Tag: DBK: clothing

Do you have any information about Dylan’s red Chem Bros shirt with a rainbow? Devon mentioned, and in a couple videos Dylan is wearing a red shirt with what looks like a rainbow so I assume it’s the shirt she was referring to. Can’t find it online.

“Dressed in jeans, and a red Chemical Brothers T-shirt with a rainbow, he gave Devon her presents before the (Devon’s 16th birthday party) started because a couple girls he didn’t like were going to be there.”
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The red rainbow shirt Dylan is wearing is an out-of-print Chemical Brothers promo t-shirt from the Dig Your Own Hole LP Setting Sun tour 1997.  Essentially, what that means is, this particular shirt was made for this Setting Sun Tour and after that tour had ended in ‘97, the t-shirt was never produced again (nor duplicated by any t-shirt printing company since). So, it’s super rare and veeery hard to find.  Much more difficult than locating a NIN Downward Spiral 90s version tee but perhaps not as hard as the KMFDM Symbols American Tour shirt or the DJ Spooky Tee Dyl is wearing on 4/9 at King Soopers (another one-of-a-kind promo concert t-shirt he acquired from attending that particular concert). 

It’s interesting that the shirt is very bright red and basically goes to show that the nineties video camera they used (plus all the duplication of the tapes over the years) is very pixelated and low quality so it doesn’t translate the actual colors of the boys clothing in their video productions. Dylan’s shirt in the video, at times, looks like a dull burgundy red and the image of the rainbow, a muted hint of one with no discerning nuance of colors.  In actuality, it’s a very bright and cheery, pretty even, t-shirt. And it’s got that Dyl hippy vibe going on. Gotta wonder what ol’ Rebby thought of his best friend wearing it with a tough-guy trench. 

Just goes to show that yesss, real (Hit) Men aren’t afraid to wear bright red with multi-colored rainbow t-shirts to school. 😉 

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Back of shirt..

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Here’s the best photos I could find that really translates the color and image well enough. Note, that just like the actual shirt above that the Chemical Brothers Setting Sun logo is faintly visible  in yellow Dust Mites font and directly underneath the rainbow on Dylan’s shirt. 🙂

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Good luck locating this shirt, it was super hard but was well worth it to put this obscure Dylan t-shirt mystery to rest. 😉

Video of the scary rainbow Hitman  lol

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So this is still a work in progress but I’m trying to recreate Dylan’s ridiculously elusive DJ Spooky shirt of nonexistence. Unfortunately this is taking longer than I thought since I have to start from completely scratch, but I think it’s getting there.

I’m thinking his shirt was a promotional tee for DJ Spooky the Subliminal Kid’s Object Unknown Tour (likely in 1998). They must have only sold or handed out a few, since I can’t find any information about it anywhere online. Given its obscurity, if it ever appears in the wild I’m thinking it might only be at local thriftshops or random Goodwills scattered who knows where. DJ Spooky doesn’t even use the same logo for any of his albums anymore. Then again this was years and years ago, when he first got started as an underground trip hop musician. So things have definitely changed since then.

Anyway I had to recreate the DJ Spooky font and the crazy background design from scratch so that it would be higher-res. It was a long and difficult process but only because I’m slow at vector art – I think someone with more knowledge of fonts or who uses Adobe Illustrator could probably do it quicker and better. 

The font I referenced was from DJ Spooky’s Object Unknown album (bottom left) – though the quality of the Morning Ritual makes it hard for me to figure out if DJ in DJ Spooky is yellow or white. The squiggly signature design I referenced from DJ Spooky’s Synthetic Fury album (1998) below. But I’m noticing that it doesn’t quite match the design on Dyl’s shirt, so I’m still trying to figure this one out. The two look completely different to me imo. But I can’t find anything similar anywhere. So now I’m stuck :c Plus I still have no idea what the front looks like. Hmm.

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Spookyilicious! Looking forward to seeing how this progresses. 🙂
The tee is definitely non existent online. Think it’s safe to say it was a limited edition. Imo, DJ looks yellow and yes, the squiggly lines are different patterns.