Black Flag Bars in all their glory

throwing your own spin on the Bars - c/d?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/103699548_6270730420.jpg

leg tattoos on dudes are only acceptable if you've completely run out of skin between neck and waist
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/74/224804025_8f4eac36a9.jpg

still the only tattoo i want. love the red and black combination...

foot tattoo appropriately hardcore - also semi-vertical when she wears heels

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/31/42492773_942142f4d9.jpg

two on one arm - at least Henry understands why he's still semi-relevant
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/33/64407242_5c30b98d9d.jpg

note Bars #3 above a massive Bad Idea tattoo
http://www.the7thhouse.com/tmagic7.jpg

speechless, I am fucking speechless
http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif
if that doesn't work, http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

check that shit out

Pictures of Lancealot to thread.

celebrities with the bars, pictures unfound:
Ed Norton
Ryan Adams

ed norton?

ladies, these make an excellent accessory to any shoe

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1015/536773473_7ea30666fd.jpg?v=0

no one has white flag tattoos
http://www.phillypunkrock.com/images/whiteflaglogolg.jpg

I guess the Best Tattoo Ever has downloading/linking disabled, so here's the Flickr link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/icki/155557272/

in the middle of your tribal hawk or whatever - no go, brother, no go
http://www.punkhistorycanada.ca/pics/Scans-Tattoos/graham-blackflagtattoo.jpg

that hotdog flag is amazing

Canadian punks anti-hotlinking, it seems. Doesn't matter, dude's tattoo was lame.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1414/1260183873_129f0a21f2.jpg?v=0

in other sst related tats:
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r92/stephd22/music-tattoo-11398075733623.jpg

http://i17.tinypic.com/63in4oz.png

bow down

my friend t0ny d3metrio got the einsturzende neubauten tat just because rollins had it when we were 14 or 15 without ever hearing them. i was ashamed for him back then. alex in nyc would yell his head off prolly.

Porn star in "unable to count" swerve: http://www.girlsidbang.com/thumbs/tgp/5072.jpg

kudos:
http://2.content.collegehumor.com/d1/ch6/d/7/collegehumor.de63f26d071a1b8d17ea29a75f4440c8.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Sausage_race_finish_line.jpg/250px-Sausage_race_finish_line.jpg

is hot dog bars guy from milwaukee?

Waht, Black Flag on the one foot and COACH logo on the other? What kind of a fucked-up gemini is she?

STEP OFF THE GEMINIS OKAY

http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote3/blue%20note%20316.jpg

Haha, tons of people I know or saw had the einsturzende neubauten tat! I asked my friend about this once, "I had NO IDEA so many people luvved on the Blixa," but she pointed out it's also the symbol for mercury. They should all just get the square from the periodic table to avoid this confusion.

I'm a gemini too, Laurel, which maybe explains my desire for a cuscus tat on one shoulder and a planarian (flatworm) on the other.

I don't really believe in astrology, the gemini thing just makes a great cover for being fucked up and/or confused/confusing.

That's not Coach, it's Chanel.

As logos go the bars are hall of fame level, but I really felt (albeit speaking as someone who's never even come close to getting a tattoo) that they were v.v. cliched things to put on your body at this point

You mean like tattoos?

What I want to know is if anyone's tried to replicate the tattoo from that horrid TV show "Prison Break"

I'm rather glad that I never liked tattoos growing up. Hrmm, I see lots of rock tattoos, but are there any jazz or classical music tattoos around? Fukken badass "SOLTI!" tattoo or something? Maybe that ugly yellow "Deutsche Grammophon" plaque across the back. Some classic Blue Note covers, perhaps?

Clearly someone needs to have this covering one side of their torso:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FILWEA.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Is it true Dave Grohl stopped his after three bars because "it hurt"?

I saw someone w/the neck tattoo from that Foo Fighers album. :(

Is it true Dave Grohl stopped his after three bars because "it hurt"?

that's what he told me. it's sort of green, too, because he did it with a needle and a biro. he was thirteen.

What is a biro?

a ball point pen

No gets this version either.

http://myspace-722.vo.llnwd.net/00038/22/78/38548722_l.jpg

really?

