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    Tattoo, rocks and the video entertains...

    I feel good ! like I knew that I would...

    I used to post all the time in refference to all the bullshit threads about the members of Van Halen and all Dave this Sammy that...

    It was my closer my end all I rool u thread down burn sentence...here how it go.

    I don't give a fuck who DLR has for a back up band..I am a lead singer fan..Roth is the best man for what I like to hear.

    And I rooled all that I surveyed..but you know what..? I think after seeing this vid and some of the jazz floating aimlessly puposeful, towards what could be some real live magic.

    Perhaps I do care who DLR works with cause let me tell you sumptin..

    -Dave up front looks right.
    -Edwards great guitar playing sets Dave at a place that pushes him towards his best production of sound.
    -AL as always really holds things down to a managable level, yet seems to elevate the whole dynamic with his unreal understanding of what needs what where.
    -Wolf has a gift that will keep on matching and the rythm with weight.

    I am working on a new sentence that will rool, don'no what it's gonna be, what it is, yet, it takes time to confrone it all together, sum of the parts baby..

    Can't wait for this album !
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    Quote Originally Posted by Antman View Post
    Mousewife makes sense. She is a timid housewife/mom w potential. She gets a tat and now you see and think of her differently. Now you notice she's hot cause she got some ink. And she's a mom. Hence momshell. Only dave.
    Any moon or mouse is a friend of hers and this one will doooo just fine...
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    so who's posting the actual lyrics? Tattoo is tattooed in my brain but I want to sing the correct lyrics!
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    I think GA got it pretty much spot on
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    Quote Originally Posted by negative View Post
    Those lines about the union in the lyrics really warmed my heart. I'm a firm believer and supporter of worker's unions and rights, and hearing Dave sing about them on a positive manner really connected with me.
    Same here..."Union" and "Workers Rights" is what I believe in and... do for a living
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    "Why is the crazy stuff we never said poetry in ink"

    Classic dave fuckin love it!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by RUDE SADDLE View Post
    "Why is the crazy stuff we never said poetry in ink"

    Classic dave fuckin love it!!
    Same here.The bit where dave says "EVERYBODY".oooooo that bit just sends me over the edge

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave's Bitch View Post
    Same here.The bit where dave says "EVERYBODY".oooooo that bit just sends me over the edge
    Daves union verse is great also. I could give a fuck that some people dont like it. Go drive 55 off a fucking cliff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carmine View Post
    Same here..."Union" and "Workers Rights" is what I believe in and... do for a living
    That's great Carmine! It's an important cause, and it felt good to hear Dave sing about it.
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    Ok, I'm going to make a suggestion. Where it is written "Day Glo Red" I hear Dago Red.
    Dago red 
    noun Slang: Offensive .
    a cheap red wine, especially a jug wine of Italian origin.

    Origin:
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    Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012
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    I was thinking about the Fair Warning album cover on my back. Like all of it...
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    One thing for sure is the song would pretty much suck balls without Dave...


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    Quote Originally Posted by houseofpain View Post
    I was thinking about the Fair Warning album cover on my back. Like all of it...
    Nice! Always wanted that guy beating the shit outta the other dude. Maybe substitute it with dave snd spammys face?

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    Liking the song more and more - but I still ain't getting a tattoo. I thought about it a while but one of you said "nothing says class like a middle aged woman with fresh ink"
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    It's funny the way Dave makes you think. The first verse... "I got Elvis on my elbow, when I flex Elvis talks," I just kept thinking, what would his elbow say?

    "Thank you very much"
    "how how how"
    "Slam baby"
    "Hunka hunka burnin' love"
    "Step on it"

    ya know you can just keep on rolling with Dave's stuff he's a master lyricist.

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    And how many times today did I see "the lyrics are shit, who writes this stuff?" on Youtube etc. I hate people.

