Name:  Linda "Lucky" Malone (owner/inker/piercer)

History: Also known as "Lucky Linda".   Owner of Lucky Linda's Body Art in the older Downtown area Shakopee, MN.  A mother of three grown kids and a proud grandmother of two beautiful little girls.  "I left high school in 1969 at seventeen, and the world was in turmoil. I had no idea where or what I was doing with myself and had the frivolous idea of going to art but having no other plan went to beauty school.  It seemed to kinda fit.  In 1991, I took a seminar on permanent make-up and I began tattooing and piercing in the back of the hair salon that my mother owned and where I was a stylist."

 

Name:  Edsel G. Tattooer (inker/ring leader)
History:  I started tattooing in about 1991 when my sister, Lucky Linda, had started tattooing out of the back room of the hair salon (now Lucky Linda's) my mother owned. She needed help as she was getting swamped with tattoos.  I've worked at Rochester Tattoo and Pat Brittan’s Shop, Infinity Tattoo in Rochester, MN. When my daughter was born I took a break from tattooing for a couple of years and worked in the corporate world all the time bemoaning the 6 am to 2 pm schedule of that life the shear madness of corporate leadership. So I found my way back into tattooing toured around at a few different shops... and as luck would have it, Lucky Linda needed my help once again.

Tattoo Influences:  Besides Linda, I was lucky enough to be able to work with Mike “Rollo Banks” Malone and learned a ton about tattoo biz and fell in love with the craft of tattooing. Rollo taught me how to paint flash, fix tattoo machines, and tattoo worth a damn. I couldn’t ask for a better mentors that Mike and Linda.

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Name:  Ryan Wilkenson (inker)

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