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.......Wild Bills TATTOO is LOCATED at 205 vernon STREET at the corner of Lincoln and Vernon since 1974. WILD BILL'S was named Sacramento's Number One Tattoo Studio of 2008 by the Sacramento Business Journal. also: Voted Best Tattoo Studio 2008, By the readers of Sacramento Magazine. Its A DRUG FREE WORK PLACE. WE HAVE BEEN SERVING the Roseville - SACRAMENTO AREA FOR OVER 34 YEARS NOW AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO. .......WE WILL HOLD THE HIGHEST STANDARDS for our artist AND DO THE BEST WORK WE POSSIBLY CAN. OUR WORK is GUARENTEED if you follow our aftercare instructions SO COME BACK IN 3 TO 4 WEEKS SO WE CAN CHECK THE TATTOO, IF YOU OR WE FEEL IT NEEDS TO BE TOUCHED UP THERE IS NO CHARGE. ......If you would like to see some our artist work just click on “pics” under our profile photo on the left. ......We are open 10:00 am until 11:00 Pm 7 - days a week. Be sure to call for an appointment so your not waiting a long time. Try to avoid Friday and Saterday night, it’s always very busy especially during the spring and summer months. The best time to call is before noon. ............We also do piercing, but you won't need an appointment for that..............................................Why We Don’t Tattoo Hands, Faces or Necks. ……I don’t want people to think we are square or judge mental but for 34 years our shop policy has all ways been not to tattoo on hands faces or necks. For 25 years we wouldn’t even tattoo on females arms with out a long talk about how people would feel about tattoos so visible on a persons arms. …… Things change. Now you can’t walk into a happening night spot with out seeing pretty girls with full sleeves or large coverage of tattoos on them. Most the time they have more than the guys their with. (we tattoo on twice as many females as males. …… Its human nature to do things when your young with out thinking about what the long term ramifications will be. Lets face it, we have all done things on the spur of the moment when we were young that we regretted. ….. I never wanted to be responsible for someone not being able to get a job they are after because of a tattoo they can’t hide. Over the years so many people have walked into my studio and asked me to cover a tattoo they hate on their hands or knuckles with flesh colored ink. Even if it sounds great it just doesn’t work. The only reliable method is to have it removed with a laser. Done properly can take many sessions and be quite expensive. Costing 10 times the price of the tattoo…… Although permanent skin art has becoming more and more popular and it seems 35% of the population has them, there is still a lot of prejudice against tattoos. I have a complete body suit of tattoos (mostly by Ed Hardy) starting at my wrist going to my neck and ending at my ankles. But still, I can put on a long sleeve shirt and go meet the new landlord, in-laws, go to traffic court ect. I find it a true advantage being able to cover my tattoos when I want to. People can’t help but judge people on their preconceived notions. ….. I have made it my life’s work giving people a way of to express themselves with art in a permanent way. Them being happy with what I leave them with is the most important thing to me. Wild Bill........................................................ . William Hill, owner of Wild Bills Tattooing in Roseville, California built his first tattoo machine at age 14 and began experimenting with tattooing on himself and his friends. .......His first tattoo was a girls name, his second tattoo was covering it up. He never saw a tattoo studio until three years later, and knew at that moment that’s what he wanted to do with his life. Bill bought his first tattoo business license in 1974........................................................ .. With a love of motorcycles that was passed down from his father, (also named Bill) the younger Bill rode around on his Harley raising hell. Being known to party a little too much and getting in trouble with the law, that’s what gave him the nick name Wild Bill......... Bill decided to stop drinking at age 20. He noticed right away that things started to go much better for him after that. He still has not drank to this day and is enjoying a clean and sober life. ........................................ Traveling to places having Tattoo and motorcycle events like: Florida, Virginia, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Arizona, Utah, Chicago, Georgia, New York, L.A. New Orleans, San Diego, Texas and Seattle. With a camera shooting photos everywhere he went and submitting them to magazines................................................... .................................................... He has had 1,000's of photos published in Tattoo Magazine, Skin Art, Easyriders, In The Wind, Iron Horse, Outlaw Biker and Biker Lifestyle ............................................................ ................................... He also wrote articles to go along with the photos, covering Tattoo conventions, heavily tattooed bands, Motorcycle Ice Races, All Harley Drags and other biker events. In fact Wild Bill's all chrome 1966 shovelhead has been the centerfold and on the cover of more magazines than any other motorcycle to this date. He has owned the same motorcycle for over 34 years. When he wasn’t traveling, Bill tattooed his subjects, and this developed into a very busy career of tattooing. .........Bill’s whole body is covered in mostly black and gray tattoos. Why mainly black and gray? Bill says it seems to be so much more realistic, showing the detail and true depth and dimension of the art work. One of Bills favorite quotes is "Colors for kids." He feels black and gray wears well with time and looks better with the tan most Californians sport year-round ............................................................ ...... Traveling all over the country photographing Tattoo Conventions shooting photos for the Tattoo magazines. He also went on tour with tattooed bands such as The Cadillac Tramps, The Alley Boys, Mud Helmet ............................................................ ................ Mike Ness of Social Distortion ............................................................ ...................White Zombie ........... ...................................... ...............................TheStrayCats................. ............................................................ ......................writing stories to go along with the photos he shot........................................................ ................. Bill was on the front page of the first Tattoo magazine ever printed. He also had 38 photos on the inside. There were no tattooist credits back then. He fought for years with the editors to get not only photo credits but tattooist credits also because people wanted to know who did the artwork they were looking at. Bill went on to become the studio and cover photographer for Skin Art Magazine, Tattoo Expo, Tattoo Tour, Tattoos for Men, Tattoos for Women. He has over 40 centerfolds and magazine covers to his credit........................... Bill's mentor in the photography world was Billy Tinney (Easyriders top Photographer). Helping Billy in the studios they would set up in hotel rooms at tattoo conventions taught him alot about shooting layouts for the magazines. Bill got so close an spent so much time with Billy he would refer to him as his "dad"....................................................... .................................................... Wild Bill is both a tapestry of artwork and an artist. He has been named Best Tattooed Male at Tattoo Conventions four times. He has attended over 50 shows and has a whole wall of trophies that he received for his tattoos. The shop was named Sacramento's Number One Tattoo Studio of 2008 by the Sacramento Business Journal. Also Sacramento Magazine has named his studio “Best Tattoo Studio” nine years running. .........Bill entered and won the logo contest in 1984 for the anniversary logo on Roseville’s outgoing mail cancellation mark. So all the out going mail bears his artwork. ............................................................ ...........................................Pain. This sensation is one feared by many people who are wishing to get a few tattoos of their own. When asked if it hurts, Bill says, "Of course it does. Is it unbearable? No." In fact, there is a common misconception that it hurts less if you’re drunk. This is untrue. When you’re drunk, you focus on the immediate sensation, but when you’re sober you can focus on other things. The stinging sensation diminishes after several minutes, and the area being tattooed becomes numb. Afterward the skin is only slightly red and itchy, and that lasts for only a few days. After a while it can even become addicting. Bill says, "Most people after three tattoos, they’re hooked." ............Bill moved into an upstairs storefront on Vernon Street around 1974. At first it was just him tattooing now there is 12 full time tattooist and pierces ....... ................... Above Tattoo by ANGLE ...........So what happens when you come in? Well, hopefully you have an appointment because if you do you’re guaranteed an artists time. But if you don’t you may be waiting a while. However most of the time they can squeeze in a piercing.........The walls of the studio are covered with artwork called flash, with a space covered in newspaper articles about Bill, the artist that work for him, his studio, and his cars. There are racks and racks of flash, cases of piercing jewelry (over 4,000 pieces) and waiting chairs sprinkled about as well. While you’re waiting you can look at the flash and jewelry, read one of the numerous articles, or just relax in one of the waiting chairs. Just don’t ask any dumb questions like "Does it hurt?" ............The first time I walked into a tattoo shop in 1972 at age seventeen I knew that’s what I wanted to do with my life. I had been tattooing by hand and with machines that I built since I was 14. .........It took many years of 10-12 hour days and hard work to get where I am today, make no mistake about that. I drew every spare moment I had, a lot of the time with a pen , so it was a lot like tattooing because there is no eraser. But pencil will always be my favorite medium. I liked the depth and dimension that could be achieved by making shadows in grays. At age 18 I got tattooed in Sacramento by Broadway Bob. I saw right away that wasn’t quite the style I was after. Then I Met Pete Stevens and started getting a lot of tattoos at his “East Coast Studio” in Sacramento on 16th + H Street by Pete, his partner Dennis and Bill Liberty.......................... .........I remember getting tattooed by Bill Liberty and showing him my drawings and the tattoo machines I built with the aspirations of opening my own tattoo shop. I told him, all I need now is some people