Most 90’s colour

[Jeff Scott]

Those are cool - very sought after these days.

It was a very nice car, really. I have always preferred small hatchbacks that can be modded as desired.

Although teal & mauve were very '80s.

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I saw that tour.

 

[ElectricBass72]

The 80's was the decade with flamboyant colors. Original Jams shorts, Miami Vice blazers in tropical colors, flourescent neon colors in clothing all over the place in the late 80's. Basically a rehash of the 60's.

90's was flannel and flat, drab colors... like olive green, burnt orange and brown.

 

[JIO]

It was a very nice car, really. I have always preferred small hatchbacks that can be modded as desired.

I saw that tour.

The Shadows & Light vid at the Santa Barbara Amphlitheater is amazing - they are all at their peak, so young and gifted. It's a beautiful document - I watch it every now and then to lift my spirits.

 

[Malak the Mad]

Well it wasn't actually anything like that generative A.I. image would have you believe.

Funny thing...I came across that image in a Google Images search and, at the time, I didn't pay it much mind. Once you said it was A.I., I sent it to my wife who is, among other things, trained in fashion/costume design AND has been experimenting with A.I. images for the past four or so years. As we were perusing it together, that's when I noticed the weird leg and foot of the third guy from the right. Then, Mrs. Fashion Design said this;

Also the whole ankle area is too high with the boots and the rollups and not everybody rolled up.

That vibes "trial run of a grunge boy band with a specific quirk of a look tailored for fans to lazily emulate so they can call themselves trendsetters and secure potential ad and modeling gigs after no one can suffer them long enough to stop making fun of the album"

Ahhh...I love my wife!

 

[luckydawgg169]

This is an excellent example of what I was talking about earlier. People like to, understandably, categorize things, but trends do not adhere so neatly to our base-10 method of measuring and recording decades. Trends/styles/aesthetics are much more fluid and malleable.

To be fair, in the pre-internet age, it took years for a style to transition from it's point-of-origin to the rest of the country, so what was popular in one area may take a bit longer to show up elsewhere. (re: "cultural diffusion")

Oh, there is definitely a spill over Into the next decade…. However, rather than getting hung up on details, we can say 80s were definitely neon …90s tried its hardest to be the exact opposite of the 80s….

 

[Malak the Mad]

Oh, there is definitely a spill over Into the next decade…. However, rather than getting hung up on details, we can say 80s were definitely neon …90s tried its hardest to be the exact opposite of the 80s….

Oh, for sure!

And now, I'm feeling the urge to end that agreement with a "duuuuuude!". Is that awful of me?

 

[hooky_marr]

As to the teal trend I will say one of these was my ride through the '90s.

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Not to derail into car design aesthetics but I miss when small cars had excellent driver visibility like these. When we were shopping for our current car, our old one was a Scion xA hatchback that had a nicely high stance and great visibility. Most of the midrange sedans we tested had cramped, overly raked windshields - it felt like you needed a periscope to see out.

 

[pklima]

In general, definitely teal was the mainstream color, especially in the first half of the decade.

On basses specifically, though, when I think 90s designs it's manufacturers seemingly going "OK, hair metal is over, what now" though early in the decade you did get the crackle finishes. A lot of basic, darker finishes - blacks, reds, bursts, and also brown oil finishes. Taking a quick look at 90s and 80s basses on Reverb doesn't really show much difference. While there's oil finished basses in both decades, the 80s ones are mostly early in the decade. Red basses in the 90s also seemed darker, and the few teal/seafoam basses I spotted were all 80s.

And even more specifically, for a Kubicki refin, those were obviously not the grunge aesthetic and a brown oil finish is not the way to go. I'd say this... if you're looking for a "today's memory of the 90s" nostalgia look, teal. If more concerned with historical accuracy, the dark red reverse burst Kubicki posted earlier looks great, or you could do dark blue. Matching vinyl pants optional... not to derail again, but that was such a huge thing in metal/goth/industrial in the mid-late 90s.

 

[Wood and Wire]

Funny thing...I came across that image in a Google Images search and, at the time, I didn't pay it much mind. Once you said it was A.I., I sent it to my wife who is, among other things, trained in fashion/costume design AND has been experimenting with A.I. images for the past four or so years. As we were perusing it together, that's when I noticed the weird leg and foot of the third guy from the right. Then, Mrs. Fashion Design said this;

Ahhh...I love my wife!

Yeah, I mean there's so much obviously wrong with pretty much every aspect of the individuals, and the various pieces of clothing that everything looks brand new, and artificial (particularly the D.M.s), that before you even scrutinise the background, or the shop fronts, signs etc.

But the dead giveaway - without even having to look closely - is that people didn't look, or dress like that (those "people" are based on circa ~2010 hipsters, trying to look like they were in Seattle in 1991, whilst actually basing their style on the overnight sheeple that jumped on the bandwagon after seeing the movie Singles in 1992), and that photography looked nothing like that.

