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Do you name your basses?
- Thread starter Jason42
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How about “sometimes”?
I have a purple Frankenfender tuned BEAD that I call “deep purple”
Another that is green and black (my avatar) that I call the “green machine”
My Modulus Q5 I call “bread and butter” because it helped me put food on the table for about a decade.
Others that I leant to friends over the years, two of them came back with their last name plastered on the case, ever since they are called the “Larsh” and the “Logan”
But I also have many other basses that have not earned a name badge, so I guess I’d say sometimes
I have a purple Frankenfender tuned BEAD that I call “deep purple”
Another that is green and black (my avatar) that I call the “green machine”
My Modulus Q5 I call “bread and butter” because it helped me put food on the table for about a decade.
Others that I leant to friends over the years, two of them came back with their last name plastered on the case, ever since they are called the “Larsh” and the “Logan”
But I also have many other basses that have not earned a name badge, so I guess I’d say sometimes
I named my first bass Freddy. But that was 15 unamed basses ago.
Like many of the others here, I don't give them human names, I call them by something specifically descriptive; their manufacturer or model, color, style; like Mini Strat, GT solid, GT acoustic, the green one, mini-miKro, mini P-bass, mini Pignose. I've also named a few to show they're modified bass ukes of the style I chose; Ukenbacker, Hofnelele, Tortoilele, Thunderlele, and my single cut, which I prefer to call whale hump and actually named that one Narwhalele because with the hump and neck, it looks like a Narwhale.
I don't bother with names. I actually think it's a tad weird and creepy. In my now-former main band, the drummer put me on the spot once and asked me what the name of my then-new Upton upright was. I blurted out "Li'l Elvis" in an attempt to come up with a dumb name that would be a little off-color so he wouldn't bring it up again. For 5 years, he called it Li'l Elvis. Boy was I glad when that blew over!
The only instruments I've named are two identical Strats I have:
The one on the right had a lot of issues that needed fixing for a long time, so it became known as "The Evil Twin". The one on the left just needed a minor setup, so it's "The Good Twin". Everything else is "The '67 Jazz"; "The '78 Jazz"; "The Precision" and so on.
The one on the right had a lot of issues that needed fixing for a long time, so it became known as "The Evil Twin". The one on the left just needed a minor setup, so it's "The Good Twin". Everything else is "The '67 Jazz"; "The '78 Jazz"; "The Precision" and so on.
My G&L has no name. My Jazz Bass is named Jeannette. I'm not sure why I haven't thought of a name for the G&L. Just never seemed to need one.
Always. I'm an animist by nature ... I'm on speaking terms with everything, and naturally everything gets a name... 
Mine don't have names, but rather descriptors, i.e.: the '69 Jazz; the Sadowsky; Devon #1605; 1606, etc.
