Is there a "look" for a bassist?

[onosson]

Don't worry, we all look like dorks.

Truth!

 

[I<34080]

Bigger is better

 

[Metalbasshippy]

well if any bass players start to look like me i'd feel sorry for them

It's ok, I already feel sorry for myself

 

[Big Brother]

Is there a look for a bassist?

Usually it is an 'Ewww, where did you find him?' look.

 

[carlthegroover]

I've a small beard patch (no moustache) and just recently I started wearing fedoras (trilbys, to be specific) and long-sleeve shirts (with a t-shirt under, and a discrete chain around the neck) regularly and in band practice.

A couple weeks ago, a friend of the singer was visiting the jam space for a few minutes. When our singer introduced us (me and the drummer), he said "guess who's who". The friend said, "yeah, it's obvious who's who". Half-jokingly, I think.

So, I guess that, in that guy's opinion, my "look" is a "bassist's look"?

 

[dtripoli]

"Is there a "look" for a bassist?"
Yes. There are only 3 bass player looks/types to choose from;
1. Dark and menacing
2. Dorky and happy-go-lucky
...or
3. Nondescript and unnoticed, which is what most of us are...

 

[Ben Noblit]

"Is there a "look" for a bassist?"
Yes. There are only 3 bass player looks/types to choose from;
1. Dark and menacing
2. Dorky and happy-go-lucky
...or
3. Nondescript and unnoticed, which is what most of us are...

So which do I fall into?

 

[Downunderwonder]

2 & 1, depending on which you shoot for. Be careful aiming for too much menace or you'll overshoot into dorky. You cut that one very fine.

 

[owlie]

I would say ugly w/ beard will get along nicely Link Removed and being dorkly menacing helps too

 

[Sinomis666]

Dee Dee was short didn't stop him from been "the" "bass""player"!!

 

[Sinomis666]

I would post a awesome pic too but talkbass won't accept iPhone pics anymore!!!

 

[Ben Noblit]

2 & 1, depending on which you shoot for. Be careful aiming for too much menace or you'll overshoot into dorky. You cut that one very fine.

hmm, might have to amp up the dorkiness then, I don't want to be all sinister or look like I take myself too seriously. . .

I guess the look I'm trying for with this group (rockish/jumpish blues fwiw) would be "classy with an edge of rock." Which doesn't seem to be an option. Quite a departure from my other groups, where I generally fall into #2 trying to be as colorful as possible.

Still working on this one.

 

[electracoyote]

I personally think small-statured people playing full-sized basses look extremely cool.

 

[Néal Zheimer]

I guess there is. A few years ago, I went to a restaurant with friends and while waiting for a table to open up, a guy came to me and asked me if I was a bass player.

 

[NML1986]

well if any bass players start to look like me i'd feel sorry for them

Hey I have that t-shirt lol.

Sorry random I know.

 

[bongomania]

Everyone asks if I play saxophone.

 

[schmig]

I genuinely had no idea of my size until I saw this photo, playing a standard fender Precision, make it look like a shortscale.

 

[Bard2dbone]

There are several 'types' of bass player look. I'm a reasonable example of one of them. I'm moderately large at six feet and three hundred pounds with a beard and huge paws.

This was from the Bassists With Beards Club. I'm amused at how small I look playing a bass banjo. It's on a huge endpin.

 

[SoVeryTired]

I believe this has been established as the look for a bassist:

 

[shadowtippy]

It doesn't matter what you look like as long as you look like you know what you are doing. Also, it doesn't matter what you look like because you're "just the bass player" and who notices the bass player?