Today I received this impossibly cool shirt in the post and it occurred to me just how “Afterword” it is. The debut John Martyn album from 1967 sold tiny amounts on release (just a few hundred copies by all accounts) but went on to become a folk/prog landmark.
These days you’d need to take out a second mortgage to buy an original pink label Island pressing and now it’s on a t-shirt fer chrissakes.
So, since it’s been a while since we did a t-shirt thread, has anyone got anything cooler or more Afterword than this?
http://i.imgur.com/izfJefF.jpg
Now read on….. —–>
Where is that Tee from, please and thank you?
It came from a company called DJ Tees. They have some funky shirts at around 10 quid each.
http://www.djtees.com/
‘They got their Steely Dan t-shirts’. No they haven’t. How can this be? That single line must have done more for Rock t-shirts than, er, any other line about Rock t-shirts since er, well the last one and they leave it out?
Very poor show.
Heh, up to 5 x XL!
Unsurprisingly, no ladies fit/sizes.
XXXXXL? Crikey.
At what point does something cease to be a t-shirt and become, essentially, a modified duvet cover?
And who is wearing 7XL Boxer Shorts? Relaxed fit indeed.
http://i.imgur.com/ixz1mJH.jpg
Yes, but it is a physiological proven, indisputable fact that wimmins don’t like Steely Dan. Can’t dance to it, you see. I mean have you ever put you handbag on the floor and jived around it to Kid Chatlemagne? No ? I thought not. Obv’s really, see? Therefore no need for wimmins sizes.
Mind you, I didn’t see any David Cassidy t-shirts on there either. In any sizes.
Look on page 4 of the classic rock tees section….
I think you’ll find Do It Again and Haitian Divorce are danceable.
Records can be as danceable as you like, it doesn’t mean women (and therefore people) will actually dance to them. Generally speaking anything that involves guitars will clear a dancefloor quicker than CS gas.
Unless, of course, the guitars are being played by Nile Rodgers.
I was at my union head office recently, picking up T-shirts, when another rep came in ordering a Large, a couple of XXLs, and 2 for darts players.
Ta ever so.
Yep, have to say that looks fantastic!
Do they do one for ‘The Tumbler’?!
Or, for that matter, any of the Bert Jansch LPs?
They have 100s of rock shirts, but I could only find one other John Martyn tee and it was from later in his career, around early 80s, I’d say.
Not quite a t-shirt. How about a Gong Flying Teapot Teapot?
https://flic.kr/p/Ebt7rf
https://www.burningshed.com/store/rockpots/product/449/3917/
Brilliant Beany. Love it.
Hey, Beany, I’ve got one of those – but the lid has a propeller on it….
Time to page @owlsley I think. . .
http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag126/astralcat379/P1010721_zpse7xdxmxn.jpg
Solomon’s Seal. Fantastic
Its companion 🙂
http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag126/astralcat379/P1010720_zpsqpm9pwic.jpg
Now that I want.
Afterword T-shirt sizes:
No Small
Limited Medium
Large to 5X Large
Hey, don’t tar us all with this assumed girthism – I am again a 33″ waist I’ll have you know.
I have been meaning to ask (I hope you don’t mind) are you the same Aging Hippy who regularly contributes to the John Martyn Facebook thingy?
So you’re a medium. Hurry, while stocks last!
Afraid I’m not the Facebook impostor.
How dare you suggest or infer that at our age 33″ is a medium. Bugger me, it’s taken me a whole month to shift a single inch.
Anyway, are we not in our heads, hearts, imagination and in reality aging hippies?
Swear to it.
Stupendous Beany. I have difficulty to restrain myself from starting a teapot thread.
At this rate we’ll soon have a complete AW home. I’m sure I can interest IKEA in designing some customised items.
Steeli – flowerpot
MahaWishnu- Lamp
RäfferTea – breakfast crockery
Brilliant t shirt too JC.
