'Sailor Fred refers to this post as his ‘Life & Time With His Buddy Gill”. It was the late 1980’s when Sailor Fred first met Gill Montie. They met for the first time while Gill Montie, Sailor Fred, Mr. Tramp and Charlie Bond were tattooing at Tat-2 Tony’s place in Daytona during Bike Week.
The next few times Sailor Fred crossed paths with Gill was during various Tattoo Conventions and Bike Weeks. Gill would come up to Schenectady New York along with various artists and friends of theirs like Mr. Tramp, Randy Adams, Wondo or Charlie Bond. (for those of you who don’t know Wando, he owned Sailor Jerry’s shop in Honolulu HI for many years) Sailor Fred would meet everyone down in Daytona. Again, all good times … There was a time in the early 1990's when Gill came to Rochester, NY as a guest artist in Sailor Fred’s Golden Needle Tattoo Studio and ended up stayed for a month or two. Eventually he sent for his family. After the family hung out for a week, both families drove down to Orlando together. Together, as in 4 adults and 4 kids in one car drove all the way from New York to Florida. The last few times Sailor Fred saw Gill Montie was down in Macon, GA just before Bike Week. Sailor Fred would be a guest artist at Howie the Hand's shop while Gill and Zeek Owens were guest artists at Lit’l Rat’s shop. Being friends, they would all get together for dinners. There are some great stories and many memories in between this passage that will be released soon!!
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Sylvia steinhart diaz
8/2/2016 05:18:56 pm
Love seeing all the pics with the fam an learning more about our history good stuff uncle
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AuthorSailor Fred is a renown American Tattoo Artist that started his career in 1968 Archives
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