After an extended hiatus from blogging I'm determined to start again. To kick off my return to blogging I'm starting a my salute to band shirts of the 1980s. I'm going to cover one year per blog.
I'm going to start off with this sweet Grateful Dead shirt from their 1980 tour 'On The Road Again'. In 1980 The Dead played 87 shows from coast to coast, beginning and ending in Oakland. Their amazing year of touring ended with five shows in six nights at the Oakland Auditorium. The back of this shirt has a nice graphic as well.
1980 was also a good for Black Sabbath shirts. Take a look at the variation on the graphic for shirt #1402, there is a little Texas state logo where the reapers head is on shirt #748.
Other 1980 notables, A nice Bruce Springsteen shirt that lists the E Street Band members on the back #1376. Here is a rather impressive Van Halen shirt, shirt #964, from their 1980 tour promoting Women and Children First. Make sure you check out the back of the shirt as well, the graphic of the band is equally colorful.