Hellvis
Posts : 114 Join date : 2008-02-18 Location : Belgium
| Subject: Rockabilly Questions: volume 1 Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:49 pm | |
| Hiya gang! So there's some things I've always wanted to know about the rockabilly lifestyle/imagery, if some connoisseur could enlighten me... please, be my guest! Volume 1: - where does the 'nautical star' come from? And how/why was it related to rockabilly? - same for cherries Thanks in advance! Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta go work on volume 2 | |
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donpepe
Posts : 98 Join date : 2008-02-07
| Subject: Re: Rockabilly Questions: volume 1 Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:20 am | |
| The nautical star is an age old sailor tattoo and originally the cherries symbol fertility. If ya don't like my cherries, please don't shake my tree, said one Jerry Lee Lewis and bucnh of others. Plus it's always nice to have a compass tattooed on, because it's so much easier to wander home from gigs when you know where the north is
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webelvis
Posts : 168 Join date : 2008-02-07 Age : 31 Location : Germany
| Subject: Re: Rockabilly Questions: volume 1 Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:59 am | |
| Also young girls were called cherries | |
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donpepe
Posts : 98 Join date : 2008-02-07
| Subject: Re: Rockabilly Questions: volume 1 Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:14 pm | |
| And the old girls were called cherry tarts. Really. | |
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Pinkpiratekitty
Posts : 300 Join date : 2008-02-11 Age : 60 Location : Garden Grove, CA
| Subject: Re: Rockabilly Questions: volume 1 Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:10 pm | |
| Cherries symbolize passion also. | |
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Hellvis
Posts : 114 Join date : 2008-02-18 Location : Belgium
| Subject: Re: Rockabilly Questions: volume 1 Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:49 pm | |
| - donpepe wrote:
- If ya don't like my cherries, please don't shake my tree, said one Jerry Lee Lewis
How's that for double-entendre? And thanks for the answers! | |
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