My ex has a really nice Neubauten tat...

Is it of Blixa drawn all cute with a big heart around him? If so, why is she stealing tattoos from my high school notebook doodles?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/106/250902311_1db4af46f7.jpg?v=0

hmm that is a little creepy

Okay that's fucking great.

It's like an EN version of this:

http:/✧✧✧.geocit✧✧✧.com/webber1✧✧✧@rog✧✧✧.c✧✧/joycecaricat.gif

GAH this:

http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/courses/engl2035/images/joyce_by_abin.gif

Which I kind of want to get as a tat.

Didn't Kurdt have a Black Flag tat (and a K Recs tat?)

always want to get something regrettable like:

http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/php.gif or http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/5458/opr01ed5xt1.jpg

WgW -- def yes on Krecs

http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/php.gif

I have known way more peeps w/krecs tats than the bars.

this would be a good tattoo to get if you were a '90s ironic person

http://www.discogs.com/image/L-150-43075-1171403345.jpeg

if you didn't see them, don't get the bars.

what's this about letting someone burn them on u?

sure you're not thinking of a germs burn?

sorry not a punk :X

s'all right.

im guna get macross veritechs

i wonder if anyone has those instead of tit pigeons

1. Hmm the mercury symbol a) hasn't got two legs b) has horns: http://www.androgyny.org.uk/graphics/mercury.gif.

1b. On the other hand, this symbol for John Dee's astrological work (or something) Monas Hieroglyphica is really similar innit? http://gfisher.org/Image2.gif(ok it also has horns)

2. I think the Black Flag logo is quite a masterpiece as logos go actually.

2b. But drawing it in RED is surely missing the point of it TOTALLY!?

3. OMG I'd totally crush on anyone with that Joyce logo! In a non-crepey way, obv.

(In the J. Dee symbol, it is the symbol of Aries which is appended at the bottom of the symbol of the planet Mercury.)

Grr Joyce tattoo not logo.

I think the Black Flag logo is quite a masterpiece as logos go actually

yeah it's about tied with the Misfits crimson skull i'd say.

A friend of mine has the Muted Horn symbol (originally, i believe, from Thomas Pynchon's "Crying of Lot 49" and later appropriated by the Buzzcocks), which I've always thought was nice and subtle. I was almost convinced in college to get the cover of Kiss' Rock N' Roll Over done on my ankle (of all places), but simply wasn't drunk enough (isn't that always the way?)

I am and remain tattoo free.

I know a guy with the W.A.S.T.E. muted post horn as well.

But I'm really dissappointed that so far there has been no Husker Du crosses-in-a-circle tattoo.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/3777/huskerdual2.png

I would get a tresor records tat, but everybody would think I was repping for Target

get Rising High records one instead

http://www.rebuffer.com/lawandauder/images/artists/56-001.jpg

for the longest time i wanted the bars on one wrist, and the husker du logo on the other. but now it seems unseemly to have tattoos of bands you were obsessed with when you were 15, and split when you were 10.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/L-243-001.png

I remember seeing Twisted Sister in `85 at Radio City Music Hall (on the <i>Come Out and Play Tour</i>) and drunken stumbling into the men's room (which was bigger than my apartment). At the urinal next to me was this huge dude with a patch-laden denim vest on. On his shoulder blade nearest me, he had an incredibly detailed Rush tatoo (the naked man/pentagram logo from <i>2112</i>). Being a mouthy drunk jerk, I said something to the affect of "Hey man, what's gonna happen when Rush put out an album you think stinks -- you're gonna feel like a chump then, eh?" My friend Rob ushered me out of the men's room stealthily, invariably saving me from a much-deserved beating.

http://www.kudosproductions.co.uk/images/radiohead_header_image.gif

I have the two people shaking hands tattooed on my leg, surrounded by other stuff. Only one person in the last 9 years has pegged as being Radiohead related, and that was a week after I got it.

Also, I'm not really a giant Radiohead fan either.

