Musical Tees

(and tease)

When Chicago VIII came out in 1975, the cover was designed to
look like some sort of needlework. Inside was an iron-on that
imitated it. As you can see, this one got worn a few times...

...so when they were celebrating their
50th anniversary, I bought a new one.

For a while, some of us corresponded with Jason Scheff, who was Chicago's
bass player and tenor vocalist after Peter Cetera. He was with the band
for 31 years (which was 72% longer than Peter's tenure). Someone dubbed
us his "cyber posse," so naturally we had to get matching T-shirts!

This is the original version of the logo for Allegro Music Academy. At
the first anniversary concert, all the performers wore matching T-shirts.

Even the little ones! See?

However, in subsequent years, some of the groups had T-shirts of their own.
Such was the case with a family band who called themselves the Beach Bums.

In those days we also had fictitious band—the Squid
Gizzards—and the studio's bass drum head displayed
their logo. We also made a T-shirt featuring the logo.

Humor runs rampant in T-shirts. Here are a couple of visual puns.

Once when Elmwood Court Jazz Band performed, the three players
who were also on the faculty of the Academy wore "staff shirts."

This one was given to me by a woman in the presence of her
husband. When he saw it, his reaction was very simply, "Huh?"

~ FURTHER READING ~

T-shirts are very popular merchandise sold at concerts. If you
took all the T-shirts sold at all the concerts in U.S. in a single
year and stacked them up, unfolded, they would topple over at some
point. Plus, the people you took them from would be very angry.