Best Colour for Punk Bass

[Lostgallifreyan]

If you're concerned about aesthetics is it really even punk?

Well, I was there. Really. And it was VERY concerned with aesthetics, but the question is 'why'. Mostly it was bloody-minded defiance, but in practise there were so many possible answers that I stopped arguing about them almost immediately. I found punk to be like diving into an ocean, it changed everything, and wondering which bit of water is wetter is pointless.

I liked 'hardcore' but trying to define it was also pointless, it felt more like trying to navigate an energy field, just going wherever it felt stronger. And eventually, being just as eager to get out of it. I liked having a green mohican. Why that form, and that colour, was arbitrary, it just seemed like a good idea at the time. Until a tussle with a policeman in a revolving door at the Holiday Inn made it wise to allow a girl to experiment on me with henna till it was jet black and spiky with orange bits. I'd already had trouble with policemen over mis-identity and green hair, before that event, so I wasn't going to tempt fate.

EDIT: Re bass colour, I posted earlier about that, so I won't repeat it here.

 

[lermgalieu]

White instantly comes to mind - Paul Simonon's famous smashed bass and Mike Watt's bass he played in fIREHOSE.

 

[bigthemat]

I always thought it would be pretty punk to play a daisy rock

 

[Minimalist]

Completely subjective, but I've noticed a lot of Punk basses are white, which just doesn't seem "punk" to an Auslander like myself, but really seems to work none-the-less. So I wanted to ask those who know: In your opinions: What is the "best colour" for a Punk bass?

Isn't Punk about doing what you want to do?

 

[MultiScaleMale]

How can you tell with all the stickers on it?

 

[Isaac_James]

Stickerbombed, of course. The actual finish color doesn't matter since it will be under a layer of overlapping stickers.

 

[mcnach]

Not the first time (or context) I’ve dropped this photo in, but while Dixie Dave CollinsView attachment 4862532 isn’t “punk,” I think his bass is

I would require a tetanus vaccine before touching that

 

[fjbass78]

As a punk bassist myself I lean towards colors like green, purple, pink, and even some metallic sparkly colors. However, you can’t go wrong with a black or white P Bass either. Here’s a few green ones I’ve had. The Lakland is my current bass.
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Love that lakland!

 

[mexicanyella]

I would require a tetanus vaccine before touching that

Tetanus vaccines are relatively cheap insurance, freeing one up to play really rusty roached-out basses with total abandon, while standing barefoot among nail-infested scrap plywood and 2 x 4s.

I know that is the unspoken goal of most of us here. Get the shot.

 

[mexicanyella]

I always thought it would be pretty punk to play a daisy rock

Somehow that round pearloid pickguard and those semi-circular white painted grooves cranks that bass to 11, visually.

 

[Kipp Harrington]

Completely subjective, but I've noticed a lot of Punk basses are white, which just doesn't seem "punk" to an Auslander like myself, but really seems to work none-the-less. So I wanted to ask those who know: In your opinions: What is the "best colour" for a Punk bass?

Black! All day!

 

[Mastermold]

The best Bass for punk is,
whatever bass you have
and, if you don't have a bass, the cheapest bass you can find at your local pawn shop!
(bonus points if you steal the bass from said pawnshop)

If you are worrying about what your bass looks like, then you're buying into some middle-class, faux-punk aesthetic, capitalist worldview (and that makes you a sellout!)

Seems rebellion by conformity is the formula everyone follows -- if you don't look the part people won't know you're what you're trying to be!

 

[swink]

You don't need a bass for punk.

 

[Luckydog]

If you are concerned about finding the most acceptable color for a “punk bass”, then perhaps you may have already failed the punk world entry requirements, if the philosophy is still- “Punk is an entire philosophy promoting freedom of the individual and working against conforming to the cookie-cutter form of existing we are told we must fit into.”

I say this jokingly, since many widely known punk rockers, like Paul Simonon and Debbie Harry are multi-millionaires, and seem to have jumped into the small percenter pool quite willingly. I guess you could argue that being a multimillionaire does not detract from your punk sensibilities…

 

[Grinderman]

You can have whatever color you want as long as it's black, or white, or black and white, or white and black, but not necessarily; maybe not; I don't care, whatever color you want.

Why is this a question?

 

[Ostie]

Any color is ok as long as it’s scratched, scuffed, stickered, and covered in blood, sweat and tears. Bonus points for broken and glued back together. Double bonus points for screwed back together with drywall screws.

 

[Bob E]

 

[conttador]

Pepto Pink Punk

 

[GrapeBass]

For a punk bass to authentic, it needs to be stolen

EDIT: I'm NOT endorsing or suggesting people steal basses or anything else.

 

[BarfanyShart]

The best bass for punk is the one the cops are still looking for!