the owl prowl was quiet and windless this morning or happy friday imaginary constructs
a few nights ago i dreamt i was paying for a meal at a lunch counter with coins from my pocket. all of the nickels were square and sharp and they gouged my hand bloody
right after i wrote that my dreams had been drained of emotion, the emotion came back to them stronger than ever with chest shaking grief and fist pounding joy
in just a few hours i'll go hang out with my kids at their place. we'll eat dumplings and potstickers, drink dollar bucket nonsense, and share this week's stories. i'm looking forward to it
i want to read on the calculation of volume 1 but i'm twenty -ninth in line for a copy, which is just long enough to be disappointed when it finally gets here
i'm hungry for an elaborately spiced curry that has been prepared right in front of me so i can smell every moment of the cooking
I spent half a day solving this, so I absolutely have to write it down.
I have sometimes seen juxtaposed images of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page wearing the same t-shirt featuring a sunflower:
Do they share the t-shirt? This is very cute! But no, I don't think they do.
If you watch the video above, you will encounter THREE people wearing this T-shirt presumably on the same day (one of whom is Robert):
Led Zeppelin played two concerts in Montreux in 1971: on 7 and 8 August. Robert wore one of his slutty blouses on 7 August and The T-shirt on 8 August:
(the first picture in this post is also from the 8 August concert)
Luckily, there is also a photo showing the back of the t-shirt:
...which features the logo of the Super Pop festival in Montreux!
Super Pop was a sibling of the Montreux Jazz Festival – a sibling so close that the two tend to be confused. Super Pop was about rock and pop music and lasted from 1969 to 1973. You can read about it here. The 7 and 8 August concerts were part of Super Pop. (In December of the same year, the venue burnt down during a Frank Zappa concert, which inspired Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple).
The logo seems to have been designed in 1971. While I haven't found a direct confirmation of the year, 1) I haven't seen any examples of this logo before 1971 2) The 1971 entry of the Super Pop archive mentions it as a "new logo" 3) There is a "Montreux71" version alongside the simple "Montreux", as you can see above.
This suggests that these t-shirts were designed and produced in 1971 as merch for the Super Pop festival.
Now, there is this photo of Robert and Maureen:
The description says that it was taken on 12 May 1969 in Honolulu. This is GettyImages officially selling rights to use the image, they should know what they're selling. Well, no.
This is not 1969 Robert: look at the hair. Here's a actual photo from 12 May 1969:
Not the same hair! I understand how him wearing lei in both pictures can be confusing. And apart from the hair, we now have another argument that the date is wrong: The T-shirt did not exist in 1969. But no worries! Led Zeppelin did come to Honolulu in September 1971, just a month after the Montreux concerts, so that explains the combination of the t-shirt and the lei.
But wait, there's more. When I was Researching the t-shirt, I found this reddit post: The Mysterious Floyd-Zeppelin T-shirt Connection. This is the first time I've seen Reddit conclude that some rock stars might be gay, lol. And that because of a t-shirt.
So, it turns out it's not only Led Zeppelin who "shared" this t-shirt. Pink Floyd did it as well, namely David Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Rick Wright:
Where did they get it? Well, in Montreux! When they played there on 18 and 19 September 1971! Those concerts were part of the Super Pop festival, as well as the classical music festival. The picture with David Gilmour is from October 1971, I think, which is when Live at Pompeii was filmed. Rick Wright pictured here is also from Live at Pompeii.
So, to sum up, Occam's razor tells us that everyone had their own copy of the T-shirt. I mean, it is a very nice T-shirt. I would totally wear it. Let me know if you ever see it in a thrift shop!
