The Truth About Las Vegas’ Tattoo Scene | Needles & Pins with Grace Neutral Episode 1

I'm Grace Mutua, a

tattoo

artist from London. I just did it by hand, so I just have a

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needle attached to a stick. When I was young, tattooing felt like a small world, it was a radical act of self-expression that could shock your parents, I'm a little tattooed at the moment, I feel so good today, even though it's everywhere, from mainstream to underground , how Gracie wouldn't look if she didn't. I'm traveling the world to meet the artists, the rebels and the weirdos. who made this niche hobby a global industry and nowhere else in the world has the industry been commoditized as much as our next stop, what better place to have a good time than Las Vegas, sure, come on, it may have dropped 700, but hey, it's been a good weekend I love the people I love the energy that goes against the matching tattoos why not yeah, what do you think is going to happen in Las Vegas?

What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. There are many tattoos to choose from so I'm not sure which one. tattoo shop to choose from we are in las

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a place that if I'm honest I never wanted to visit

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it turns out however if you want to understand the world of tattoo in 2016 you can't help but go From 20 to more than 200 tattoo shops in the last 10 years Las Vegas is experiencing a tattoo boom and I've come here to find out how Las Vegas has become one of the leading cities in the US $2.3 billion tattoo industry that I've ever been to. like full weddings, for one year olds who want to get drunk and throw up everywhere and then get a tattoo that reminds them of Las Vegas, how often do they get these Las Vegas souvenirs in their taxi?

People ask me all the time because I am very tattooed so they ask me what is the best place to get this and that tattooed. I recommend it beautifully because they are 24 hours and they do walk-in visits. I've never been here with my shirt called anything remotely close. Yes, girls, girls love that, so you've taken punters before and led them right to their tattoos. Oh yeah, I actually hung out with them afterwards. I met a lot of great people years ago. I took these two girls, I don't know, I guess lipstick terms are lesbians and totally into each other, but very hot, so they went there and wanted to get their nipples pierced.

Next thing I know I'm just counting. I told them about my piercings and told them I have a test bed for anyone who doesn't know what it is. It is a soft and permanent piercing. Oh yeah, he looks at her girlfriend and says, "Oh my God, that's so funny." She says, "Let's do it." Let's do it, honey, so next stand next to Paul and ask the manager again. I tell the doorman, hey buddy, I have to go upstairs and get paid. He looks at me and starts laughing around the room having a good time with both of us. of them was amazing, it's probably one of my best taxi rides, yes, oh yes, I'm looking for Hi Grace, please, I'll see you.

I'm asleep to meet you. This is something that is very common in Las Vegas within 24 hours. the police were going to say it's been there for about 10 years they will block the driveway and won't let anyone in and it's very indicative of Las Vegas I mean we make them chase people around the store and around the back back. and over the fence we have seen accidents, we have seen people who are left without shoes in the front. A taxi driver recommended me to come here when he told me the name. I said, "Okay, we definitely need to check this place out." Can you tell me a little about the name?

Honestly, we were joking. I had an airbrush team at the Oz festival to touch up boobs all day. They made me a clown for having naked people with us, so they called me. My mom said, "You know you love me." come here and slap you, you can't call that business, what's wrong with you, you know, I raised you different than that, what was the whole concept of why you wanted it to be 24 hours, uh, turns out Las Vegas has um, a demand for a 24 hour tattoo shop, 24 hour city, we're already past midnight, the shop is still busy, we'll wait a little longer and see if anyone else shows up and what they want tattooed, you can almost call them. when they come and say that we want to get tattoos, the three of us on a bus.

I just got my first piercing. Oh, your earlobes, I pulled the left one down again. I have my nickel. Hey, for the record, they both look like this. Well, oh, you weren't sure, my friend Joe says a guy wants a tattoo on his forehead, he was going to prison for the rest of his life, so he wanted a souvenir for his parole officer, he wanted to save you in forehead and I wanted a baseball cap, so when I went to his office I could say look, I bought you something in Las Vegas, this is one of the first places I got tattoos.

I thought the name was cool and I thought I wanted something crazy, so I didn't want to go to these really cute places. You know, I was born and raised in Las Vegas, so my parents basically emancipated me when I was 14. 17. They locked me up until I was 21. I came out. He was conducting a lot of robberies. That night we did seven robberies and that was it for me that night I made some money and then one after another the people involved were locked up and finally they broke down the door and one bad night that was all it took all my tattoos.

