Musicheads check your rock-n-roll dress code: what was your first concert t-shirt or other wardrobe item?

Talking Heads '77 tour T-Shirt - looked just like the album cover

BTW, love hearing your MN bands on WXPN this month.

Good feature.

It was probably a KISS belt buckle that was all glittery that I found at Spencer Gifts. And probably some lame KISS shirt that had the rubbery/plastic iron on that would evenetually disintigrate after about 10 washings.

Probably got a KISS concert tee at my first ever concert.

Now I'm trying to remember all my concert T's that I had over the years.

I can only remember The Cars, Gary Numan - Telekon Tour, Thomas Dolby, KISS, probably Queen... I'm sure there are others. Blue Oyster Cult, perhaps?

Oh boy... my first was a Monkees 20th Anniversary Tour shirt.

I am such a freak. First was Janis Joplin. Second was Bette Midler.

I had a Rolling Stones T shirt, with the Tongue on it, in about 1982. I had several Tie dye shirts from street vendors around the U of M. My favorite might be a Goony Birds T, with an Upside down Bi Plane, on a postage stamp. My Guns n Roses T's are great great too.

I have no idea what my first was, but it was back when concert t-shirts were $4 or $5. The concerts themselves were something like $7 for an auditorium show and $10 or $15 for a multi-act stadium show.

I still have (and wear) a Clash t-shirt that's almost 30 years old.

Sting "Ten Summoner's Tales" I recall. Summer of '93..I recall getting a Rush "Counterparts" shirt the following Spring; a shirt I wore a lot more than the Sting one in fact.

The SUBURBS ! Best shirt ever. Little too tight now-a-daze. - bill

I could be wrong, but I believe it was Dan Fogleberg written in white on a black shirt and there was a piano on it?

I was an '80s metal head. So I had to have the requisite denim jacket with a patch on the back. But, I had to be a little different, so the big patch on the back was Mickey Mouse. There was a Megadeth patch above that.

mister mister.. in minneapolis I think!

White with black lettering, The Suburbs t-shirt, bought at March 4th. Man, I wish it still would fit!

A beatles tie, narrow and full of the beatles drumkit logo bought from Woolworths in San Francisco.

Oh man, I have no idea. I'll keep wracking my memory. Anyone have pictures?!

I still remember my 1st rock-n-roll t-shirt. It was my dark blue Led Zeppelin T with glittery letters. I used to think I was pretty cool wearin it! Also had one of those really huge Led Zeppelin life size posters hanging in my bedroom.

Incidentally, the 1st album I ever bought was Led Zeppelin, “Physical Graffiti”…go figure!

Bill,
My first rock t-shirt was a Led Zeppelin T also.

It was a black t-shirt with the Swan Song logo in bright reds and greens etc. multi-colored. I grew up in the backwoods of Wisconsin so the only way to get a t-shirt like that in the 1970's was to order it out of a rock magazine, I think it may have been Cream.

I was in high school at the time and the first day I wore it this really beautiful and for the sake of this story, well endowed girl, who was a friend of my younger brother came up to me and said she really liked it and asked if she could wear it sometime. I didn't have a girlfriend at that time as a matter of fact I don't think I'd ever had a girlfriend at that time and thought she was really hot, so when I got home that night I set out to wash it right away.

It turned out that we were all out of laundry detergent and being that I was a high school kid and had never done laundry in my life and thought "that powdered Spic-n-Span that Mom uses on the floors cleans really well and smells really good" so I used that to wash the shirt.

I brought the Zeppelin t-shirt to school the next day and was just beaming to see this beautiful girl wearing my t-shirt that everyone knew was mine.
The next day she brought the t-shirt back and pulled me aside and said, "What did you wash that t-shirt with? My entire chest is broken out in a terrible rash!"

I was too embarrassed to talk with her after that just imagining what that must have looked like.

I did end up seeing other girls in the years to follow and made a practice to not wash any girl friend's clothing, like my buddy who shank his girlfriend's favorite sweater down to the size of a standard teddy bear.

Alright that's enough.

Ted Bob

Ted Bob,

GREAT story. It's the thought that counts! Stories like that are why your supposed to let Mom do the laundry!

I have a Widespread Pain T Shirt form Paolo Soieri in Taos NM, 2000 or so.
Its Brown, with WSP, For US All, Jack , Queen , King of Hearts on Front, a King on a Bicycle on the Back. I will wear it again soon.

My red DEVO Energy Dome - flower pot hats to non-Devotees...

It was either a navy blue Weezer T or Tori Amos breastfeeding a pig on a "Boys for Pele" concert T. I can't remember.

1996 Dew Drop Inn Tour at the Northrup...that was it! I think my memory blocked it due to the trauma caused by frat boys heckling Tori during "Me and a gun" and their beer and pizza fart assault on those of us in the rows behind.

Jerks.