PREORDER: Hot Summer Night - Meat and Jim - T-Shirt with Variant Option

Bat Out of Hell was probably the first full album I ever heard. It came out in 1977, I was born in '83, and my parents were still playing it often enough that I could recite the opening to Hot Summer Night (You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth) when I was 3 (on a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses...).

Meat was my first true crush. I remember seeing the live performance of Paradise By The Dashboard Light on Vh1 when I was around 7. He was thick, sweaty, wild, feral. It was summer, and later that same day my dad took me to the library. I quickly grabbed a couple Fear Street paperbacks, unable to shake what I had just seen. I found my dad poking around non-fiction. I approached and asked him "what does 'paradise by the dashboard light' mean?" He replied "it's when two people realize they really like each other, and they happen to be in a car." God bless my dad.

While Meat was more to me than just the embodiment of what I find attractive, I do think it's important we take time to recognize him as a singular, corn-fed Adonis.

Jim on Meat: We met when Meat Loaf auditioned for me. I was doing a show that I wrote the music and lyrics for at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Oh God I don't even remember what year; it was, probably 1972 or '73, one of those two years, and he came in and auditioned. It was just, we saw 2,000 or 3,000 people. He came in one day and I thought he was, from the minute he walked in, I was stunned.

I thought he was astonishing. He's just one of those people who walks in and it's the equivalent of an enormous cat pissing on the door. Just stakes territory immediately. Just charismatic and he wasn't the character of Meat Loaf then, he was much more like this enormous inflated farm boy. He wore like overalls, he didn't have that much experience singing rock and roll specifically.

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All art is original and adapted from photographs. Images as well as lettering were hand-drawn in ink on bristol then scanned and formatted for screen-printing by Erin Keaton. All shirts are screened by Screenin' Fever Print Co. in Toledo, Ohio.

These are hand-screened, so expect a touch of variation in the final product!

IMPORTANT: For this shirt please make sure you pick the right variant from the drop down! There's an option for the front only OR front with lyrics on the back!

*if a size not included under 'variants' is needed, please mention in the notes*

SHIPPING: This is a preorder! Printing begins when the preorder window closes on July 10. Please expect 4-5 weeks from the time of order to receive a 'shipped' date.

Respectfully, no refunds or exchanges. This is a very small operation ♡ please purchase thoughtfully and intentionally, and reach out with any questions at all.