They are based in Las Vegas. I've been back and forth in different states, but I always come back. It's a part of me even in the bad parts of town. You know that I love. I do not go anywhere. Precious. It attracts people from all walks of life in Las Vegas. The life and the fact that it is open 24 hours a day helps its popularity, particularly with the nighttime crowd. However, the next store I'll visit is all about the tourist business and is actually located inside a casino on the Strip. I'm going to go to a tattoo club, which is a tattoo shop on planet Hollywood, which is a crazy big building full of shops, casinos and restaurants and yeah, it's a little overloaded right now, the ceiling is really giving me Turns around, looks at the ceiling, I feel like I'm outside. but I'm in that's amazing it's like a bad acid trip right there so here we are I'm at the tattoo club it looks huge it looks like a closed door meet Thora and own the club's tattoo franchise a business that has made her multimillionaires amazing, can you show me around?

Yes, come on, so many people, it's usually like that. It's actually a very light crowd, it's usually deep, yeah yeah, sometimes it's hard to walk here. We have a lot of people here. As? Do you control the crowds? a lot of staff your age tattoos tattoo shops have been a dark and seedy and not so clean environment where people don't feel comfortable one of the first things you want to make sure of is when designing the space that women will want to come here to that not only can they spend their money, but they will also spend their men's money and their friends' money, they will bring everyone here and the women will trust the women, the men will trust the women because you have six stores in total. six locations yeah okay this is our flagship store at Miracle Mile Shops Planet Hollywood.

We've created a new tattoo shop environment and someone understands the tattoo club and knows the experience they're going to get, whether it's in Arizona, Los Angeles, London or Las Vegas. Vegas, how many stations do you have? We actually have four in the front and we have two private ones in the back for tattoos that shouldn't be in the window. This is our interactive tattoo. It's exclusive to us here at Club Tattoo. It was designed and patented by Sean they buy their designs here alphabetically we have designed the stage at this address here so that the artist can be here with the client and be part of the process and the tattoo artists I see there is a girl tattooing there how many artists do you have working here our service providers?

We have a predominantly male population, but we also have our female service providers. Is the service provider a tattoo? It is not like this? Yeah, okay, sorry, sorry, Thora and Shawn have created a new tattoo in Las Vegas. the experience is dazzlingly glamorous and you can buy a half-priced latte for a shopping perspective. This is great, however I can't understand why that means tattoo artists should be called service providers. The learning experience is literally blood sweat and tears and artists use that knowledge every day of their working life. I'm on my way to a store in Las Vegas that wants to offer a new route for aspiring artists that puts a twist on the traditional learning experience.

I'm in rebellion, tattoo it. It's one of the biggest shops in town and it's also the only shop in the state of Nevada that has its own tattoo school, which caught my attention because I'm not really sure what a tattoo school is. Hello Grace, welcome to our tattoo shop, this is where you will get the best tattoo experience in Nevada, oh yes the 8000 square foot tattoo mecca, yes we try to push innovation and technology here and you have a school in the back, come on, welcome to the institute. of modern tattoos 30 students, but we started small for our first inaugural class and we went with three and we're bringing in experts like tattoo experts, art experts, business experts, social media experts when you're working on your flash sheets, um , the reason I want the grand prize piece is because remember they are basically like your sales sheets, they are the things that are on your wall that will let your customers know that this is my work of art, this It's representative of me, this seems like a way to, I guess, just produce more tattoo artists in general, how much would a 35k yearly course cost if you're trying to work with an elite artist who doesn't have the time on their hands?

This is the best way to get a real education from someone who knows what they are doing. the people that are out there, if their apprenticeship was so good and their old school way of doing it was so good, you might want to pick up your game because these little kids are going to be ready when they hit the streets, I think an apprenticeship is like a right of passage between one person passing on their sacred knowledge to another, that to me is like the heart of the tattoo, well, we can date. I'm interested in what the students think, do they feel like they are becoming one? -to one because I think the amount of time to see why they chose this is right, choosing this row instead of finding a traditional yes, so this is Corbin.

He was actually tattooing in his garage and he walked up to one of our artists and said, "Hey, look." my stuff and we quickly said this is not a good way to do it, we have an idea for you, what do you think about it? I have heard many stories of people being scammed like they paid a lot of money for nothing if someone gets an apprenticeship at a studio they have to pay the artist properly. Look, where I'm from is unheard of. Why did you want to become a tattoo artist? Ever since I saw a show at Miami Inc.