Both DuCool and I would buy that on the spot.
I saw one of these in a record shop last year:
https://www.burningshed.com/covers/large4923.jpg
Now, that is a must-have item!
Mr Hippy! I take great offence at your remark. I’m sure there are many AWers who could be described as elfin, sylph-like, willowy, slender and petite.
I may look like a Tellerubby on the skids myself but I sincerely believe I am atypical.
No you’re not. Of course I’m not including the separate Ladies Range of which, being a gentleman, I refuse to speculate.
On second thoughts… Ladies Range: Small, Medium and Ding-Dong!
Or, small, medium and is this the chubby checkers thread?
“Telerubby” is a slightly disturbing Freudian slip if ever I saw one.
Ooops! Sorry Moose. That Tinky Winky does get out of hand occasionally.
The Solid Air album cover would look great on a T shirt.
That reminds me, they also have an Alan Hull t-shirt. I wonder what sales figures are like on those south of the Toon.
If it’s the Magritte they’ll have les flics after ’em!
What’s on it, surely not his fizogg? I’d buy one that said 0652.
Nothing to write home about
http://i.imgur.com/ff5ITZW.png
I’ve always wanted to open a tyre shop called Solid Air.
Hm. As you were.
Now, someone kindly offered to create some lovely Afterword t-shirts if we set up a RedBubble shop. I did look into it but frankly the terms and conditions that I had to agree to were mildly TERRIFYING so I didn’t do it. But I can’t remember who made the offer, so I could say thank you for the thought, it was much appreciated.
Nice t-shirt, by the way JoCo.
@hannah That may have been @wheldrake.
I’m happy to do design work for the site, in lieu of a donation.
Your design work is wonderful, GCU GU, and I appreciate the offer.
However, the terms and conditions of the online stores still terrify me and I’m not sure I can bear to be legally responsible for a t-shirt shop. I’m legally responsible for enough right now.
Cheers Hannah
They are queueing round the block for this contemporary classic..
Nice…..I had one of those in fetching khaki….Mme Stoke turned it into a duster (she’s never been big on British jazz)……
Seen the ‘mono’ T-shirts on that site?
12 different colours, a.k.a. one every month.
Just in time to change it before it gets unbearably smelly.
Definitely an option, and you’d probably get the nickname ‘mono’.
The Bridge meets The Killing. I want one!
http://www.moretvicar.com/products/scandinavian-autistic-cops-mens-sports-grey-t-shirt
I always thought that the most Afterword T-shirt ever would have Kate Tempest, the Sleaford Mods,Stuart Murdoch and Joanna Newsom dressed up as the Sensational Alex Harvey Band and administering a fearful beating to John Martyn, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Kate Bush
Bob Dylan.
That’s exactly the scene I have tattooed on my left bum cheek.
*Admires Pencil’s bum cheek in dispassionate manly way*
Conversely, here’s probably the least Afterword T-shirt ever. I saw it in a charity shop for $5 and just had to buy it.
http://i.imgur.com/1wQvelh.jpg
Do you wear it out?
Tucked in I’m guessing.
I only wear it on special occasions, same sex marriage ceremonies, my kids’ school graduations, funerals, hospital visits, SWP demos and the like.
This t-shirt shows a shaky grasp of theology. For a start, it implies that a man should only ever marry someone who’s made out of his own rib. And are there any Steves in Genesis?
(besides Hackett)
I heard Alan Partridge use the line once, so I had to buy for that reason alone.
For some reason that picture came out strangely small (but oddly normal) . Here it is again in all its redneck, offensive, small-minded glory.
http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt351/mojoworking01/Weird%20stuff/steve.jpg
There are times, of course, when the well-dressed Afterworder wants to make a statement. At other times, I have to say (as a discerning customer), the excellent London Lee range of tees is the mutt’s nuts. Elegant, understated design, wide range of styles and sizes for both sexes.
https://www.teepublic.com/user/LondonLee
Meanwhile…
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g401/mikethep/2014-TShirt-black_zps9brbn1ho.jpg
I very much hope I can wear this to advertise my humourless righteousness to the world, while ignoring the fact that it was manufactured by 8-year-olds working 14-hour-shifts for a dollar a week.
