Bass Players and Hats - - - 70% of Women Say They Are a Turn Off - Page 11

musicianary · #**201** 11-28-2012, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Spectrum

I just take off my pants and no one notices the hat anymore.

THIS.

Russell L · #**202** 11-29-2012, 05:29 PM

My ex used to say I looked better with a hat on. I'm not sure what it meant, but like I said she's my ex anyway, so...

I only wear a hat if my hair is likely to blow around too much. My hair is half-way down my back in a ponytail, but those strands that don't make it into the bunch go wild in the wind. Usually a ball cap or do-rag.

One Drop · #**203** 12-07-2012, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by millsbass5

WARNING: I don't give a rat's ass, for starters. But, people think I'm a prick, but they (and YOU will, too) eventually thank me down the road.

People that wear fedora/pork pie hats look goofy as hell. Let me be honest, it DOES NOT MAKE YOU LOOK COOL. Maybe it makes you look like Dick. Which is a guy that I know down the street, mods (Wink-wink). Unless your're Marcus Miller, or Bugsy Siegel, of course.

Baseball cap? Cool. BUT, it depends on the venue/type of show. I wear one 75-80% of the time. I've played sports my whole life. Still do on a regular basis. And, no. I have a lusciously way, way full head of hair. So, don't go accusing me of coverin' somethin' up that I don't want to be seen.

Jus shows how different things can look to different people. To me it depends on the when and where, and how well the hat is integrated with the rest of the clothes being worn, and the confidence of the wearer.

IME most baseball cap wearing people here in Europe actually are Dicks, maybe it's just a coincidence.

richntiff · #**204** 12-07-2012, 08:46 PM

So seriously, ONLY 70% say it's a turnoff? I thought it would be higher :-)

Bert Slide · #**205** 12-09-2012, 01:26 PM

Ah the eternal dilemma for the bald man.

Hat?

This is my new duo act and we are booking ourselves as "The Bald Egos"

No hat?

I dunno. Bald guys can't win for losing. At least there's a small group of very eager women out there that do have the Kojak fetish!

Stewie26 · #**206** 12-09-2012, 01:49 PM

The few times I have worn a hat to a gig is if we had to play in direct sunlight. Other times have been Holloween gigs. I do think some guys look good in a hat. It just does not work fo me personally.

Catbuster · #**207** 12-09-2012, 04:44 PM

I'm always in a Boston Red Sox cap. One is ruined, the other is clean. The clean one is worn backwards at most gigs, assuming I'm not playing in NYC, in which case I'll be killed by:

A: Yankees fans

B: Jason Bay haters.

RadioRob · #**208** 01-08-2013, 02:38 PM

I am known as the hat man in the band. Its a gimmick for me and covers my bald spot. I try to match hats with the song we are playing. Cowboy hat for country, helmut for protest song. Dreadlock hat for I shot the sheriff and so on. Its like putting on a show and fans remember it, yeh you know the band, the one with the guy with all the hats. Girls always want to borrow my Stevey Ray Von hat.

Biggbass · #**209** 01-08-2013, 02:42 PM

I agree with the survey! Hats on musicians, in general, look silly...especially
backwards cabbie hats and berets. And the tube/sock hat in the summertime is just plain stupid looking. Then there's the standard issue cowboy hat on country musicians...even here in Texas it's silly looking. Most of those guys wouldn't be wearing a cowboy hat if they weren't in a country band...bunch of drug store cowboys if you ask me.

The only "musicians" who should be allowed to wear hats are The Village People and they're not even musicians....

and me. I wear a baseball cap to keep the sweat out of my eyes.

ALadCalledAlan · #**210** 01-08-2013, 02:55 PM

Myself and our guitarist wore hats for this gig, not because we're in a band, simply because we wanted to wear a hat.

We both got laid that night. We must have found the minority!

the yeti · #**211** 01-08-2013, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ALadCalledAlan

Myself and our guitarist wore hats for this gig, not because we're in a band, simply because we wanted to wear a hat.

We both got laid that night. We must have found the minority!

nice look.

bass12 · #**212** 01-08-2013, 03:44 PM

I almost always wear a hat. I've worn hats since I was a kid and they suit my balding head very nicely now.

I frequently get compliments on my hats by both women and men. I'd say it depends entirely on who's wearing the hat and what kind of hat they're wearing. As for general public opinion - how many girls think that Justin Beiber's ode-to-Donald-Trump haircut is cute (not to mention those horrid "faux-hawk" hairstyles that were all the rage not too long ago)? Well there you go!

nutdog · #**213** 01-08-2013, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ALadCalledAlan

Myself and our guitarist wore hats for this gig, not because we're in a band, simply because we wanted to wear a hat.

We both got laid that night. We must have found the minority!

I think I speak for most of TB when I say we'd prefer a pic of the chicks (chick?) over you two in hats.

the yeti · #**214** 01-08-2013, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by nutdog

I think I speak for most of TB when I say we'd prefer a pic of the chicks (chick?) over you two in hats.

not making any kind of pre-judgement, but careful what you ask for...

nutdog · #**215** 01-08-2013, 04:13 PM

I probably should leave well enough alone. No risk, no reward.

ALadCalledAlan · #**216** 01-08-2013, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by nutdog

I think I speak for most of TB when I say we'd prefer a pic of the chicks (chick?) over you two in hats.

Next time......!

ksandvik · #**217** 01-08-2013, 04:55 PM

Hiding baldness with hats or weirdly combed hair is mostly self-deception.

Soppy Hat · #**218** 01-08-2013, 05:05 PM

Langhorne slim begs to differ. >:3

I wear a hat in our slightly Mumford-esque group playing double bass, a sort of floppy mottled-grey-brown thing.

It matches my bass. I didn't realize that at first, but... I actually get lots of compliments on it now.

There's this idea out there that only some people can pull off a hat. DASS WRONG. I think that everyone can pull off wearing a hat, and of course people should if they want to, but for some reason hats are polarizing for a lot of people. It used to be that EVERYONE wore a hat, but now it's often seen as... reaching.
It's usually pretty safe to just not wear one, if it worries you.

bass12 · #**219** 01-08-2013, 05:13 PM

Yeah, there was a time when a man was not seen as being "fully dressed" unless he wore a hat when leaving the house...

Russell L · #**220** 01-11-2013, 06:19 AM

I used to think I'd get one of those fedora-type hats with the narrow brim, until I saw players everywhere wearing them. Guitarists, bassists, singers, horn players, keyboard players, you name it. If I want a hat now, I don't know what kind. So, the only time I wear one is if we're outdorrs in the wind, in which case I'll just wear a baseball-type cap and be done with it.