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    Hagar fans go from housemice to dorkshell
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shoes, Sensible View Post
    And how many times today did I see "the lyrics are shit, who writes this stuff?" on Youtube etc. I hate people.
    Don't let the Spambot drones get to you - they hardly qualify as people to begin with, and they wouldn't recognize good lyrics even if they were "Tattoo'ed" on their foreheads.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Golden AWe View Post
    Hagar fans go from housemice to dorkshell
    I'm stealing this and using it!
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    People don't listen to lyrics anymore! Just like they don't read!

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    Here is a link to artwork of a Tramp Stamp Cat I found.
    http://captainsblog1701.tumblr.com/post/3328997343
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    Guys, do yo know what a "coal tattoo" is?

    There are plenty of coal mines in my country, so I know how miners look. Because of the coal dust they have black lines aroud their eyes, which are almost permanent. They don't call it "coal tattoo" in my country, but maybe this is what Dave meant?
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    Somebody found a page on the internet that an injury that leaves that black mark is also called a coal tattoo. There was actually a song about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by if6was9 View Post
    Guys, do yo know what a "coal tattoo" is?

    There are plenty of coal mines in my country, so I know how miners look. Because of the coal dust they have black lines aroud their eyes, which are almost permanent. They don't call it "coal tattoo" in my country, but maybe this is what Dave meant?
    I was thinking it was like maybe New Zealand natives or prisoners making their own tattoo ink out of soot. You can take a walk around tour in the old Idaho state prison and they had on display some of the confiscated make shift tattoo making equipment and some of the art. They made their own inks out of all sorts of crazy stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DRD View Post
    Here is a link to artwork of a Tramp Stamp Cat I found.
    http://captainsblog1701.tumblr.com/post/3328997343
    I thought maybe it was referring to the tattoo artist Kat Von D.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shoes, Sensible View Post
    Somebody found a page on the internet that an injury that leaves that black mark is also called a coal tattoo. There was actually a song about it.
    indeed. here it is.http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiCTATTOO;ttCTATTOO.html

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    Union pensions make wonderful slush funds. Are there any decent unions anymore? It seems like everything is crooked these days.

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    All but the biggest unions have been torched. Ask Carmine how hard it is to fight the battles these days.

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    My dad was in the bricklayers union. That was a good one because for what you paid in dues you got health insurance benefits that you never could afford on your own. All the unions I had to join I got nothing from. I actually had to join the screen actors guild for one job. They just garnish your check and give you nothing for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -=VH=- View Post
    so who's posting the actual lyrics? Tattoo is tattooed in my brain but I want to sing the correct lyrics!
    Well....here is a different (slightly ) take on the lyrics after listening to the song line by line over and over....

    Tattoo, tattoo

    I got Elvis on my elbow
    and when I flex Elvis talks
    I got hula girls on the back of my leg
    and she hulas when I walk

    Speak in cherry red
    Screaming 'lectric green
    Purple mountain's majesty
    really talk to me
    Talk to me babe

    Swap-Meet Sally
    Tramp-stamp Cat
    Mousewife to Bomshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo
    Tattoo-tattoo

    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    Show me your dragon magic
    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    So autobiographic!

    Best believe that needle will hurt you
    Best to see these true colors that follow money for your false virtutes

    Here's a secret to make you think
    Why is the crazy stuff we never said poetry in ink
    Speak in day-glow red
    Explodo paint
    Purple mountain's majesty
    show me you,
    I'll show you me

    Swap-Meet Sally
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    Mousewife to Bomshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo,
    tattoo-tattoo

    Woo!
    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    Sexy dragon magic
    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    So very autobiographic!
    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    Got a hold on me
    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    You put a spell on meeeee!

    Uncle Danny had a coal tattoo
    He fought for the unions
    Some of us still do
    On my shoulder is a number of the Chapter he was in
    That number is forever like the struggle here to win

    Everybody!
    Swap-Meet Sally
    Trampstamp Cat
    Mousewife to Bomshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo, tattoo-tattoo
    Tattoo
    tat-too!

    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    Sexy dragon magic
    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    So very autobiographic!
    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    You got a hold on me
    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    You put a spell on me
    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    I'm in love with you
    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    Show me, show me your
    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    Look at me, look at you!
    (Tattoo, tattoo)
    Whoa!

