Hardiest gig t-shirt

[Johnm93]

Rush 1982 Signals tour.
Bought at Wembley Arena.
A bit knackered, to be honest...

[Bassassin]

Should still have Motorhead Ace Of Spades tour shirt from 1980 somewhere, might still have a couple of others from the same era but not quite sure what or where they are...

I've recently worn my bright red Rush - Hold Your Fire tour shirt from '88. Still fits fine, which is reassuring.

Jon.

[Old Man Riva]

Weather Report tour shirt bought at a Brum Odeon gig in 1978.

Faded grey/black fleck with black collar and sleeves with a silhouette of the four band members on the back of the shirt.

It's a medium and needless to say I have absolutely no chance of being able to wear it due to the, erm, adding of a few lbs over the years..

[yorick]

Rush Tour of the Spheres shirt...

[Doctor J]

I sold all my olg gig tees on ebay a couple of years ago as there was never a realistic chance of me fitting into them ever again - I started going to gigs when I was 14, so it's not all my adult belly's fault. I made over €700. Most fun was a late bidding war over an Iron Maiden Powerslave shirt which sold for over €100. Even a knackered, ripped Slayer tee made over €60. I bought a bass with the money. Everyone's a wnner baby, that's no lie.

[Raslee]

Still got my mid 90's Acid Jazz logo t-shirt...bit small these days and full of a lot of burn holes...ahem!

[mrtcat]

Got a faith no more t shirt from the real thing tour in 1990. I was only 14 at that gig and shouldn't have been allowed in but my sister's mates boxed around me as we went in.
I regularly gig in the suit my dad got married in back in 1968 if that counts.

[super al]

Great thread, tees seem to hold great memories of gigs past for a lot of us.
I went to a tiny festival last year at the railway inn, Winchester. It was the promoter's birthday and to celebrate, his daughter had sown together loads of his old tees into a giant backdrop for one of the stages. He seemed happy enough about it, I would've had a fit I reckon!
I think my oldest gig tee is from 1990, the great but sadly short lived Five Thirty

[Bikenbass]

I'll try to find my Going For The One 1977 tour tee shirt. Strangely no longer fits, shrank in the wash I think.

[Heathy]

David Lee Roth Skyscraper tour 1988

[colgraff]

When I moved house, I forced myself to bin my 1986 Monsters of Rock tshirt. I couldn't call it hardy as I have been too big for it for years. I was sort of hoping it would last until #1 son was of a size for it but it was starting to look a bit too mouldy.

[Rich]

My oldest shirts are my Rush 'Hold Your Fire' tour from 1988, my It Bites 'Made In Cumbria' from 1987, and my Level 42 'Standing In The Light' from 1983. I think the last one deserves a medal -- it's in one piece and entirely wearable, but alas I have expanded in the intervening 32 years whereas it has not.

[Deep Thought]

I've still got my Pixies tour shirt from 1990, bought at Exeter uni a few months after seeing them at Reading. Wore it to see them at the Eden project last year.

Edited November 30, 2015 by Deep Thought

[Qlank]

Oldest one I have still wearable is a Rush Moving Pictures 1980.
My Yes Drama tour 1980 is a bit threadbare.
Still fit though.

[TransistorBassMan]

I've definitely still got the following:

Gary Numan - Warriors Tour - 1983
Red Guitars - America And Me - 1986
The Bolshoi - Three different ones from 1987
The Planet Wilson - 1988

They're all a very snug fit these days!

Edited November 30, 2015 by TransistorBassMan

[dmccombe7]

Warwick Sweat shirt from 1989 after I had to return my Thumb bass to Germany because of an electronic fault. That and a box full of other goodies like strings and things.