I saw what it could be. like in shop life and stuff like that so I started practicing like tattoo style art when their portfolios at the end of this are getting views on social media, they have followers even before they officially become tattoo artists and they have good work where they can present raw skin like I can tattoo look what I've done that's what will get them the job nothing we actually do is another student jenna hi jenna I was looking for tattoo apprenticeships I just started learning how to tattoo so I can moving into animation and to be honest it seemed like the best option.

It's a little expensive, probably a little more expensive than other apprenticeships. That's the only thing I didn't really look at and do. I'm sorry. I'm heading here, I just realized these tips look at this, you can get beautiful results with a machine like this, it's beautiful work, I'm not going to lie to you, but it's completely different than getting this tattooed. tattooing your skin, so I feel like it would give someone an unrealistic idea of ​​what it's like to put ink like you do here on a skin, you'd break them into a piece, yeah, you'd put it out. rip them up if you're going to let someone practice this for many months and then they'll think that's how you tattoo skin, it's really going to cheer people up when they actually start ripping.

The skin doesn't come off true to tattoos, so how do we get to where students feel the skin bouncing like that kind of thing tends to be? You know, melons work great. Melon, yes, melons and grapefruits, to say the least. that that's not a way you know of doing it we're just looking for you know our way for our students yeah are they tattoo artists that are doing this or are they just guys that aren't in the industry looking to see this industry is very popular , TRUE? we can make money, could it be, I mean, I'm not saying it's not that, I think there are companies that are like that, that's not our company revolt it was a new experience for me, like the guys there seemed so sweet to me and really Awesome, I can definitely see why people like it because you know they walk in there and see the big wide screen TV and all the camerasand there's a lot going on and as for school, I don't know, I don't know men like me. only 35 grand for a year for a struggling artist to pay to learn how to tattoo, i think it's crazy, it feels like the tattoo shop casino you know, along with tattoos and gambling, the other Prominent industry in the city is the over 80,000 weddings that take place here every day. year and in front of many of the chapels in the tattoo shops that work in the passing trade a match made in heaven today is Megan and John's big day and with Brian as best man I am stepping up his bridesmaid boy man I love you friend boy I need Foundation here follow me to the main chapel everyone can settle in there and actually there is a table yeah okay let's go in and put on some makeup get ready what's your name?

Grace Grace Elvis. So on Halloween night we will have about 85 weddings, all in this setting and you should really enjoy it. Oh no, it's very funny. it's just that you have to keep moving, especially on Halloween, you'll have so many people at every wedding, you'll have everyone in costume and you might meet 80, 80 people at every wedding, so you have like 80 shows. doing exactly this is very strange, I am very excited, the ceremony will be beautiful, it will be in the cemetery room, it is very gothic, there are some candles, it will be amazing, it will have a kind of vampire atmosphere, something that I will always defend.

I'm very excited, I feel like it's my wedding. Today we will guide you throughout the ceremony. Do you have any black roses by any chance? I'm not well. Can you promise me a nice butt? Otherwise you would have wasted my time, John, please investigate. Megan's eyes and repeat after me I John I take you Megan I John I take it to be my partner in life to be my partner now Megan I am Megan take your job to be my partner in life who has the rings if you take the ring you I am going to give this ring is symbolic, this ring is a symbol of my promises to you, of my promises to you, but then, by the power that has been conferred on me and throughout Transylvania, Count Dracula will declare you a partner in life so we can kiss your lovely bride, I just witnessed how two people united their love in an inner bond and it was beautiful, did you enjoy the wedding, did you enjoy your best friend getting married, hey, I was skating and everything as you know, Like I'm in a well, you know, let's go? outta here are you ready to celebrate now uh yeah are you ready to celebrate now?

I love you uh the couple wants to remember this day forever by marking their skin that's where we're going to go, we're going to roll out the chapel straight to the chair tattoo hello, we're getting tattooed, yes, sometimes they come a little drunk, usually not We like to tattoo drunk people because they tend to move a little more seriously, I think she will be fine, he, I don't. I'm really very sure, who will go first? I, ladies, also like to get tattooed. I wanted something original and we were looking at skull and heart designs. We like skulls.

