{"id":8297,"date":"2011-07-19T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=8297"},"modified":"2011-07-19T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T19:26:08","slug":"rocks-unfulfilled-fashion-ideas-the-sleeveless-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rocks-unfulfilled-fashion-ideas-the-sleeveless-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock\u2019s Unfulfilled Fashion Ideas: The Sleeveless Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Et tu, Eddie?<\/p><\/div>\n

Has any rocker ever made music of merit wearing a sleeveless shirt<\/a>? Not while making music\u00a0bare-chested or wearing a tank top, not bare-chested under a vest<\/a>, but specifically making music while wearing a sleeveless shirt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’ve clicked these opening links you’ll see that U2<\/strong> drummer Larry Mullen<\/strong> has been known to wear the sleeveless shirt<\/a>. I’ll grant that an argument can be made that U2 made some music of merit while Mullen donned\u00a0such a\u00a0gun-bearing fashion atrocity, but he’s a drummer. In past style pieces on Rock Town Hall, drummers have gotten a pass for all sorts of questionable fashion choices, including performing in barefeet and wearing shorts. We make some allowances for rock’s driving forces based on matters of comfort. For the purposes of this survey, we’ll give sleeveless drummers<\/a> a pass. Beside, I want no part of George Hurley<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Granted, as a guy who’s never expressed his vanity through his forearms (as if I could), the whole sleeveless shirt<\/a> thing mystifies me. It’s to be expected that the poster boy of Rock Town Hall’s Unfulfilled Fashion Ideas<\/em> series, Alan Vega<\/strong><\/a>, would go sleeveless, but the style would spread to some of the coolest of the cool.\u00a0How much comfort<\/a> does a man need to be a rock legend? How much do we really need to know<\/a> about him? Sure, sometimes even the President of the United States has to stand naked, but did Bob Dylan<\/strong> really need to play sleeveless<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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Sleeveless shirt, leather pants, two pairs of shorts...Jerry wins this battle of Best Stage Look!<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t know when the sleeveless shirt craze took over, but do a search on a number of rock artists with the date “1985” following their name and I’d bet you can come up with as many shots of them sleeveless as I just did with Dylan. (BTW, I didn’t realize he was into the\u00a0Bare-Chested Vest Look<\/a> as early as\u00a0the mid-’70s, for that Renaldo and Clare<\/em> movie.)\u00a0You don’t believe me? Try these:<\/p>\n