Ultimately, people do want to buy merch and tickets to support their favorite bands, but they don't want to feel like it's the only thing going on.
Metal fans are the most hard-core, loyal fans.
When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.
I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.
I was a real rock 'n' roll fan.
I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free.
I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
I wore a 'Black Metal' Venom T-shirt once, in January 1993, to promote black metal, and I regret having done that ever since.
I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea.
I think metal fans are more loyal than other fans, and they are often more inclined to collect the albums of their favorite bands.
I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
My main professional experience is touring in a rock band.
I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts.
Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.
Modifidious was my first real band.
If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.
I collect head shots from bands.
I grew up obsessively collecting Queen T-shirts and concert posters and rare U.K. imports of their CDs.
If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.
My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.
A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo.
I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.
I know when I wear a Led Zeppelin shirt, I am happy to put that Led Zeppelin shirt on. It's not, 'Well, they kind of suck.'
I have a band called Sons of the Lawless.
