the history of bangers (as i remember it) and some answers to common questions. so i'll do my best to clear shit up.

GENESIS:

ok... well. to start. i could be wrong. the whole thing is a little blurry... i THINK it started with an idea by seth ciferri. as i remember it we were talking -as we like to do- about some bullshit or another. i think we were talking about the "battle royale" which is the eagle fighting the dragon old timey backpiece? i think? it's something like that. maybe an eagle fighting a snake. i always liked the idea of these epic battles, so we started talking about a fantasy battle royale. now... to be honest i can barely remember. i do know seth said "DUUUUDEEEEEE YOU SHOULD GET A UNICORN HEAD AND USRO SHOULD GET A WIZARD HEAD ON BOXER BODIES SO THEY COULD FIGHT! ....GOOOOOOOLDDDDDD" so... i remember talking to usro about it. and rich. at this point it was going to be "FANTASY BATTLE ROYALE" with the three of us. but honestly... it was at the level of planning stage that most things never make it past.

then a year or so later it turned into a  real plan. i don't know why usro and rich didn't get one from the beginning. but it was a really hectic period when it started. i was visiting baltimore to do some shoots back in 2004. this is  when i still lived in los angeles. it was a period of running around all over the town and doing a lot of shoots. it also happened that the first tattoos were done the day after the infamous psychedelic *CENSORED*  party. doug hardy was in town as well. i was staying with bbop, mod dave, and covita. doug was at read street tattoo and so were sef and katie sellergren.

when i got to read street the next day  i was still mega ***** from said ******** party.  it was crazy. anyway, i'm still confused when i get to the shop. i think i was supposed to originally get a unicorn head, but i saw the grave with "r.i.p. you" on it and started laughing. especially since it had grass on the shoulders. all of the talk leading up to this had been about creatures with actual heads. like a wizard or garden gnome.

here are some of the original drawings. one is a drawing of the prototype seth head banger




so..... the first bangers were:

me , bbop, mod dave, covita, katie sellergren, doug hardy, pat martin, sick sean, sef, sherry, snowflake and albrigo

once back in l.a. we got rita and dana dearmond.


here are some banger rules.

only one banger tattoo per person, although at least 5 of us have expressed interest in wanting more. i'd like one of the elaborate newschool ones. whe we started doing them they were'nt too fancy. now they are fucking amazing looking.

YOU CAN NOT JUST GET A BANGER! if you go out and stick a head on a boxer and a word under it , you do not have a banger. you have bullshit.

bangers are the supercult crew tattoo. you have to be supercult family to get one.

"THERE AIN'T NO CLIQUE LIKE THE ONE I'M WITH"

models are automatic candidates for bangers.

10 models have banger-tats! snowflake, dana dearmond, rosemary, billy jean, rory, covita, haley,roxie, memphis, and snakefight. billy jean also has a straight "supercult" tattoo, and so does brittany texas, pea pod, natasha, and pinky!

the bangers spell out one grand phrase. it is long. i know the whole thing, but i'm not disclosing it all yet.

right now it's at " the really sick, totally awesome, & suspiciously sickass super cult punk rock fantasy battle royale of which there can be only one winner & extreme violence is to be expected fo'real boyee"

at this point there are 36 finished bangers! (only 31 released up to this point) we aren't in a hury. this is unlike any other crew tattoo, as we are unlike any other crew. banger squad is pretty elite, and that's the way we like it. we just don't want a run away thing like the baltimore bug. nothing against the bug. i have the bug, a few bangers do, hell seth STARTED the bug... but bangers are our own.

ONLY BANGERS CAN GIVE BANGERS. you have to get a banger tattoo from someone that HAS one.

tattooers with bangers are: seth ciferri (baltimore), katie sellergren (iowa), daniel albrigo (los angeles), doug hardy (minnesota), sick tatty sean (baltimore),
hunter spanks (baltimore), leeroy (baltimore), rachel aust  (atlanta), tomas garcia (virginia/spainthe world), bart brigham (los angeles... soon to be baltimore)

seth has done most of the bangers BY FAR. he has done probably 80% hunter is in second place i think at this point. then katie and brigo

the biggest banger BY FAR is the one with "violence" (amber)
coming in at around 6 or 7 inches.


no banger has died yet, although there has been speculation on who will be the first.


rita's banger was only her second tattoo! ("fo'real")

dana's glows in blacklight and is otherwise invisible

sherry (boyeeeee) was the first one to get a banger in a highly visible place. snowflake (sickass) went straight for the forearm  with the writing even going almost onto the hand =0. billy jean, rory, haley and ang also have forearm bangers. BALLS OUT!

emo justin got his on his ribs? that's the weirdest placement so far.

we are working on turning the bangers into a comic strip.


tomas actually did his own banger on himself.

the bangers with human heads are:
"cult" is adam barton's head on katie
"violence" is chase lisbon's head on amber
"&" is grime's head on sef
"be" is abe lincoln on ang

here are some of my favorite banger scenes:

(by bart)











(by aram fresh)



(by internet micah)








anyone can contribute any banger related art. even if you aren't a banger. we'll be putting all of the banger art up on supercult here (i'm updating the section this week) http://www.supercult.com/site2/cultinsider/battleroyale/battleroyale.html and we would LOVE to see your contributions (they can be sent to amber@supercult.com)




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