Musicians Wearing Shirts from Bands That Sound Nothing Like Them

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― Huey in Melbourne, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:35 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/covers/feature_id-95.jpg

― Drooone, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:38 (sixteen years ago) link

This thread would be a lot more fun if it it was less "LOL FAMOUS PERSON DOESN'T KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT BAND AS ME BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO BUSY BEING FAMOUS" and was more "Hey, isn't this neat?"

We're all adults, the fact that one of the jocks likes your favorite band should have stopped bothering you, like, freshman year of college.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Also, italics.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Also, Missy Elliott wearing a bedazzled Motorhead shirt in the "Get Ur Freak On" video was the highlight of my life.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:47 (sixteen years ago) link

..my Birchville Cat Motel post was very much a "Hey, isn't this neat" post, FWIW.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link

(meta criticism of whiney g)

― JW, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link

america demands weenie horror biggie shirts

― A B C, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Also, Missy Elliott wearing a bedazzled Motorhead shirt in the "Get Ur Freak On" video was the highlight of my life.

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, April 16, 2007 7:47 PM (39 minutes ago)

pretty sucky life, bro.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:28 (sixteen years ago) link

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Who was the guy who had a Boards Of Canada sticker on his guitar? (It was Dave Grohl or Brian Molko, I think)

― StanM, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link

can I just turn this off?

― StanM, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link

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doh.

― StanM, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link

pretty sucky life, bro.

Yeah.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Also, I wasn't really responding to any one poster, just a general tone of threads like these. So sorry if I sound like a crank.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link

I think this article by our very own Phil Freeman covers the "why metalheads get annoyed when pop stars wear metal shirts" question fairly well, Hans:

http://runningthevoodoodown.blogspot.com/2005/04/what-i-said.html

annoying people like that for those very reasons is what's GREAT about paris/ashlee &c &c wearing these t-shirts!

do people have any awareness at all of when they turn into grizzling grandads?

i was going to post that picture of holly valance in a ramones t-shirt but i can't find it :(

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Ramones t-shirts on actress-model-whatevers is a fashion statement I started noticing around 2004. I've been assuming it was a "my publicist dresses me that way" sort of thing. In the last year, tho', I've seen a lot of metal t-shirts on dance music people, and more avant and eletro references to metal motifs.

― bendy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link

There you go Saxby.

Sorry, i didn't have my sarcasm tags in place when i wrote that stuff about kurt in the daniel t-shirt. Thanks for the image just the same :-)

― Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.scallen.com/images/eye.gif

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link

What shirt is that NKOTB guy wearing? I can't tell.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link

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― unperson, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link

I never get this - are people supposed to be so genre-bound that they only rep for bands/musicians from their own stylistic niche? this is like a militantly catholic position to take I think

-- Hans Rott, Monday, April 16, 2007 11:22 PM (Yesterday)

you got it backwards

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Pop kids these days wear Motorhead or Ramones t-shirts the same way that pop kids wore Bauhaus or Siouxsie and the Banshees t-shirts in the 80s - sometimes, when I'd confront people on it, they'd admit that they weren't even aware that these images/logos were for bands - they just thought that they were logos in the same way as wearing an Ocean Pacific t-shirt was in the 80s (hey, look at me, I'm a cool surfer chick, even though I live 1000 miles from the nearest ocean).

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Though, the other half of me would say... don't be so quick to judge everyone you see wearing a shirt that you think expresses a kind of music you don't associate with them.

I can't help but wonder what someone would think who didn't know me, if they saw *me* wear a Motorhead or a Stooges shirt onstage at an indiepop club? (I do always wear a Stooges shirt to soundcheck as a good luck charm. I wonder if people think it's ironic.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link

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― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link

or maybe...

― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link

OK, so from the HTML source, the following line...

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... is what started the italics crap.

So if I just type a whole bunch of ""s, it should work, right?

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link

FUCK YOU ILX, YOU FUCKING SUCK!!!!

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Ah! Now I get it! The ""s become:



Must fiund some way to hard code a less than and a greater than into the source.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link

*find

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link

clearly, there's nothing wrong or annoying about wearing a t-shirt of a band you're not into, but I do find it odd that anyone would actually WANT to do so.

a t-shirt says 'I like this music', but if that's not true then it suggests that on some level you think maybe you should, which betrays a lack of confidence in your own judgement and a degree of acquiesence to what's considered 'cool' or 'edgy'. or alternatively, it becomes a pointless ironic gesture, like a goth kid in a boyzone T.

but then again, maybe it's just about fancy dress and shouldn't be taken as signifying anything. after all, I am not truly an amazon, but I occasionally dress like wonder woman.

"do people have any awareness at all of when they turn into grizzling grandads?"

nah. comes to us all. one day you're young and carefree and full of joy, the next you're moaning on and on about what's in the top 10 and what's in the music press, even if you haven't heard it, and finding yourself increasingly alienated from what the kids are listening to.

― m the g, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link

[b]test

― StanM, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link

> a t-shirt says 'I like this music'

Not really. It may say "I like this look." Look at it from the other side. You wouldn't wear a shirt you don't like from a band you dig, would you?

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link

actually, I have done and may well do again. within reason.

but I'm an awkward, shabby man who frankly can't be arsed to go clothes shopping. therefore band t-shirts are a godsend for those like me. they enable us to select what we wear without actually having to endure the unpleasant ordeal of thinking about clothing instead of tunes.

― m the g, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Just wanted to mention that I watched this Three 6 Mafia at MTV Spring Break special a couple weeks ago, and one of the 2 guys (I think Juicy J, but it might have been the other one) was wearing a different rock band shirt each time he changed clothes. I believe the shirts were for Guns N Roses, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and one other one which I can't remember now.

