Colour descriptions

[Marvin]

[url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/yamaha-rbx374-mustard-pearl/16269"]http://www.gak.co.uk/en/yamaha-rbx374-mustard-pearl/16269[/url]

Mustard Pearl? I've never heard anything of it's like before.

[BigRedX]

A fancy name to try and persuade you to buy what is in reality a rather dull coloured bass.

[Marvin]

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1231775' date='May 15 2011, 11:17 AM']A fancy name to try and persuade you to buy what is in reality a rather dull coloured bass.[/quote]
I agree.

Found another daft one - [url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/bass-collection-jive-bass-islington-blue/43326"]Islington Blue[/url]

[Happy Jack]

For some reason I thought that colour was called Prussian Blue (it isn't) so I looked up that phrase on Google images ... and got this.



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[Mykesbass]

I thought Islington was supposed to be deepest red!

[Marvin]

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='1232057' date='May 15 2011, 02:59 PM']I thought Islington was supposed to be deepest red![/quote]
Perhaps they coined it a few years ago when people were struggling to tell the difference

[JimBobTTD]

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='1232057' date='May 15 2011, 03:59 PM']I thought Islington was supposed to be deepest red![/quote]

But mix that in with champagne yellow and cocaine white, surely the bass's colour is close enough?

[Mykesbass]

[quote name='Marvin' post='1232091' date='May 15 2011, 03:22 PM']Perhaps they coined it a few years ago when people were struggling to tell the difference [/quote]

[BigRedX]

[quote name='Marvin' post='1231994' date='May 15 2011, 02:25 PM']Found another daft one - [url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/bass-collection-jive-bass-islington-blue/43326"]Islington Blue[/url][/quote]
That one sort of makes sense because it's the colour of Angel Islington on the UK Monopoly board.

[steve-soar]

Looks like a Caramac, that has been left out in the rain.

[Fitz666]

Triumph used to do a "Nuclear Red" which was metallic pink.

Not many sold as I remember

[BottomEndian]

Not quite the same thing, but the thread title put me in mind of Howard the Bass Doc's story of a (presumably non-bass-playing) visitor to his old shop. Admiring a sunburst bass hanging on the wall, said visitor proclaimed, "I love the way the colour just... f***s off."