I don't know, it's something that people do, so marriage is important. of the world looks great baby how's young johnny walker there? He's probably crying. How does Johnny Walker feel? I understand why Megan and John wanted to get married this way, not many people can claim that Elvis gave them away and Dracula married them while the next couples arrive for their tattoos, I remember it's the conveyor belt of tourists that keeps business in this town afloat, that's what everyone knows Las Vegas for, coming here for a quick and nice wedding of course sometimes ends in a quick divorce for these newlyweds, their tattoos are a choice and a memory of their day Happy, however, there are others in Las Vegas who were never given a choice.

Las Vegas is notoriously regarded as an adult gambling venue, but often at detrimental costs escape tourists who can come and go without consequences. I'm leaving the main strip to visit the shelter project, a charity that has to deal with the consequences of the illicit sex industry in las vegas here they help women who have been marked with tattoos against their will by men who They force you to engage in the sex trade, how are you? oh well, how are you? Vegas seems to be a crazy place where people Can you explain to me what the other side of Las Vegas is like?

We want to give this image that you come here and you have fun and you can make all this money and you can go to all these big clubs that It's true, but we shouldn't ignore what's happening beyond the lights, you know, a lot of kids in the streets are forced to sell their body for money, most of them have gone through some type of violence, it could be sexual violence or street violence esther introduced me to lanaya she was groomed by a group of older men when she ran away from home and She was marked at the age of 15. this tattoo says sancha and it's a spanish term that means like the girl next door and me.

I got it tattooed while I was on the run and they provided me with the alcohol the next morning when I woke up I saw it there and I mean yeah I was scared a little bit, it's hard for me to get a job like people who are Hispanic and I know the meaning, they look at you different, I don't know if they'll take this away from me, it would make a big difference, like a big difference, seeing girls come in here with ownership tattoos , tattoos that have been given by their pimps or other destructive men in their life is something you see often, unfortunately we sell different types of barcodes under the wrist or on the back of the neck.

We had another girl who had here on the beach at the bottom of the chest so they could Removing those tattoos is like a window to start a new life and then I can see that you have another tattoo. Yes, I like photos like the rose ones better. This was my choice, so it's definitely a way you like to choose to express. Having a tattoo is always a choice, it is always a choice for that person what they get where they want it, but this is just a case of someone mutilating another person to own it.

Yes, last year I just realized that I can't stop at this. situation for the rest of my life Renee is an amazing young woman and coming to Las Vegas you know it's very easy to get caught up in this whole idea that it's some kind of crazy dreamland, it's like a fantasy world, but the reality is there. It's a gritty place with a seedy side and the fact that people are using tattoos to mark girls and trap them in sex work is disgusting, it's so hot here we're on the way to paramp which I've been told by some La People are like this crazy little desert town.

It will be very interesting to get off the Strip and off the madness of Las Vegas and see what the locals have to offer. Perrump with population 36,000 is the place to go to get away from it all. The town has some basic amenities to keep locals entertained, including a skate park, a couple of brothels, and two tattoo shops; the latter serves the clientele of the former. You can walk wherever you want here, hike in the mountains and camp. there for social and city stuff, there really isn't much to do here, anything there is to do, too many stipulations to go out and hang out in tattoo shops, yeah, I have quite a few, I mean, there's my mom, my Dad loves and hates, I mean.

If I could have more I would in a heartbeat, I'm due for another one if I could, I mean money is tight in the future at one of Nevada's many legal brothels. I'm about to meet some women whose tattoos are quickly becoming unique. outlets thank you

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I'm dina they start tours here and show you the menu of items that could possibly do this seems to turn a lot of people on which ones are the most popular here most half and half, half and half so they can dress up as students mixed and then fuck on the sex swing and watch yourself do it this seems fun, it looks like something out of the circus, have you ever seen a sex? advisor before no, no, you haven't seen a section, there are supposedly over 200 different positions on this and I can only think of 60.

Yes, I'm looking at some ways you could move forward on this. fun and you get your lunch, a bag lunch and a juice box and everything, so normally it would be like the girl is the teacher or do you ever like flip rolls where a guy comes in and wants a room for the students? It depends on how many girls he has, so I understand that you have been naughty. What are you going to do for me? How are you going to compensate me? Come here. I'm going to need you to bend over for me this week. here I can be Alex and it's so much fun and I go crazy and I enjoy it and then for three weeks I go home and I'm my real self, we have to be locked in, we stay here all the time.

