I've never heard any music that moves me like SRV does. The man was a master guitarist and bluesman. His music inspired me to really learn the guitar - not just a few chords and basic strumming that was in the country music I listened to. He opened the door for me to discover Clapton, ZZ Top, and the blues in general, something I had never been open to or interested in before. I've been thinking about getting a tattoo sort of in his honor.



Stevie had this chest tattoo done of a peacock when he was 19 after a night of heavy drinking. My low pain tolerance (and hairy chest) means I won't be going for that exactly, but I really like the design and I think it's a lot cooler than John Mayer's "SRV" tattoo:



So, after lots of internet searching, I was able to come up with exactly one person who had a well-done copy of the peacock tattoo, on her chest. From the two angles she posted, I was able to construct (read: copy/paste in MS paint) a decent version of the tattoo that I'm thinking of getting:



Simple enough to be relatively inexpensive and still well-done, yet elaborate enough to be interesting in its own right. I want to get it on my left forearm (fretting hand) at some point, hopefully in the next year if I can get my foot in the door at a decent job after college.

Thoughts? Opinions? Criticisms, friendly words of warning?

If you've got any music / artist related tattoos, here's a good place to show them off too!

Brian, an old and very good friend of mine is a tatoo artist in L.A.. He did my tat's.