    [Lyrics to Tattoo performed by Van Halen]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shoes, Sensible View Post
    Somebody found a page on the internet that an injury that leaves that black mark is also called a coal tattoo. There was actually a song about it.
    Thanks. The song makes a lot more sense now. The first two verses are about tattoos people make for fun (verse 1) or to show off with their "false virtues" & other BS (verse 2), while the last verse is about tattoos that are actually "autobiographic" and mean something. Uncle Danny must have worked hard to "earn" his coal tatto, it was a real thing. If this is the context here, then the last chorus (with all those flying balloons and confetti) is ironic rather than funny, followed by surrealistic outro, which to me sounds like an elegy (yes, I know it's from DIF).

    Uncle Danny may be a reference to Danny Radnor, a fictional character from "Meteman" movie or Daniel Weaver, one of the founders of American Miners' Association in 1861.

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    All but the biggest unions have been torched. Ask Carmine how hard it is to fight the battles these days.
    Its been extremely difficult the last 4 or 5 years. Public employers are victims of state budget cuts and ever decreasing amounts of funding, private employers are the victims of the economy. But,with over 2 million members, we are still the largest Union in North America and we continue to organize new members. The fact that there is no money out there, employers are doing anything to create "funds" and that includes unjust terminations...attempts at wiping out pensions and retirements. I've been running around NY just protecting what we have, namely...their jobs and current benefit levels. Contract extensions with no changes have become the safe play....on both sides...and that protection is reaffirming peoples belief that having a voice, having union protection at their job is the way to go...it always was. I was a member before I became the Business Agent...I know what its like on the job...I spend everyday out there servicing my members on the front lines...the office is a place for my secretary.

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    Nailed it. Classic Dave wordplay. "Momshell" is terrific: it's basically a synonym for "MILF".

    Btw, when I first heard the lyrics, I thought "Swapmeet Sally, Trampstamp Cat" was "Swampmeat salad, Crab Stab Can't". Which makes no fucking sense. So I was relieved to read this. Very cool, very Dave lyrics.

    (Btw, the first time, as a teenager, I heard Bananarama's version of "Venus" I misheard the chorus as "I'm your fetus/I'm on fire" and thought it was an anti-abortion song.)
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    On the subjecy of coal tattoo's my father in law has one , he got hit on the forehead with a shovel when he was an electrician down the pits ( when we used to have them), some bloke slipped and althout he has a scar it has a blackish line to it .
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    I'm *only a little* surprised, being that Dave can be so forthright in his feelings for his Judaism (don't believe me? Read his autobiography) that nowhere in the lyrics is some kind of reference to concentration camps. No biggie, but just as the union references gives the song added depth and diversity to what a tattoo can mean, it would've worked.

    Then again, and the reason I say "only a little", hey, it's classic Van Halen. A forum to party and celebrate, not really the place to contemplate and wax philosophical about genocide and anti-semitism.

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    Quote Originally Posted by academic punk View Post
    I'm *only a little* surprised, being that Dave can be so forthright in his feelings for his Judaism (don't believe me? Read his autobiography) that nowhere in the lyrics is some kind of reference to concentration camps. No biggie, but just as the union references gives the song added depth and diversity to what a tattoo can mean, it would've worked.

    Then again, and the reason I say "only a little", hey, it's classic Van Halen. A forum to party and celebrate, not really the place to contemplate and wax philosophical about genocide and anti-semitism.
    Am going with the groove and dirty vibe to the song .. think that would have brought it down with a bang

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    Quote Originally Posted by vandeleur View Post
    Am going with the groove and dirty vibe to the song .. think that would have brought it down with a bang
    What? You don't think having the bridge suddenly turn into a dirge would've worked?

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    There is a, cronic lyricosis, thread in the non or music-forum somewhere...lol.......-I'm your fetus-..ROTFLMMFAO...almost spewed my coffee...

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