Shitty tattoo portraits of your favorite musicians
Kurt Cobain
I know fully well beauty is in the eye of the beholder. HOWEVER, some of these tattoos of rock stars and musicians are absolutely jaw-dropping, in my opinion. To put it kindly, I feel they lack a certain… well… something. Something is what they lack, but I’ll leave the appropriate adjective up to you.
I have a sneaking suspicion a few of these were either lost bets or drunken mishaps. I don’t know what could possibly be to blame for wanting a geriatric Mick Jagger etched into your flesh for the rest of your life. Still the blame for some (most?) of them would have to rest squarely on the shoulders of the artist responsible. Like the guy who said “Sure I can do Dave Grohl. I’ve done hundreds of Dave Grohls” to the hapless fool who walked into his shop that day (see below). And the Jimi tat. Ooph. Tragic.
Now some of you readers may really dig a few of these tattoos and think I’m dead wrong. So it goes with art. It’s all subjective.
Marc Bolan
SLAYER
Joe Strummer
Iggy Pop
Kate Bush
Jimi Hendrix
Johnny Cash
Henry Rollins
David Bowie
Nick Cave
Freddie Mercury
Mark E. Smith
George Harrison
James Brown
Gary Numan
John Lennon, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Flea and Frank Zappa
Robert Smith
Dave Gahan
Bob Marley
Dee Dee Ramone
Dave Grohl
Sid Vicious
Mick Jagger