According to some colleagues of mine, today is Band T-Shirt Day. The official (?) website attests that "Band Shirt Day is a global fundraising initiative, where artists come together for a single day to sell merchandise on their official sales channels and donate proceeds to charitable organizations of their choice.”
Regardless, at my office, the folks that program content for the company’s intranet portal were soliciting pics of team members sporting their favorites. Being that I have pretty much a full-blown addiction to accruing band t-shirts, I was game to participate. Here’s what I submitted...
“I have what any normal person would consider a stupid amount of band t-shirts, but I can’t seem to bring myself to part with any of them. This one is among my very favorites. It’s Dread Zeppelin. Ostensibly, Dread Zeppelin was a reggae band that played Led Zeppelin covers with an Elvis impersonator as a lead singer. If that sounds ridiculous, that’s because it was. Suffice to say, they were a tremendously entertaining live band. I got this shirt at a tour stop in 1990 at long-since-vanished Wetlands Preserve, not too far away from our office. To this day, this shirt continues to confuse and upset Zeppelin purists … which makes it priceless, to my mind.”
I partially went with Dread Zeppelin not just because I genuinely love the shirt, but because I can only bang the gong so much about my allegieance to certain specific bands like Killing Joke before I lapse into self-parody. Funnily enough, my company’s recently-hired new Chief Financial Officer submitted a pic of himself sporting a Killing Joke shirt, which pretty much knocked me right off the porch. I’ll be discussing that with him soon, although I have to meet him first.
I also love the irony of our CFO rocking a t-shirt emblazoned with the cover of the album that spawned the single “Money Is Not Our God.”
Anyway, Happy Band T-Shirt Day to all that celebrate. To see more of my stupid pile of t-shirts, click here.
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