Seriously, y’all…the hits just keep coming! Celebrating our Record Store Day release (out TOMORROW!), Lee Hazlewood – The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes, & Backsides (1968-71), we teamed up with our buds-in-arms Rotter and Friends to bring to you this truly awesome shirt designed/illustrated by Jess Rotter. Let’s see, how might we describe this…a stoic-faced Hazlewood visage with ever present cigarette looks off in the distance as his cast of dames contort their bodies to spell out his name?!? Yes! Pick one or both up here and scope the awesome photos by David Black below.
So for this week’s Free Basin’ Fridays, we’re keeping the love going for our man Lee. For your chance to win your choice of either shirt, leave a comment below (with your name and email address, kept private) and tell us about your all time favorite band shirt, whether you actually owned one or not. We’ll get the ball rolling for you with a little list of our all time (and mostly long lost) band shirts:
Matt – PJ Harvey XXL (it fit like a dress!) shirt from circa Rid Of Me – RIP
Josh – (Josh is burried in RSD orders so we’ll answer for him) Metallica shirt from the Black Album tour! – RIP
Cassie – og Cure shirt from the Boys Don’t Cry tour! RIP
Patrick – My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult “Daisy Chain For Satan” shirt – RIP
Tags: David Black, Free Basin' Fridays, Lee Hazlewood, Record Store Day, Rotter and Friends, tee
My Cars t-shirt from the Panorama tour, Cars license plate on the front, tire tracks on the back. My wife still wears it proudly.
(Not really a band I guess but still…)
Robert Johnson shirt by R Crumb
http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2011/12/amoeba-music/new-r-crumb-robert-johnson-t-shirt-exclusively-at-amoeba.html
Easy. My Constantines t-shirt from their 10 anniversary shows. Flew across the country to see my favourite band play what ended up being some of their last shows and came home with a great shirt and tons of memories. The scrawled marks on the front sum up the band perfectly, and “Cons” on the back doesn’t give it all away. I love it to death.
My Hangman Records T “The Suavest Recording Organisation In The World” Nuff said ;)
My Yes-Open Your Eyes tour shirt. It encouraged ridicule from my high school peers but I wore it with pride until it fell apart.
A three way tie – Queen (from The Game tour) / Styx (from the Paradise Theater tour) and Journey (from the Escape tour). And I’m not afraid to admit it
Ramones 20th anniversary shirt that’s now holy and faded I wore up to their 30th anniversary and still do around the house sometimes…
Nerves shirt bought from Paul Collins 3-4 years ago. It was a crummy transfer and stuck to my chest. But it was an awesome show. And I was sad the day I realized that shirt wasn’t hidden in the bottom of the laundry basket – it was GONE.
My dad’s old Hüsker Dü t-shirt:
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He handed it down to my brother and me when we got to be teenagers – we traded off ownership every year. It’s more holes than shirt now, but that thing was well-loved in its day, and definitely cemented my dad’s position as “rad guy”.
My Presidents of the USA “Mach 5″ t-shirt from my first concert in 1997. It had a cool drawing of this Japanese kid racing a Big-Wheel!
i had a Black Crowes t-shirt from their Southern Harmony & Musical Companion tour. It was the one that ripped off the cartoon Heckyl & Jeckyl crows looking blitzed and stoned. I wish so bad that i still had that shirt. No idea where it went to . . .
I used to have a Man or Astro-Man? shirt with a NASA like logo…I think it is back in storage. Awesome live show.
Dylan earls court 81. My sister stole it and gave it to her then boyfriend who was my best friend but still denied it was mine. 30 years later he still does!
Definitely my Divine Comedy t-shirt, from the 2001 Regeneration tour: http://991.com/newGallery/Divine-Comedy-Regeneration-182409.jpg
Pretty much wore it out within a year
my 1992 black crowes “high as the moon” tour shirt.
still got it in storage. still fits 20 years later.
not the heckyl & Jeckyl design as mentioned above, but an uncle sam crowe suitably spleefed.
The Nektar shirt won from the long lost WNEW-FM back in ’74.
My black Beasties Boys shirt with the bright green Beasties in full on ass-kicking mode I used to rock in 6th grade. I thought a knowledge of a band that swore a lot and talked about partying till they puked made me cool. The shirt is dead but somewhere a picture exists with me rocking the shirt while spooning my 6th grade sweetheart Esther Kang. RIP shirt.
