Favourite bass colour

[Mykesbass]

Love all the vintage Fender/car colours - Fiesta Red, Seafoam Green etc. Something about the shades that really do it for me. Voted blue as there are a couple of those that I really like.

[SpondonBassed]

7 hours ago, Bassassin said:

Are you trying to suggest this isn't a naturally occurring tonal variation?

I could be pedantic and point out that black & white are not in fact colours, they are the absence of colour - but y'know - that's just not my style at all.

I like this.  I have a B2A in black and a Steinberger Spirit X25 in White.  There's something different about the bridge on this image... is that a modification or a later option?

[Krysbass]

I've chosen natural wood in the poll.

But in truth i'd have just about any colour on a bass so long as the grain of the wood underneath is visible through it.

Solid paint finishes are not for me.

[Bassassin]

1 hour ago, SpondonBassed said:

I like this.  I have a B2A in black and a Steinberger Spirit X25 in White.  There's something different about the bridge on this image... is that a modification or a later option?

Actually the opposite - this is a first-gen Hohner B2A from 1985 & that's the hardware the early ones had. It originally had the "Licensed By Steinberger" script paint-stamped on the top plate. I think the versions with the lettering cast into the metal were a couple of years later. I also have a Cort headless with the same bridge as this.

[tauzero]

I think I've got 14ish natural basses and no painted ones - the three Seis are lacquered though. Apart from liking the look, an unlacquered natural bass doesn't show the minor knocks that knock chips off painted basses. I sold an immaculate black Hohner B2AV and replaced it with a natural one because I knew it would get chipped eventually.

[Teebs]

This colour & this bass fuels my GAS soooo badly!

[ezbass]

6 minutes ago, Teebs said:

This colour & this bass fuels my GAS soooo badly!

👏👏👏

That works for me sooo much, even more than this I think.

Edited February 19, 2019 by ezbass

[urbanx]

You're all wrong, but that's OK.

This is the best colour, somewhere between Surf Green and Daphne Blue 😛

[Teebs]

12 minutes ago, urbanx said:

You're all wrong, but that's OK.

This is the best colour, somewhere between Surf Green and Daphne Blue 😛

 

Lovely colour!

Edited February 19, 2019 by Teebs

[Teebs]

1 hour ago, ezbass said:

 

That is very pretty!

[BassApprentice]

It's a toss up between aged cream of shell pink or me!

I'm starting the think the Flea sig. Jazz is my favourite colour!

[Skinnyman]

2 hours ago, Teebs said:

This colour & this bass fuels my GAS soooo badly!

It's pretty right enough, but a bugger to find a decent outfit to go with it.

[Teebs]

8 minutes ago, Skinnyman said:

It's pretty right enough, but a bugger to find a decent outfit to go with it.

Oh really?

[Skinnyman]

That's brilliant. And they are the perfect match for each other! I take it that the picture is one of your promo shots? You look gooooodddd

[Ricky 4000]

Any Hawaiian shirt would have done the trick... bloody musicians and their costumes. 😁 

[Teebs]

5 minutes ago, Skinnyman said:

That's brilliant. And they are the perfect match for each other! I take it that the picture is one of your promo shots? You look gooooodddd

Yep - thats a promo shot for my ABBA tribute band - ABBAtrois - we rehearse in a slaughter house

Aye thank yooo!

(courtesy of Darren Wlash, Edinburgh Fringe 2016)

 

[Skinnyman]

Just now, Ricky 4000 said:

Any Hawaiian shirt would have done the trick... bloody musicians and their costumes. 😁 

You're only jealous because the Teebs-meister can pull that look off....

[Ricky 4000]

2 minutes ago, Skinnyman said:

You're only jealous because the Teebs-meister can pull that look off....

I'm sure he's good for pulling something off...

[Teebs]

4 minutes ago, Ricky 4000 said:

I'm sure he's good for pulling something off...

You're just bitter 'cos my ABBA tribute band is better than your ABBA tribute band!

[Ricky 4000]

3 minutes ago, Teebs said:

You're just bitter 'cos my ABBA tribute band is better than your ABBA tribute band!

Yeah, and I'd look like an old sack of spanners in a jumpsuit. 

[Ricky 4000]

My Abba tribute is called "Abba in Cardigans". Which is cool, because it also attracts unwitting Cardigans fans. 😉

[Teebs]

5 minutes ago, Ricky 4000 said:

Yeah, and I'd look like an old sack of spanners in a jumpsuit. 

Baby, I was Björn this way

[Teebs]

4 minutes ago, Ricky 4000 said:

My Abba tribute is called "Abba in Cardigans". Which is cool, because it also attracts unwitting Cardigans fans. 😉

If I listen to more than 5 minutes of your ABBA tribute band, I get Stockholm Syndrome!

[Donnyboy]

I voted Red but only if it's Fiesta Red... with a maple neck and white scratchplate

 

I think I've already changed my mind 3 or 4 times ...

[Bassassin]

Since this discussion has moved on - my Abba tribute band is called AbbaRation. We combine the genius of Sweden's two foremost musical exports, by performing the songs of Abba in the style of late 90s Opeth.

This is (almost) true - I've spent many an hour enthusiastically discussing this idea with a like-minded drummer friend. It will happen, one day...