― stingy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Three 6 Mafia do, in fact, worship Satan.

― will, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link

this thread is now a dream section from a Faulkner novel

― Hans Rott, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, the thin guy from Three Six Mafia was wearing an Avenged Sevenfold T-shirt on Mind of Mencia when I was flipping through the channels.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link

http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/otherafricas/img/bonjovi(detail).jpg

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.jukeb0x.com/wp-content/vibe-justin-timberlake.jpg

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.ilikemusic.com/images/article_images/full/bustedbusted.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Or maybe he's just a fan of Nic Yo.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link

http://folk.uio.no/tronht/happening.JPG

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/photos/Melvins.jpg

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, that dude from Three 6 Mafia is always rocking a different black band t-shirt. I was watching an episode of HollyHood this weekend and he had on Nirvana, Green Day, and a Ramones tee at different points.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Chuck Schuldiner from Death in a Blondie shirt. No doubt his stylist made him wear it.
http://www.emptywords.org/RHtourdiary2-92.htg/RHtourdiary2-92foto1.jpg

― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link

Did anyone catch that Blondie / Siege / Pestilence triple bill?

― NYCNative, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link

i don't really get this thread...don't musicians all like music that doesn't necessarily sound like the music they play?

also, it's absolutely like not surprising at all that 3-5 mafia would dig metal

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link

"don't musicians all like music that doesn't necessarily sound like the music they play?"

Possibly. But they don't all wear the shirts. I think we have established (with minor exceptions) that this thread is not being judgemental about this practise. We're just posting pictures okay?

― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link

Helen Love in an Atari Teenage Riot shirt
http://www.damagedgoods.co.uk/images/bands/bp-hele2.jpg

― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link

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What's the appeal of a Voivod album signed by Demi Lovato?

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 24 July 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link

https://frinkiac.com/img/S07E21/1091139.jpg

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 July 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link

four months pass...

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/320054330_1315951829166464_6512379042352385144_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=Syxi9-D-Vv8AX9ZecVX&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AfC23BtJhrzdItEFzBaKGly6lbs78MHBsbvR2rYQcuMeZw&oe=639FC6A8

Paul Westerberg wearing a New Edition T-shirt.

― nickn, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link

ten months pass...

Composer and Grammy-nominated songwriter and cellist Michael Peter Olsen.

http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bc35de4b0be593a36780f/2b130e4e-aa3b-4748-b3ef-38b486f0afbb/IMG_4188.jpg?format=2500w

Doesn't sound remotely like Darkthrone.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 03:34 (five months ago) link

two months pass...

Whoa, Peter Cetera’s wearing a Bauhaus t-shirt in the video for “You’re The Inspiration” haha pic.twitter.com/gwdyXshHE2
— Bafflegabs! (@Bafflegabs) December 28, 2023

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Thursday, 28 December 2023 03:45 (three months ago) link

Glory of Love and Rockets

― Road House: Songs and Stories (Master of Treacle), Thursday, 28 December 2023 04:56 (three months ago) link

NYC singer songwriter Margaret Glaspy, in Meshuggah.

https://nippertown.com/zeblog/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190609-Margaret_Glaspy-4-2048x1638.jpg.webp

― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 28 December 2023 19:54 (three months ago) link

Chris Martin wears a Stones shirt in the video for Shiver. I'm sure it's easy to draw lines between periods of the Stones and Coldplay now but not on the latter's first single.

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:04 (three months ago) link

Here's Blondshell wearing a Neil Young & Crazy Horse shirt (there may be an affinity there, but I wouldn't have made the link). Killer performance, btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2vzTWY9m14

― In my Ram’s Horn era (morrisp), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:36 (three months ago) link

Hahaha re: Peter Cetera. I thought "surely that was Photoshopped?" but yeah, it's in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRfy1yorkec
And right at the beginning, someone (not in the band) is wearing a Public Image Ltd. shirt.
I had that same Bauhaus t-shirt, which I wore so much it was sheer, like in this Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/deterioration-of-bauhaus-t-shirt-symbolizes-end-of-era-1819565153

― ernestp, Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:46 (three months ago) link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardrobe_stylist

― brimstead, Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:51 (three months ago) link

not at all the same thing but there's an episode of the vicar of dibley with a cameon from a crusty-like character wearing a cardiacs shirt

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 30 December 2023 21:28 (three months ago) link

cameo

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 30 December 2023 21:28 (three months ago) link

Lana Del Rey's guitarist Blake Stranathan

https://c7.alamy.com/comp/W21RHB/lana-del-rey-performs-on-the-pyramid-stage-with-guitarist-blake-stranathan-blake-lee-on-the-saturday-of-glastonbury-festival-in-pilton-somerset-28-june-2014-W21RHB.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 31 December 2023 23:45 (three months ago) link

Darius Rucker is wearing a Metallica T-shirt while playing a countryfied version of “Hold My Hand” on #CNNNYE

― Godzilla Minus Zero/No Limit (morrisp), Monday, 1 January 2024 06:14 (three months ago) link

one month passes...

this isn't the most noteworthy example, but Lynn Canfield (frontwoman of the dreampop group The Moon Seven Times) wore a Third Stone t-shirt at a reunion show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXqcar7lON0

Third Stone being a long dead Alice in Chains knockoff band from Illinois. there's an awkward moment at the 4:00 mark where Lynn namechecks the band and a heckler calls out, "are you sleeping with somebody in that band?" (Lynn: "nope...are you?")

― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Thursday, 8 February 2024 18:02 (two months ago) link

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