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 was 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?"

Back to Charlie's "Chuck" Page
Back to the top of Charlie's Sneaker Pages!

Last Updated: 18 February 2017

Click here to send E-mail to Charlie.

Charlie's Sneaker Pages copyright 1995-2024 by Charles L. Perrin.

READERS PLEASE NOTE: Names of athletic shoe manufacturers, shoe styles, and technologies may be trademarked by the manufacturers. Charlie's Sneaker Pages uses these names solely to describe the shoes with the same familiar nomenclature used by the manufacturer and recognized by the reader.