Etwiels is selling another great shirt! This is from Japanese band Forward from one of their US tours. I love this graphic. I dont know where is was sold but they made a giant 18″x24″ silkscreened poster of this graphic as well and it looks so fucking good. As you probably already know two of the dudes in Forward used to be in Death Side. They played a reunion gig last year and it was intense. One of the hottest gigs ive ever been to in my life. Rivaling even the hottest CBGB gigs.
Death SIde reunion
when i saw forward the only thing the singer said all night was “i dont know any english, so fuck you” and “fuck you george bush”
When I saw Forward, the singer kept repeating, “WE ARE FORWARD FROM JAPAN,” over and over and over again.
At one point he said (very slowly), “WE ARE VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE IN FEERAHDERFIA (Philadelphia). WE ARE FORWARD FROM JAPAN.”
Did I mention I saw them in a motorcycle garage? It was great.
i REALLY want that huge Forward poster.
Another cool / related Ishiya quote:
“WE ARE FORWARD FROM JAPAN. WE DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?”
i think the high point in my life is when he wrote on my MySpace comment wall, after I told him to come hang out in chicago:
“and chicago pizza!
chicago pizza is my best pizza!”
2012 tour they had this in this color scheme and with red instead of yellow, also a gas has design with forward written in a middle eastern style writing, and a shirt on khaki with a half skull half android picture…