Post #142490 by johntiki on Tue, Feb 22, 2005 8:14 AM

Turbogod - I think we discussed that show at the Maryland Institute before...I too became a fan after getting to see Von Dutch's work up-close, not to mention Roth and Robt. Williams as well. I didn't understand what had happened the first time I saw some hip-hop artist wearing a Von Dutch trucker hat. I didn't realize that his name had been sold to some company to place all over ridiculously priced merchandise. I was in Nordstrom one afternoon one day last summer and came across tons of $50 caps and $70 t-shirts and thought to myself does anyone even know who or what Von Dutch is? I took it upon myself to explain it to a father and his 16 year old son who was trying to decide which stupid looking hat he was gonna have daddy plunk down the plastic on. I was met with blank stares and disinterest...oh well. I think Robert Williams said it best, "If he was alive he’d walk in there with a pistol and shoot those people." That's the Von Dutch I know and love!