Musician Monday: Doug from The Sleeping and Gramp's House

This installment of Musician Monday features Doug Robinson, lead singer from the rock band <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheSleeping">The Sleeping</a>. I ran into Doug last week in Penn Station and stopped him when I saw all of his tattoos.<br /><br />Doug has had some of his work featured in <i>Tattoo</i> Magazine and is in the current issue of <i><a href="http://www.tattooflash.com/">Tattoo Flash</a></i>, so I was indeed honored when he agreed to share a piece from his right forearm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQZa0SeMOC-Rhgd5gk2dlFpM3lotsBsTGTWecJThkZmwmIrf5Lr6WnIhX6ayP_WHy63-J0M-7cwZ9HoWm3fVSDdaNoF9OxzdjahOaY_PyYQjupYc6WIooOXse6uKXpUg8t9B-gOQSK0IU/s1600/gramps+house.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQZa0SeMOC-Rhgd5gk2dlFpM3lotsBsTGTWecJThkZmwmIrf5Lr6WnIhX6ayP_WHy63-J0M-7cwZ9HoWm3fVSDdaNoF9OxzdjahOaY_PyYQjupYc6WIooOXse6uKXpUg8t9B-gOQSK0IU/s640/gramps+house.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><br />Doug explained that this tattoo is based on a logo created by a friend of his, whose grandfather had passed away and left him his house. Doug's friend, along with Doug and three other guys, lived in the house which they dubbed "Gramp's House." The home was, as Doug told me, "a really important place for all of us," and many of them got this logo tattooed, as a tribute to that special place that they all held near and dear.<br /><br />Doug credited <a href="http://www.sailorjerry.com/tattoos/featured_artist/jelena_nikolic/">Jelena Nikolic</a> from <a href="http://www.lonewolftattoo.com/">Lone Wolf Tattoo</a> in Bellmore, Long Island, with this tattoo.<br /><br />Thanks to Doug for sharing his work with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br />Check out The Sleeping's video for "Don't Hold Back":<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RK-s-HFZtzo" width="500"></iframe><br /><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Musician Monday: Doug from The Sleeping and Gramp's House

This installment of Musician Monday features Doug Robinson, lead singer from the rock band The Sleeping . I ran into Doug last week in Penn ...

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Musician Monday: Sly's Mary Keeps on Burning

Last week, while passing through Penn Station, I ran into Sly, one of the vocalists from an up-and-coming band called <a href="http://www.myspace.com/sloburnband">Sloburn</a>.<br /><br />Sly shared this, one of her seven tattoos:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGPzNOmGIaY3pzvZMtMk-_xnKx-hjcFMyA-_BFrMaKrpmiOY7ejqty9B-gKfaTCE3e3y0ioBghW1o7TYBPzj3lyvRkhG4U9y1f6Zd_XvpkoAOIdUaLrLkR4TRCXFAWcPzoHSC3oeK4kIc/s1600/Sly+Mary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGPzNOmGIaY3pzvZMtMk-_xnKx-hjcFMyA-_BFrMaKrpmiOY7ejqty9B-gKfaTCE3e3y0ioBghW1o7TYBPzj3lyvRkhG4U9y1f6Zd_XvpkoAOIdUaLrLkR4TRCXFAWcPzoHSC3oeK4kIc/s640/Sly+Mary.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><br />Sly explained: <br /><blockquote>"I'm more of a spiritual person. The tattoo is Mary. I'm Catholic, for one thing, but I like wearing rosaries and this is something I don't have to worry about if I forget my rosary. She's always on me. That's one of the reasons I got that, and in commemoration of my mother, who raised me that way too." </blockquote><br />Sly credited the tattoo to <a href="http://blackdiamondtattoostudios.com/About.html">Richie Richardson</a> at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jasons-Mad-Tattery-Tattoo-aka-Jasons-Tattoo-Studio/190968697599316?sk=info">Jason's Mad Tattery</a> in Danville, Virginia.<br /><br />She was in New York with Sloburn to do <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1362832843">The Real Radio Show.</a> Sly joked, it's Sloburn, with NO "w". "Remember," she said, "we took the 'w' out to whup your ass with."<br /><br />Sloburn is a Danville, Virginia band that has been together for about four years. Sly told me that Twisted Sister's management contacted them based on a YouTube video, brought them to New York, and they are hoping to explode on the scene with their brand of, what their Facebook page calls, "redneck metal." <br /><br />Here's a little Sloburn to get your blood flowing on this Musician Monday:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2z4Aabi8LaA" width="480"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1362832843"> </a><br /><a href="http://www.therealradioshow.com/index.php"> </a><br /><br />Thanks to Sly for sharing her cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Musician Monday: Sly's Mary Keeps on Burning

