247 Ink Magazine (February/March) 2016 Issue #7 | Page 91

way you treat people so hence the name Revolt from that. We just wanted to get away from casino stuff and bring it back to doing tattoos that are good and have people come back and Sausage, I’ll just call him Walter, because his name is Walter “Sausage” Frank. Everybody is always asking why do you call him Sausage ..Sausage /Frank, but Walter and I over those 5 years became really good friends and we considered ourselves the A Team, him, myself and Chris Garcia, and we pushed each other always, it was a no brainer to bring him along. Thirteen years we worked for Club and never got a raise, never got a bonus, never got anything and then you bring the notoriety of the show to his shop and we’re bringing business to the shop and nothing so we were like dude, it’s time to go do our own thing so we’re doing well, knock on wood and have one more guy Christian Buckingham is going on the show this season and Walter is going back also.. So they’re competing against each other, that should be fun, I can’t wait for this season. (Smiles) Gonna be interesting. So it’s three and I gave them my advice on how I would play it so I can’t wait to see it. They didn’t call it the viper pen for no reason. Pretty cut throat (laughs) Tell me about the shop, it looks great! Thanks! It’s one of those things where the space dictated how it looked. It’s a very open space. Artists can bullshit with each other, we constantly walk around and look at each others’ stuff. we’ve 89