear them right now..
I'm thinking we start a four day work week revolution. I'm down for a few 10 hour days in a row to eliminate Mondays. I don't mind working Fridays so much, at least you have happy hour to look forward to ya know? Mondays I could do without.
So enough of my bitchin. Here's what's happening at Tatshirts.com. The online tattoo contest is still up and we have a couple months left to enter and rack up some votes. The design contest is still going strong but we need more votes on the current designs! We can't pick winners without the community's help! The blog is rocking it and we actually have some good content! I know right? Who'd a thought that Bigsteve could write? Not me man...... Swing by the site, tell your friends, tell your artists, shit tell the world to get involved! Have a great Thursday all.........
I thought this was VERY interesting seeing that I too rock on both my legs a tribute to The Misfits! Originally written by Nick Lucchesi, this is a great read. ENJOY!
Personally, it's been the "One Bad Album" rule. That's all it takes for a band's musical reputation to be asterisked forever, which makes getting a tattoo of that band, well, risky. You have to wonder how often thirty-somethings across the land hear "Nice Chi' Pep's tat brah," sarcastically said to them by a stranger, regarding the ink they received during a black-out trip to a Daytona Beach tattoo parlor during Spring Break '92.
With the median age the Stones' largest fan group inching toward their seventies, the number of tattoos by Stones fans is significantly smaller than say, ICP fans. But like the band's music, Rolling Stones tattoos are kind of timeless, which puts them at Number 20 on our list.
19. The Descendents
Many of the bands on this list seem to come from the punk scene, which is explained by a few things: 1) The age of that scenes fans (maxes out at about 55) and 2) the rebellious nature, an attitude with which tattoos have been sleeping with since before Joey Ramone first copped dope. The Descendents iconic "Milo" logo -- or a personalized variation of it -- has been spotted on forearms from coast to coast since the mid '80s, when the band really came into popularity. The band's resurgence and reunion tours only helped keep the tattoo guns buzzing.
18. Hot Water Music
The fire-over-water logo is another symbol frequently spotted around rock shows. Like all the bands on this list, Hot Water Music inspires a dedicated -- cult, even? -- following among its fans, inspiring new bands that sound like HWM and a hot sea of tattoos.
17. Led Zeppelin
The original heavy metal band (debate below in the comments), Led Zeppelin's rumored dabbling in the occult only helped its cult status among fans. Also, Led Zep has so many cool logos (see above), there's plenty from which to choose if you're looking to make a statement about your outlook on life, as well as your favorite choice in music. Also, the fact they hardly released a bad record, or even song, makes a Zepplin tattoo a safe choice. An Alison Krauss and Robert Plant tattoo? No so much.
16. Type O Negative
Longevity and a commitment to a particular sound -- usually based around the a solid line-up -- plus an iconic logo will result in more than a few tattoos. That's the case with Brooklyn-founded Type O Negative, founded by the late, great Peter Steele (RIP). Any big metal show in the country should include a few Type O tattoos; if it doesn't, you may want to question your taste in mainstream metal, because as that style goes, it's hard to top Type O.
15. KISS
Paradoxically standing in both cult territory and a state filled with grossly commercial success, KISS were Lady Gaga before Lady Gaga, Madonna before Madonna or Metallica before Metallica. Hell, they practically coined the term "army" after their name. As such, members of the KISS Army march forward, led by their vile general Gene Simmons. If these fans are going to go out in public dressed like Peter Criss, then getting inked for the good of the Army is pretty easy. You don't see too many KISS tattoos these days, but the ones you do see are usually huge. Because with KISS, you don't do anything small.
14. Alkaline Trio
The sons and daughters of KISS fans may scoff and their elder's ink while confidently looking at their own band tattoo. That band tattoo often is the logo of Chicago-based second-wave emo punks Alkaline Trio. The skull-in-heart logo has been put on stickers, shirts and record covers, and extended to skin. It's iconic and deep, love and death and all that.
13. Operation Ivy
With the popularity of Bay Area punks Rancid in the mid '90s came renewed interest in Operation Ivy, a band that had two members of Rancid. In comparison with early Rancid material, "Op Ivy" songs, while less structured and raw, resonated with fans of the sound. The political "message songs" only compelled fans to get tattoos of the band.
12. Radiohead
Radiohead has a cult following, but the band's introverted style isn't one that always jibes with the run-out-and-get-tattooed crowd. Still, you'll spot a Radiohead tattoo at mainstream music festivals like Coachella and Bonnaroo, and on undergrads at college campuses, of course, who just downloaded The Bends and whose minds have changed forever -- or at least a semester.