I don't really see the point in getting tattoos that you aren't going to regret at some point. They're tattoos! Aren't they supposed to be a bad idea?

haha

Can't get over the Hot Dog bars tattoo. That really is the best tattoo I have ever seen in my life. Sorry, I know we've moved on, but... fuck.

DO IT STEVIE!

i have v nearly gotten the WASTE symbol

...may yet still. never saw pynchon live, though :-/

come to new york and camp out in front of his apartment, rw.

I know a guy with the W.A.S.T.E. muted post horn as well.

I literally know two, maybe three, people with this.

Twee equivalent:

http://www.tangents.co.uk/tangents/main/2006/april/graphics/postcard-cat.jpg

Symbols tattooed on multiple people I know:

- muted post-horn
- Social Security number in bar code
- Black Flag bars
- 45 record insert
- star w/ medal-style shading
- various punctuation (ampersand, semi-colon, exclamation point, etc.)

Do you ever see someone with the Blag Flag tattoo, and you think, "Hey, that guy really likes Blag Flag," but then a second later you're like, "But what if maybe he's just an exterminator?"

- star w/ medal-style shading

this is so played out

Yeah, but thankfully it doesn't look like much. If you're gonna have a played-out tattoo, a 3/4-inch red-and-black star isn't so bad: no one is going to go "OMG how embarrassing, that idiot thought a small simple icon would look good."

Lately I've seens TONS of "golden section" diagram tatoos. Where did this come from?

Usually when I see the star tattoos they're much bigger than that. And in this town, I see 'em a lot.

Oh nautical stars, you are everywhere! They should come with a "best by" date.

That said I am really okay with the "my body is a tattoo wonderland and I am just going to get random shit on it" as long as you are prepared for some of it to be shit. But then don't show it all around town or like agonize over what's coolest, just get the impulse thing that you were going to let your friend do anyway as an experiment.

Because then at least it's some interesting history, like "this was my best friend's first tattoo work on a human being and I am proud to have it even though it's basically a mess."

What just confuses me is the "I am so punk rock that I have been agonizing over which Sailor Jerry tattoo to get and taking applications from the best artists in the tri-state area, and this is my highly educated choice. Isn't it just like everyone else's but better??"

I am sick of seeing LA Ink ads everywhere with that Kat von D woman on them, because I can't help imagining she is the result of Carlos D having sex with a Von Dutch hat, but I will admit that I totally like her Star Trek-y "stars around eye" tattoo.

Sailor Jerry tattoos must be stopped by any means neccessary. xpost

Finding a good tattoo artist, OTOH, is v v important. Unless you're doing Black Flag bars, in which case, fuck it.

xp Well I mean at one point they weren't on everyone yet, and they were still a sign of allegiance to something. You can roll your eyes but the trend DID have to get re-started somewhere. Which is what I meant by "best by" date.

This one will always make me chuckle
http://www.sailorjerry.com/site_images/display/282tattoo_gallery_l_aloha.jpg

re: Kat Von D - on last week's show she said that one of her legs is just covered in tattoos she had amateur friends give her. Cool idea, if kinda insane.

Is 'Sailor Jerry' synonymous with 'American traditional' or are y'all just ragging on straight Sailor Jerry rips?

I'm talking about full on rip-offs.

Sort of the equivalent of flash for the punker-than-thou subset.

American trad, probably. Both in style (heavy black outlines, cartoony/comic-y treatment of art) and subject matter (including things appropriated by the skinhead/rockabilly revivals which are now omni-present in multiple Bklyn neighborhoods). But straight-ahead rips wd be even worse.

"I wanna get a tattoo" : having a pressing tattoo idea :: "I wanna start a band" : having pressing musical-expression needs

waht is Sailor Jerry ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Jerry

i'm sick of seeing those Ed Hardy shirts BTW

That said I am really okay with the "my body is a tattoo wonderland and I am just going to get random shit on it" as long as you are prepared for some of it to be shit.

This is pretty much how I get tattooed. I think "hey, this would be funny/interesting to get a tattoo of". Then I end up getting it. And it's there forever, reminding me of why I thought this would be fun to get a tattoo of. I don't really regret any of them, they're there and ended up there for a reason at some point in time. Some could be better, one's probably getting covered up at some point, but that's it.

