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Brainbell Jangler Rocks Off Regular Online Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,316 Portland, OR Gender:	Ft. Worth '78 Question Sep 27^th, 2014 at 3:18pm Just watched the July 1978 show in Fort Worth, Texas on Palladia. The censors obscured Mick's t-shirt. I could see the word "DESTROY" at the top and what appeared to be a picture of the globe with a large black cross over it. Does anyone know what's on that shirt?
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Paranoid Android Rocks Off Regular Offline The Rocks Off Ladies Rule You Bastards!! Posts: 5,974 Chapel Hill, NC Gender:	Re: Ft. Worth '78 Question Reply #1 - Sep 27^th, 2014 at 4:34pm JFGI... it was a swastika if I recall
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Mr. Yeats Rocks Off Regular Offline Nothing beats fun for a good time. Posts: 704 Gender:	Re: Ft. Worth '78 Question Reply #2 - Sep 27^th, 2014 at 8:42pm It was a tee shirt designed by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren for the Sex Pistols in '77, and featured a swastika with the highlighted word 'Destroy' over it. It looks like, in the Texas '78 film, that Jagger put black gaffers tape across the swastika, which was originally red.
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steel driving hammer Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 471 Champaign, IL. Gender:	Re: Ft. Worth '78 Question Reply #3 - Sep 28^th, 2014 at 8:38am Just when I thought I knew everything about the Stones... Cheers.
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andrews27 Rocks Off Regular Online Wake up Bowie or we all through!! Posts: 1,598 Pittsburgh, PA, USA Gender:	Re: Ft. Worth '78 Question Reply #4 - Sep 28^th, 2014 at 9:06am It was probably self-censorship. Wear a shirt with swastika and upside-down crucifix when you're paying to be filmed, and it's cash down the drain. For the three-song Saturday Night Live appearance, Jagger wore a similar Westwood shirt without provoking images on it. I doubt that he needed Lorne Michaels' advice on that.
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Re: Ft. Worth '78 Question
Reply #5 - Sep 28^th, 2014 at 11:59am

I recall black tape over the swazi in the film…. jagger was punking it up. Getting a reaction was a big deal in those days, and unfortunately opened the door to neo-nazi's and fascists punks and racists in the emerging punk scene. Which sucked because it was anything but that…
Maybe it was Jagger's fault for making it so exposed!!!!

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Reply #6 - Sep 28^th, 2014 at 5:17pm

The censorship was from American TV cable companies, who probably came to some daft logic that people wouldnt see the word 'destroy' and would think Jagger was endorsing Nazism.

In the movie, the swastika is clearly visible.

If anything, the censorship move actually draws attention to the t-shirt. Its not THAT clear otherwise.

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Brainbell Jangler Rocks Off Regular Online Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,316 Portland, OR Gender:	Re: Ft. Worth '78 Question Reply #7 - Sep 28^th, 2014 at 7:33pm Thanks, all.
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Reply #8 - Sep 29^th, 2014 at 7:50am

Gazza wrote on Sep 28^th, 2014 at 5:17pm:

If anything, the censorship move actually draws attention to the t-shirt. Its not THAT clear otherwise.

That's not black tape. It appears to be a backstage pass.

The forum is not letting me upload images because of an absolute path setting that I can't fix. But if you Google up GARDEN STATE 78, Mick has it on the shirt in the outdoor concert photo (apparently not taken in Passaic, NJ) that's on the front cover of the Garden State 78 bootleg LP. Help me find Setup and change my settings and I'll post the pic.

Note that the shirt in Mr. Yeats' post above has a different color swastika, and the pass, or whatever, stuck in a different spot.

This is getting like the Zapruder film...

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That guy that punched Mick at Altamont...and all the Hell's Angels...all that bad acid let them hear A Bigger Bang!!

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