11. Phish
Phish's heyday in the late '90s was a time when you could spot a Phish tattoo on any guy or girl involved in a sweaty, quick-moving game of hacky sack. It was a time of small, inconspicuous -- cute, even -- tattoos, when rainbow-colored dolphins swimming around a full moon were also aplenty. There's no need to explore the dedication of fans who live by the music of Trey Anastasio and Co. This is Denver after all. Phish tattoos today are tougher to spot in certain areas of the country, but still exist in the wild.
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers
Yes, the Chi' Peps. A timeless band, forever hip, forever cool among early twenty-somethings. RHCP is in a select group with bands like Rage Against the Machine and 311, who will be as omnipresent in college dorm rooms as Scarface posters. But like Phish, their stock is dwindling as the growth of new fans slows and gives way to dubstep and the neo-folk of bands like My Morning Jacket. The kinship it shares with other bands on this list is getting that RHCP star logo on your wrist or shoulder blade at one point meant a few things: You were easy-going, a free-thinker and prone to getting funky.
9. Misfits
Probably the cult punk band in terms of size of the fan-base. While the Misfits have sold a truckloads of merch over the last thirty years (even bringing their own screens on tour in the early days to screenprint the iconic Crimson Ghost logo on leather jackets), the Misfits tattoo has been spotted on frontmen of bands punk and metal, and on fans of all styles.
8. Slayer
The eye-brow raising imagery in Slayer lyrics and its artwork brought up conversations about the band's social leanings (read: Third Reich), which is enough to make some folks run out and get a tattoo right away. But the real reason you see so many Slayer tattoos? The innovative thrashing which Slayer recorded on records like Reign in Blood and Hell Awaits. The simplicity of the name and again, that army-style logo, helps. Finally, listening to the wail of singer Tom Araya during the opening of "Angel of Death" alone may be enough. That's probably the best thing to say, you like the singer's voice. Just avoid the controversy.
7. Green Day
Most often spotted was the original logo as seen on the Kerplunk record, but as of late -- a new generation of fans, perhaps -- is the American Idiot heart-shaped grenade. Green Day fans of the American Idiot era who were sixteen in 2004 are now 22, prime age for getting a tattoo, according to Pew.
6. Motörhead
"Lemmy is God." That line is the most-remembered thing (not just line, but thing) about the movie Airheads, and with good reason. The frontman of Motörhead is badass incarnate, and Motörhead hasn't fucked with the formula of New Wave British Heavy Metal much in since forming in 1975. Getting a Motörhead tattoo is a safe bet, and Lemmy's lyrics about the grimy universe in which Motörhead resides ooze attitude, another reason you see so many Motörhead tattoos.
5. Sublime
The death of a singer Bradley Nowell in May 1996 -- just a month before the band's incredible self-titled third album was released -- made Sublime a cult band before they made it big. The California lifestyle espoused by Nowell -- surfing, pot and politics -- on Sublime records mushroomed into a lifestyle for teens in the South, Middle America and the East Coast. There was zero chance of the band putting out a bad album.
4. Social Distortion
SoCal punk rockers/outlaws/proud scumbags Social Distortion have the key tattoo elements going for them: iconic logo, lifestyle lyrics and a kinship among fans. At any given Social D show, you'll spot at least a dozen tattoos by the long-running band.
3. Insane Clown Posse
Since going to a major label in 1995, ICP and its growing army of Juggalos with Hatchet Man tattoos is this era's best example of a musical group with a cult following. By just showing off your hatchet man tattoo, you're accepted into the largest gang of self-described outcasts, the Juggalos. You could write an entire magazine story on being a Juggalo, but we're going to move on because others have already done it.
2. Black Flag
Probably the most famous punk-oriented tattoo, the Black Flag bars were first and most famously sported by the band's most popular -- if not best -- lead singer, Henry Rollins. Since getting that tattoo and wearing it on flimsy club stages across America in the '80s, the Black Flag bars have been customized by fans, filled with the colors of a city's flag, surrounded by other artwork and even sported by Academy Award nominees.
1. Iron Maiden
Perhaps the most iconic metal band if only for its iconic Eddie character, Iron Maiden's rise to fame in the '80s -- and again this decade -- shows that its fans are loyal at both the record store and in the tattoo parlor.
http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2010/12/20_bands_that_inspire_tattoos_among_fans.php
Personally, it's been the "One Bad Album" rule. That's all it takes for a band's musical reputation to be asterisked forever, which makes getting a tattoo of that band, well, risky. You have to wonder how often thirty-somethings across the land hear "Nice Chi' Pep's tat brah," sarcastically said to them by a stranger, regarding the ink they received during a black-out trip to a Daytona Beach tattoo parlor during Spring Break '92.