Last week, while passing through Penn Station, I ran into Sly, one of the vocalists from an up-and-coming band called Sloburn . Sly shared t...

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Musician Monday: Ryan from The Disconnects

Here on our second installment of Musician Mondays, we have a rockin', self-explanatory tattoo from Ryan, lead singer and guitarist from an unsigned band called <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/thedisconnects">The Disconnects</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhADI255y1e0MDBXPliznaqJsONgfVtHkWQ6zV2JjCodi7TRpburL_2ZSQisqlkEGKbZLx_Cbo6rLEWK-Va_AJkS1U5JvMYW6L9MDzAhEqq1_08M28ImhJ7SvbCHlFwj3hTYLH9Qzmo45I/s1600/Punk+Rock+Girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhADI255y1e0MDBXPliznaqJsONgfVtHkWQ6zV2JjCodi7TRpburL_2ZSQisqlkEGKbZLx_Cbo6rLEWK-Va_AJkS1U5JvMYW6L9MDzAhEqq1_08M28ImhJ7SvbCHlFwj3hTYLH9Qzmo45I/s640/Punk+Rock+Girl.jpg" width="406" /></a></div><br />From her mohawk to her Doc Martens, this punk rock girl and her "Too Fast to Live, To Young to Die" banner totally capture that raw, rock aesthetic.<br /><br />I met Ryan last month, across the street from where I work, on Seventh Avenue and 31st Street, in Manhattan.<br /><br />The tattoo was inked at <a href="http://www.fatkattat.com/">Fat Kat Tattoos</a> in Keyport, New Jersey. Work from Fat Kat previously appearing on the site can be seen <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Fat%20Kat%20Tattoo">here</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Ryan for sharing his cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}</style> <![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Musician Monday: Ryan from The Disconnects

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Musician Monday: Meaghan Farrell

