List of Tattoo Artists and Shops

The following is a list of tattoo artists and shops as of (11/24/2010) that have their work displayed on gratefuldeadtattoos.com. People use these links to find artists in their area to do their Grateful Dead tattoos. The site is averaging over 100 unique visitors a day from all corners of the world.

If you would like to send your Grateful Dead tattoos to gratefuldeadtattoos@gmail.com, I will post a link to your shop as well.

I am also putting together another tattoo blog for general interest tattoos, so send those as well, if you are so inclined. http://www.tattooblogguy.com/

Have a Grateful Day!

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  3 Lions Tattoo (Las Vegas)
• AJ/TattooArtists.org (Truckee, CA)
• All Star Body Art (Scotia, NY)
• ASI Tattoo (Salt Lake City)
• Avalon Tattoo (San Diego)
• Bijou Tattoo (Colorado Springs, CO)
• Black Diamond Tattoo (Venice, CA)
• Brooklyn Ink Tattoo (New York)
• Cosmic Tattoos (Charlotte, NC)
• Cutthroat Tattoo (Milwaukee)
• Dead Pirate Tattoos (U.S. Virgin Islands)
• Dee Dee Seruga (Spring Hill, FL)
• Fip Buchanan (San Diego)
• Flat's Tattoos & Body Piercing (Groton, CT)
• Funhouse Tattoos (Vancouver, BC )
• Gen X Tattoos (Cleveland, OH)
• Hammers Tattoo (Canton, OH)
• Hole In The Wall Tattoo (Conway, SC)
• Hot Rod Tattoos (Blacksburg, VA)
• Immortal Images (Melbourne, FL)
• Indian Joe
• International Tattoo Garden (Humboldt, CA)
• Jack Brown's Tattoo Revival (Fredericksburg, VA)
• Lion's Den (New Hope, PA)
• Lone Wolf Tattoo (Bedford, NY)
• Main Street Tattoo (Longmont, CO)
• Marlowe Ink (Fairfax, VA)
• Metal N Ink (Hamilton, ON Canada)
• Mystic Eye Tattoo (Turnersville, NJ)
• New Age Tattoos and Body Piercings (Springfield, IL)
• Oddity Tattoo (Sarasota, FL)
• Old Skool Ink (Yreka, CA)
• Paradox Studio and Gallery (Waynesville, MO)
• Patti Jo (Washington State)
• Renegade Tattoo (El Paso)
• Shaw's Tattoo Studio (Houston)
• Soul Patch (Haight Ashbury)
• Tattoo Don's Nickle City Tattoo
• Tattoo Faction, (North Olmsted, OH)
• TattooTales (New Milford, CT)
• The Picture Machine (San Francisco)
• Totem Tattoo (Shamokin, PA)
• Voodoo Monkey (Cleveland, OH)
• White Lotus Tattoo and Art Gallery (Toms River, NJ)

GD Tattoo #120 Grateful Dead Pin Up Girl

Deadhead Johnny shared a couple of his tattoos with us. This one was inspired by Bobby's Ace album cover, and is the first Grateful Dead pin up girl I've seen. This one was also done by James Marlowe at Marlowe Ink in Fairfax, Virginia.

GD Tattoo #119 Eyes of the World

Deadhead Johnny shared some of his tattoos with us. Here's a great Jerry's Eyes over glasses. This one was also inked by James Marlowe from Marlowe Ink in Fairfax, Virginia.

Top 10 Tattoos May - November 2010

Based on pageviews:

GD Tattoo #34 Pink Floyd and Rosie Dead GD Tattoo #42 Life, The Universe, and Everything GD Tattoo #27 Purple Space Your Face GD Tattoo #32 Steal your Face with wings GD Tattoo #29 Melted GD Tattoo #75 Feathered Tribal Dreamcatcher Steal... GD Tattoo #25 Don't Tread On Me GD Tattoo #19 Fresh Jester with Guitar GD Tattoo #45 Cosmic Charlie how do ya do? GD Tattoo #93 Sugar Skull Steal Your Face

GD Tattoo #118 Grateful Dead Wings

Deadhead Johnny shared some of his tattoos with us. Here's a set of wings he has on his left shoulder. This one was inked by James Marlowe from Marlowe Ink in Fairfax, Virginia.