That scenario will and should keep anybody from getting tattooed with the logo (or God forbid, lead singer's face) on their skin for the rest of their life. But don't tell that to some fans, who wear their ink as a badge of honor.
It's true, some bands inspire tattoos more than others -- evidenced by the utter lack of Third Eye Blind tattoos -- and based on highly scientific research conducted in bars, dimly lit clubs and arena parking lots, are the 20 bands that most inspire tattoos among their fans.
20. The Rolling StonesWith the median age the Stones' largest fan group inching toward their seventies, the number of tattoos by Stones fans is significantly smaller than say, ICP fans. But like the band's music, Rolling Stones tattoos are kind of timeless, which puts them at Number 20 on our list.
19. The Descendents
Many of the bands on this list seem to come from the punk scene, which is explained by a few things: 1) The age of that scenes fans (maxes out at about 55) and 2) the rebellious nature, an attitude with which tattoos have been sleeping with since before Joey Ramone first copped dope. The Descendents iconic "Milo" logo -- or a personalized variation of it -- has been spotted on forearms from coast to coast since the mid '80s, when the band really came into popularity. The band's resurgence and reunion tours only helped keep the tattoo guns buzzing.
18. Hot Water Music
The fire-over-water logo is another symbol frequently spotted around rock shows. Like all the bands on this list, Hot Water Music inspires a dedicated -- cult, even? -- following among its fans, inspiring new bands that sound like HWM and a hot sea of tattoos.
17. Led Zeppelin
The original heavy metal band (debate below in the comments), Led Zeppelin's rumored dabbling in the occult only helped its cult status among fans. Also, Led Zep has so many cool logos (see above), there's plenty from which to choose if you're looking to make a statement about your outlook on life, as well as your favorite choice in music. Also, the fact they hardly released a bad record, or even song, makes a Zepplin tattoo a safe choice. An Alison Krauss and Robert Plant tattoo? No so much.
16. Type O Negative
Longevity and a commitment to a particular sound -- usually based around the a solid line-up -- plus an iconic logo will result in more than a few tattoos. That's the case with Brooklyn-founded Type O Negative, founded by the late, great Peter Steele (RIP). Any big metal show in the country should include a few Type O tattoos; if it doesn't, you may want to question your taste in mainstream metal, because as that style goes, it's hard to top Type O.
15. KISS
Paradoxically standing in both cult territory and a state filled with grossly commercial success, KISS were Lady Gaga before Lady Gaga, Madonna before Madonna or Metallica before Metallica. Hell, they practically coined the term "army" after their name. As such, members of the KISS Army march forward, led by their vile general Gene Simmons. If these fans are going to go out in public dressed like Peter Criss, then getting inked for the good of the Army is pretty easy. You don't see too many KISS tattoos these days, but the ones you do see are usually huge. Because with KISS, you don't do anything small.
14. Alkaline Trio
The sons and daughters of KISS fans may scoff and their elder's ink while confidently looking at their own band tattoo. That band tattoo often is the logo of Chicago-based second-wave emo punks Alkaline Trio. The skull-in-heart logo has been put on stickers, shirts and record covers, and extended to skin. It's iconic and deep, love and death and all that.
13. Operation Ivy
With the popularity of Bay Area punks Rancid in the mid '90s came renewed interest in Operation Ivy, a band that had two members of Rancid. In comparison with early Rancid material, "Op Ivy" songs, while less structured and raw, resonated with fans of the sound. The political "message songs" only compelled fans to get tattoos of the band.
12. Radiohead
Radiohead has a cult following, but the band's introverted style isn't one that always jibes with the run-out-and-get-tattooed crowd. Still, you'll spot a Radiohead tattoo at mainstream music festivals like Coachella and Bonnaroo, and on undergrads at college campuses, of course, who just downloaded The Bends and whose minds have changed forever -- or at least a semester.
11. Phish
Phish's heyday in the late '90s was a time when you could spot a Phish tattoo on any guy or girl involved in a sweaty, quick-moving game of hacky sack. It was a time of small, inconspicuous -- cute, even -- tattoos, when rainbow-colored dolphins swimming around a full moon were also aplenty. There's no need to explore the dedication of fans who live by the music of Trey Anastasio and Co. This is Denver after all. Phish tattoos today are tougher to spot in certain areas of the country, but still exist in the wild.
