{"id":3765,"date":"2012-04-04T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punkoutlaw.com\/po09\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2012-04-04T13:49:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T17:49:17","slug":"were-heading-to-viva-las-vegas-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/2012\/04\/were-heading-to-viva-las-vegas-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re Heading to Viva Las Vegas Baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2006 I happened to be in Las Vegas for some business reason or another when Viva Las Vegas<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/a>was in town. I stumbled upon the pool party by accident and saw a guy named “Pachuco Jose y Los Diamantes”<\/a><\/strong><\/em> playing his brand of boogie woogie out by the pool and all these tattooed and retro looking people in a variety of dress swinging and dancing to the music and generally having a good old time.<\/p>\n

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The music was in Spanish… the crowd was at least 50% Latino and this was as entertaining of a scene as my NYC jaded eyes had seen in a long, long time. \u00a0I decided then and there that I’d be back the following year with cameras to feature the event on my syndicated TV show I was producing at the time, American Latino TV<\/a><\/strong><\/em> & LatiNation<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

In 2007 we returned and did just that. We spent a couple days there gathering footage and interviews, checking out the car shows, talking to pin up queens and rockabilly cats from as far away as Japan. We interviewed the founder Tom Ingram and gathered enough material to produce a few segments on the phenomena.<\/p>\n