You're here, you don't need the branch at all until you're done and that's for safety reasons, different counties have different laws, the law in my county where Sheri's is located is that we can't leave once we've been standard. tested we have to stay until we leave and then when we come back they test us again and I see you have a tattoo, I don't know, doctor, who, obviously, obviously is right, it was my first tattoo, my first. they once paid me 250 they have made me untold amounts of money, the number one reason someone makes an appointment with me here when I ask them, do you know why you chose me?

It's not the cute schoolgirl outfit that I'm wearing and my main image, although that one appears, the number one reason is that you got a tattoo of a doctor, so I knew there was something I was going to be able to talk to you about. Awesome, I have a power off button, well it's a power button and it's red. so it's off oh that's brilliant there's a couple of reasons it's off but my favorite is so I can tell people they have to turn me on yeah that's brilliant find a doctor tardis tattoo on a brothel in the middle of the desert.

Right in this otherworldly environment, before returning to the city, I will meet a group of artists who moved from Las Vegas to live a simpler life here in the country. How are you? Well how are you? Pleased to meet you. Very kind. I met you too, what inspired you to open a store here? Nothing against Vegas, it was just that instead of trying to do seven tattoos a day to see how much money I could make, I'd rather be here tattooing one or two people. one day and be a little nicer to them and how long have you been tattooing 17 years started in 99 yeah I started in Las Vegas in a strip shop I'm sure you've seen a couple of those strip shops yeah. the las vegas strip oh yeah yeah yeah it's very stripper obviously we're working on it but what inspired you to become a tattoo artist one day my brother came home with a tattoo just a tribal design on his forearm, and when I saw I told him that really doesn't seem that hard, man, I told him I should do that and he said, uh, if you want to do it, I'll buy you whatever you need.

What about your parents? My mom supports me. My dad. Not so much, she basically told me that what she was doing was bad for people and that this is God's creation and I'm ruining it. Well, when I was three years old I had retinoblastoma, which is a form of cancer that grows behind the eye. and in fact they had to remove my entire eye. Having an eye doesn't really affect my tattoo. I have had my prosthetic eye since I was three years old. You know, I've had it for 21 years and it's not like that. I didn't even realize, oh sick, how long did that take, two or three, three hours, now I'm trying to take it easy, but no, it looks good, it looks evil.

I'm a big fan of big cats with kneeling heads, like twisted looking animals, we've actually been in the store for about a year and some changes, they're all very calm, we don't have many crazy people, you know, Johnny and his team find that their lives outside of Las Vegas are much more rewarding as tattoos. es and before I leave they wanted to show me one of the reasons why the boys brought me to the dry bed lake, which is like outside of Perramp, as you can see, it's beautiful, I feel like I'm in a Mad Max movie in this moment.

The sky is divine, so we have five truckloads of semi-automatic weapons, guessing they will come and shoot here and also shoot some targets or we will see that this is a pretty standard semi-automatic AR-15. automatic, same magazine, fed semi automatic, there's been kind of a crime wave at the tattoo shops in town, these guys walk in there with guns as soon as they pull up, I saw one of them brandish a gun they were with about to enter. I walked into the store and walked out to the parking lot and we filmed it in broad daylight.

They didn't hit me, but I hit two of them, hit one five times, and hit the other several times. I have heard that. had passed away and I heard that the other one was in very bad condition. I was born in Dubai and my parents used to take me to the desert for camping trips and stuff, but not like this, like it wasn't so crazy. max like a desolate and harsh wasteland this is yes, I feel like I'm in a crazy movie it's incredible, that's what we were looking for twenty years ago, tattoo shops and casinos were unheard of and reality showstattoo shows were unthinkable.

I'm visiting one of the oldest tattoo shops in town kitty tattoos to reflect on how attitudes have been changing within the Las Vegas industry, let's go to the office and talk, let's do this how long have you had this studio ? I've been here since 1997 and became a kitten. in '99 and we haven't stopped, it was the first custom store in the history of Las Vegas, everything else was flash. Do you feel like turkey shops come and go in Las Vegas? I think everything comes and goes in Las Vegas. I mean, it's a transient city, you know?

We blow up the casinos if they're not pretty anymore. When I started tattooing it wasn't easy to look like that, you know? And I mean, I literally remember moments on any street or in any store where people would get out of my way. We're like the second most tattooed city, I think after Miami, so this is a really good city for tattoos. We have the tourist market, which seems like it should be a lot of money, but now there are tattoo shops in most of the casinos I own. I actually looked at some of the casino tattoo shops and saw your face when you mentioned it.

