Concert T-shirt

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A concert T-shirt is a T-shirt that is associated with a concert or a concert tour, usually of the type featuring a modern genre of music. 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]

Several people wearing black concert T-shirts at a concert.

1 The black concert T-shirt
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] The black concert T-shirt

One of the most popular colors for concert T-shirts is a flat black.^[2]^[3] Fans purchase or obtain these shirts to wear to future concerts, often with jeans, dark colored trousers or skirts. Fans may wear the shirt of one band to a concert of another to show their taste in a particular type of music or loyalty to another band or type of music.

Such shirts are everyday wear in some teen subcultures, especially stoners and freaks.^[4]

Tour dates listed on the Dixie Chicks' 2006 Accidents & Accusations Tour T-shirt.

[edit] See also

[edit] 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.
^ Graham, Paul [May 2004] (February 2003). "Why Nerds are Unpopular", Hackers & Painters. O'Reilly Media, Inc.. ISBN 978-0596006624. Retrieved on 2007-07-09. “Teenage kids, even rebels, don't like to be alone, so when kids opt out of the system, they tend to do it as a group. At the schools I went to, the focus of rebellion was drug use, specifically marijuana. The kids in this tribe wore black concert t-shirts and were called "freaks."”