Every aspect of the image is wholly digital, and has the aesthetic of digital photography (which didn't exist as a medium, let alone an aesthetic, in the early 90's).

Not only is everything from a technical point of view utterly wrong for the era, stylistically nobody would have taken a picture like that at that time - it has no dynamism, no style, no personality, no entropy - the real world isn't imposing obstacles such as light, litter, members of the public, a creative urge to either stand out from, or to conform with the aesthetics of the scene (either grainy black & white, cross-processed colour, or highly art-directed commercial photography), the sense that it's a run & gun stolen shot, or that there's a client and a creative director standing out of shot, cracking the whip : it's clearly assembled by one person (or in this case, generative A.I.) in the virtual world.

 

[Jeff Scott]

...digital photography (which didn't exist as a medium, let alone an aesthetic, in the early 90's).

Actually, there were a few digital cameras in the late '80s-early '90s.

 

[Wood and Wire]

Actually, there were a few digital cameras in the late '80s-early '90s.

Yeah, but they were crap (I own a few), and nobody was using them to either document a scene at the grass roots level, or in professional / commercial photography.

It wasn't until the late 90's that places like Joe's Basement began to feel the squeeze, and digital became a serious threat to labs, and printers.

 

[Malak the Mad]

Yeah, but they were crap (I own a few), and nobody was using them to either document a scene at the grass roots level, or in professional / commercial photography.

It wasn't until the late 90's that places like Joe's Basement began to feel the squeeze, and digital became a serious threat to labs, and printers.

One thing I think we could agree on, much like everyone else who's brains I've picked on the topic, there is no smell on Earth that mimics "photo chemicals". It is such a unique scent, not to mention simultaneously terrible and comforting (YMMV on that last part ), that it's one of those "you know it or you don't...there is no in-between".

 

[Jeff Scott]

One thing I think we could agree on, much like everyone else who's brains I've picked on the topic, there is no smell on Earth that mimics "photo chemicals". It is such a unique scent, not to mention simultaneously terrible and comforting (YMMV on that last part ), that it's one of those "you know it or you don't...there is no in-between".

I love the smell of fresh fixer in the morning, particularly so when it's combined with freshly made sepia toner. Did that for a couple of decades!

 

[Malak the Mad]

In general, definitely teal was the mainstream color, especially in the first half of the decade.

On basses specifically, though, when I think 90s designs it's manufacturers seemingly going "OK, hair metal is over, what now" though early in the decade you did get the crackle finishes. A lot of basic, darker finishes - blacks, reds, bursts, and also brown oil finishes. Taking a quick look at 90s and 80s basses on Reverb doesn't really show much difference. While there's oil finished basses in both decades, the 80s ones are mostly early in the decade. Red basses in the 90s also seemed darker, and the few teal/seafoam basses I spotted were all 80s.

And even more specifically, for a Kubicki refin, those were obviously not the grunge aesthetic and a brown oil finish is not the way to go. I'd say this... if you're looking for a "today's memory of the 90s" nostalgia look, teal. If more concerned with historical accuracy, the dark red reverse burst Kubicki posted earlier looks great, or you could do dark blue. Matching vinyl pants optional... not to derail again, but that was such a huge thing in metal/goth/industrial in the mid-late 90s.

Getting back on-topic; I have to agree...

1. If one wants the perceived/remembered look of the Nineties, a teal finish could work.
2. If one wants a more authentic Nineties look, a reverse-burst might do. On that note, Fender's Dark Night finish might possibly scratch that itch (see below).
3. If one wants to find that "Seventies inspiring the Nineties" groove, some kind of natural clear or brown could do, especially if you want Boomers to shout "Seventies! Groovy!!" and Gen-X'ers/Millennials to scream "Nineties! Shred some gnar!!" at the same time.

 

[Malak the Mad]

I love the smell of fresh fixer in the morning, particularly so when it's combined with freshly made sepia toner. Did that for a couple of decades!

Don't mind me! I'll be there when the floor goes out with the tide!

 

[Malak the Mad]

I think @wintremute found the finish you're looking for at NAMM. I mean, really...how Nineties can you get?!

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[MPU]

Well, sort of teal it is. I tried to get something similar to Kubicki Bahama green.

 

[MPU]

Looks like this finished.

 

[pklima]

Very 1992!

 

[JIO]

Getting back on-topic; I have to agree...

1. If one wants the perceived/remembered look of the Nineties, a teal finish could work.
2. If one wants a more authentic Nineties look, a reverse-burst might do. On that note, Fender's Dark Night finish might possibly scratch that itch (see below).
3. If one wants to find that "Seventies inspiring the Nineties" groove, some kind of natural clear or brown could do, especially if you want Boomers to shout "Seventies! Groovy!!" and Gen-X'ers/Millennials to scream "Nineties! Shred some gnar!!" at the same time.

The reversed burst gets my vote for 'most iconic '90s colour' -