What Hat makes your bass thump?

[malthumb]

The hat in your first pick is bad-@$$

I don't wear hats too often, but when I do, it's either:

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[Bill Fatty]

not sure what this is; some sort of dime-store cowboy hat...

I still have this one somewhere

The ladies like bass players in hats too...

 

[Shardik]

I bought a bass hat today. If was a risky purchase, because I haven't tested if i thumps yet.

NB: Sorry if I revived a dead thread... I just searched and posted.

 

[Danny O Danny]

 

[Steve Dallman]

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Bass came first
Hat chosen for appearances or personae
Nope don't feel odd without it.

I also wear pork pies, and BB caps other times (off stage) or no hat.
I still have a full head of hair, and it was worn long until the last 2 years. Cowboys always my favorite. Even in metal bands.
(this is a country gig)
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Another "look" with the Dolphin:
Black Beauties strings work well on the Dolphin (and white hats work on me)

 

[shadven]

 

[TheBass]

 

[OldBassman]

Yeah, hats... My hair is white now and I look terminally elderly so I always wear a hat at gigs usually a ball cap. I really like hats. I'm looking for one now for a different look. I don't know, everybody is wearing fedoras. I want to be different. whattaya think?

 

[Ross W. Lovell]

What HAT makes your bass thump?

So could just be me, but saw a couple of bands over the holidays and noticed something. All the bass players wore hats. Now one LG had a baseball hat on, but the bass players had some style!

One had a straw fedora, one had a English flat/driver hat and one had a Marcus Miller type hat. Now, they all were great players, hats, hair, bald or otherwise but the hats added a little somethin' somethin'.

When did you guys start wearing hats when you played? Do you have a gig hat? Does the hat help the groove?

Show me your HATS !

I'm still rockin' it with a gorgeous head of hair, so no hats here.

When male pattern baldness visits, I'll rock that as well!

 

[Ross W. Lovell]

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Love your bass!

 

[TheBass]

Love your bass!

Thanks. That's a one-of-a-kind EUB built by luthier Balsereit (the same who built the pickups) about 25 years ago. It's tuned EADGC and uses a Balsereit piezo and preamp. Scale is 42" and weight approx. 20lbs. Quite heavy and bulky but great sound.

 

[DDXdesign]

Flat driver caps all the way!

 

[Volker Kirstein]

I'm one of two male bass players at the jams that doesn't wear a hat. The others all wear those stupid porkpie things, except one guy who wears a golf cap.

IMO, the only appropriate* hats for a gig are cowboy hats if you're doing country.
* excluding hats required for sun protection in outdoor gigs

 

[eyeballkid]

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[nixdad]

This one...

 

[Keger Jupit]

I was born with a hat on. The only pics of me as a kid without one were school pics! (& indoor pics, mama raised me respectful)

I love hats, & have worn a bit of everything. Never gigged without one in 30 years. Ball caps & beanies in my 20's, something more age appropriate now. Fedora, if the brim-to-hat ratio looks correct, cowboy hats...I've been looking for years for an over-sized sombrero, that would be fun!

 

[2saddleslab]

Been known to wear a fedora or cowboy hat over the last 30 years but mostly it's dyed, fried, and parted on the side.

 

[danesdad]

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not sure what this is; some sort of dime-store cowboy hat...
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I still have this one somewhere
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The ladies like bass players in hats too...

The Union Jack Steiny is tremendous!

 

[Ronzo]

Not a hat guy.

Can’t say not ever, because being outdoors in the sun down here can give you all sorts of nasties, but am not, nor never expect to be, a hat guy.

And I’ve seen enough of the trilby - or, as I call it, the “Cuban Pete” hat, from the old Desi Arnaz song - to last me multiple lifetimes.