Pretentious Things to DO!

So hopefully all of you know not to be ‘that guy’ who wears the shirt of the band you’re going to see.  Just so you know, you also shouldn’t wear the shirt of the act whose side project you’re going to see (i.e. no Tool shirts at a Perfect Circle show, no Deftones shirts at a Team Sleep show, and, just to be safe, no Blink 182 shirts anywhere). The inverse (i.e. Zwan shirt at a show Pumpkins show) may be permissible, but is still questionable.

However, I think I can approve of wearing a homemade shirt of what the band you’re going to see used to be called: On A Friday at a Radiohead show, Mookie Blaylock at a Pearl Jam show, Jars of Piss shirt at an R.E.M. show, etc.  Also to consider is the possibility of combining the two and wearing, say, a Mighty Joe Young shirt to a Velvet Revolver show, which also gives you the chance to wear it to an Army of Anyone show*.  It’s something you can do, and it’s terribly pretentious.

*I’ll go ahead and explain this one, since it’s kind of complex: Stone Temple Pilots were originally called Mighty Joe Young.  After their break-up, Scott Wieland joined what is essentially the rest of Guns ‘n’ Roses in Velvet Revolver.  The DeLeo brothers [half of STP] worked with Richard Patrick of Filter in a group called Army of Anyone.  Deal?  Deal.