“The Untouchables” Shirt Art, 1995, Chicago, Soldier Field

“The Untouchables” T-Shirt Art from Summer 1995, Prototype Artwork for Last Ever Grateful Dead Date in Chicago from Tom Stack & The Club Dead Archives

Noted artist, sculptor, photographer, sketcher and designer Erik Hawkey approached Club Dead in early 1995, wondering if he could do some art for me to use on the upcoming Grateful Dead Tour.

"With the summer fast approaching, and two dates in Chicago on the books, I was able to FINALLY put in motion some art that had been rattling around my skull for a while....The Untouchables!!! PERFECT for Chicago, and after all, I shared a last name with the star of the TV show, Robert Stack. Erik and I sat down at the big table and I described what I saw.....6 skeletons to mirror the band members, a street scene with shady and menacing characters, Chicago style architecture, cramped buildings with lots of brick, manhole covers, violin cases to disguise the machine guns(guitars), whores looking out the windows.... He didn’t want to commit too far before he went to final draft, so he brought this sketch into Club Dead a couple of days later. For reasons I can’t recall, we never went any further with the art. Perhaps things bogged down at GDP, or we ran out of time, but the shirt never happened. Such a shame, I think it would have absolutely killed it. Untouchable pun, sorry. And of course, as it turned out, the Chicago shows on July 8th and 9th were to be the Grateful Dead’s final shows. This original drawing has been in the Club Dead archives since then. It will make an amazing framed piece. Feel free to tape this story to the back of the frame! One- of-a-kind!!" - Tom Stack

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