I don't get people who really want to get a tattoo but agonize over it forever and can't handle the permanence and just stress it. Fuck it, life's short, get the damn tattoo. Just don't get it on your neck or hands.

Do you ever see someone with the Blag Flag tattoo, and you think, "Hey, that guy really likes Blag Flag," but then a second later you're like, "But what if maybe he's just an exterminator?"

-- nabisco, Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

no, because the bars were designed for the band, they were never used by the cockroach spray.

poseur!

JOKE KILLER

(p.s. technically the bars are just a terrifically LOW-RES version of the spray's actual black flag, no?)

Just don't get it on your neck or hands.

STARS ON YOUR HANDS, STARS IN MY EYES.

I have the two people shaking hands tattooed on my leg, surrounded by other stuff. Only one person in the last 9 years has pegged as being Radiohead related, and that was a week after I got it.

OMGz my old roomie & buddy had that exact same one on the back of his calf! Old(er) ladies would always tell him it was cute or sweet.

My friend got a tattoo of a picture I drew for him:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/gremlin.jpg

I have mixed feeling about it:
- Whoa! Someone got a tat of something I drew! I'm one step closer to "making it!"
- He got a tat of a picture I drew AND colored in about ten minutes, when I could've drawn something a lot better.
- At least it's a good tattoo with nice ink and shading, but why didn't the tat artist fix up my weird mistakes (like his legs)?
- Worst: O god this guy wants me to be his special time love way and that will never happen and he has a tattoo to remind him of this FOR-EV-ER.

(p.s. technically the bars are just a terrifically LOW-RES version of the spray's actual black flag, no?)

no, they're not. the spray's black flag actually has the words BLACK FLAG in it, as in this ad below:

http://www.old-time.com/commercials/1940

i mean really, nice try on claiming it as a joek, but you're a ROACH SPRAY POSEUR, maaaaaaan.

SHEESH, ABBOTT

- Whoa! Someone got a tat of something I drew! I'm one step closer to "making it!"
- Whoa! Someone got a tat of something I drew! I'm one step closer to "making it!"
- Whoa! Someone got a tat of something I drew! I'm one step closer to "making it!"
- Whoa! Someone got a tat of something I drew! I'm one step closer to "making it!"
- Whoa! Someone got a tat of something I drew! I'm one step closer to "making it!"
- Whoa! Someone got a tat of something I drew! I'm one step closer to "making it!"
- Whoa! Someone got a tat of something I drew! I'm one step closer to "making it!"
- Whoa! Someone got a tat of something I drew! I'm one step closer to "making it!"

This is pretty much how I get tattooed. I think "hey, this would be funny/interesting to get a tattoo of". Then I end up getting it. And it's there forever, reminding me of why I thought this would be fun to get a tattoo of.

I know someone who gets tattooed this way too. It's how she ended up with a ridiculously well done and awesome tatoo of Howard the Duck.

Confession time: One of my tattoos is a star but I got it ages ago and until recently it was just an outline. I've recently had other things done to it but it's nothing near nautical star territory.

I know, it was completely ricockulous thought, they were all just my initial impressions. More meant in the sens of my friends who'd be like, "Someone in PORTLAND heard a song of mine and they LIKED it! Top 40 here I come!" I mean in wtf sense could I be "making it." Silly me.

IM GETTING ROBOTECH MACROSS VERITECH VALKYRIES

i don't even know what that is.

GOOD THEN YOU CANT JACK MY IDEA POSEUR

lol chaki u such a punk

Nautical stars don't bother me, really. It's a good, simple graphic that looks ok wherever it's placed.

Shoe size tattooed underfoot, anyone?

Why would anyone tattoo a monkey's anus on themselves?

where does milo z live?

having to shave a random patch of hair off your body for a tattoo= DUD

hang on, you have to do that? could be a problem...

for instance:
http://i17.tinypic.com/63in4oz.png

the awesomeness of that tattoo negates anything else

it's different cause it's on his chest, so it's covered w/ his shirt. basically what i was saying only applies to like the calf or something, like my boss who has a random patch of hair shaved off there for some sun or hurricane or some shit.
needless to say that it looks unspeakably retarded.

hair grows back

where does milo z live?

