No Logo
Posted by Patrick Crowther on 4 February 2008 - 9:34am.
The band logo used to be a gift for a teenage lad who was into music, had some colouring pens and a school rucksack to deface. But the instantly recognisable logo seems to have gone out of fashion now, which is a shame. Perhaps it still lives on in the murky netherworld of metal, but for me the halcyon days are long gone...
Would anyone like to share their amusing band logo on rucksack or denim jacket anecdotes? Don't be shy...
Some classics from the past...
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I blame that Led Zeppelin
After them, all loud bands had to have had a testosterone-charged logo if they were to be taken seriously, not least:
A classic!
I forgot about Priest! Breakin' the law! Breakin' the law!
An apology to my mum...
who tirelessly sewed patch after patch onto my brand new Levi's denim jacket. When I went to gigs of the hard-rockin' variety, I would always envy the older geezers whose jackets looked like they'd been slept in for 20 years.
That's because they HAD been slept in.
What your mum would have found alarming was what else had been done in them...
ZoSo
that was the best one, along with its mates OOO, that leafy thing and er, um, what was the other one?
Ouch
After years of shortening the names of my fave bands to emblazon my Levis jacket to save on embroidery thread - Black Sabbath down to Sabs, Led Zeppelin to Zep, ELP to, er, ELP brought me to shoot myself in the foot in the 80's.
I embroiderd the shortened name of my favourite band: Big Country.
Big Country!
To paraphrase Alan Partridge, the band that U2 might have been.
was it john peel
who introduced Big Country on Top of the Pops as 'And now, putting the Tree in Country, here's Big Country!'?
Green Flash
Don't forget Green Flash tennis shoes - once suitably grimy, covered in logos and band names, with "Led" in biro on one rubber toe and "Zep" on the other. Marvellous!
Not on my rucksack...
But all over every exercise book, folder and pencil case I owned for most of my comprehensive school years. Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Nirvana - you name the band, we probably scrawled their logo on something at some point.
My art folder had a particularly large and impressive Anthrax logo (complete with 'Judge Death' face) which I made out of black insulation tape.
Also, I can remember a couple of guys at my local skatepark wearing denim jackets with Status Quo patches...
Aphex
My rucksack was usually adorned with the gilded ''Aphex'' logo, daubed on with a trusted felt-tip (always red or black, to show your 'ard).
Back in the 1980s
I remember feeling sorry for a chap I saw cycling past the car at some traffic lights. In my teens, I had had fun biroing "ELP" or "Free" or even "King Crimson" across my sports bag in blue and red, but this poor soul must have spent at least a week grinding ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK into his rucksack with a purple felt-tip.
and to add insult to injury
the bastards brought out an album called "Architecture And Morality". The poor sod probably had to buy a second rucksack.
Figured out this image thing at last .....Thin Lizzy
The Thin Lizzy logo was big in these parts about 1978/79.