My Murder City Devils shirt…..the O.G. skull with crown and cross-switchblades.
Aw, man…..too many to list. A Mortals [from Cincy] shirt that looked like a pack of Marlboros, a Zappa 3/4-length-arms jersey from when I saw him in 1980, my Husker Du Flip Your Wig tour tee, a Clash tee that I wore to a couple Grateful Dead shows, my Uncle Tupelo tour tee, and on & on. Wish I still had’em all. Best ones I have left [that I can't fit into anymore, dang] are my Minutemen ’85 tour tee, and a Pushead-designed Misfits tee that I mailordered direct from Danzig/Plan 9 waaaay back when [it even a arrived with a personal note from him that I wish I'd kept].
RollingStones//SteelWheels The North American Tour 1989 T SHIRT STILL GOING STRONG IN 2012!!
suuuuch good colors
<3
Tough choice for a t-shirt fiend! But I guess I’ll go with Nirvana’s “Fudge Packin Crack Smokin Satan Worshippin Mother Fucker” tee. When I got it around 1993, it was actually difficult to find. This was before the days when the Internet made nearly everything readily available. Luckily for me I had cool parents, since I was only 13 when they bought me this shirt (!), and my Mom had to drive me 90 minutes away from Modesto, CA to a cool record/import store called “The Underground” in Sacramento to even find it! The shirt is long gone, but the memory remains!
Bright yellow meat puppets shirt that said too high to die. It had a gnarly cut off hand on the breast pocket giving the devil horns. And some crazed green monster on the back. Literally wore this to shreds and I have a save on eBay hoping someday I find another one.
Acid Mothers Temple 2007 US tour, though most of their shirts are damn crazy!
Nina Simone “High Priestess” shirt. It’s garnered a lot of compliments over the years–one from Steve Buscemi! That pretty much made my year (he was in Seattle for SIFF ’07): http://tinyurl.com/6lrxztl
Had a suuuuper bootleg Ozzy “No More tears” shirt with the Black Sabbath “Dehumanizer” graphics on the back. I lost it on a roof somewhere, possibly due to beer. I really miss that shirt.
My Galaxie 500 shirt from the show at the Paramount theater in 1990. Glowed in the dark and was layered in patterns. I wish I still had it. Poor thing faded and fell apart years ago. RIP
Low with an octopus! Why an octopus?
I don’t know! Knowbody Lows!
I have a Minutemen Campaign Trail Tour ’84 shirt drawn by D. Boon. I also have a Scratch Acid shirt with some ugly looking creature on it. Both are so old and worn that they’re translucent. Neither look very flattering these days.
Fruit Bats
my vu t-shirt with their third album artwork.
Bright orange Stereolab t-shirt (Switched On cover) found in a thrift store last time I was back in England, a nice gift from the universe.
I keep wearing my REM shirt. The neck ring is about to fall off and I don’t know where to get another one.
My Public Enemy, Nations of Millions shirt – became to small for me so it was donated to a girl in need, a mercenary move as i knew she’d look good in it! Release more LH records please!
I was obsessed with this zoo tv tour U2 shirt when I was in high school. My theory is that my mother absconded with its derelict tatters one night in the laundry — maybe she cut it up for dust rags? Or perhaps it simply disintegrated, ravished to the next consecutive level of the eternal ebb and flow of the tee-shirt karmic energy continuum? It was for the best really, even if a small part of my dresser drawer will always achingly gape for that dumb, worn out t-shirt… /m
My Camper Van Beethoven “Monterey Pope Festival” t-shirt, acquired around 1987 or 88. Yes, “Pope” with a picture of John Paul set against a background of paisley and flashback visuals.
Pylon red “COOL” shirt bought at reunion gig shortly before Randy died…
My GenX T given to me by young Mr Idol himself ! http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/2795/
I wore a Jimi Hendrix t-shirt with the graphic from a ’67 Santa Barbara concert poster on it until it was threadbare!
OK, years back i was a teenager in love with White Zombie’s “La Sexorcisto” album. So when i heard that as part of that album’s tour they were playing in the big city closest to where i lived, i just HAD to go. Never mind that i wasn’t legal (19 was how old you had to be to get into bars and venues), and that going meant taking an hour and a half ferry ride off of my island, AND finding somewhere, anywhere to sleep that night after the show as the ferries didn’t run all night. Always a gamble to go to shows back then, the ferry ride, finding a place to satay, missing a day of work the next day etc.