I notice that all these shirts are shown un-worn. This is because tees make you look like the shapeless sack of shit you are. You have to be really buff (either sex) for the T-shirt to look good on you. They’re really horrible things. Here’s my Horrible Thing, which sees and raises Concher’s insipid John Martyn effort:
(crosses fingers for Photophucket)
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t642/burtkocain/DSC01525_zpsrgnysz7n.jpg
Hey! We’ve got the same floorboards.
Nice shade of green (as my wife might say).
The summer climate is such in this part of Australia that even the flimsiest tee shirt is about all you can tolerate. Might as well make it entertaining.
T-shirts aren’t the coolest (in terms of heat) things to wear, though. The cotton clings to body fat, preventing perspiration from evaporating. You’re forever pulling the material away from your body to let the air circulate. Summer in this part of Thailand lasts most of the year, hot blue skies eleven months out of twelve, and T-shirts aren’t the answer. I wear short-sleeve shirts in man-made fibres, some Hawaiian-stylee. Not long tuck-in shirts, a little longer than waist-length, no tails, worn outside the shorts. Cheesy, you say? Not at all. I have a quantity of pleasing styles exuding (like their owner) a retro chic, and because they are cut to fit (unlike T-shirts, which are basically bags) they both flatter and cool the mature figure. The buttoned front lets air into the chest hollow, the armpits are well ventilated, and the whole thing is just a triumph of form, function, and decoration.
Man-made fibres? Jeez, I’m getting sticky just thinking about it, and not in a good way. Cotton is your only man, wouldn’t you agree, JC? Or perhaps it’s so sticky up the Mekong it makes no difference.
This is what I favour when it’s hot hot hot and I’m feeling manly.
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g401/mikethep/bonds-chesty-510x600_zps9j4o49f1.jpg
Absolutely Mike
“so sticky up the Mekong”
*Snigger*
Your tree-hugging antipathy towards man-made fibres is the kind of stance we’d expect from a homeopathy enthusiast with a dog on a string, and does you no credit. Hawaiian shirts – the real deal – are made from 100% Rayon, one of the most comfortable fabrics you can wear, but mixes with polyester are also successful. I have a sublime Givenchy chemisette (apparently sewn by elves) which is a 60/40 Rayon/polyester mix, and some similar Cuban shirts (rather heavier and much less lurid than their Hawaiian cousins). I also wear pure Thai silk Jim Thompson shirts (very interesting guy), and unbranded Chinese silk. Cotton is relegated to its best use – as thread.
But you stick – literally – to your baggy old shapeless cotton, Mike. If you ever find a shirt of the quality I’m talking about (hardly likely where you are, I admit), then give it a try.
Not only does the Givenchy chemisette sound irresistible, that rayon / polyester mix will probably power a small bulb for several hours at a time.
Absolutely static free. Something to do with no carpets, maybe, or climate, but there hasn’t been a whisper of static electricity here.
Do they have Cotton On up on the Mekong? They do a range of light cotton short-sleeved shirts that are just the job for the tropics. Nice designs too, a little bit hipsterish but not overtly so.
I’ve got a couple man-made fibre batik shirts, but I find them a bit sweaty. Shame really as they’re very indo-psychedelic.
Nice-looking stuff – cheap, too. Do they cater for the fuller figure?
They go up to XL here in Singapore, they may have bigger ones in Oz if necessary. They can be a bit snug, but the fabric is nice and light. I think they realise what is needed for the Singapore climate and will stock accordingly. Unlike Uniqlo, who change their stock according to the season in Japan, so from November to March they’re trying to sell parkas and duffle coats to people in a country where it never drops below 28 deg. Weird.
