Kozmic Dreams Frank Zappa T-Shirt Collection

I have 100 shirts in my collection so far. I arranged them below by date, if known. Others are listed at the bottom. If you don't see a picture of the back shown, that means there were no graphics on the back to photograph. While most shirts pictured below are official releases, I don't limit myself to official releases only, as I am attempting to preserve any and all memorabilia from the Zappa era. If you're looking to purchase a Zappa shirt, sorry, none of these are for sale, but good luck in your search!

Says 1965, but I don't know if it is really that old.	"200 Motels" 1971 This actual shirt once belonged to Howard Kaylan.
Spectrum Theater 10-29-76	New York Christmas 1976
Torture Never Stops 1976	Lather Tour Crew Hooded Sweatshirt 1977-1978
1978 US Tour	We Don't Mess Around, 1978 with music from measure 14 or 15 from "The Black Page" (thanks to Fred Klatz for the info)
The Zapping of Florida September 1978	The Palladium, Mateus, NY 1978? (FZ portrait by Jim Ceravolo, taken from a 7-foot tall oil-on-canvas portrait of Frank that hung in the lobby of the Palladium Theatre. Logo designed by David Byrd. More of their artistic creations can be seen at ARDTgallery.com)
Woman with Serpent Fall 1978	10-20-78 Buffalo, NY
Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA November 13, 1978
Zappa. The Best. Two short-sleeved t-shirts and one 3/4 length sleeved t-shirt (same design on back) 1978-1980
Zappa. The Best. 1978-1980	Sheik Yerbouti 1979
Sheik Yerbouti 1979	1979 Music is the Best
Paramount Theatre, Portland, Oregon March 29, 1980	Berkeley Community Theater April 1, 1980
Celebrity Theater Phoenix, Arizona 4-8-80	Tampa Jai-Alai Fronton, 4-17-80 Sunrise Musical Theater, 4-18-80 Florida Field, U of F, 4-19-80
Manley Field House, Syracuse, NY April 24, 1980	April 29-May 10 1980
Orange Theatre Antique June 1980	1980 Sheik Yerbouti
Coliseum in Richfield, OH November 10, 1980	Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA November 13, 1980
1980 Crush All Boxes Tour	1980 Crush All Boxes Tour, Zappa Crew
1980 Crush All Boxes Tour Nov. 28 and 29, Uptown Theater, Chicago	Nov. 28 and 29, Uptown Theater, Chicago
1980 Crush All Boxes Tour	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium December 11, 1980
Tinseltown Rebellion 1981	North American Tour 1981
North American Tour 1981	Barking Pumpkin Records with You Are What You Is Logo on back 1981
1981	1981
1981 MTV Halloween Concert	Barking Pumpkin Records 1981
10-2-81 Portland, Oregon longsleeve	1982 German Tour
1983 Baby Snakes Film	1984 New York longsleeve
1984 Moon Zappa artwork	1984 Thing-Fish
1984 20th Anniversary Tour (bootleg shirt)	1984 Them Or Us Tour
1984 Them Or Us Tour	1984 Them Or Us Tour
1984 Them Or Us Tour	1984 Them or Us Tour Bootleg shirt designed by Beau Daignant, Screen-printed in the shop belonging to the late Jules Cowles and vended by a guy named Chris"Birdman" Burnett (this info provided by Mr. Daignant himself). Later, I was contacted by Birdman, who told me that there were 72 shirts made and he sold them on Aug 1 in Santa Fe, Aug 2 and 4 in Denver and Aug 5 in Omaha. There weren't any concession shirts sold by Frank at Santa Fe or Denver. In Omaha, the first official shirts appeared and this is when he stopped selling these.
1985 I Want the Box (Old Masters)	1985 Porn Wars
1986 I Bought the Box (Old Masters)	Electronic Music Performance at California State University Northridge November 5, 1986
1987 Ruben & the Jets	1988 Porn Wars
1988 Zappa for President	Registered Voter shirt from 1988 Broadway the Hard Way Tour
1988 Broadway the Hard Way Sweatshirt	1988 Tour
1988 Honker Home Video	1988 Man From Utopia
1990 25th Anniversary	Beat the Boots, 1991/1992
1992 Ensemble Modern Yellow Shark Tour longsleeve	1992 Ensemble Modern Yellow Shark Tour
1992 Ensemble Modern Yellow Shark Tour	1994
Cal Schenkel Artwerks shirts sold on Cal's website in 1999-2000 This unique shirt was sold to benefit Frank's brother, Carl, when their mom died. It was kindly donated to my collection by my friend, John Kaminski.

Shirts with unknown dates are below. If you can help me label any of them, please e-mail me at kozmicdreams@ymail.com.

I thought I'd also include these three Turtles shirts on this page. Howard Kaylan was their original owner.

Pipco promo shirt for "Lumpy Gravy" album
Zappa coming out of toilet	Eat Chain. Anyone know what is actually meant by these words?---I know Zappa says this in a song about the people who won't stand up and participate, but what does it mean to eat chain?
Chunga's Revenge, donated to my collection by the generous Gina Kotz.	Chunga's Revenge version 2
Lather	Phydeaux Transit (Phydeaux III is mentioned in Joe's Garage as being the name of the tour bus)
Khaahx. Cedric Kushner Productions. I'm pretty sure these are related to Zappa---they were with a collection of Zappa shirts I bought. Please e-mail me at kozmicdreams@ymail.com if you have any information about them.
Misc. (graphics on front only)