My girlfriend at the time was coming too (i was 17, she was 15), so we hit up my neighbours for help. They lived right next to me and my family, a bunch of punk rockers with “Fucking Chaos” spray painted across the front of their house (with the ‘A’ in chaos of course being the anarchy ‘A’) and one of them was a small-time dealer of weed and LSD. There were about 4 or 5 of them who lived there, plus a 3 year old boy. i remember being over there one morning after one of their parties, and this boy was walking around the living room, slamming back the remnants of beer he could find in bottles before his mother became aware and stopped him!
Anyways, they were nice enough to lend me and my girl all the non-picture ID they had, being well supportive of our attempts to see White Zombie. So, me and my girl made the trip to the big city and before the show she caked on the make-up and teased her hair right crazy (i remember remarking, “Hey, we are going to a White Zombie show, not Def Leppard”). We made our way to the venue, and presetned my neighbours ID. Back in those days, things weren’t as “security orientated” as they are now, and since we had a half-dozen pieces each of ID, we were in! So, we jammed down to songs like “Thunderkiss ’65″ and so on, well hazed out (sounds a bit naff now, but back then it was kool, i promise you!) and had a total laugh. i bought a shirt, with some cartoony demons and ghouls (it was White Zombi after all) all done up in some day-glo puffy paint.
We managed to find a place to stay too, with this girl who was a bit of a punk rock legend back in our home town, but who had made the move to the big city. i remember sleeping on the floor of here bedroom, intrigued by the set of blue fur handcuffs she had attached to the head-board of her bed, thinking “Wow, this is how it’s done i the big city.” Anyways, the whole show was a crazy expedition, but back then most were. i loved going to gigs in the city, but loved the ferry ride home to our island just as much, tired, dirty, haggard, but proudly dressed in my newest concert shirt. That particular show and shirt stick out though. Fun times when you are a teenager.
White Zombie is not really my thing nowadays, but the shirt was more than a shirt, it was a symbolof a carefree stoned-out youth spent rocking out!
My turquoise-tie dyed Dream Syndicate t-shirt from Slash records. The Days of Wine and Roses LP came with an order form. Kinda quaint to ponder, these days.
Favorite shirt is one my brother owns. When he turned 18 i decided to break him into the ever evolving culture of new music so I took him to a Black Angels show during the Dropout Boogie tour with Black Mountain. He liked it some much, he bought a badass Black Angels shirt. It really is a cool shirt, so it gets point with the look, but i really like it on my brother and I’m glad I turned him on to some great live music he wouldn’t have known about on his own. Design and sentimental value make it the winner. it was this shirt, but blood red:http://theblackangels.transmissionmerch.com/product/black-horse-and-rider
me like Lee, me want free t-shit, me like groovy music, me hungry
My Carpenters T-shirt.
my Prince shirt!
SBB (best polish progressive band ever) tour from 2001. Maybe 100 of shirts was made. Incredible gigs, lot of improvisation, great tour + Paul Wertico (ex-Pat Metheny) on drums.
Long representing my old home town – I’ve pretty much worn out my beloved Crackerbash t-shirt that had such a great design in red and black (probably done my somebody at Empty Records, since it echoed a lot of their great album designs). Those guys always kept it real – all ages shows and then Sean Crogan solo stuff not to mention the might Satan’s Pilgrims. Righteous.
Once I was sitting in a lecture hall and I saw a lanky boy with crooked glasses. He had on a Don Van Vliet shirt–black and white photo, dust farmer hat, wild eyes–complete with coffee stains along the hem. I approached and said I loved Captain Beefheart. He said, ‘Who’s that?’
My old Tom Wait’s t-shirt I sent Josh awhile back was fresh in Waits’ quality, not so much in condition.
Also The Hideaway -t-shirts will live forever on the backs of the properly satiated and initiated. He is NOT
a shmoo as he is commonly mistaken for, because to be so would require some SERIOUS cash going to
Al Capp’s estate. He’s now called the Kahuna in Tulsa and that name may stick. Long live The Hideaway
Pizza Guy!@#$