Sacto Hardcore Shirts
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:49 am
I've started to make small batches of shirts for Sacto bands. Originally, this was just because I like band shirts and it seemed like a fun idea. But in the time between the original idea and implementation that country pretty much went to shit and all the bands (starting with one of mine) want to do the shirts as benefits. Available today is a Sewer Trout for President 2020 shirt, benefiting the National Alliance on Mental Illness California. As you may know, Jim MacLean from Sewer Trout took his own life in 2005. Net proceeds will be donated in his name. This also coincides with September being National Suicide Awareness Month.
Sewer Trout existed at a time when Sacto was pretty dead. The first wave of hardcore kids had mostly bailed. My generation was around, but didn't really take over until about 1990, just as Sewer Trout was breaking up. While they did records with Lookout! and Very Small, their influence was mostly felt in Sacto. Bands like The Bananas, Nar and the Horny Mormons would likely not exist without Sewer Trout. I always loved the fact that hidden within their goofy, "funny punk" were really smart lyrics about things like police violence, homelessness and politics. I took the picture on the shirt during their last Presidential run in 1988.
https://sactohardcoreshirts.bigcartel.c ... ewer-trout
Sewer Trout existed at a time when Sacto was pretty dead. The first wave of hardcore kids had mostly bailed. My generation was around, but didn't really take over until about 1990, just as Sewer Trout was breaking up. While they did records with Lookout! and Very Small, their influence was mostly felt in Sacto. Bands like The Bananas, Nar and the Horny Mormons would likely not exist without Sewer Trout. I always loved the fact that hidden within their goofy, "funny punk" were really smart lyrics about things like police violence, homelessness and politics. I took the picture on the shirt during their last Presidential run in 1988.
https://sactohardcoreshirts.bigcartel.c ... ewer-trout