Can you expand on that a little bit? I don't hate anyone who makes a living, but once you get to the level where you're in a casino. It's just a corporate thing. I know when I walk by them they sell a lot more t-shirts than they tattoo, so if you want a 200 tattoo, the artist wants 200, well now the house wants 200 and the casino wants 200. So a 200 tattoo It ends up costing 600 for a butterfly. What does the tattoo

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have to offer people in Las Vegas? There are so many good tattoo artists. It is easier for young people to enter now, but they are entering a saturated market.

I hope in 10 or 20 years it won't be full of these whiny little artists who just started tattooing two years ago. I've talked to tattoo artists who are younger and they just say hey jerry that's it and I'm like mother that needle. what you're wearing was designed by sailor jerry we sterilized our tubes thanks to sailor jerry you can't rule out who was tattooing this man it's so artistic and amazing now but many of these tattoos are not long lasting because they forget bold lines big fields of black colors shiny, that's a tattoo, they're doing these amazing pieces for photography, they put them on Instagram, you look at it six weeks later, it's gone, you know, so little respect for the old mother, what it would have been like in Las Vegas.

In the past, if I had walked into a tattoo studio and said I wanted a job, I mean, there have always been women in the industry that you remember like Kate Helen Brown, she was Sailor Jerry's last apprentice. I met her a long time ago. A couple of times she's a sweet old lady and she came in when, if you were a woman trying to get in well, that just meant you had to suck off all the guys in the store, we don't have to keep the old guard if we keep the old guard . guard and it was like it used to be then so tattooing would be shit you just go to another biker shop and I've only apprenticed with two people in my life and they're both women because I just think there I should be encouraged by Dark's take on the things and even more so for their support of female artists in the industry in the next season.

Furthermore, she is her most recent apprentice. Amy Tattooing is a male dominated industry and I want to hear your experience as a young artist growing up in Las Vegas, the tattoo industry is still very much a male dominated industry, I thought I had to prove myself more for the respect that he wanted, do you feel like that's something you have to do? Many people will not take you seriously as a woman or will think that you are willing to do something more during your apprenticeship. I've had this conversation with several other female artists and I let them know that you don't feel the need to do anything other than your art, what is it like being a young woman growing up in Las Vegas as a child?

You walk through downtown Las Vegas and there are women walking around with pasties on their nipples and nothing else, you are very sexualized. and people don't necessarily look at you with the same level of respect. There is such a big industry here and women make money doing it. I can't imagine the strip appeals to you so much. What do you do for yourself? I guess the problem with Las Vegas is that it's not a place for young people, so whatever

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exists for young people they've created Candy War Pop, which is my kind of angry feminist project.

I sing many songs that are kind. to relate to being a strong woman, Amy's band is playing in a place hidden from tourists on the Strip and since it's my last night I want to see what the real local nightlife was like, so this is literally in someone's house . I think it originally came as the design of an Asian master, obviously this is an alternative scene, something that tattooing is not strange. I've definitely gotten some sketchy tattoos in people's apartments, in people's rooms, it's really small, can you see it well? my sobriety date, so it was about a year and a half ago, I decided once, hopefully it will be forever.

Let's live, we just wanted this and they charged us like, yeah, yeah, it's like 150 like plus tips. We come here every day, every day. It's our thing, I like that we all really like to come together and be part of something together and interact with each other, you know, we can punch each other in the face, we love it, it's performance art, yes, I'm about to be. what the vocalist says is nice, tonight has been amazing, it's weird, man, what can you say? It's in the best way possible. I came to Las Vegas and I can't think of anything better than coming to a house where there are a bunch of They're like aggressive punk kids beating each other up wielding bayonets like World War II.

This reminds me of when I was young. It's very nostalgic to be in this type of punk. You don't create an environment where everyone has fun. a little bit of aggression I just want to go in and see the girls and have my head shaved on stage watching a bunch of punk kids shave their heads in the middle of the pit. I couldn't think of a more appropriate place to end my Las Vegas experience. They are the forgotten children of Las Vegas, marginalized by the Strip and existing in the shadows of the casinos. This transient city might be revolutionizing the tattoo industry with its schools and shiny-floored casino parlors, but the essence of tattooing is embodied in these kids and, hopefully, through them that rebellious expression is passed on. here to stay