Bass Player’s Official Hat Problem

[TyBo]

Well, it is a nice hat

 

[emmadangerheart]

Oh also, I think Les Claypool likes to wear a bowler hat.

 

[DJ Bebop]

 

[BlueTalon]

No.

 

[Rip Van Dan]

I have a hat that I love, much like many other people who wear hats.

This hat that I love… You know who else seems to love it? Every other freaking bass player in Boston. If there’s a guy in a band wearing a hat… it’s usually the bass player and… a good portion of the time it’s this same damn hat.

So, I don’t dare wear this hat when I perform anymore because I don’t want to be labeled as one of those “bass player hat guys”. I also don’t want the other bass players in town to think that I am ripping off their style. I’m not here to incite violence. But what I’m wondering is… Has this hat completely overtaken the bass player scene in other towns as well? Is this a problem that needs to be addressed globally? Should we all be writing to our congresspersons?

I’m starting to wonder if there’s someplace where people are buying these hats and, inside the package it includes an instruction manual for playing bass… Which beckons the question… Which came first? The bass or the hat?

Thanks for your help on this. Here is a nice picture of me wearing my hat as a reward for having read to the end.

P.S. If all this post did was inspire you to buy one of these hats for yourself… Shame on you for taking advantage.
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I wear a Scottish Tam most of the time. Originally bought it to portray a Vermont Green Mountain Ranger for Revolutionary War reenactments in about 2000. Then in 2005 I moved to Virginia and there were not many Tams in VA back then. Most members wore a Virginia Round Hat that was folded up on one side so you didn't knock your hat off when you shouldered arms. But I had come to really like that hat so I just started wearing it for everyday and it definitely is the Hat I wear on stage.

 

[Matthew_84]

Ball caps are tired and boring.

They must have an awful day job

 

[Blueinred]

My grandfather wore wool berets from John Helmer Haberdashery and when he passed I received them. Been rockin' 'em ever since 1996 and lots people know it's me from a distance in winter because of the beret. Wear them or a Kangol backwards for festival gigs in the fall and spring.

 

[joelns]

Good looking hat, but not my style. I wear a cowboy hat of some sort.

 

[Earl Jam]

Lemmy

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Leon

 

[joelns]

Found a good pic to show the hat I tend to wear:

 

[bass.slinger]

Wear one when playing for sweat since I am bald. Usually a Fedora, Trilby, or Pork Pie.

 

[timmus]

I hate wearing hats. In my opinion, the only bass player that wears a hat well is Colin Edwin...

 

[jamro217]

Customize it. Smother it in tort, ad some fringe and a big plume. Don't forget the chin strap. Voila! You're in business...show bizniz.

 

[lbbc]

Nothing wrong with wearing a hat. I don't because it's not my style. My guitarist always wears a ball cap, though

 

[lunarpollen]

if i do, it's usually something like this:

 

[Pyrat]

In the sun I will wear one, my pate has little hair...no sun, no hat!

 

[Ric5]

get one of these

 

[BobDeRosa]

Speaking of bass hats, I got a real kick out of the knit-hat syndrome that seemed to infect YouTube bassists a while back. Not sure who started it, but suddenly Cody Wright, Janek Gwizdala, Scott Devine and many others started wearing thick, knit caps -- indoors, for some reason -- like some kind of bassist's badge! Copy cat hats, I think.

 

[Andy Marshman]

if yer a Blues player ....

 

[Altitude]

I have the Kangol hat in two colors.