Day: 852
Shirt: Descendents - FinALL Tour Summer '87 (the Liveage tour) (reproduction)
Color: Â White
Brand: Fruit Of The Loom Best
Source:Â This shirt has serious meaning to me. Â well not this one exactly but this design. Â where do i start. Â i sued to own this shirt. Â i wore it all the time but much like any white shirt any skateboarder owned its days were numbered. Â i don't know how, or when it happened but at some point it died. Â I'm guessing full of rips, pavement and blood stains and if i know 18 yo Isac a few ketchup stains from hotdogs or something of that nature. Â
Secondly this is it. Â this was to be the last Descendents shirt ever made. the band was breaking up, going on tour and that was going to be that. Â the tour eded up boing the Liveage! album. Â easily one of my fav live albums of all time. Â and to think this was the shirt that you would have bought at the show as you heard this show live is just mind melting to me. Â i kinda get teary eyed thinking of it. Â
This shirt is on eBay once in a blue moon but never in a size that might fit me (XL, cause I'm a large but the 80's thought differently about what Large was) Â and i have never gotten my hands on it. Â i feel like th sonly way i will ever see it again is if someone says oh yeah i have that in my closet i never wear, its yours man.Â
Yeah dream on....so recently a friend bought one and sent me a picture so i made my own. Â i tried to replicate it best i can. Â it was important to me that some of the new Descendents fans out there get a chance to see this shirt again in all its glory. Â the 80's neon colors, the weird fonts, the of set curvature of the back dates that was clearly made pre- computer.. i dunno to me it really is a holy grail. Â i should shut my mouth at this point cause if any one did have it they are getting all sentimental about it now too and will never give it up now. Â oh well.
i also found this ad today in an old flip side i was flipping through, the ad for the tour that this shirt is from... Â
and Today they ar employing at Fun Fun Fun Fest 8 and i am not there...
YEs i did make a few extra, yes they are in the stores for as long as they last and that will be it. Â so snatch them up, and give them as gifts for xmas and make someone as happy as i am just looking at this post.