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Several people wearing black concert T-shirts at a concert.
A concert T-shirt is a T-shirt that is associated with a concert or a concert tour, usually rock or metal. Bands and musical groups often promote themselves by creating and selling or giving away T-shirts at their shows, tours, and events. A concert T-shirt typically contains silk screened graphics of the name, logo, or image of a musical performer. One popular graphic on the rear of the T-shirts is a listing of information about the band's current tour, including tour cities (sometimes specifying venues) and corresponding dates.[1]
One of the most popular colors for concert T-shirts is a flat black.[2][3] Fans often purchase or obtain these shirts to wear to future concerts.
See also
- Heavy metal fashion
- Punk fashion
- Grunge
References
- ^ Shull, Chris, "Stones Notes" Wichita Eagle, 2 October 2006.
- ^ "Touring bands soaked up the cost of their lights and lasers with extensive merchandising, like tour programs, scarves, and the ever-present official black concert T-shirts with tour dates printed on the back," Ian Christe, Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal (Harper Collins, 2003), p71.The black concert T-shirt is a fashion trend of rock concert attendees originating in the 1970s[citation needed] and continuing today.
- ^ Deena Weinstein, Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture, (Da Capo Press, 2000) p. 139.
External links
- James, John M.,"Pixies once again dust the music scene" Cincinnati CityBeat (Cincinnati, OH), 21 April 2004
- Overman, Ogi, "So you wanna be a rock 'n' roll star..." Yes Weekly (Greensboro, NC), 2006
- Cronin, Steven V. "Rolling Stones start ’em up at Boardwalk Hall in A.C." Press of Atlantic City (Atlantic City, NJ), 2006
- Tshirt Slayer "Gallery of heavy metal concert tshirts and battle jackets"
Categories:- Rock music
- Heavy metal fashion
- Concert tours
- T-shirts
- Clothing stubs
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