Anti-hairy racism == dud.

Am I imagining it, or was that black fag logo used for something involving Chicago house? It would make sense I guess.

And those hotdogs are insane!

Oh am drunk, so this is where I go all obnoxious and say that I really don't mind nautical stars either, in fact I pretty much LIKE them, but it helps a lot if you got them 10 years ago, instead of in 2006 and you're now 24.

Am I imagining it, or was that black fag logo used for something involving Chicago house?

Black Fag is a gay Black Flag/punk covers band.

http://www.myspace.com/blackfag

Black Flag fronted by Fred Schneider OTM

Emo Flag?

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b160/GuyPearce/Music/MonarchsBlackFlagBarsHalfSize.jpg

Fred Schnieder would do better singing in a Dead Kennedys cover band.

Man, the hotdog flag is gone. I wish I'd saved that.

well, now I can see it again and have saved it. Thanks for making me look like an idiot, nu ilx!

I mean, it's not like I ever needed help with that.

...still a good idea in 2007?

in 2007 black flag bars may as well be tie dye. fucking relics from a bygone era, get on with/over it.

but Black Flag bars are punk as fuck, whereas tie-dye is a hippie thing.

I can't hate the bars, cos I'm pretty sure the 2006 Favorite Noize Bartender had them.

http://www.outputrecordings.com/images/cat/opr95.jpg

chicago kevin is an asshead. the bars rule. most sexy on goils and drummers.

But they mean nothing now.

TS Output ACID HOUSE sleeve above vs http://www.technique.co.jp/img-150/CRMTBOYWM_2007060522/CRMTBOYWM_1.jpg

(best image I could find of it, tch)

in 2007 black flag bars may as well be tie dye. fucking relics from a bygone era, get on with/over it.

I know, I'm fulla regret. I've got bars AND a huge swath of tie-dye ink!

hahaha ok i got bars two weeks ago.

My tattoo is a goofy pop culture ref. from before punks or hippies.

But they mean nothing now.

-- Alex in NYC, Monday, 26 November 2007 11:56 (4 hours ago) Link

they meant SO MUCH at the time of Damaged im sure! "Thats Incredible! Saturday Night Live!"

in 2007 black flag bars may as well be tie dye. fucking relics from a bygone era, get on with/over it.

The key diff here is that hippie culture, being the supposed expression of the baby boom generation, was deified and dominated popular culture for far longer than was warranted. Punk culture, regardless of the fact that a zillion thickheads won't let it "die" a natural death, never achieved that state of dominance, and hence the subsequent putrescence is somewhat less vomitorious.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8629/blackroegne3.gif

My inspiration.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Bible.malmesbury.arp.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/blackflageggrolls.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Ye-m2bCgww/SSzA67avq5I/AAAAAAAAAoU/JR0vL-eQlXI/s400/IMG_1796.JPG

friend of mine has a tattoo of a beer can with black flag bars on the label.

not bars, and would have been better black & white (imo) but
http://news.bmezine.com/wp-content/uploads/200708201912-pix1.jpg

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyhd5x9UL71qzvx0to1_500.jpg

credit to the dead dead bird

A+

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/30/biebflag.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0u04EqNVjo

this book is great btw http://www.barredforlife.net/

http://25.media.tumblr.com/4a7a7cf7c54a741894505d56c50be3d5/tumblr_mpy28tPk3O1sanux8o1_500.jpg

awwww

commere ya big lug

http://i.imgur.com/1VBuBYH.jpg

haha john's picture up there is awesome

been meaning to rewatch roseanne as it keeps coming up on netflix

haha john's picture up there is awesome

yeah - just saw that now as well

it's a shop, but i support it.

bah

wah fooled me

it's pretty convincing, yeah

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/John_Goodman_1989.jpg/169px-John_Goodman_1989.jpg

if you accidentally pop a black flag bar in a classroom situation, just put a box over it

http://i.postimg.cc/B6gbZ6gY/vlcsnap-2024-01-31-09h52m10s917.png