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers
Yes, the Chi' Peps. A timeless band, forever hip, forever cool among early twenty-somethings. RHCP is in a select group with bands like Rage Against the Machine and 311, who will be as omnipresent in college dorm rooms as Scarface posters. But like Phish, their stock is dwindling as the growth of new fans slows and gives way to dubstep and the neo-folk of bands like My Morning Jacket. The kinship it shares with other bands on this list is getting that RHCP star logo on your wrist or shoulder blade at one point meant a few things: You were easy-going, a free-thinker and prone to getting funky.
9. Misfits
Probably the cult punk band in terms of size of the fan-base. While the Misfits have sold a truckloads of merch over the last thirty years (even bringing their own screens on tour in the early days to screenprint the iconic Crimson Ghost logo on leather jackets), the Misfits tattoo has been spotted on frontmen of bands punk and metal, and on fans of all styles.
8. Slayer
The eye-brow raising imagery in Slayer lyrics and its artwork brought up conversations about the band's social leanings (read: Third Reich), which is enough to make some folks run out and get a tattoo right away. But the real reason you see so many Slayer tattoos? The innovative thrashing which Slayer recorded on records like Reign in Blood and Hell Awaits. The simplicity of the name and again, that army-style logo, helps. Finally, listening to the wail of singer Tom Araya during the opening of "Angel of Death" alone may be enough. That's probably the best thing to say, you like the singer's voice. Just avoid the controversy.
7. Green Day
Most often spotted was the original logo as seen on the Kerplunk record, but as of late -- a new generation of fans, perhaps -- is the American Idiot heart-shaped grenade. Green Day fans of the American Idiot era who were sixteen in 2004 are now 22, prime age for getting a tattoo, according to Pew.
6. Motörhead
"Lemmy is God." That line is the most-remembered thing (not just line, but thing) about the movie Airheads, and with good reason. The frontman of Motörhead is badass incarnate, and Motörhead hasn't fucked with the formula of New Wave British Heavy Metal much in since forming in 1975. Getting a Motörhead tattoo is a safe bet, and Lemmy's lyrics about the grimy universe in which Motörhead resides ooze attitude, another reason you see so many Motörhead tattoos.
5. Sublime
The death of a singer Bradley Nowell in May 1996 -- just a month before the band's incredible self-titled third album was released -- made Sublime a cult band before they made it big. The California lifestyle espoused by Nowell -- surfing, pot and politics -- on Sublime records mushroomed into a lifestyle for teens in the South, Middle America and the East Coast. There was zero chance of the band putting out a bad album.
4. Social Distortion
SoCal punk rockers/outlaws/proud scumbags Social Distortion have the key tattoo elements going for them: iconic logo, lifestyle lyrics and a kinship among fans. At any given Social D show, you'll spot at least a dozen tattoos by the long-running band.
3. Insane Clown Posse
Since going to a major label in 1995, ICP and its growing army of Juggalos with Hatchet Man tattoos is this era's best example of a musical group with a cult following. By just showing off your hatchet man tattoo, you're accepted into the largest gang of self-described outcasts, the Juggalos. You could write an entire magazine story on being a Juggalo, but we're going to move on because others have already done it.
2. Black Flag
Probably the most famous punk-oriented tattoo, the Black Flag bars were first and most famously sported by the band's most popular -- if not best -- lead singer, Henry Rollins. Since getting that tattoo and wearing it on flimsy club stages across America in the '80s, the Black Flag bars have been customized by fans, filled with the colors of a city's flag, surrounded by other artwork and even sported by Academy Award nominees.
1. Iron Maiden
Perhaps the most iconic metal band if only for its iconic Eddie character, Iron Maiden's rise to fame in the '80s -- and again this decade -- shows that its fans are loyal at both the record store and in the tattoo parlor.
http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2010/12/20_bands_that_inspire_tattoos_among_fans.php
I love this time of year! Hot chocolate, snowball fights, Christmas lights, chest colds, body aches, chest full of flem, you know, all the wonders of the Holiday Season. Whatever. Here's hoping the rest of you don't end up sicker than a dog. Tattoo contest is still up too! Take some shots of your pieces and enter the contest, you could win $100 towards your next tattoo! LATERS!
Booked our spots at the 25th annual AM-JAM! Click here for info http://www.am-jam.com/. This year is going to be HUGE! Come by the booth to see our special AM-JAM pricing, DEALS GALORE! My boy OsirisOrion will be chillin with me all weekend so make your way over, you won't regret it!
Also hittin the Misfits show in Hartford CT tonight! If you're in the area you should go. They put on a hell of a show! LATERS!
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