Ideal bass player appearance

[DavetheDude]

I thought this thread would be more about this: https://www.instagram.com/p/Buwo-Z1FD9I

 

[Ironbar]

Here's my promotional photo.
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MUCH better! And you're a fellow Ric player!

 

[Ironbar]

So, to be clear...shorts are a no no (totally disagree by the way), but what about capes?

Only if you're Chris Squire.

 

[skygzr]

I like bass players from many different backgrounds, thus diverse aesthetics and onstage ways. But the 2 guys that are superiorly magnetic for me to watch live are Jay Bentley (Bad Religion) and John Norwood Fisher (Fishbone). Both very different but hypnotic in their own ways to me.

In the case of Bentley it's no surprise he's taken over front man stage position live with BR, not only he looks real good (and young, age hasn't been that nice to his bandmates), but he's got the moves, the secure presence while still being fresh, he looks like genuinely having fun.

Fisher OTOH masters the COOL game, he's so smooth and "quietly dancey" while really driving the band's mood. Even Angelo Moore's antics disappear from my sight for minutes at a time when watching this man live. His size and looks are equally as immense

I didn't know these guys by name so I looked them up. I agree with your assessment. I also notice that both of them got their instrument straps off the "Big and Tall" rack.

 

[OptimalOptimus]

So an old dude a little fat wearing old people stuff with either a fender or rick

 

[Spidey2112]

Skin tight leather jump suit or Hawaiian shirt and cargo shorts

 

[Fialka]

I think that wizard look of a Lee Sklar is helluva awesome. Isnt it?

 

[bassdude51]

Probably something like this.

 

[Standalone]

contrabass balalaika

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“Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out...”

 

[Standalone]

Battle black whenever possible.

 

[Bunk McNulty]

It just hit me: Ideal bass player appearance...how about a bass player who is also a model for Vogue?

In action:

 

[hennessybass]

Ah,,, the great TB debate...

You might think it’s P vs J
You might think it’s active vs passive
You might think it’s 10s vs 15s

But you would be wrong.

It’s pants vs shorts!!!

 

[Keger Jupit]

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Floyd recently switched to Fenders, I heard...Going more for that Geddy Lee tone these days. I dunno, may be a rumor...

 

[Keger Jupit]

Here's my promotional photo.
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I feel...a little let down @dbase I thought your avatar was you.

Every time I'd read one of your posts I'd think..."How does this scrungy old prospector know so much?" I gave consideration to becoming a hermit, panning & digging all day, returning to my shack with only the company of my mule & P-bass to sustain me...

...dream shattered...

 

[BassCliff]

Hi,

I always need a little help with my appearance.

Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

 

[Keger Jupit]

Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

Think nothing of it my good chap, & thanks for sharing those appearance enhancing "tips".

 

[BakerStreetMuse]

In the unlikely event I ever get good enough to play publicly, I'm going with the classic bass player look of "zebra."

(Or not.)

 

[Bobro]

I thought that was Uma Thurman at first glance.

Yeah, she gets that a lot, of course. When addressed to a woman, the question "did you already kill Bill?" makes a cute rhyme in Slovene, (Si že ubila Bill-a?"), which is fun.

I am too smooth to try to compliment her with the usual "wow you look like Uma Thurman". i told her, truthfully, that she looks like my Babushka Prisiya. Usually "you look like my grandmother" would not be a compliment, but my grandma Prisiya was not just tall and gorgeous, but a real life bad-ass action heroine, not just an actress playing one. She had families of Jews hidden in the basement when Nazi soldiers and collaborator thugs came around hunting them, so she is a big hero to the family. Plus she married a Tatar, my grandfather Viktor, which was some heavy duty Hippie Free Luv kind of action a hundred years ago. She lived to 106, though the newspaper reported 96 because she took the opportunity when migrating to the US to slice ten years off her official age.

 

[skygzr]

Hi,

I always need a little help with my appearance.

Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

Does your band need another bass player? Or a roadie? Seriously, call me.