Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
Stage attire
- Thread starter REV
- Start date
Cargo shorts and corrective shoes and we wonder why they joke about bass players never get the girl
I’ve had two pairs where the sole just disintegrated within a couple of years. I’ll never buy Blundstones again.
My wife’s pair has lasted her for about 20 years.
The soles on my big size 13 clodhoppers were completely different from the soles on her smaller Blundstones.
How about PROOF of what we’re wearing at gigs!
Plus two bonus pics of my Redwings that also see some gigs (but no good gig pics)
Plus two bonus pics of my Redwings that also see some gigs (but no good gig pics)
I envy you young-uns that can wear those painful shoes. Cowboy boots? No freaking way, not with my feet (EE wide, short toes, flat feet). Vans or Converse All Stars? Nope, too flat, what little padding there is, is in the wrong places.
For me it's Clark "semi-dress" shoes: rubber soles, reasonable arch support, good padding, but black leather uppers that will take a reasonable shine. I wear these with a tux, with a suit, with blazer and slacks, with chinos, with blue jeans. No running shoes on stage for me, though that's pretty much what I wear all the rest of the time.
I've got flat feet that started out over-flexible and sensitive and then got battered from a lifetime of running, exacerbated by half a lifetime of competitive cycling where I crammed them into cleated shoes. Plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, both big toe joints arthritic, huge pronation, added to two bad knees, means I've got to have foot covers that won't cripple me up the next day after a three hour gig.
Above the feet? Whatever the bandleader says is the dress code. Anything from cargo shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, to full tux, I've got hanging in the closet.
For me it's Clark "semi-dress" shoes: rubber soles, reasonable arch support, good padding, but black leather uppers that will take a reasonable shine. I wear these with a tux, with a suit, with blazer and slacks, with chinos, with blue jeans. No running shoes on stage for me, though that's pretty much what I wear all the rest of the time.
I've got flat feet that started out over-flexible and sensitive and then got battered from a lifetime of running, exacerbated by half a lifetime of competitive cycling where I crammed them into cleated shoes. Plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, both big toe joints arthritic, huge pronation, added to two bad knees, means I've got to have foot covers that won't cripple me up the next day after a three hour gig.
Above the feet? Whatever the bandleader says is the dress code. Anything from cargo shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, to full tux, I've got hanging in the closet.
Well, first of all, you're gonna go badly wrong if you wear these to the tux gig.
And secondly, those are crappy shoes, if we consider how well they fulfill the actual function of a shoe. Minimal padding, flat as a surface plate, too narrow for most people with 10 actual toes, pointy toes, the seams run right across the corner of your little toe, and incredibly weird sizing apparently intended to allow 7-footers to claim "I don't have big feet - see, I only wear a size 10 Converse!" Oh yes, the soles will also mark up many common flooring materials.
I also have somewhat flat, wide feet. Tigers and Sauconys are the only sneakers that I can wear comfortably.
I once wore platform boots for a Halloween show and WIPED OUT on stage; took out the left half of the drumset, and sacrificed myself to keep my Dingwall out of "the plumbing" - it was undamaged, I was not.
Ever since, I wear low-heeled shoes with good ankle support -- gotta stay stable on stage.
Ever since, I wear low-heeled shoes with good ankle support -- gotta stay stable on stage.
Same here - and my feet seem to be either growing or spreading out as I age; I wore a size 12 in high school and I'm up to a 14 Wide now.
Finding shoes is NOT easy, and I have to put prescription orthotics in most of them.
I like them. I used to wear them a lot (or the high ones) in my 20s, at least outside the UK's rainy season. So, June to August. The issue I have now with them is price. So I wear knock offs. They last just as long as the real thing, although with slightly different failure modes. The originals used to fail in two ways - cracks near the toes and the entire sole coming loose.
Either cowboy boots or Merrells. Dress code is pretty flexible for rock n roll. I had a pair of American flag Vans in my skating days that I’d wear in a heartbeat if they still made them. Unfortunately I skated them to pieces decades ago.
