Considering most, if not all, of the songs from Eagles of Death Metal’s first two albums are about screwing almost anything with a vagina, it’s funny that lead singer Jesse Holmes never got laid until he met his wife. “Girls didn’t want to have sex with me, and they had no problem letting me know. The song Jesse’s Girl was the worst thing that ever happened,” he says. And of course he was the small kid with the “eccentric” family who got beat up a lot—he sort of sounds like a supermodel. Then in high school Holmes met Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age), who saved him from ...
Actor Eddie Steeples’ tattoos tell his life story— and as far as we can tell, it’s going to be a comedy. Writers’ strike or not, a hit comedy on NBC is doing Eddie Steeples pretty well. Or so it would seem for the My Name Is Earl star, who is nearly impossible to track down. When I finally get him on the phone, he’s chilling in Hawaii. “I just really needed to get away for a minute, real last minute. So I figured okay, Hawaii,” Steeples explains, after apologizing profusely for his elusiveness. It seems the Texas-born, Missouri-raised actor hasn’t lost his manners since moving to Los Angeles. No doubt ...
In 1990, tattooer Oliver Peck made the decision to never again wear a pair of shoes that wasn't red. "It's sort of an LSD-induced pact I made with myself," Peck explains from the floor of Elm Street Tattoo, which he opened with partner Dean Williams in 1996. In the 12 years since Elm Street opened its doors, Peck has worn out a closet full of red shoes ("I still have them all. I can go count them for you," he jokes) even if the look and feel of the shop haven't changed much. "From the beginning, we wanted to open a really traditional shop. We weren't interested in the new, studio-type place," Peck explains. With his growing collection of dice, more Americana on the walls than the local T.G.I. Friday's, ...
Pro skateboarder Erik Ellington’s first-ever tattoo was nearly a casualty of his INKED photo shoot. “I went bombing down a hill and slammed,” the 31-year-old skater recounts. “I rolled down the hill like a rag doll, scraping up my whole right side.” The fall slashed up the word “Balance” on his upper arm—the name of the skate company he and a pal started as teenagers growing up in Tempe, AZ, one of the many ’hoods Ellington would call home en route to his current digs in Hollywood. His life and skateboarding career actually launched in the boonies of Anchorage, AK. “There wasn’t a whole lot to do up there in ...
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“Getting the name of a loved one tattooed on you jinxes the relationship,” says Eve Salvail. She should know. She had the name of a girlfriend tattooed three separate times—and each time they broke up, she had to get the name covered up again. Lucky in love, it seems she’s not. But she has had some luck as a model. Salvail, who grew up in Quebec, made her name in the ’90s as the muse to designer Jean Paul Gaultier. “He visited a café in Montreal where there were pictures of me displayed,” she says. Of course Gaultier must have noticed her almond eyes and killer cheekbones, but no doubt ...
“We are more or less the anti-shop shop,” says Everlasting Tattoo’s Henry Lewis about this staple on the San Francisco tattoo scene. “We’re more like a fine arts tattoo gallery.” Why? To begin, there is no flash of any kind in the store. Instead the walls are decorated with paintings by the artists, many of who have had shows at galleries in and around San Francisco. Owner Mike Davis, whose paintings and illustrations were recently featured in a show at San Francisco’s White Walls gallery, also had a hand in building everything in the store. Although they travel to conventions around the world (the studio recently attended a convention in Rome), they don’t enter contests. “We don’t believe in that sort of thing,” says Lewis. “The work speaks for itself.” ...
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