Vintage Black premium weight 100% organic cotton TSPTR tee with water based ink print

The GTOs or Girls Together Outrageously, one of the first all female rock groups, came together in the psychedelic haze of the mid ‘60s Sunset Strip. Originally called the 'Laurel Canyon Ballet Company', the group of girls supported bands playing at local haunts, such as the Whisky a Go Go and the Shrine, as dancers on stage - providing an ambience that mixed theatrics and wild costumes pieced together from various bits and bobs from the turn of the century to the 1940s.

Frank Zappa, noted experimental composer and Laurel Canyon mainstay, was friends with several members of the group, and brought them together to record their only album, Permanent Damage in 1969. The musical legacy of the group was short lived, with the GTOs only performing a handful of times locally. However, the cultural effect of the group as tastemakers was permanent, and famous musicians such as Mick Jagger, Jim Morrison, Alice Cooper, and Jimmy Page sought out the girls for their experimental dress and free spirited attitudes.

Ethically made in Portugal