247 Ink Magazine (February/March) 2016 Issue #7 | Page 89

Good morning! How are you doing? How did Revolt come to be and how did you and Sausage end up doing it together? (laughs) Good Morning. I’m good. Sausage and I worked together at Club Tattoo for about 5 years and about 2 years into it me, Sausage, and a guy named Chris Garcia, and Ben Stanton all kinda wanted to branch out and do our own thing and I don’t want to say anything bad but the owners of Club Tattoo aren’t tattoo artists, and I owned my own shop before and we all felt like more. I actually approached Sean at the time with a business plan for a new shop and said “this is what we want to do and branch off and do our own thing, do you want to be a part of it?” He respectfully declined and a couple of years later it came around, we had the chance because of the show, and we still wanted to call it Revolt. Me being from Vegas and being in a casino shop before, it tends to be, I don’t want to use the word rape, but you’re tattooing tourists you’re never gonna see again so charge them what you can and that’s not how I ran my shop in Florida. I was working my ass off and had tons of repeat customers so after a few years in that cycle I was like Man, this is not the 87