Ah yes. I have a Uniqlo shirt. I use it to clean up after the dogs.
I buy what I find in the clothes market. Little costs me more than three quid. I have to search through mountains of crap (the sort of clothes Mike and Johnny would wear) to find the gold, though. Last week – a pair of perfect Evisu jeans. I’ve learned to spot what’s real and what’s fake – it’s not that hard. Prada SGV126 jacket? Yup. Five-hundred dollar Dolce & Gabbana shoes? Check. Thai people couldn’t care less about clothes brands, and the sellers don’t realise they could make more from a couple of posts on ebay than they could all day at the market.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t642/burtkocain/DSC01527_zpsvrmm4qdo.jpg
Some shirts, yesterday. Cool, yea, as the humble cucumber. And not a stitch of cotton.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t642/burtkocain/DSC01529_zpsifygisoz.jpg
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t642/burtkocain/DSC01528_zpsbkv27g4s.jpg
Nice! I love a clothes market, but here in Singapore they’re just full of cheap tat. Every now and again we visit Bandung in Indonesia where they have a range of “outlet shops” that sell stuff very cheaply. They’ve turned it into a tourist experience. Below is “jeans street”. There may be some copyright infringement in this picture.
Absolutely zero tourists in the local clothes market. I’m the only farang there. I’m still mystified by how the clothes get there – not the cheap shit for slobs, but the fine garments I swoop on as I used to swoop on Island pink labels back in the early seventies.
Some jeans, yesterday:
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t642/burtkocain/DSC01531_zps4tjqkmbo.jpg
At left, top to bottom: Tavertini So (hyper-expensive LA brand), Emporio (beautiful lightweight denim), Evisu (selvage!), Tough (Japan). At right: Wolfguy (obscure but brilliant Korean brand), Hilfiger Vintage, Edwin.
I could never have afforded this stuff before. Now I’m broke, I have more than I can wear.
There’ll be plenty here on the Afterword who admire a man of your age having such a waspish waistline I daresay.
That photo isn’t actual size, Johnny. But thanks.
Not to mention your waspish sense of humour.
I said, not to mention..
Oh, please yourselves.
They all look the same.
You’ll be telling me you can’t tell the difference between Concher’s ten copies of Disraeli Gears, next.
I have a Byrds Sweetheart Of The Rodeo t-shirt that I ordered from the US in ‘large’, only to find that US ‘large’ is equivalent to UK ‘aged 3 to 6 months’, so I’ve never been able to impress everyone in Sainsbury’s when wearing it. More worryingly, this suggests that in the US I would be officially classed as ‘fat bastard’, whereas with endearingly British understatement I prefer to think of myself as ‘cuddly’.
Talking of T-shirts, this clip changed my life a few weeks ago…
Before, my opened T-shirt drawer looked like cloth guts spilling out of a freshly cut cadaver – but now you’d think Jeeves had visited and arranged things just so. It really does brighten my day. More than it should.
That’s fantastic! I remember seeing a video of a cute Japanes girl using this method, but she remained inscrutable about her method. What a find!
That’s amazing. Especially the ersatz Scott Joplin ragtime piano.
I hesitate to try clothes on (or even look at them) in shops purely because I feel so racked with guilt being unable to re-fold them as I found them.
Tell you what, Johhny – PM me your measurements and I’ll
post them heresort you out some schmutter at the market. Bit of a mark-up to cover postage etc.The Shadows dedicated this instrumental B-side to my hourglass figure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp9oJWhsKA0
Hippy.
Can’t seem to post pics here but there are some cracking shirts here: https://www.balconyshirts.co.uk/
Owner is a bit of a div though.
I subscribe to the Qwertee newsletter. Mainly stuff for younglings with the occasional design I understand. These two are possible future productions that might appeal to a mature AW audience.
https://flic.kr/p/DQ5Uxd
https://flic.kr/p/DHHCZX