Color -- how important is it to you?

[Stormchaser]

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(that fretless!)

Seriously, you need to put down the bass for a minute and clean that cat box. Holy sh*t, dude!

I LOVE natural blonde basses: here are pics of my G&L Tribute L2K and a gorgeous FSR Fender ash body/Warmoth maple neck fretless.

Here, on the other hand, are two of the ugliest colors I have ever seen on a bass, my Classic '50s in Fiesta Red and my Classic '51 in Butterscotch:

Maybe it's really about sound: the first two are long gone and the latter two are what I depend on at gigs. Can't hear paint.

 

[Josh Thatguy]

I don't think we can call basses "black" anymore. I think now we have to call them "african-American" so as to avoid riots and looting.

 

[Jay Mastro]

The old school pastel colors, surf/seafoam green, sonic/daphne blue, love those colorw

 

[2cooltoolz]

I don't think we can...

And we were doing so well...

 

[Camaro69]

I like trans tint, because I like wood grain too, just not naked.

 

[Josh Thatguy]

It seemed funny at the time, when it hit my brain.


Still kinda funny, 7 minutes later. It's a Saturday and I haven't stepped on any toes today, so I thought I'd stomp on one or two out here.

Lighten up

 

[iriegnome]

I am a big fan of Natural Satin finishes, but it doesn't matter that much. I do not like Black or White or Red.. Huge fan of Honey Burst, Cherry Bursts though..

 

[blindrabbit]

I've always liked/preferred natural wood (stains or oil finishes), or things like sunbursts and trans finishes where you can still see the wood and grain. I'll be honest though - there are not that many solid colour basses that do it for me. Maybe the colour of the new Adam Clayton jazz, or the colour of the Rascal, or even a nice shell pink would be fun, but I think if I had them as my main bass it would drive me a little nutty. With the exception of my first two basses during my first 4 years of playing the bass, I've had nothing but natural, sunburst, or trans finishes...and that probably won't change.

 

[Watchootognbout]

In the beginning, I really wanted 'wood' basses. No colors, no weird tints, just stuff that looked like fine furniture. Then I was willing to accept 'tinted' wood, where you could at least see some grain in the surface.

Now I just really no longer seem to care, i just want it to feel great and play great.

How about the rest of you?

In the beginning was Stanley Clarke.And his fine exotic wood Alembic basses.
I LUSTED over his Alembics.Exotic woods.Gold plated bridge and tuners.But Alembic basses were for those who breath rarefied air.
At 20 yrs of age natural wood finish basses were few an far between.And I wanted dark natural satin finished wood,no pickguard and gold!(or brass)hardware!
Black hardware is acceptable.

Everything was shiny paint,pick guard and chrome.
I'm not a fan of Fender traditional colors.
So every bass that I bought that wasn't dark natural wood,no pickguard and gold hardware,was a concession!I had to settle for what I could find.

Fast forward to 27 yrs later.Now EVERY bass I buy is dark natural wood,no pickguard and gold hardware.
Because that's what I have always wanted!

 

[drumsnbass]

In the beginning was Stanley Clarke.And his fine exotic wood Alembic basses.
I LUSTED over his Alembics.Exotic woods.Gold plated bridge and tuners.But Alembic basses were for those who breath rarefied air.
At 20 yrs of age natural wood finish basses were few an far between.And I wanted dark natural wood,no pickguard and gold!(or brass)hardware!
Everything was paint,pick guard and chrome.I am not a bright color man.
So every bass that I bought that wasn't dark natural wood,no pickguard and gold hardware,was a concession!

Fast forward to 27 yrs later.Now EVERY bass I buy is dark natural wood,no pickguard and gold hardware.
Because that's what I have always wanted!View attachment 524249

Funny how later in life we get what we wanted as a 'kid'.

I wanted some 'land'. Always liked big open spaces. Now I'm a farmer as my second life career. But I don't get to live on my farm. Recently I got an old house on just shy of 1.5 acres. Very 'homey' and unpretentious... Love it!

 

[MegaSwing]

Funny how later in life we get what we wanted as a 'kid'.

I never got Raquel Welch.

 

[drumsnbass]

I never got Raquel Welch.

I wanted Cheryl Tiegs myself...

 

[Watchootognbout]

Funny how later in life we get what we wanted as a 'kid'.

I wanted some 'land'. Always liked big open spaces. Now I'm a farmer as my second life career. But I don't get to live on my farm. Recently I got an old house on just shy of 1.5 acres. Very 'homey' and unpretentious... Love it!

Yes.And the kick is that my basses don't cost "an arm and leg"

 

[Guinness20]

Very important. It is a decisive factor when buying a bass. I wouldn't own more than one bass in the same colour.

 

[Humbled]

I wanted Cheryl Tiegs myself...

Jaclyn Smith for me.

Good golly.

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[TBird1958]

It's important to me........

I like custom colors and lots of chrome, I like having basses that no one else does.

 

[bholder]

It's important to me........

I like custom colors and lots of chrome, I like having basses that no one else does.

DON'T BACK UP!

 

[Rosebud]

I'm fine with any color except 3 tone Sunburst, I really hate 3 tone sunburst. having said that I know some paint jobs are better than others especially vintage instruments (as in the vintage ones look a little nicer to me).

 

[Rosebud]

TBird1958, hi what's the green Gibson -a refinish?

 

[Rosebud]

Color is important to me. I really don't care for red or yellow. I don't like bold colors. I like wine red, lake placid blue, gray, black, white, sage green metallic most sunbursts, especially sienna. I also have an Alembic which has mahogany body and walnut top and another which is mahogany and bocate. I like the natural wood look for these basses. I have a couple of Spectors. One has an amber finish, the other is a Euro Rebop in sunburst.

Kmonk the fact that you don't care for yellow stood out to me as my music school axe was a Monaco Yellow 'international series' Fender. Geez I loved that bass.