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TATTOOS Pictures of Slim Jim's tattoos complete with comments from the rhythm rebel himself! |
The following photos were taken in Warrington during the Dead Men Walking 2003 UK tour and are accompanied by a commentary from Jim. So, we'll begin with his first ever tattoo... Photos : Copyright Faith Cowling / SlimJimPhantom.com |
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TEDDY BOY STRAY CAT by BOB ROBERTS |
SLIM JIM'S DRUM KIT by DENNIS COCKELL |
| "Number one was the Teddy Boy Stray Cat. Brian (Setzer) and I went the same day and we kinda drew up the cat's head for Bob Roberts. Brian got the head and I kinda wanted the whole body. We found it (the body) in some magazine; I think it was an English magazine, like a Teddy Boy. So I took the body and put the head on top!" | "Next is my name in the drum kit, the second one I ever got. Dennis Cockell, Finchley Road, London, North W6. That just kinda said it all; I wanted to get a little thing of what I do." |
GIRL STRAY CAT by BOB ROBERTS (position: right forearm)  |
EAGLE WITH SKULL by DENNIS COCKELL (position: right arm above elbow)  |
"The next one I got was the girl Stray Cat... blonde. The Teddy Boy Stray Cat needed a mate so I got the Teddy Girl!" |
"The next few are just kinda off the wall; eagle with skull, snake and shark, which I got done all pretty much the same time, not the same day but around the same time. I wanted some flash, Sailor Jerry type stuff off the wall from Dennis." |
SNAKE by DENNIS COCKELL (position: right shoulder)  |
SHARK by DENNIS COCKELL (position: left shoulder)  |
FLOWERS by LUKE ATKINSON (position: right shoulder blade)  |
TAHITIAN GOD OF THE SEA (position: left shoulder blade)  |
"The flowers I got done in a hotel room in Japan by an English guy named Luke Atkinson. Brian (Setzer) and I both got tattooed, he came to our hotel room, he was on a work-holiday kinda thing in Tokyo. The guy came to our hotel room with all the stuff and tattooed us. That was about '92 I think, maybe '90, I don't know, we went to Japan a bunch of times!" |
Jim: "This was done when I was in Tahiti. It's the Tahitian god of the sea, although it looks a bit like a monkey, it's actually the Tahitian god of the sea which I had done by hand, no electricity. I was on vacation in Tahiti, I rode a bicycle into the woods and found a village and I sat on a log and they just did it with ink. The guy who did it took a coconut and shaved off part of the stalk, then took a couple of sewing needles, three or four sewing needles, and wrapped it with thread and made like a quill pen. So it was just ink and by hand, took like 4 hours." |
COL. PARKER LOGO by JEFF SHEA (position: middle lower back)  |
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"My Spring break tattoo. It's the logo that Gilby Clarke and myself used for Col. Parker. We were in Detroit on tour. A guy named Jeff Shea (very good tattooist, very good guy in Detroit, Electric Banana Tattoo Studios) had made a bet with the local journalist that I was the guy in the Slim Jim beef stick commercials, of course I wasn't, I wish I was but I wasn't and since he lost the bet he said he would give the whole band a tattoo. So Gilby Clarke, Muddy Stardust and myself we all got the same tattoo." |
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