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Bass Names

#3
I call my burgundy Spector "burgundy Spector", my amber Spector "amber Spector", my Rickenbacker "Rick" and my Jazz "Jazz".
I love to personalize things.


stewart8980 said:
I'm pretty sure you all own basses, but have you given the ones that you really dig nicknames? I'm still trying to find one that fits my baby, cause it most definitely deserves one, but I'm curious what you guys have called yours.
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#5
I've never named any of my basses, and one thing I can't stand is when people call their basses a "her" or "she". My basses are not "her's" or "she's", their pieces of wood, metal and electronics. I call my basses by what they are, if it's a Jazz Bass, I call it a Jazz Bass.
 
#6
No. Just wondering - is that more of a girl thing? The reason I ask is my daughters named every car we had. A '98 Dodge Stratus was named "Rico" for some reason having to do with a Barry Manilow song. My favorite was the '99 Pontiac Grand Am they named "Jean Claude" - you know, Jean Claude Grand Am. One daughter even named her belly "Lola" and refers to it as a third person, as in "Oh, Lola's hungry."
 
#9
My basses are dear to me and deserve names despite being inanimate. "Medulla", my Schecter Hellraiser 5, is justly named for her highly vascular red and black detail from the deep cherry flame top. My Warwick Thumb B.O., "Gyrus", received her name from her deep deliberate grooves and curves.
 
#12
i never stick with any one name. and the names aren't typical kinda person names. just whatever i think sounds funny at the time, or typically something having to do with the ridiculous weight of the basses i own [such as 'the truck' for the jazz bass, 'boombalatti for the SR5].

i have a 1961 norma brand guitar. i call it 'norma'... because it says that on the headstock haha.
 
#14
I'm guilty.

This one's Pinky:

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This one's Dean Martin:

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And my new Birdsong doesn't have a name, but it does have my daughter's names on it:

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#16
Of the many basses I've owned down through the years I only named one. It was a beautiful Maple P/J that Wayne Charvel built for me back in the mid seventies. I named her "Molly" and she was named after our producers dog which spent a lot of her time napping in the studio. She was an english sheepdog and a real sweetheart.

George
 
#20
Guilty as charged.....

2 of my basses already "came" with names which I kept ("DJ" = Darryl Jones and "Bob" = Bob Glaub).

"AMBER" is named after it's color (quilted maple top with a sweet amber finish) and "Tabby" is a sweet tobacco sunburst.....

the only one not name yet is my natural colored quilted top fretless......

quirky - I know......
 

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