stars in concert t-shirts that they have no business wearing... a picture thread

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Not a major feat. i have a fuckin' forest of thorns in my side.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.crabsodyinblue.com/shaniatwainecho2003pic2.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Not a major feat. i have a fuckin' forest of thorns in my side.

Förest of Thörnz

Now touring with Ned Raggett and his All-Squirrel Band

wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 16 September 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link

...and Empire of Hair

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 01:42 (nineteen years ago) link

in the Olsen twin milk ad one of them has on a shirt with the Banana from the VU album... she also has a jacket or something over it so i don't know if the shirt actually says Velvet Underground... but.. there ya go!

brontosaur, Thursday, 16 September 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, there ARE rumors that Mary Kate has done her share of waiting for the man...

roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 16 September 2004 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link

the olson twins were hanging out in my dorm the other day and when word got around all these kids started stalking the door of the room they were in. apparently they'd already come and gone in the time that anyone had found out that they were even there though.

Reed Rosenberg (reed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Looking at Alex's picture above:

Isn't Shania Twain married to Mutt Lange?

Or put another way, isn't it potentially credible that living with the guy who produced the album that the shirt she's wearing promotes might mean she's heard it?

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 16 September 2004 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link

You've never watched the Power Hour, Dave?

sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 16 September 2004 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Provided that someone had actually been to a gig by the relevant band / artiste, it would be alright for them to wear one of that band / artiste's t-shirts then 'though, would it?

I'm wondering in particular how (just for example) certain Killing-Joke-loving, NYC-living ILXors would feel about The Corrs wearing Iggy Pop shirts, since it might appear that they could claim sort of entitlement to do so with impunity?

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Shania came from small-town Canada, which probably meant that she DID grow up on a steady diet of country and metal, esp AC/DC. Whether her husband was involved with 'em or not.

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Sure, but she's so just trying to make it a look there.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

As I alluded to upthread, I have more of an issue of her wearing ripped-up breast-baring Ramones t-shirts. But apparently I'm a knob for thinking so.

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I find those delicately ripped/ruched/whatevered rock shirts particularly offensive.

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

The Corrs wearing Iggy Pop shirts

I think once you've gone to see his Igness and gotten verbally harassed and spat at by the great man, then sure......you have earned the right.

As I alluded to upthread, I have more of an issue of her wearing ripped-up breast-baring Ramones t-shirts. But apparently I'm a knob for thinking so

If being right makes you a knob, Sean, then....er....knobs unite.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link

KINKY

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

why can't we just accept this as eye-candy, not to mention attractive people of both sexes unwittingly giving free advertising to our favorite bands? would you rather see Shania in a Ramones t-shirt than see her wearing a big honkin' Coca-Cola logo? or worse, a tour shirt featuring one of Mutt Lange's OTHER proteges, Mr Anti-Can-Con, Mr Everything I Do (I Do It For You), Have you ever really really really really really really really really ARRRGH#Q(#W)R*

(and no I have never watched the Power Hour. metal is my achilles heel)

Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

would you rather see Shania in a Ramones t-shirt than see her wearing a big honkin' Coca-Cola logo?

The latter. To some people, the Ramones mean something more than simply a product.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

b-b-but Coca-Cola are truly evil!

Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link

So is Shania. They're a match made in heaven.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

A friend of mine swears that Donnie Wahlberg is wearing a bauhaus t-shirt in one of the New Kids on the Block videos.

Pup. E. Dawg (rocknrolldetox), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

My former roommate used to have a Soul Asylum shirt that had "Can't Feel the Beating" in the Coca-Cola font. What if Shania wore that?

Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

A friend of mine swears that Donnie Wahlberg is wearing a bauhaus t-shirt in one of the New Kids on the Block videos.

No, it's Jordan Knight, and he's wearing the Bauhaus t-shirt with the still from "The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari" on it. Stranger than fiction. Peter Cetera (sp?) of Chicago wears a "Bela Lugosi's Dead" t-shirt in the video for "You're the Inspiration". In both cases, it was probably a stylist that picked it out, but...y'know,...ya never know. Maybe NKOTB and Chicago are closet goths.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I remember seeing a photo somewhere with Joey Fat One from n*sync wearing a Misfits shirt. But then again, by now practically everyone has worn a Misfits shirt at one point or another.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I have never worn a Misfits shirt, and am (at last count) eight billion times cooler than Joey Fatone.

Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Joey Fatone is the Slimfast XTC.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

Not saying he has no business wearing it, but this picture reminded me of this thread (8 years ago!) :

http://www.billboard.com/files/styles/gallery_details_bbcom/public/media/lady-gaga-one-direction-mtv-vmas-2013-650-430.jpg

LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 04:40 (ten years ago) link

She needs the t-shirt more than he does, she looks freezing!

