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Musicians on stage wearing black clothes...

#301
Eilif said:
-What cut of pants are you picking? "Relaxed fit" is the devil's handiwork.
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Welll, maybe if you're a tender little millennial with scrawny etiolated limbs...

If you are a full grown man who has done a share of manual labor, enjoys robustly his food and drink, and eschews meth, having room for muscles, fat (yes, regrettably) and a full unsquashed set of male equipment pretty much requires something not skin tight.

I suffered through the 1970s skin tight pats - being always a bit overweight (NOT obese, but say 180 lbs on 5-10) and also a dedicated cyclist with thighs like tree trunks, I frequently experienced pants ripping from stem to stern when I did exotic moves like bending down to pick up a coin off the floor. About 1982 pleated pants became available and my first experience was a revelation! You mean, my balls don't have to be squished beyond reclamation? You mean, I can actually sit down without immediately having to stand up again?

I swore then and there that I was never going to wear tight pants again. They'll have to pry my pleated relaxed fit pants out of my cold dead hands.
 
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#303
Artman said:
I like the way that wearing black draws more attention to the instrument that you choose to play. Especially whenever it's a cool looking bass like that blue Fender Jazz that fellow was sporting a couple of posts back, or my Teal P-bass, or anything with a little flash of color.
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Agreed!
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Black may be where it's at, but I enjoy dressing up for a show. My wife and I go thrifting every couple weeks and I always have my eye out for stage wear. The shirt I found at Goodwill. The Member's Only Thunderbird jacket was a gift from my father-in-law (they bought a Ford Thunderbird in the 80s and this jacket was a gift). Pants are Vans brand from Goodwill as well. Only the jacket didn't make it on stage.

My bass was black, however, so there's that.
 
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lildrgn said:
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Black may be where it's at, but I enjoy dressing up for a show. My wife and I go thrifting every couple weeks and I always have my eye out for stage wear. The shirt I found at Goodwill. The Member's Only Thunderbird jacket was a gift from my father-in-law (they bought a Ford Thunderbird in the 80s and this jacket was a gift). Pants are Vans brand from Goodwill as well. Only the jacket didn't make it on stage.

My bass was black, however, so there's that.
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I think more colorful wear like that is great when your playing a black instrument.
 
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Black clothes, black amps, black basses. OK, I'm at the Funeral, where's the food, and who brought what?

Although, now that I think back about some of those really rough joints I used to play in, maybe . . . . that would have been a good idea.

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Yeah, I got yer request RIGHT HERE.
 
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turf3 said:
Welll, maybe if you're a tender little millennial with scrawny etiolated limbs...

If you are a full grown man who has done a share of manual labor, enjoys robustly his food and drink, and eschews meth, having room for muscles, fat (yes, regrettably) and a full unsquashed set of male equipment pretty much requires something not skin tight.

I suffered through the 1970s skin tight pats - being always a bit overweight (NOT obese, but say 180 lbs on 5-10) and also a dedicated cyclist with thighs like tree trunks, I frequently experienced pants ripping from stem to stern when I did exotic moves like bending down to pick up a coin off the floor. About 1982 pleated pants became available and my first experience was a revelation! You mean, my balls don't have to be squished beyond reclamation? You mean, I can actually sit down without immediately having to stand up again?

I swore then and there that I was never going to wear tight pants again. They'll have to pry my pleated relaxed fit pants out of my cold dead hands.
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"my pleated relaxed fit pants"
Words that make me sad.
I do like skinny jeans and I am almost slender, but to be fair, there is a "regular" fit between slim and relaxed that is neither skin tight nor unfashionably loose. It can take time for a person of any build to find pants that are neither too tight nor loose, but in America especially the unfortunate expedient solution for men seems to be to just wear baggy clothes.

There's just no excuse for pleats though unless you're a zoot suit rioter. :D
 
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lildrgn said:
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Black may be where it's at, but I enjoy dressing up for a show. My wife and I go thrifting every couple weeks and I always have my eye out for stage wear. The shirt I found at Goodwill. The Member's Only Thunderbird jacket was a gift from my father-in-law (they bought a Ford Thunderbird in the 80s and this jacket was a gift). Pants are Vans brand from Goodwill as well. Only the jacket didn't make it on stage.

My bass was black, however, so there's that.
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My man... this guy gets it.

I picked this up, this past week from Goodwill...

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... and if we did one more RUSH song, this baby kimono would have been mine, all mine!

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Either that, or I would have have accepted my diploma-by-mail from Bangladesh.
 
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Eilif said:
"my pleated relaxed fit pants"
Words that make me sad.
I do like skinny jeans and I am almost slender, but to be fair, there is a "regular" fit between slim and relaxed that is neither skin tight nor unfashionably loose. It can take time for a person of any build to find pants that are neither too tight nor loose, but in America especially the unfortunate expedient solution for men seems to be to just wear baggy clothes.

There's just no excuse for pleats though unless you're a zoot suit rioter. :D
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Well, put 200-250 miles a week on the bike for a couple years and tell me you're fitting THOSE thighs into skinny pants. Nope, not gonna happen. Nor all the "look, I can still fit into my Bar Mitzvah suit!" current fads for undersized clothing. Nope, I'm an old preppy, proud of it, and the standard cut men's sack suit is what I'm going to be buried in. Fashion be damned, I get to wear what's comfortable. (Part of the advantage of being a preppy in dress (and I am one in reality too) is that my inevitable slightly rumpled professor look fits well. It doesn't matter, you can put me in the very latest Italian made to measure suit and in 10 minutes I'll look slightly disheveled.)
 
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I posted on page 11 about being tired of all black. This photo is from 2-3 weeks ago: black shoes, pants, shirt and bass.
I must not be tired of it after all!
I'm in an original doom band so the look is appropriate even though we don't have a dress code.
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