![]() “Initially it was all original stuff, like dick monsters and pussy flowers, but folks weren't biting at that so much,” the shop’s co-owner Justin Shaw said in a blog post. Faith Tattoo in Santa Rosa, California, is credited as being one of the first shops to start offering the unique tattooing method in the early aughts. If Get What You Get tattoos sound like a joke, they are - sort of. Think: a panther head, a butterfly, a dolphin in space, an 8-ball with a screw through its center, a skull and crossbones atop a heart, or a cartoon devil. The art selection itself varies from shop to shop, but most of the flash tends to be irreverent, silly, or just plain classic. Placement of the tattoos tends to be limited to the arms and legs, with some shops refusing to ink them on specific spots, like the neck or hands. Most of the designs are small-to-medium sized and available either in black-and-white or multi-colored. While the tattoo Gods might be responsible for selecting your flash, it’s the tattoo shop itself that decides what images get put into the lot in the first place. “You leave it up to the tattoo Gods to decide which tattoo you’re going to get.” “It’s like tattoo roulette,” Phil LaRocca, a tattooer at Elm Street Tattoo in Dallas, Texas, told CBS in 2017. If you don’t like the design you’ve randomly chosen, most shops will let you take a do-over for an extra fee. Though vintage gum ball machines are the most popular way of determining Get What You Get tattoos, some shops use wheels of fortune that customers must spin to select their art or cigar boxes with pieces of paper inside for customers to blindly rifle through. ![]() Instead of picking the design (referred to as “flash”) yourself, or having the tattoo artist select it, this method generally involves putting a token into an old vending machine and using whatever random sketch comes out of it as your newest piece of body art. ![]() That’s the thinking behind “Get What You Get” tattoos, a new trend in the tattoo scene that leaves the art one gets inked into their skin entirely up to chance. Ask someone to make the decision for you. ![]() For more of the best music storytelling follow on Instagram or search Double Elvis in your podcast app.But if you’re really having a hard time making up your mind, consider looking outside yourself for an answer. What a happy memory, without which we probably wouldn’t be here together today.įacebook: Creatures is a partner of the Double Elvis podcast network. Then the largest venue in Leicester, The Beatles also played here just after their return from Hamburg in 1963.īet you didn’t know that – we certainly didn’t! Budgie tries to paraphrase and his short-term memory loss gets the better of him.ġ979 – 43 years ago Lol and Budgie first shared a stage, when The Cure and Siouxsie and The Banshees played together at Leicester’s De Montfort Hall in England. Q:3 Eric also asks Lol for his happiest moment in The Cure, Lol talks about the Top and coming to America. We all were in danger of serious wrist injury – but yes, we fell in love. Lol went, Tsch-tsch, Stephen Morris went, ka-ka-ka-ka and Budgie went, Dink-dink & Drooove! Q:2 Eric Vonk asks about the 1980’s synth-drum – did we fall in love? Q:1 Mark C of the Gold Coast asks will Budgie make a Beatboxing debut?īudgie demonstrates the orifice-ial beats to ‘El Dia De Los Muertos’ and ‘Tattoo’.
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