Baldness

[Christian Miller]

Baseball caps are for drummers


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[rpjazzguitar]

After reading this thread, I went out and bought a new hat.

[SOLR]

After reading this thread, I went out and bought a new hat.

LOL! I did the exact opposite!

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[Lionelsax]

Opinions on baldness and wearing hats on the bandstand.
Does anyone here wear a hat on the bandstand specifically to cover up any baldness or do you wear one to look cool?
May be just to keep one's head warm or when exposed to the sun.
I have no hair on my head but tend not to wear a hat except in the sun.

You do it well, I used to wear something only in winter, and nothing in summer.
Today my head is weird, it's got two colours, when it happened I thought it was something that would disappear, the doctor said it won't.
I thought the sun was my friend but now the bill is printed on my head for no wearing a hat in summer.
So yes, I'm wearing a hat, if someone tells me to put it off, I say "f.c. .o. !".

[Stringswinger]

Baseball caps are for drummers


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And Ulf.

[dconeill]

Yes true. I'm more interested in a players point of view.
I tend to think - if players are wearing hats they must be bald.
I don't think I have issues with my own baldness even though I would like to still have a good head of hair.

If it was good enough for Jim Hall, it's certainly good enough for me.
When I was young, I wanted to play guitar so I grew my hair long.
Now that I'm old, if I want to play guitar I guess my hair has to fall out.

In other words, grow it while you got it.

[JazzPadd]

I was never really a hat person, but after my Dad, may he RIP, got a nasty case of aggressive skin cancer on his head (he was bald from his 30s and he loved being outdoors in the sun, hatless), I started wearing various kinds of hats, from pork pie type (I could not pull that off, AT ALL, it even looked a little ridiculous!) to baseball caps.

Eventually started wearing caps and wool hats habitually, even in-doors on gigs, etc. But during the dark days of corona, I gave up hats, and now only wear a wool hat outdoors to keep warm in winter. Now in my mid-60s, I always had thin hair taking after Mom, but not bald. My brother, on the other hand, who took after Dad, was bald by his 30s and now shaves his head, going for a Jason Statham-ish look, at least that’s how his sons see it.

[Stringswinger]

Bottom line is wear a hat if you want, be bald like Joe Pass and Jim Hall or wear a hairpiece like Al Dimeola. Be comfortable and play good music.

Be appropriate for the venue and don't listen to posters on an insignificant guitar forum when it comes to how YOU want to appear.

[Lionelsax]

When my facial hairs began to grow I was beginning to lose my hair but I didn't know it yet. When you notice it, it's too late.
I've been shaving my head for more than two decades.
Balding is a problem when you are 40 but if you are getting bald at 25, you assume it.
At 21 I saw a doctor for that and she said : "We, women when we see a bald man we already know is good at bed without testing."
After trying a treatment for my hair loss I remembered what she said and left the treatment.
She was right.

[Christian Miller]

I have been known to wear a flat cap.

I apologise to all involved. I've not only let them down, I've let myself down.

[supersoul]

I often cut my hair really short with clippers, which makes my head succeptible to the elements. Nothing beats a sunburn on the top of your head, I must say.
Winter I wear a knit hat; summer I'll wear a baseball cap.

A few mentionable hats from my past: a flannel baseball hat with fold down ear flaps; a regular baseball hat that said "You Can Take My Wife But You Can't Take My Chevy". But neither was jazz appropriate.

Alternatively you can invest in one of Pat Finnerty’s “bald as s***’ caps.

Pat Finnerty is hilarious. I laughed so hard at his "Why This Song Stinks" about RHCP's Dani California... and he's exactly right.