Musicians Wearing Shirts from Bands That Sound Nothing Like Them

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― NYCNative, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:01 (eighteen years ago)

I recall seeing Missy Higgins (horrendous Australian singer/songwriter) wearing a Joy Division shirt.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

"musicians"

― jaxon, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

Let's keep the rockism to other threads please...

― NYCNative, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/sevenxviii/newkidsonthebauhaus.jpg

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

Alex in NYC R.I.P.

― gershy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://img336.imageshack.us/img336/249/pepsi20shakira7st.jpg

― gershy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

What bands sound like shirts anyway? How do shirts sound?

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

I gave Blowfly all my old punk shirts, but the best one is the LARD shirt we got from AT that he wore in the pisspot the puppet interview you can find on your tube.

― UncleTomfly, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:22 (eighteen years ago)

I can think of more dissimilar sounds than between The Ramones and Paris Hilton.

Just saying.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:22 (eighteen years ago)

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, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:22 (eighteen years ago)

saw one of the dudes from in flagranti spin old disco and new wave while wearing a black flag shirt.

― haitch, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

shirts sounds like cash money, and to the touring musician they feed us.
buying one is an association with the band. you get cred and we get fed.

one of the best shirt stories was when this guy I know stepped to one of the good charlotte guys at warped who was wearing a Dammned T shirt.

"Cool man, Captain Sensible"
"Who?"

― UncleTomfly, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

Fred Durst owns this thread.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.morrissey-solo.com/news/2005/images/news02262005009.jpg

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.weapon-shaped.com/tatagt/durst2.jpg

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

I could have sworn I saw Kurt from Nirvana wearing a Daniel Johnston t-shirt!

Must have been my imagination...

― Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

I never get this - are people supposed to be so genre-bound that they only rep for bands/musicians from their own stylistic niche?

I never said this was *bad* or anything...

― NYCNative, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.film-forward.com/deviland.jpg

There you go Saxby.

― I am not afraid of you and you can spank my ass, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

Timberlake in an MC5 shirt..

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...not that there's anything wrong with that.

― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:09 (eighteen years ago)

Oh well. He looked like a twat anyway, with or without the shirt.

― everything, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:12 (eighteen years ago)

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― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.rue-morgue.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16074

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

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Just think...some Lil Wayne fan is gonna ask about that skull on his shirt. Someone will eventually inform him it's the logo for the best horror rock band ever, the Misfits. He might hear their stuff, become addicted, investigate the movies behind the music...BAM! One more added to our numbers...

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCrimsonGhost
Don't hold your breath on that one, bub.

Another thing is the crimson ghost is a registered trademark of The Misfits, I wonder if that's a custom made shirt, because I sure as shit hope it's not officially licensed.

Same here. It's disrespect to put a "grill" on our misfits. We don't go areound putting bloody chainsaws in the hands of Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac do we?
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― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

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― Huey in Melbourne, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:49 (eighteen years ago)

So much for a public service. [i]Let's try again.{/i]

― Huey in Melbourne, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

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― Huey in Melbourne, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

U BROKE ILX U MOTHERFUCKER

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:28 (eighteen years ago)

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

Fixed?

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

No.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

It all started with Timberlake in an MC5 shirt.

I feel dizzy.

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

Also, italics.

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

(meta criticism of whiney g)

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

america demands weenie horror biggie shirts

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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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 (eighteen years ago)

can I just turn this off?

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

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doh.

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

pretty sucky life, bro.

Yeah.

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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Pimp C (RIP) of UGK wearing a Nirvana "Sliver/Dive" shirt in the "Use Me Up" video (1992):

https://i.imgur.com/H9JqbKE.jpg

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 8 April 2019 03:22 (six years ago)

I can’t find it right now, but there’s a recent-ish selfie of David Sylvian sporting a black Boris (the Japanese noisegaze band) T-shirt.

― Max Florian, Monday, 8 April 2019 04:42 (six years ago)

https://www.tinymixtapes.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/Article_Width/1707/sufjan-stevens-announces-new-icarrie-lowelli-live-album.jpg

Sufjan Stevens wearing a Sannhet t-shirt.

― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Monday, 8 April 2019 10:27 (six years ago)

one month passes...

Joe McPhee, about 3 hours ago...

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/479VGdkEOOU/hqdefault.jpg

― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2019 00:12 (five years ago)

Shout out to the guitarist in Westkust who wears Death in June or Non t-shirts. https://www.last.fm/music/Westkust/+images/84a7ccfb9ed946df88711d61115e783a

― Treblekicker, Thursday, 9 May 2019 08:48 (five years ago)

When fashion dictates . . .

― nickn, Thursday, 9 May 2019 16:48 (five years ago)

lotta pics not showing up but i feel like that idiot Ryan ADams must have been the king of this?

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 9 May 2019 16:53 (five years ago)

Well excuse me if I, wear another band's shirt tonite....

