Anyone out there have a DBT tattoo??

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I'm really thinking about getting me a Drive-By Truckers tattoo as i dig Wes Freeds art in a big way, and of course because its Drive-By Truckers!

Kinda thinkin about have the monkey riding the Mike Cooley bird on the TBTD front cover, in colour too of course.

Give me a shout, im interested to hear if anyone here has one and which one do you have?

Any pics?
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I have to say, I think it's a bad idea to have a monkey permanently etched on your skin.
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one belt loop wrote:I have to say, I think it's a bad idea to have a monkey permanently etched on your skin.


was it such a bad idea to have it drawn in the 1st place? i still want the monkey!
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Zip City wrote:we had a topic about this on the old board.

I don't have any tattoos, but just the plain Cooley Bird would be pretty rad


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one belt loop wrote:I have to say, I think it's a bad idea to have a monkey permanently etched on your skin.


I want it on my right shoulder blade
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"The Big To Do" across the stomach like Tupac's "Thug Life". :D
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bovine knievel wrote:"The Big To Do" across the stomach like Tupac's "Thug Life". :D


my best friend was seriously going to get "A World Of Hurt" across his stomach like that - he's got "the dirty south" on his arm (for DBT) - he got it in county and it's horrible
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I have the Cooley Bird. The one enclosed in the circle. Got it about 3 months ago... my first and likely last. I love it and all it represents.
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DragthelakeMike wrote:I'm really thinking about getting me a Drive-By Truckers tattoo as i dig Wes Freeds art in a big way, and of course because its Drive-By Truckers!

Kinda thinkin about have the monkey riding the Mike Cooley bird on the TBTD front cover, in colour too of course.

Give me a shout, im interested to hear if anyone here has one and which one do you have?

Any pics?


I've got kind of a combination of the front cover art with the cover of the Big To-Do book. Here's a pic from when it was fresh:

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I kinda have a thing for the Cooley Bird & Wes Freed...

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Ding Ding Ding!! We have a winner! Roland, love the tattoos.
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roland wrote:Image


They're all great, but this one is especially fantastic.

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^^^ I'd have to agree. WOW!
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im getting the cooley bird on the inside of my forearm in a couple of weeks

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Very f**kin cool roland!!! alot of inspiration has been drummed into my head now, thanks for all the pictures and replies!
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Jonicont wrote:http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31024626&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=8650121725&aid=-1&id=1373924356



me like this!! bet that cost a bit haha.
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Thanks, y'all!

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Roland, you don't fuck around do you?
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I have 6, but I have to agree a monkey eh...

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Image


i don't know...
i see some definite tattoo potential

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come on! it's a monkey riding a cooley bird holding a top hat!

that you dont see everyday.
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Of course I have a DBT tattoo...

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My wife has the cooley bird from the back cover of BTCD on her back and I have one of the flying cars from an older wes freed dbt tour poster on my ribs.

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finally got this one today. So happy

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lajakesdad wrote:Image

That's fucking sick!

:mrgreen:

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DragthelakeMike wrote:come on! it's a monkey riding a cooley bird holding a top hat!

that you dont see everyday.


I work in Back Bay in Boston, trust me a monkey riding a bird is something you can see at anytime around here!!!! Never mind when the circus is in town!!!!
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I thought it was time we brought this thread back, mainly because I wanted to show off my ink.

Outline:

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Halfway done:

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Full color:

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My ink guy told me he could make the Cooley Bird darker if I wanted it, but he (and I) thought it looked good with those colors. I was originally also going to get the band name, but decided to leave it at the quote.

When I was showing this to some folks I met at the rock show in Atlanta, they said they also had some DBT ink. Love to see more on here!

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That's awesome, Kev! Anyone else got any new stuff? I've got an all day booked for June 5th to get my whole forearm done (hopefully) and finish 90% of my left arm sleeve of Freed. Pics to come.

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Can't wait to see it, Roland! Your tats are an inspiration!

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I just got a Cooleybird - like the current sticker on tour while I was down in Athens...it was the place next to the 40 Watt...my first ink ever, DBT and in Athens, I'm from Iowa...went to the two Patterson shows and then DBT, wow, I had a good time!
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