Does anyone care about strap color?

[Moving Pictures]

I'm pretty much a black strap guy. I do have one red strap but it doesn't get that much stage time. However if you want a white strap for your white bass, I say why not. I'm sure it will look great.

 

[AaronVonRock]

Usually black cuz it matches any bass. And I like black.

 

[Ballin'bass]

Hell yea bro. Definitely matters.

 

[BBox Bass]

I own almost as many straps as I do shoes because I like to color coordinate.

 

[FingerDub]

Hell yea bro. Definitely matters. View attachment 867110

Who knew there was so much strap pride out there??

I thought I was nuts for even posting this.

 

[MobileHolmes]

I'm mostly using the levys padded leather straps these days. I have a couple different ones. Black goes with the black bass. Everything else gets tan it brown

 

[Jeff K]

This made me wonder if people match their clothes they wear on stage, to their bass. I never once considered it in all the live playing I've ever done.

I've definitely done that (choose a bass to gig because it would look good with a shirt or vice versa). But not always.

As for straps, most of my straps are black; but I've had some colorful ones as well. Lately I'm kind of transitioning to all Mono Betty straps. All black, but I'm getting a gray one next week that I'm thinking will look good with my Blizzard Pearl Jazz.

Here are a couple of my "non-black" straps:

Well, this one's not ALL black!:

 

[Blankandson]

The bassist on a Caribbean cruise about 15 years ago had seven basses, all cheap 4-strings. Each one was a different color. Each had a matching strap. He had a tux with 7 bow ties and 7 cumberbunds, each matching a color of a bass. He was having fun but I'd always wondered if he spent his salary on instruments and colors. Looked very good though!

 

[Teacher]

Yes, I put straps with basses they match or complement.

 

[1stnamebassist]

Any shade of black is fine with me.

 

[BeardedFrog]

I'm not obsessive about strap colors and designs, but I do like to find something that looks reasonably good with the instrument. Like a lot of people have already said, that usually means black since it goes with everything.

 

[FingerDub]

The bassist on a Caribbean cruise about 15 years ago had seven basses, all cheap 4-strings. Each one was a different color. Each had a matching strap. He had a tux with 7 bow ties and 7 cumberbunds, each matching a color of a bass. He was having fun but I'd always wondered if he spent his salary on instruments and colors. Looked very good though!

I wonder if the cruise ship asked him to do that....

 

[Ballin'bass]

Who knew there was so much strap pride out there??

I thought I was nuts for even posting this.

Well I think it's definitely a thing for those of us who care about style. I'm a stylish dude and so I want my basses to be stylin' too!

 

[Blankandson]

I have a sister-in-law who works cruises during the summers. She says the entertainers have to 'sell themselves' as the cruise directors are too busy to do any research. So I'd guess the bassist did that on his own. The only others in the trio were a female vocalist/sax player and a pianist. The pianist had the colors on his tux also. Sax player dressed 'slinky' if you know what I mean!!!

 

[GwenOnBass]

Wow. Only ever used the black strap that came with my bass. I did augment it for a while with a fleece girth cover. Tack shop. Very comfy.

 

[ExaltBass]

 

[Ewo]

As Henry Ford famously said, any color as long as it's black.

 

[Ric5]

I like blackstrap

 

[eyeballkid]

I always prefer a black strap on my basses.

 

[JMacBass65]

Yes, but not enough to go into it here.