Viva Las Vegas 2012...PART 3

Beautiful at poolside...

Here we go with my final and largest enstallment  of Viva Las Vegas 15 coverage.

Viva VLV!!

Aly Hellcat

Bo Huff with the So Cal. Throttle Kings C.C. 

Beautiful...with Stephanie Lee Panos, Maxine Ashleigh Johnston,Cervena Bramwell & KandyK Modela

CHEERS TO THE TAILDRAGGERS!!

The Nevada/Vegas TailDraggers C.C. hosted a huge 5 year anniversary party for their statewide club with chapters from all over the country. The club posted an invite on Facebook for all to join them Friday in the car show parking lot for free food (great tacos!), PBR and live music supplied by
The Scoundrels (at The ScoundrelsMusic.com). Unfortunately, I had to miss the band's performance but I heard it was great and dig the 4 song CD I bought there at the show.
Here are some of the TailDragger's rides...

More Taildraggers...

Elaina Soto

The Sailor Jerry Girls

This little fella got around!! I've seen some wild photos on Facebook.

Finally, one of the big draws to the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender...is duh, the great Rockabilly bands that perform all day and night! We Phoenicians were there to support two of our local bands that played VLV this year, the Moonlight Howlers & Voodoo Swing.

After all day shooting, when nightfall came I forced myself to put the camera away and enjoy the bands and time with friends. Brendan's Pub at the Orleans Hotel was packed for both our AZ bands!
Voodoo Swing went on at 10:45 Friday night and rocked the place...I could no longer just sit and watch. I made my way to the stage and recorded this iPhone video. I missed a bit of the first verse, but got most of it. As you'll see, they kicked ass! Enjoy, "Keep On Rollin'".

Check Voodoo Swing out at Electric Lotus Label

That concludes my Viva Las Vegas 15 coverage!

I want to thank Dozer and the Taildraggers for the Friday party!

Also, my friend, model & artist, Elaina Soto for her time. Check out her work

Elaina Soto's Art & Contact info for modeling at Model Mayhem

And of course my Bomb Squad brothers, Paddy, Courtney, Leeroy, Shorty, Tommy and our caravan of Az amgios.

What a weekend!!!

See you there Next year!

Lake Havasu Rockabilly Reunion 2012!!

The beautiful, Jade.

In it's fourth year the Lake Havasu Rockabilly Reunion (LHRR) has definitely established itself as the biggest of it's kind in Arizona (this may have been the case last year...but I didn't go, now I can confirm it:)
I can't estimate numbers, but the second day, Saturday, had a huge turnout. As stated in the title, there was Rockabilly and plenty of it --- the bands kicked ass. There were more pretty pin-ups than I have ever seen in one place, I'm guessing around 30 that day...and you couldn't throw an empty PBR can without hitting a cool kulture vendor....not that I tried.
The one thing there could have been a lot more of....traditional rods & customs. This isn't a complaint, just a yearning a few of us had discussed while walking the car show area. All in all, the LHRR delivered and I'm looking forward to attending the whole 3 day event next year.
Here's some of what I saw.....

This Galaxy won the award below and was a standout at the car show.

The lovely Karina. A school teacher who was competing in the pageant with one of her students.

Here's Jason Lawson's wicked '57. This is how the Usuals Social Club C.C. rolls. Unfortunately (on many levels) a Camero parked up against it before I could get a side shot. But this car was photographed in my December Mooneyes coverage.

Chris Sneed was happily striping at the show.

Here's our "Reunion" part of the show. We got to hang out with our So Cal club amigos. The hang-time with clubs is the best part of any show, and the conversations always get to the planning of meeting again at the next one.

The beautiful, Coco...I had to go all the way to Havasu to meet a Chandler neighbor.

"Fishnets" my buddy from the Tempe Rockabilly Reunion....she won the Psychobilly pageant again in Havasu.

Jade, letting her 'stockin's do the talkin'....

On the right, Rafael with the band "Moonlight Howlers" rocked the place on Friday, then headed out on their European tour Monday.

Immortal Bastard at the wheel.

Pinup beauties!

Every where...pretty ladies.

The Rhythm Dragons always deliver. Great set!!

The lovely hostesses of the LHRR: Kim Falcon, KandyK Modela, Carly Deville & Maybell Lee

The "Booze Bombs" are a great band from Germany. Check them out.

A Hudson, checking out a Hudson.

The lovely, Stephanie

I do not recall this beauty's name -- but what a sweetheart.

"Voodoo Swing" rocked the hell out of the place!

LEEROY!

The crowd was pumped!!

What a performance!!!

Chelsea the pinup taking shots of her Voodoo man, Wes, on bass (below)

Bindi Baby on stage with Voodoo Swing...what a voice!

Oh Maybelle!

Coco behind the wheel...hope to see her at a local show soon.

Sun setting on Lake Havasu just feet from the stage.

Well there's the quick wrap-up. Our Saturday turn-around trip from Phoenix to Lake Havasu was well worth it. I missed portions of the show due to the distance of the car-show area from the action taking place by the stage...unfortunately one can't simultaneously enjoy both and this is typical of most shows of this magnitude. 

We headed out around 6:30 to grab some dinner and head back to Phoenix ---it was hard to leave knowing the Chop Tops were still going to play and the event hadn't run out of beer yet...

Looking forward to hearing promoter Kennie Cupetelli's plans for the Tempe Reunion coming up toward the end of the year. 

See you the whole three days of the next Lake Havasu Rockabilly Reunion next February!