ChickenShirt Sightings
Chicken shirts are popping up faster than
zits on my teen-ager’s face. Here is a sampling of JJW-L sightings reports.
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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998
From: Scott Johnson <baytownpard@earthlink.net>
Subject: [JJW] Beaumont Dave's Really Kewl Shirt
Tonight, I had the opportunity to view a Beaumont Dave T-Shirt...I knowIt took me a long
time to have this wonderful oppoutunity but "I amtruly not worthy" and I ask
myself how in the hell have I missed out onsuch a cool shirt..... But then I thought hey
I'm not strange .......well maybe a little.....gonna have to have one!
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Date: 98-05-14 10:23:06 EDT
From: gettinby@erols.com (Derby and Terry)
Last nite I had the opportunity to debut Beaumont Dave's Chicken Shirt in New York City.
It received rave reviews. Didn't see Letterman, but Mary Clare(daughter of Skinny Dennis)
was able to pick me out of the Tramps crowd.
Get Yours While You Still Can,
Derby
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> Subj: [JJW] Nevada
Date: 98-06-22 13:17:15 EDT
From: James.Suhoza@Aerojet.com (SUHOZA, JAMES P)
A great time was had in Reno last Friday. <snip> Dave-Cougar found me becaused I was
the only one with a Keep a live Chicken.....shirt on. I had a couple of people ask me
where I got it, told theme about the list, another guy who claimed to be a JJ fan didn't
know about the song.
El Dorado Jim
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Subj: [JJW] Chicken Shirt Sighting
Date: 06/27/98
To: jjw-l@io.com
Billy Bob's....on stage.....12:20 am.a real beaumont dave chicken shirt.
jvp (Vince Pawless)
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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 21:51:57
From: Dolores Myers <dmyers@iag.net>
Subject: Re: [JJW] Chicken Shirt Sighting
Okay, so I've only worn mine as a night shirt so far ... but next year in Austin ... Hey,
for two years, folks in Austin have asked me questions abou tmy dotcom shirt when I wore
it. Can you imagine the questions we'd get if we all wore our chicken shirts?
Dee
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Subj: [JJW] Chicken Shirt Sighting...
Date: 98-08-23 20:30:54 EDT
From: Mussdog@flash.net (Bill Musser)
Newsflash!
Chicken shirt spotted on Ambergris Cayes, Belize on 8-19-98 prior to
breakfast...more news to follow.
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Subj: [JJW] Laborfest/Chicken shirts
Date: 98-09-07 21:17:04 EDT
From: willskinner@hotmail.com (will skinner)
Sender: owner-jjw-l@lists.io.com
Reply-to: jjw-l@io.com
To: jjw-l@io.com
Beaumont Dave -- well we survived Labor Day weekend here in Colorado.
Music was great, setting was beautiful - sighted chicken shirts both Sat
and Sunday (Paul Starkey from MS carried on the tradition @ Sunday's
show.
Onward thru the Rockies.....Will
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Subj: [JJW] New song! Great show, chicken in my underwear!
Date: 98-09-20 18:26:52 EDT
From: fadams@scsn.net (Frank Adams)
When we saw John at the hotel before the Charlotte show, as the guys were
going out to do their sound check, he said in parting, "You know, we really
like playing in your theater."
And did they ever show it Friday night, Sept. 18, at Charlotte's
Neighborhood Theatre! We had the show of shows: 34 songs, the concert debut
of Jerry Jeff's new song for Susan's birthday, a great Redneck Mother story,
and (somebody hold Beaumont Dave down and keep the boy humble) not just a
chicken-in-my-underwear sighting but a reference from Jerry Jeff!
Sorry, dot coms, it's been almost two whole days and everything still has
exclamation points! (See?!)
Jerry Jeff was in a great mood, and he told us that recently in Austin some
folks were together at a dinner party and they were talking about having
just returned from Moscow. They told Jerry Jeff that, being Texans, they
asked the Russians what they were doing for country music. They got back
blank stares. So they said, What about Willie Nelson? Na, Na, said the
Russians, we don't know Willie Nelson. Oh, said the Texans, how about Jerry
Jeff Walker? "Ay, Ay," said the Russians enthusiastically, "that Redneck
Mother!"
Jerry Jeff allowed that it might date from the 80s, back when the Americans
and the Russians linked up in space for several days. And the countries
took turns waking the linked up astronauts and cosmonauts. The Russians
played ballet music, and NASA reached for UATWRNM!
"Maybe," said Jerry Jeff, when Sen. Glenn goes back up he'll wear a live
chicken in my underwear shirt. "And it takes some real dedicated Jerry Jeff
fans to know what that's about!"
So this version of UATWRNM had "rather step in shit than smoke it," M was
for Moscow nights, and I could not keep up since I was writing, grinning,
listening, and grinning. I think O had something to do with Olga, and T was
-- and Jerry Jeff did his very best Boris voice (remember, Boris and Natasha
of Bullwinkle?) with outstretched arms -- "tremendous Russian titties". H
was missed. E was probably enormous, etc.