Chucks - Chucks in Concert
The following musicians have been known to
wear Chucks (black high-tops unless known and
noted otherwise) in concert:
- Alien Ant Farm
- Avril Lavigne
- Backyard Babies: black high-tops
(modified)
- Bleach
- Blink 182: black low-tops, blue
low-tops, occasionally in One
Star sneakers
- Clem Snide/Eef Barzelay
- Creedence Clearwater Revival: cover of "Willie and the Poor Boys"
- Cyndi Lauper: "Time After Time" music video
- Darren Hayes:
Australian musician
- Faith No More/Mike Bordin: "Ashes to Ashes" music video
- FeableWeiner
- Fiona Apple: "Across the Universe" music video
- Garbage/Shirley Manson: pink
high-tops
- Good Charlotte/Benji, Joel: black low-tops,
also monochrome black
- Graham Nash: tie-dye Chucks
- Green Day: "Green Day" Chucks (custom)
- Guided by Voices: "My Valuable Hunting Knife" music video (Stars and Bars)
- Guns 'n Roses: Axl Rose (custom high-tops)
- Guns 'n Roses: "Slash" (high-tops: black,
blue, or occasionally
white)
- Hillsong United: "More Than
Life" (inside front cover of the liner notes... featuring a VERY obvious Chuck patch and
outsole)
- Iggy Pop
- Incubus/Brandon Boyd:
black
low-tops
- Kid Rock
- KISS/Ace Frehley
- Korn: historically;
nowadays, Chucks are now probably NOT allowed! (One of their recent tours
was sponsored by Pony.)
- Less than Jake/Roger
- Lifehouse/Jason Wade
- Linkin Park/Chester Bennington,
Dave "Phoenix" Farrell
- Lisa Carman: black high-tops; she used to have a pair of orange NEEHI she lost in a fire...
- Los Straitjackets
- Lost Prophets
- Michelle Branch:
black low-tops
- Michelle Shocked:
"Texas Campfire Takes"
- Mudhoney/Mark Arm
- Mudhoney/Steve Turner
- Ned's Atomic Dustbin/Alex Griffin: (light blue
high-tops)
- New Found Glory
- Nirvana/Krist Novoselic
- Nirvana/Kurt Cobain: Kurt was a real Converse fan while he was with us.
Not only did he wear Chucks, he also wore Jack Purcell
sneakers and reportedly died wearing One Star
sneakers
- NOFX
- Pantera/Dimebag Darrell
- Pearl Jam/Eddie Vedder
- Phantom Planet
- Puddle of Mudd
- Pure Rubbish: several colors of
high-top Chucks
- Queen/Freddie Mercury: Unbleached white
high-tops on the cover of "The Great Pretender"
- Rancid
- Relient K
- Rush/Geddy Lee
- Screeching Weasel
- Slipknot: black
- Simple Plan
- Snoop Dogg: (historically) yellow, blue. Pony
released his "Doggy
Biscuitz" shoes in December 2004
- The All-American Rejects:
black low-tops, black
high-tops, red low-tops
- The Ataris
- The Beatles/George Harrison
- The Cure
- The Get Up Kids
- The Mr. T Experience
- The Offspring
- The Ramones (black high-tops, white low-tops)
- The Strokes: "all different
colors, high-tops and low-tops"
- Bruce Springsteen
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: plaids
- They Might Be Giants: on stage; also the "Birdhouse In Your Soul" music
video
- Eddie Van Halen: red high-tops
- Weezer
- "Weird Al" Yankovic: "I Love Rocky Road" music video
There is even a musical group named "Chuck Taylor and the All Stars."
Chuck wrote me, reporting that he recently got a "nasty note" from the Converse legal department... I
replied, "Why don't you change your name to Chuck Taylor and the Superstars?"
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