Mr. Frog

I can't say I'm into this stuff. However, I think the people doing these tattoos are putting on clean lines and very solid color. It's no worse than some of the other " no outline crap" out there. I didn't even know there was a name for this style.

The bass player Perry is from the Chicago area. and Phil has DJ-ed some Mod skin weekenders here. I don't know why they don't play Chicago. I guess cus it can get pretty goofy at shows here. I saw them once in St. Louis and had to fight a group of Chicago guys to do so. That would explain why they don't come here I guess? But yea they are rad. Not to be a know it all but the original lineup had 2 whiteboys and then Phil. Carl and Phil basically ARE the Templars. The other guys are just players in their show. Carl also has some cool side projects. Stamford Bridge is his current one. It's almost Powerpop. It's pretty good.

The Templars are not all black. Just the drummer. The on and off again Bass player is mixed race, and the Singer is White. I have 90% of their material collected on vinyl. When I was lucky enough to see them( For some reason they will not perform in Chicago), they also had a second guitarist(who was white). They also have many different influences other than Skrewdriver. They have quite a lot of jangly guitar sounding stuff. Check out this off their first album.

I went last year and had a great time. I hope to go again next year,and possibly even work at it one year.

Did this about 4 years ago.

These were done on South State St. Chicago, circa 1960's. Artists unknown.

Got this from Chad Koeplinger 2 weeks ago in Chicago.

Thanks Dari