Wearing hats while playing; yes or no?

[Rev. Cornelius]

there’s an unwritten rule, only one guy in the band can be hat-guy or shaved-head guy. Else it gets real weird, real quick.

You mean weird like this:

or this:

 

[lbbc]

I don't wear hats on stage...nothing against it, just not my thing because I never found one that I thought looked good on me.

 

[thanos k]

50's rock n roll/rockabilly/country gig pic

80's glam/sleaze/metal/hard rock gig pic

 

[MNAirHead]

If you choose to... Go to a habadashery and have one properly selected, fitted and mated to a corresponding outfit.

Wearing grampas hat with a Hawaiian shirt looks geezer.

And yes... I wear a 10 gallon Stetson with Gus crease - I play Hill Billy Americana

 

[Bander]

If you find the right hat, you can pull it off. I wear a cap a lot, goes with my chuck taylors. But I have worn a straw porkpie on stage. The bass player can really get away with more flair, especially if she/he likes to really mug and dance/move around - it really adds to the band if somebody like the bass player is communicating they are really enjoying the band, being on stage, etc. Just something I've noticed over the years.

 

[JohnDeereJack]

Always!

 

[Smooth_bass88]

Hats, yes. Shorts NO!!!

 

[AdamR]

hat, no shirt, cargo shorts and sandals with socks.

 

[Marley's Ghost]

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[equill]

We have?......Who won???....

Rickenbacker, I think

 

[Timmy-Watts]

My wife says don't wear a hat while playing, so I don't. I only wear warm winter hats when it's cold out and pretty much never otherwise. Plus, I'm blessed with good hair, without which my face looks goofy.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

Do you wear a hat while playing?. The right hat on the right person looks great. I personally can’t stand anything on my head, but do sometimes wonder what would be a cool hat to wear.
I’ve always liked the look of a bowler hat like Stan Laurel wore, but I’m not going to shell out that kind of dough if I was too embarrassed to wear it. Not to mention it would have to be the right sort of band/gig.
My hair’s gone on permanent vacation , so if I’m outdoors in the summer I have no choice but to wear a ball cap to keep from frying.

Back in the seventies when i was a teen and yong adult, yes. I haven’t worn a hat on stage since about 1977.

 

[JensCambre]

I don't wear a hat for the same reason I take my glasses when I'm preforming, I'm just to energetic and after about 15 seconds into the first song it'll probably be (and this has happend) flying across the stage... .

 

[lfmn16]

hat, no shirt, cargo shorts and sandals with socks.

Don't forget your music stand and sun glasses!

 

[Jeff Elkins]

My bandleader/lead singer always wears a hat, mainly because he has no hair on his head. One night the venue was ridiculously warm and he took it off for a set. Then he asked if I'd turned up because now he couldn't hear himself in the monitors. I hadn't. He finally realized that the brim of the hat was like a personal monitor enhancer. He never takes the hat off now.

This is my problem, but in reverse--the bluegrass band used to use the traditional one mic setup, and no monitors. We mixed ourselves on the mic. When I wore a hat, it entirely changed how I heard the lead and harmony, and screwed up my tenor. As another mostly-bald guy this posed a problem in direct sun, so I explored brimless head coverings... nothing I found ever worked, costume/uniform-wise for that band.

 

[Mannyinnewyork]

I like them especially when it’s sunny. Don’t understand the ball cap being worn backwards - no offense to those that do that, obviously it’s form over function thing. I prefer a bigger hat that provides some shade.

 

[mikeyjm2]

I like to wear hats onstage, so I'm a "yeah" but I keep my hair in a buzz cut so that's probably no surprise. 30+ years ago I had hair like Phil Lynott but y'all know how that goes.

 

[Wesley R]

Let circumstances dictate.
In a variety ban at bars, when playing a Country song, we would yell "Hat Song" and put on cowboy hats. When that band played weddings we did not.
In the later 60's and early 70's i often wore what others called a hippie hat, it fit the uniform of the genre.

 

[Hounddog409]

Do you wear a hat while playing?. The right hat on the right person looks great. I personally can’t stand anything on my head, but do sometimes wonder what would be a cool hat to wear.
I’ve always liked the look of a bowler hat like Stan Laurel wore, but I’m not going to shell out that kind of dough if I was too embarrassed to wear it. Not to mention it would have to be the right sort of band/gig.
My hair’s gone on permanent vacation , so if I’m outdoors in the summer I have no choice but to wear a ball cap to keep from frying.

I hear hats all the time. I like hats. So, just normal for me to wear during gig. Anyone that knows me would be shocked if i didnt have one on.