Over the past several years on Tattoosday, we've run into several musicians in our travels, many of whom have generously shared their tattoos with us. We've decided to post tattoos from these talented folks on the first day of the work week, and call them "Musician Mondays."<br /><br />We got a sneak peek at our first Monday Musician yesterday, as we shared a couple of <a href="http://www.meaghanfarrellmusic.com/">Meaghan Farrell's</a> tattoos in recognition of mother's day. The tattoos she has honoring her grandmother (<a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2011/05/happy-mothers-day-from-tattoosday.html">here</a>) are truly wonderful.<br /><br />I was fortunate to run into Meaghan, who loved sharing her ink with me. Her enthusiasm for body art was evident in her excitement. "My tattoos mean the world to me," she beamed, and added that "there is no greater commitment to art." Considering that a tattoo is a permanent installation on one's body, I totally understood what she meant.<br /><br />Aside from the two of Meghan's tattoos we posted yesterday, she shared a couple of more. Here's a wonderful piece on her left wrist that symbolizes her craft:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZPA2gdV-hYjRxcbOY-nz9VXUu7j8xCAU9CliknVbj5lfSpalu-RbQ0hAU1Llt0J7j8PJuJgcnf8-hwe40nJJF2rVtw-5SRZG8zYofwe1Bzm-t68I04J8J-kZO6QyESgApmLFatx2t-gE/s1600/Meaghans+microphone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZPA2gdV-hYjRxcbOY-nz9VXUu7j8xCAU9CliknVbj5lfSpalu-RbQ0hAU1Llt0J7j8PJuJgcnf8-hwe40nJJF2rVtw-5SRZG8zYofwe1Bzm-t68I04J8J-kZO6QyESgApmLFatx2t-gE/s400/Meaghans+microphone.jpg" width="313" /></a></div><br />Of course the central object in the tattoo is the old-style microphone. As a resident of Queens, she pointed out that the skyline of Manhattan that serves as the tattoo's background is inked from the perspective of her borough, looking west toward the city.<br /><br />Meaghan also shared this stunning monarch butterfly:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUyMLkJ_x5M09ewUs8tWVZKDKRil4IRRrlOdcx480rZQx76MxMmmWr-air21Ske7_i8uLdUWIUTrHW6sgXzm4DMy6HOAQrNaLbr9XiI-nw0S8xavMqoMk2wXEpLdkcoJMMMhxOBivKMq0/s1600/Meaghans+monarch_picnik.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUyMLkJ_x5M09ewUs8tWVZKDKRil4IRRrlOdcx480rZQx76MxMmmWr-air21Ske7_i8uLdUWIUTrHW6sgXzm4DMy6HOAQrNaLbr9XiI-nw0S8xavMqoMk2wXEpLdkcoJMMMhxOBivKMq0/s400/Meaghans+monarch_picnik.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Meaghan explained that the monarch represents her sister, who she spoke of with great admiration. She called her the "matriarch of the family" and acknowledged that she was a solid presence that, despite huge challenges (she was widowed, a single mother, and is now remarried to a man who is wheelchair-bound), she retains the strength and grace of a butterfly.<br /><br />I love how the artist created the shadow below the monarch's wings:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6fDDQG4tUym0lc72HLYBC2MTFHCiJkUMTVN87CeCZI4nlOYNIjnPsJ-Ttb08Ox_o503Vp3YVpTzANr_beE8KQgUS4MOr-wOpeui5IDep_mYVPQmlC2Kdnct3kvukKR0zRdw2BE9hA1X4/s1600/Meaghans+monarch+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6fDDQG4tUym0lc72HLYBC2MTFHCiJkUMTVN87CeCZI4nlOYNIjnPsJ-Ttb08Ox_o503Vp3YVpTzANr_beE8KQgUS4MOr-wOpeui5IDep_mYVPQmlC2Kdnct3kvukKR0zRdw2BE9hA1X4/s400/Meaghans+monarch+detail.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><br />Like the work we saw yesterday, the artist responsible for these tattoos is <a href="http://www.myspace.com/beansink">Mr. Beans</a>, at <a href="http://www.fatcattattoos.com/">Fat Cat Tattoos NYC</a> in Astoria, Queens.<br /><br />Meaghan is a singer and she shared her debut CD, "Waitress," with me and let me tell you, it's a wonderful album. She has a very distinct voice and her songs are well-written and catchy. You can visit her website <a href="http://www.meaghanfarrellmusic.com/">here</a> to listen to her songs and see where you can hear her perform. In fact, she has a show this coming Saturday, May 14th, at the <a href="http://www.ucloungenyc.com/">UC Lounge</a> in New York City.<br /><br />Check out her video for "Lost in My Life":<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="292" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EHNiP3cAZu0" width="460"></iframe><br /><br />Thanks again to Meaghan for sharing her music and tattoos with us here at Tattoosday! <br /><div style="text-align: center;">~</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div>

Musician Monday: Meaghan Farrell

Over the past several years on Tattoosday, we've run into several musicians in our travels, many of whom have generously shared their ta...

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