to practice. He told me with the art you’re doing, that shouldn’t be a problem. He was right.................................................I decided on the town of Roseville because it had never had a tattoo shop. I didn’t want to step on the toes of anyone that had helped me, unlike the mentality of a lot of the new generation tattooist that open up right down the street from established shops (that they tattooed in) using the owners contacts, connections and methods hoping to cash in on their success. It just does not work that way and they will realize that when someone opens up down the street from them. ......................................................... ........I then met Kevin Brady and liked his style of custom tattooing. Him not want to tattoo the same thing on two people impressed me. Kevin Brady had went on the road with some rock and roll bands and was very hard to get in touch with. He started making trips to my studio to work on my left thigh. One day he spent 10 hours on a large roller skating skeleton on my leg. I told him I wanted to get some of that oriental style of full body tattooing. Kevin showed me the book “The Tattooist” with the work of Don Ed Hardy in it. The photos of his work were awesome, unlike anything I had seen before. .........San Francisco had a lot of tattoo shops so I visited every one. That’s where I met Pat Martynuik we hit it off right away. In fact the first day he grabbed me and said I had a bare spot. He filled in that area in less than fifteen minutes. I watched how efficient he ran his studio. How he kept everything well stocked. And always had every thing ready to tattoo. Pat tattooed all the way around both my wrist in Japanese style. Pat was very open with me. He taught me the secrets of how to adjust and tune machines and make needle bars with out wasting time. Rest in Peace Pat.……… With a love of electronics and tinkering passed down from his father he build his first tattoo machine at age 14 out of wood and a doorbell buzzer. Working out of a little tattoo shop in his bedroom closet he started to use plastic and then aluminum for his machines. Believing that a steel frame would have a loss in quality because of the magnetic memory (becoming magnetized) would distort the electromagnetic field generated by the coils..... Led him to never use anything but aluminum machines to tattoo his whole career. .....Hanging out exchanging ideas and picking the brains of every older more experienced tattooist and machine builders he met let him to come up with his own concepts of how machines should be built. ...... The aluminum machines he was building were some of the lightest around. Many other tattooist from other states and countries had him build machines for them. He has over 100 machines in his collection. Mostly aluminum, single coil or custom one of a kind machines. He has become somewhat of "a connoisseur of fine aluminum machinery" ............................................................ ............................................. ..........Thinking I needed an Asian tattooist to achieve the oriental look I found Pinky Yang of Alameda. While he was tattooing on me he advised me to go see Don Ed Hardy if I wanted that oriental style. ..........Well that’s all it took. I tracked down Ed in San Francisco at his studio called Tattoo City. He was booked up but he introduced me to Bob Roberts who showed me a calendar with a tattoo of a girl pulling down her pants with a tattoo on her leg, that was done by Jack Rudy. The moment I saw it I knew that’s the style I wanted to learn to do more than the oriental style. Bob then showed me photos of his work. It was this fantastic, single needle fine line all black and gray tattooing. After Bob did some of that work on me I was hooked. I knew I would never be the same. I threw away all the color ink I had and never did another color tattoo again. ..........I started making monthly trips to see Bob Roberts and we became very close. He was very open with me, always willing to show me the solution to any tattoo problems. I learned all about needle clusters from him and always will be grateful. Bob would take this small town boy out on the big city streets of San Francisco after tattooing all day and show me things I had never seen before. I guess you could call that my coming of age. .........I finally got in to see Don Ed Hardy. I was very impressed with the full coverage body tattoos he was doing. My monthly trips started to include getting tattooed by Ed . A lot of the time I would be tattooed by Ed 5-6 hours and then get worked on by Bob 3-4 hours. That made for some long days, that’s for sure! It would leave me very drained but I was starting to get the coverage I was after. ....................................... Ed Hardy was humble, a no nonsense tattooist unlike any other I had ever met. Starting work at ten in the morning and wearing a tie while he worked was not what I was used to. His whole outlook on life was something I admired greatly. Ed told me once you think you’re the best you stop learning. That’s something that has always stayed with me. ...........Once my arms and both sides of my chest was completed I was ready for my ribs. I knew it was going to be a major undertaking. I wanted large, big work. At the time I belonged to 20+ tattoo clubs world wide. I had been writing the president of the tattoo club of Japan and he had sent me some art work of a tattooed Japanese woman. The moment I saw it I