What is your bass' name? - Page 2

bassplayer8953 · #21 01-31-2012, 09:04 PM

If I had a name painted on my forehead, that's what I'd expect people to call me...

...same deal with my basses...

mellowinman · #22 01-31-2012, 09:23 PM

Both of my basses are named "Fender," but it wasn't my idea. It already said that on the headstock.

Rocker949 · #23 01-31-2012, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by flaquito

"Carvin", "Peavey", and "Acoustic." Why do instruments need names?

They don't.

oniman7 · #24 02-01-2012, 10:21 PM

I have a natural wood 5 string Ibanez BTB and a red 4 string Jay Turser 600 A.

The Jay Turser is unnamed. The Ibanez is named "Azathoth". In reality, I refer to them as "get me my 5 string" or "yeah, use the 4 string on that one". Or occasionally, as red or brown. The name was more for fun.

El Raro · #25 02-01-2012, 10:25 PM

Colonel Fat Stringensworth

skwee · #26 02-01-2012, 10:42 PM

Jane, as in Jane Jetson

Duckwater · #27 02-01-2012, 10:46 PM

Hilary Banks(the wife), Rebecca Black, Ricardo and Joseph Stalin

Mykk · #28 02-01-2012, 10:55 PM

My black fender is named D'Arcy, named after:

My Les Paul doesn't have one, yet. The Fernades P-bass copy is just known as "The P" or "My first bass" (Not pictured)

Melodicgroove · #29 02-01-2012, 11:28 PM

This is my bass. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My bass is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
My bass, without me, is useless. Without my bass, I am useless....

locisbrelm · #30 02-01-2012, 11:54 PM

All my basses have a name.
Spector: Justice
Ibanez: Kadie
Yamaha: Tanya
B.C.Rich: The Beast (cause The Beast is the only way it should be described)
Homemade: Tiffany
Peavey: Peavey
I read a interview in Bass Player magazine years back with Steve Bailey. He said to name your bass because giving it a name gives it personality and. And it's true. It is also super easy for me to talk about my basses to my friends and Bandmates (ie. "You know how Kadie has Passive pickups and Justice has Active?")

I'd also love to hear what everyone else calls their basses.

tanktones · #31 02-02-2012, 01:06 AM

Ibanez SRX: Esther BD1 after old ZZ Top song "Esther Be the One". Great little ditty about a well armed woman and this SRX is weapon with a sweet side.

If I don't feel good enough about an instrument to give it a name and really spend some time getting to know it, I won't spend my limited funds on it.

This is getting harder to do in this internet word.

When I look for a new Bass I will have a sound I will be looking for in mind and a few names usually will start forming in the back of my mind as part of my buying process. When I find the sound I am looking for in a package I can afford the actual sound/look/playing of the Bass will determine which name I finally go with.

And yes... I do have alot of time on my hands.

lowfreq33 · #32 02-02-2012, 01:12 AM

They're not pets.

sonic assassin · #33 02-02-2012, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Shakin-Slim

Why do ships?

so when they sink you dont have to call it "that one".

i call mine bonekrusher. for the transformer, the club here on TB, and not the gangsta rapper.

that is... assuming it ever comes back from its recent theft

big bad bass · #34 02-02-2012, 01:31 AM

I call my blue TRB-6II 'Blaues Wunder'. Actually, this is a saying meaning something like get a hell of a bad surprise. But literally it means 'blue miracle' and that's what is

SolomonHelsing · #35 02-02-2012, 02:28 AM

Only bass i've named is my warmoth, Simply because it is near enough(as there are other Z basses with possibly similar neck woods etc) one of a kind, and her name is Annabelle.

GirlsandBoys · #36 02-02-2012, 02:47 AM

Two guits and two different names.....

One is called Marion and the other is called Cottilard...I can´t figure out why I selected these names though!

blindrabbit · #37 02-02-2012, 02:53 AM

Thumbelina.

GirlsandBoys · #38 02-02-2012, 02:56 AM

Have a read of this article: How to Book a Concert Tour Although it kinds of skips over info a little bit, it´s pretty good! And it highlites one key point "reach out to the other musicians" - make friends with them, collaboate etc...They will have a contact and oftem will be willing to help. Thus my tips would be to scan and promote yourself via social networks and then go onto forums and reach out for bands in the other areas ...you need to be moving fast here like a little terrier getting yourself through the door and onto the stage!

Good luck and what is the bands name in case I see you in the future?

RNV · #39 02-02-2012, 03:47 AM

Veronika. I don't know why, but it is what fell out of my mouth one day I was restringing her and it stuck. I don't think I have ever told anyone her name, nor have I been asked. I got to fondle my incoming Blacktop J and see what name speaks to me once it gets here.

ga_edwards · #40 02-02-2012, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Shakin-Slim

Why do ships?

More to the point, why are they always female? Ships are always referred to as her (there's various plausible explanations, but nothing definite that I can see). And most of the names I see here for guitars are feminine. Even a couple of people in this thread than haven't named them have referred to them as 'her' or 'she'.

For me, my basses are tools. Objects. I refer them by their make and/or model. That's it. I don't think I've ever (consciously) referred to them as feminine. I know a, and of a few chaps that do name them, these guys tend to be the ones that make a living out of playing, so perhaps they are more deeply connected with their instrument that it become part of them. Me, I'm nowhere near that level. I have my favourites, but not to the point I see them as having their own personality.