― pplains, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:22 (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/37E2T1Q.png

Chuck Mosley of Faith No More

― pplains, Thursday, 16 May 2019 17:32 (five years ago)

Joe McPhee does kinda sound like AC/DC sometimes

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:29 (five years ago)

the rest of them look like adorable babies (in the care of an extremely irresponsible adult)

― blokes you can't rust (sic), Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:30 (five years ago)

maybe in the care of an RA who is three years older than the rest of them

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:31 (five years ago)

one month passes...

https://i.imgur.com/6zIj41R.jpg

― pplains, Friday, 5 July 2019 15:56 (five years ago)

HAGAR: "There's only one way to RULE!"

― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 July 2019 16:20 (five years ago)

Shout out to the guitarist in Westkust who wears Death in June or Non t-shirts. https://www.last.fm/music/Westkust/+images/84a7ccfb9ed946df88711d61115e783a

― Treblekicker, Thursday, May 9, 2019 3:48 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

you could maybe rationalize DiJ not being a huge red flag but paired with fucking Non, man I dunno

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 July 2019 17:09 (five years ago)

/Shout out to the guitarist in Westkust who wears Death in June or Non t-shirts. https://www.last.fm/music/Westkust/+images/84a7ccfb9ed946df88711d61115e783a🕸

― Treblekicker, Thursday, May 9, 2019 3:48 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink/

you could maybe rationalize DiJ not being a huge red flag but paired with fucking Non, man I dunno

Looks like a Psychic TV shirt in there too.

― circa1916, Friday, 5 July 2019 17:17 (five years ago)

five months pass...

DJ Tiësto:

https://6ad84eux9zs4.b-cdn.net/w_1280,h_720/s3-top-40/552fb538-1bc0-4cce-a6d3-daa497f7d67c.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 29 December 2019 15:32 (five years ago)

i dunno - anthemic, maximalist, relentless, slightly oppressive?

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 December 2019 15:34 (five years ago)

one year passes...

spotted this today: david van day wearing springsteen shirt.

https://img.discogs.com/-pZ4UCdQVh6hTc-xak_owE36CdQ=/fit-in/496x503/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1900281-1299117706.jpeg.jpg

― visiting, Thursday, 21 October 2021 01:16 (three years ago)

nine months pass...

I love that Demi Lovato was wearing a Voivod shirt!

http://www.wearethepit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/metalhead-demi-lovato-rocks-a-voivod-shirt-while-signing-copies-of-their-new-album-678x381.png

https://www.wearethepit.com/2022/07/metalhead-demi-lovato-rocks-a-voivod-shirt-while-signing-copies-of-their-new-album/

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 24 July 2022 23:19 (two years ago)

I’m trying to think of which of them I’d rather listen to

― Josefa, Sunday, 24 July 2022 23:34 (two years ago)

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

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 24 July 2022 23:36 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

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 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

Glory of Love and Rockets

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

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 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

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

― brimstead, Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:51 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

cameo

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

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 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

three months pass...

Holger Czukay wearing a Who t-shirt (apparently this photo was taken at the Notting Hill Carnival in 1978).

https://live.staticflickr.com/3051/5692702098_4be48d1a1c_b.jpg

― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2024 23:05 (ten months ago)

https://images.genius.com/e49dac0bb26bd76a1a7d9ab801a20e11.1000x1000x1.png

Orville Peck

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 8 June 2024 07:05 (ten months ago)

(xp) Trying to think if Can ever sounded like the Who and all I can think of is the bass playing in "Vernal Equinox".

― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 June 2024 09:18 (ten months ago)

Bill Berry wears a Steel Pulse shirt in this (1982) performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sBVX9kRmBE

― Energy wrong, I log off (morrisp), Friday, 14 June 2024 05:59 (ten months ago)

xxxp tbf Orville Peck was in Nu Sensae so wearing a punk t-shirt is not surprising

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 14 June 2024 10:16 (ten months ago)

tbf Orville Peck was in Nu Sensae so wearing a punk t-shirt is not surprising

I had no idea! That's a suprisingly interesting fact.

― emil.y, Friday, 14 June 2024 12:43 (ten months ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjqfmnG8Jc

― ufo, Monday, 1 July 2024 11:19 (ten months ago)

guy on the BET Awards was singing and wearing a Misfits shirt. he did not sound like Misfits.

― scott seward, Monday, 1 July 2024 11:40 (ten months ago)

doesn't Big Thief get kinda proggy? i thought i heard a couple of songs of theirs that sounded a little guitar-wonky.

― scott seward, Monday, 1 July 2024 11:41 (ten months ago)

ten months pass...

"I have got to find the Bieber..."

https://preview.redd.it/justin-bieber-wearing-an-r-e-m-tee-prepare-for-a-surge-of-v0-9herwfctmcye1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8d1d74abed8a92eb7de7367743e9080631200620

― hypothetical rogue notary (morrisp), Friday, 2 May 2025 14:16 (four days ago)

https://i.redd.it/nn49l1eruta51.jpg

Chief Keef wearing a Grateful Dead shirt.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 May 2025 14:39 (four days ago)

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54500432031_25fa978144_z.jpg

Hoshino Hidehiko of Buck-Tick wearing a Spacemen 3 T-shirt

― Etherwave, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 07:10 (twelve hours ago)

Not the correct title of the S3 record.

― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 07:17 (twelve hours ago)

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