knew that’s what I wanted on my rib cage............................. I took it to Ed and he worked on me a total of 8 hours that day. For the other rib cage I chose a tattooed woman drawn by Olivia. Ed spent 7 hours on that one. I will never forget the look on Olivias face when she saw my tattoo for the first time at a tattoo convention in L.A.. She loved it and said it was the first major tattoo of her art work she had seen. I noticed she spent a lot of time taking photos of it. ..........I began hanging out at Henry Goldfields on the famous Broadway in San Francisco watching the work of Greg Irons. He was a well know comic book artist that had not been tattooing all that long but doing fantastic black and gray work. I was fortunate to be able to get some portrait work by him before he passed away much to young....................................................... .... I booked five full days in December 1981 with Ed “Don the Dog” Hardy. I showed up and Told Ed that I wanted a demon riding a motorcycle all in black and gray covering my entire back and butt. Ed was known to be doing the best color work in the U.S. He said if I wanted black and gray, I should go to L.A. and see Jack Rudy, “He likes to do that type of high detail mechanical work“. I told him no, I wanted him to do it. After it was finished on the fifth day, Bob Roberts worked on my solar plexus. That made for a lot of tattoo work for sure. I had never been so worn out in my life. .........Afterwards Ed invited me to a dinner an with about ten other people with body suits in progress at the Japan center. I was quite honored. A lot of Ed will always be with me, (not just because he did the majority of my tattoos) but because he had a very large impact on my life................................................. ...........I first ran into Jack Rudy while he was tattooing on some young upstart named Brian Everett in a hotel room in Virginia . At the time I had no idea what a positive effect Brian would have on my life. .........I went to visit Jack Rudy in East L.A. to do photos for a tattoo magazine story I was working on about him. .........We got along quite well and I felt his portfolio work was the Holy Grail of tattooing. Every time I went to draw or tattoo I would think, How would Jack do it ? We shared a room at many tattoo conventions, tattooing well into the night. In fact while in Philadelphia we both tattooed on Jim “The Snake” Nyhan at the same time. I remember him saying after two or three hours whose idea was this anyway? Jack and I both looked at him and said at the same time and said, Yours! .........Tattooing next to Jack was a great opportunity to watch him work up close. Finally he had some time for me and did an awesome portrait on my abdomen . One of the most talked about tattoos on me is the realistic portraits of my parents Jack did above my knee while we were in San Diego at a Convention. ...........I kept running into the work of...................................Brian Everett at conventions and started to watch his work very closely. The realism in his work was really making it stand out. I had him do a life size portrait that took almost nine hours on my thigh. Believe it or not I had to stand the entire time. That tattoo has won more than ten awards................................Brian and I got together at car shows, conventions or at my studio whenever he was available. He completed my right leg in fine line black and gray. ...........................................................I ncluding portraits of my parents wedding day. He also did our shop logo, my 1915 ford and my Panoz roadster on me. Brian is a true family man with very high values that I admire greatly. His work on me blows people away both young and old. I truly feel he is one of the top black and gray portrait tattooist in the world. ...........Kim Forrest did my left lower leg and kneecap. Including portraits of my father and a life size Harry Houdini holding a king of clubs. The black and gray style of tattooing with the high quality and attention to detail seems to have been instilled in her also. She is a very fast and efficient addition to the studio. ............Harley Haslem another talented artist working here in my studio tattooed parts of my ankles and the tops of my feet. I always thought I would be glad when my body suit was finished. But I am always finding things I would like on me but don’t have the room anymore. So always be picky what you get tattooed on yourself.................................................... ............................................................ ................... Wild Bills seems to be the unofficial tattooist of the Sacramento Kings basketball team. With a good portion of past and curent team members coming in and getting tattooed. Including: Chris Webber, Jayson Williams, Keon Clark, Bobby Jackson, Scot Pollard, Brad Miller and Mike Bibby.......... Another NBA player that comes in getting large work is Robert Swift, the center for the Seattle Sonics.................................. Every Feburary, the artists at Wild Bills work from 8 am until midnight without pay. (a fifteen hour tattoo marathon). That makes for a very long day. All the days procedes for tattoos, peircings, jewelry, shirts and even the artist tips. for the U.C. Davis Children’s Hospital. They do it every year and so far have raised over $78,000.00 for the Children’s Hospital.................