The 1981 USA tour by The Rolling Stones was the highest grossing tour event that year although originally Mick Jagger was reluctant to tour at all. Interestingly, the band played a 'low-key' warm up in Massachussets billed as Little Boy Blue and the Cockroaches. The L.A. Coliseum show featured on this fantastic vintage concert jersey t-shirt included a little known artist on the bill - Prince - who (according to Wikipedia) was booed from the stage after only two songs. Versions of this t-shirt appear regularly in vintage collections and feature in quite a few publications about vintage rock t-shirts. Each individual city & venue was printed on the back of the shirt and sold at the appropriate location. An added bonus is an actual 1981 tour program!
I have this exact same shirt from their stop in LA w/ Prince in 81! I am wondering if you know why that this shirt from the LA show is different from all of the rest that I've ever seen. What I'm referring to is that the Coliseum pictured on the front is intact. On all the others that I've seen, the dragons talons have crunched down, bits of concrete is flying, and there is a crowd running out of the building. What makes our shirts from LA diff, and also I am thinking of putting mine up for sale. Is the difference in the artwork make it worth a lot more?
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