HW: NEWS FLASH !!!!

[Paul Mather]

On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Carl E. Anderson wrote:

>         Besides, if they designed the t-shirts right they could just sell
> them again on the next tour--worked for Metallica ;)  Or sell them
> by mail-order through Griffin-they were trying something like that
> *anyway*- after the tour if any were left over.

Yeah, I thought they did something like this anyway.  Last time I got a
catalogue from the merchandising address, it included a couple of old
tour t-shirts amongst the stuff on offer.  (I even bought an '88 tour
shirt, because of the cool design; pity about the poor construction,
though.)

Surely a good idea would be to take along a boatload of "Hawkwind"
t-shirts (my vote goes for the Doremi shirt) with them on tour, along
with the "anticipated" number of "tour shirts" (i.e. the grossly
underestimated quantities they usually take:).  That way, at least if the
tour shirts sell out, Hawkfans have the opportunity of buying *some*
Hawkwind t-shirt, instead of going home empty-handed and crying into
their beer.  (Hawkwind artwork and designs are interesting enough to make
this more than a viable proposition.)  And, anything they didn't sell,
could be sold on other tours, or mail-order.  Heck, who am I kidding,
people would buy the *past* tour shirts, programmes, etc. at this tour's
shows, anyway.  It's not as if Hawkwind suffer from crappy designs and
artwork.

Or, they could go the BOC route and make a "standard" tour t-shirt (the
"on tour forever") that they could comfortably sell between now and the
golden anniversary... ;-)

Cheers,

Paul.

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