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ...................... Wild Bill Hill & Nancy Ann Ginesi Were Married on December 8, 2007 By Elvis in a pink Cadillac at the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel. ...........They first met in 1979 at Wild Bills Tattoo Studio in Roseville Ca. Even though they had many mutual friends, the couple didnt see each other again for over 28 years. Bill says it was "love at second site". ...........Bill grew up in North Highlands and attended Highlands High School................................... Flying Ty's 1947 Twin Engined Beech 18 ...................... TY's 1947 TWIN ENGINED BEECH 18 touching down at the Grass Valley Airport........................................... Nancy has been flying for over 20 years and is a member of various pilot associations including the "99s International Organization of Women Pilots" started by Amelia Earhart in 1929.Nancy recieved the Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship and was named Woman Pilot of the Year in 2003 while she was chairman of the 99's............................................. Cessna 210 Float Plane, Knick Glacier Lake, Alaska................... Cessna 210 Float Plane, at the busiest Sea Plane Base in the World: Lake Hood Anchorage, Alaska ............................................. Eddie's 550 hp. Super Stearman......................................... Flying "INVERTED" with World Famous Stunt Pilot Eddie Andreini in his 550 horse powered, highly modified Super Stearman.................................................... ....... Nancy also flew for the Civil Air Patrol search and rescue team in South Lake Tahoe................................................ Nancy grew up in San Francisco and attended Santa Rosa Jr College where she earned her pilots license and has managed fight schools for over 15 years. ...................................... Her favorite airplane to fly and do stunts in is her 1940 "Stearman" Bi-plane (with over 200 hours logged in the cockpit). They were used as Navy trainers in WWII. ............The bride was given in marriage by her father, Remo Ginesi of Gold River. The wedding party included best man, Corky Pineau of Sacramento ................................................ Maid of honor Cheryl OHara of Portland and Maxx Siegel of Roseville was ring bearer. The reception was held in Las Vegas after the ceremony with friends and family at the New York, New York Hotel....................................................... ............................................................ ............ .....Brian Everett and Jack Rudy, two of his tattoo mentors, got him started going to custom car shows. This became an obsession with him. Today his garage is full of custom show cars and bikes including ............................................................ ... The shortened 1966 Volkswagen Van ............................................................ ................................................... 1932 Ford Phaeton ............................................. 1915 Brass and Wood Model-T Speedster ............................................................ ........... 1959 Messerschmitt made in west Germany by the airplane conpany ............................................................ ..................... 1989 Car Hauler that’s half a front wheeled truck wielded to a Car Trailer ....................................... ........................................... 2002 Panoz AIV Roadster ............................................................ .................. This is the first Panoz Esperante out of the factory in 2005 that Bill helped design. It is all aluminum, frame, body, motor, trany, and wheels. A hardtop version of this won the 24 hours of Le Manns race in France last year........................................................ . ..............................Nancy's 2007 Pontiac Solstice ................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ .............................1964 Amphicar, ............................................................ ....... Nancy's 1940 Stearman ............................................................ ............................................................ .................2008 LINCOLN MKX ............................................................ ............................................................ ...................................................... ..................1954 Porsche Spyder...................................................... ................................ A chromed 1966 Shovelhead Bills owned for over 33 years .............................................. an ½ sized old school chopper ............................................................ ................ Three Mini Bikes ...... ............................................................ .............................. three mini cars, 1925 stock Motel-T ............................................................ .........................................Gary Eisnhour Started taking Bill to races he was driving his car in.When the chance to ride with him came up he jumped at it. This got him hooked. Bill rode with gary evey chance he got. He started Sponsoring cars ............................................................ .............................. and motorcycles at the track.......... ........... Now there is quite a few sporting the Wild Bill Logo...(check out the Race Team by clicking on pics at the top of the page)