GD Tattoo #117 Let There Be Songs to Fill the Air

This Dancing Bear was done by Joe at Brooklyn Ink in, well, Brooklyn.

Dancing Bears, as legend has it, are inspired by Owsley Stanley, AKA Bear. According to Wikipedia, Bear manufactured an estimated 5 MILLION hits of LSD.

Dancing Bears are probably the most common Grateful Dead tattoo, and they always bring a smile. Check out The Other Ones, (Dancing Bear tattoos I mean) ; )

I'm curious as to which there are more of, people with Dancing Bear Tattoos, or hits of Owsley Acid.

And here's a good Ripple video for you all

No man, I mean this one!!

Grateful Dead Tattoos> Spotlight> Ernie

Okay folks, we're in for a treat. I was first contacted by Ernie back in May of this year (2010), and he sent in his Maxell ad inspired (lot sticker inspired) forearm piece, which was posted as:

GD Tattoo #95 It's Worth It.

So Ernie says to me, (and I paraphrase...) hey dude... I have 12 Grateful Dead related tattoos, would you like to see more of them?

I figure, sure why not, right? I mean, this is a Grateful Dead Tattoo blog.

So, lets spotlight Ernie's tattoos...

First of all, we need to know that ALL of these tattoos were done by Dez Moon (Desmond Mooney) from White Lotus Tattoo and Fine Art Gallery in Toms River NJ

Secondly, we need to know that Ernie digs Morning Dew maybe a bit more that the average Dancing Bear. So I'm going to do a few things here...

Here's a link to www.archive.org that will get you to EVERY show on the archive that has Morning Dew in it, sorted by date, most recent first. That's 1034 SHOWS folks, thats a lot of Grateful Dead spanning from 1995 back to 1967!

And some youtube...

pretty good stealth video from 1986, very good Dew. Let some of that play while you take a few minutes to check these out.

Here's a nice Blues For Allah. I've always thought this image made for a very nice tattoo. Grateful Dead Tattoos has posted two other Blues For Allah tattoos that can be seen here, or by hitting the tags on the right.

I hear that Furthur brought back Blues for Allah this year. Crazy man, crazy. That's a link to the live rendition of the original album.

I'm Uncle Sam - that's who I am... I've posted 5 Uncle Sam related tattoos, and I have to say, they kick ass.

If Uncle Sam above had a dog, I'd imagine it would look like this...

This dog reminds me of Bobby's Yellow Dog story...

or this gem...

"My dog has no nose"

"No Nose?! How does he smell?"

"Awfull!"

Here's a series of Jesters. I've posted a handful of Jester tattoos before. As far as GD tattoos go, I think the Jester, or Bard, or mandolin player, or whatever you want to call them makes a damn good one.

This tattoo I call Reddy Kilowatt because I don't know what else to call it. (suggestions appreciated). The real Reddy Kilowatt has a long history, and can be seen here...

Phil Lesh was known as Reddy Kilowatt on the Grateful Dead's first, and self titled album.

One More Saturday Night makes for a good tribute to New Years as well as the band.

Did you know that Deadheads Al Frankin and Tom Davis wrote and starred in a movie called "One More Saturday Night"?

Bertha is a classic Grateful Dead image, as easily recognized as the Steal Your Face.

Dark Star Palace has a great post about the Skull Fuck album art and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Playing cards are a great Grateful Dead tattoo, as gambling and cards come up quite a bit in Grateful Dead song lyrics. Here's another, a King of Roses.

"Like a surfer riding on a tidal wave" This one is still in the works, but looks pretty fun.

So, I'd like to thank Ernie for sharing his tattoos with us all. He's sporting some very original work, and hopefully you find some inspiration for your next tattoo.