Boy Howdy? Kaisers Say So
Regular visitors will be aware of the ongoing deep love between Worn Free and the Kaiser Chiefs. Dudes just plain rock, and they happen to feel the same way about WF tees. So that's good.
Among the many appealing and offbeat things to look at in the Chiefs video "Ruby": drummer Nick attired in our John Lennon Creem "Boy Howdy" shirt.
But what is Creem, you ask? And what the heck does "Boy Howdy" signify? And what does all this have to do with the brainy Beatle?
Creem was a truly wonderful rock magazine written and edited by true music maniacs (including the legendary lunatic scribe Lester Bangs); underground cartoonist, ragtime enthusiast and sexual fringe-dweller R. Crumb created the mag's jolly, comic-book-surrealist "Boy Howdy" logo in 1969 (you may recognize it from the many hours you spent staring at Kate Hudson's chest in Almost Famous).
John and Yoko were big fans of the publication, y'see, and often wrote letters to them (this was back when folks wrote letters instead of, say, blogging). Lennon snagged a stash of these shirts during a visit to Ann Arbor, Mich.
Your humble blogger happened to be wearing his WF Creem shirt during a recent visit to Southeastern Michigan and a Restaurant Patron of a Certain Age noted it, recalling the periodical fondly.
Lennon wore the original version of this tee during recording sessions at New York's Record Plant in 1972, where the above immortal image was captured.
You can read more about the adventures of John, Yoko and other rock luminaries here.
