Elton John 1973 "Lost Concert" T-shirt Replica Available at MoabJim.com
In late 2002, I dragged out my slowly deteriorating Elton John September 7, 1973 Hollywood Bowl vintage concert t-shirt and assessed its sad condition. The silkscreen image on my vintage Elton John t-shirt was crumbling further with each washing.
A spirit told me that I might have the last souvenir t-shirt from that magical Hollywood night, so I decided to restore my vintage 9/7/73 garment. After snapping a digital picture of the t-shirt, I began the laborious "re-pixilation" of that image.
Over the course of several months, I
spent at least 200 hours restoring my 9/7/73 Elton John T-shirt image to
as close to the original merchandise as possible.
The Elton John replica concert t-shirt is a MoabJim worldwide exclusive
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relive Elton's classic live concert of 1973 in bright red style. To
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January 5, 2014 - Author's Note - After shipping another Elton John replica t-shirt to a customer, I received the following note from fellow concert attendee, "N.K.". His vivid recollections of that night and the concert itself help us all to remember that special night with Elton John at the Hollywood Bowl.
I received the t-shirt and washed it per your instructions, but haven't worn it yet.
Elton's 9/7/73 Hollywood Bowl concert has become one of my favorite
stories, one that I tell over and over again. Just walking in with
everyone to find our seats was an experience, as I'm sure you remember
that the crowd was really into it as a "happening" and LA did it up
right. Everyone was dressed and ready for a party, and Elton sure gave
us one. One thing I remember was seeing someone wearing clear plastic
platform shoes with live goldfish in them, and everyone was dressed to
the nines.
Remember the mermaids? The stagehands carried out a couple of women in
full mermaid costumes and set them down in the fountains, which started
flowing and lit up with colored lights. All the "celebrity" guests
walked up the stairway and then down to the audience, and when they
lifted up the lids of the five pastel-colored grand pianos that spelled
out "E-L-T-O-N" on the lids, all the doves flew out of the pianos, and
circled round and round in the colored spotlights pointing up above
the audience.
The smoke from all the joints going in the crowd was like fog in the
air, and when Elton walked down the stairs in his furs and plumes, and
his glasses lit up to spell "Elton", the crowd went crazy.
As I recall, he did a set with the band, then a solo set at the piano,
and then brought the band back for the finale, and each song was one
that everyone knew. I think it was part of the Yellow Brick Road
release tour, and as Elton himself said, he was at the peak of his
creativity.
Thanks for the effort you put in to recreate the T-shirt - I'm looking
forward to wearing it for the first time and saying "This shirt? Let me
tell you what that concert was like..."
Cheers, N.K.
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