Remembering Tiger Rose by frogdot
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Description
Tiger Rose isn't a long lost love, it's the t-shirt. Around 1974, I was in the Navy, near San Francisco. I had a favorite t-shirt with a design by Mouse/Kelley (famed for their Grateful Dead album covers). So, I met a girl and we started going out and she loved my Tiger Rose shirt. Couldn't find another, so I gave her mine. Yep, the shirt right off my back. She said she used it as a nightshirt. Of course, it didn't work out and we parted, but I spent many a night on my ship, knowing my prized Tiger Rose was living a much better life.
A few days ago, I came across a website with some 60s poster art and then found a Mouse/Kelley section and saw the Tiger Rose for the first time in almost 40 years. Memories flooded in and I knew I had to use the small image to recreate a tshirt. This design was used for an album cover by Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter.
Comments (15)
A wonderful story and a great image! Well done!
very interesting composition, and i loved the story. :)
fantastic work and nice story to go with it... you could probably make tshirt yourself.... just print it off on one of those iron on transfer sheets..and voila. a new tiger rose shirt
great image, great memory
great work!
Nice work.
Very cool...
Very good POV and pose.
Beautiful image and a great pose. A long time ago I worked for Alton Kelly.
Very cool work, I think it's grand.
Wonderful memory and excellent image, love the pose and lighting.
Excellent!
Great story and picture that album has some great music on it too
Yepper! That T-shirt definitely lived the good life. Interesting bit of personal history, too.
THAT, right there is pure awesomeness! (story and image)