Mark G, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 07:59 (ten years ago) link

i think there should be a rule that if you meet someone on the street wearing a vintage concert t-shirt and they can't name any of the songs by the band in question, they have to take off the shirt and give it to you. especially if they're Jenn!fer An!ston or H!llary Duff.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:22 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

o_O

Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 08:56 (ten years ago) link

Ew

how's life, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 09:45 (ten years ago) link

omg google Jennifer Aniston and find Dave M

transmisogyny express (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 10:06 (ten years ago) link

img google Jennifer Aniston and find Dave M?

Mark G, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 10:13 (ten years ago) link

five months pass...

Who's that? David Berman?

bilbo bobbins (how's life), Thursday, 30 January 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link

Daft Punk!

the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 January 2014 06:37 (ten years ago) link

for real?

keiji cretins (NickB), Friday, 31 January 2014 09:08 (ten years ago) link

putting the punk back in daft punk, you say

bilbo bobbins (how's life), Friday, 31 January 2014 10:55 (ten years ago) link

4 real.

the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 January 2014 11:44 (ten years ago) link

seven years pass...

Dolly bring me luck for day two. Don't mind the umbrellas. pic.twitter.com/P3As4iXiKZ

— steve albini (@electricalWSOP) October 7, 2021

... (Eazy), Sunday, 10 October 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link

https://i.redd.it/hehgqeo4lsw61.jpg

bulb after bulb, Sunday, 10 October 2021 02:42 (two years ago) link

Really thought there was more pushback against this thread at the time - maybe that happened on an adjacent thread?

i think there should be a rule that if you meet someone on the street wearing a vintage concert t-shirt and they can't name any of the songs by the band in question, they have to take off the shirt and give it to you.

Ugh ffs. Literally the worst.

emil.y, Sunday, 10 October 2021 04:02 (two years ago) link

Maybe this one?

Musicians Wearing Shirts from Bands That Sound Nothing Like Them

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 10 October 2021 06:19 (two years ago) link

I think the pushback happened later, this thread being part of the general reaction against.

I'm sure my tale of how Alice got her Ramones t shirt is up there someplace.

Anyway, put it this way.. I have a Moondog t-shirt it's very nice. Nobody has asked me to name any tracks or anything. If they did I'd go I dunno.

The reason I have it is because I contributed to a kickstart to make the definitive profile movie. Its my reward.

Mark G, Sunday, 10 October 2021 07:24 (two years ago) link

Ah, anagram, thank you, you are correct. And Mark, you should listen to more Moondog!

emil.y, Sunday, 10 October 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link

i think there should be a rule that if you meet someone on the street wearing a vintage concert t-shirt and they can't name any of the songs by the band in question, they have to take off the shirt and give it to you.

Ugh ffs. Literally the worst.

In context, Dave M. was obviously being facetious re making hot celebrities take off their shirts, surely? It might have been a crude (?) joke but it wasn't an elitist one and he was spoofing the thread. Slightly further down, he posted this:

why can't we just accept this as eye-candy, not to mention attractive people of both sexes unwittingly giving free advertising to our favorite bands? would you rather see Shania in a Ramones t-shirt than see her wearing a big honkin' Coca-Cola logo? or worse, a tour shirt featuring one of Mutt Lange's OTHER proteges, Mr Anti-Can-Con, Mr Everything I Do (I Do It For You), Have you ever really really really really really really really really ARRRGH#Q(#W)R*
...

― Dave M. (rotten03)

Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 10 October 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link

I read it as both hideously sexist and hideously elitist.

"lol girls don't know shit about music here's a way to get them to show you boobs"

emil.y, Sunday, 10 October 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link

Hm, I guess, given the overall context (where he was admitting he himself didn't know some of the bands and then made clear that he didn't have an actual problem with this), I had seen it as better-intentioned but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt bc I knew him then. I respect your pov and don't want to be Capn-Save-a-17yo-Post; I can see why it could land differently for someone who has faced those attitudes.

Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 10 October 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link

mark g, moondog has great song titles just fyi

brimstead, Sunday, 10 October 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link

I was in NY and I saw a Moondog 10" which looked intersting.

Then I saw it was on Honest Jon's label, ie the shop around the corner where I was employed at that time.

Seemed a bit daft to just buy it there and take it home all that way.

Anyway, when the film does come out, and I get my dvd reward, I'll come to his music fresh.

(I have heard some short pieces already though)

I'm sure you understood that my point was Because I'm a guy, nobody would ask me to qualify my wearing it, whereas if etc.

Mark G, Sunday, 10 October 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDciK_KVIAAu82N?format=jpg&name=large

He should be wearing a "Garfield" t-shirt, right? "Big, fat, hairy deal?" You know, Garfield?

juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 5 November 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link


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