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Concert tees.

soupcan Jul 31 2006 10:05 AM

So I'm at the point where my friends are all around 40 years old or so (I'm closing fast on 42, the missus is 40) and as they hit the milestone they or their spouses want to give them memorable birthday parties/dinners, etc. We got invited to one and the request is that each guest wear a concert t-shirt. Why, I have no idea but why not? Now I don't really have many tees left from my youthful concert going days (and the ones I do seem to have really shrunk an awful lot somehow) and if I go to a show now I just won't plunk down the $$ for one 'cause they're way too pricey and I prolly will never wear it. In the spirit of the party I went online and since I'm in a 'Police' mood I bought a vintage 'Ghost In The Machine Europe 1981' tour shirt for $20 (size XL). What shirt would you wear and is it in your dresser right now?

cooby Jul 31 2006 10:10 AM

Mine outta be popular around here: An Eagles "Hell Freezes Over" tour shirt from when they came here to Penn State sometime in 1996. A friend of mine who attended got it for me for my birthday that year. Yep, it's in my closet. Maybe someone in your crowd would like to borrow it.

Willets Point Jul 31 2006 10:13 AM

I never once bought a concert tee. It's just not my thing. Actually I don't think I ever by t-shirts, I just somehow acquire them. This was the last t-shirt I actually bought and I immediately regretted it:

Iubitul Jul 31 2006 10:20 AM

It's the only concert T I ever bought, and amazngly, it really shank like soup's did, but I would wear my Rush Signals tour shirt.

Johnny Dickshot Jul 31 2006 10:49 AM

I had an original "Ghost in the Machine" Police t-shirt from 82. I saw a chick walking in McCarren park wearing one just the other day. All of my concert t-shirts (and concert baseball shirts!) are long gone, tho I did buy a cool Blasters vintage T-shirt on eBay.

Rockin' Doc Jul 31 2006 11:24 AM

The only concert T-shirt I bought was from the Eagles Hotel California tour in the summer of 1977. It was the first concert I ever attended. It myseriously shrunk about 20 years aga and disapperared never to be seen again. I think we should look into sending our wives to a seminar on proper laundering and care of clothing. It seems like several of us here have a problem with them shrinking our clothes.

Rotblatt Jul 31 2006 11:24 AM

I used to have a Jesus & Mary Chain t-shirt that always seemed to draw female attention at Lollapalooza & similar events. As any good baseball fan would, I wore the hell out of it to keep my streak going, and it finally got too threadbare even for me. It was a sad day when I had to retire that one . . . I cycled in a bunch of other concert tees, but none ever compared to Old Reliable. All that's left now is a Dylan tee that I rarely wear. Which is sad, really, as a vintage Pixies tee-shirt (for example) would really up my street cred with the Williamsburgh set. Speaking of which, I saw The Reigning Sound at Union Pool last night, and they absolutely rocked. The opening band, the A-bones, whom I'd never heard of, were fun as hell too. I'd buy either of their t-shirts, but they didn't seem to be selling them . . .

Edgy DC Jul 31 2006 11:41 AM

The design of the Ghost in the Machine-era merchandise held up far better than Synchronicity-era. (The same goes for the music fromt he two albums.) Synchronicity was part of an era where concert tees were popular in sleeveless versions. The people in the Synchronicity concert film look pretty funny. My tour shirt was a long-sleevey from the Pretenders Learning to Crawl tour. I don't know what became of it but I imagine it's long-sleeve nature led me to wear it too often as a pajama top in college. The mage was in Black and white with Pretenders in ruby red. On Neil Young's Ragged Glory> one of the guys in Crazy Horse was shown in the same tee, plus, in a different shot, Neil had a John Lennon "New York City" tee. The artwork from that album made me cry for who I was that was now lost in shredded tee shirts. What band do you think originated the tour shirt? Gotta be Zepp, right? I went to gym in high school with an original Monkees tee, I think left over from my older sister's youth. I also have a shredded Mazzy Star shirt that Ms. Edgy can't convince me to thorw out.

ScarletKnight41 Jul 31 2006 11:47 AM

I have a John Mayer tour shirt, but I'd see whether my daughter would loan me her Ringo Starr t-shirt that I bought for her two weeks ago.

HahnSolo Jul 31 2006 12:19 PM

Cheap Jack's in NYC is one place you might want to look for vintage concert tees. Many run between $10-20.

RealityChuck Jul 31 2006 01:03 PM

I don't think I ever had a concert T. My tastes run toward: 1. Dr. Who 2. Wallace and Gromit 3. Rocky and Bullwinkle 4. "I make stuff up" 5. St. Louis Browns 6. Albacon [url]http://www.albacon.org[/url] 7. (front) "Help is on the way" (back) "Help is heading out the door." [/url]

Gwreck Jul 31 2006 01:21 PM

The obvious answer: one of my Bruce shirts from the Shea Stadium shows. 3 nights and the 3 shirts were Orange, Blue and Black. I thought it was a nice touch.

TheOldMole Jul 31 2006 02:53 PM

I just pulled a New Orleans Jazzfest 1996 shirt out of my drawer a few days ago, and it still looks good.

seawolf17 Jul 31 2006 03:36 PM

My first shirt was a Tesla shirt from the Psychotic Supper tour in 1992, but I don't know where that one is. I'd have to either wear my Thunder shirt from the Monsters of Rock show, or my Barenaked Ladies "Maybe You Should Drive" shirt. I also have an Aerosmith "Nine Lives" shirt in my drawer, and I have a Blues Traveler shirt somewhere, because it included "Geneseo, New York" on the back, which stunned me as a college concerts chair to have a show I ran on a band's tour shirt.