Do you name your basses?

[nilorius]

My basses names are the brand and model.

 

[interp]

Yes, I name all my basses but I never tell anyone the names.

 

[sok monkee]

I'd never be able to remember all there there names!

 

[GwenOnBass]

Because saying "My Bass" and variations thereof works well when I own only one bass. Now as a two-bass owner and player, it becomes necessary to do one better than "My New Bass". The new bass isn't new now. So names work for me.

 

[mcarp555]

Red bass, the pink one, jag , crap bass.... I don’t name things after women... that’s just asking for disaster

Or vice-versa: "The top-heavy one", "The big-bottom one", etc.

 

[deckstirparnell]

Just one. My 1962 Precision Bass. It's mutilated, broken up, reglued & screwed back together, non-original hardware and pickup, looks like it didn't survive a "Who" concert, but plays like a million bucks and you couldn't buy a better bass for $200. I named it "Old Ugly" and it's everybody's favorite.
The other 13 are just basses.

 

[JMarkD]

Nope. I do swear at them from time to time however.

 

[pcake]

after my first post, i remembered that i call the mikro modified to look like a sting ray "the mikro ray", but i think of it as a descriptor rather than a name.

btw, my husband has a jackson V and a jackson warrior, both in black, and i call them the jackson brothers.

 

[Flamingo21]

No, but I might when I get my second bass.

 

[dab12ax7ef]

No, I used to want to name them, but it always felt contrived and never stuck. Now I hear my guitar playing friend who names his say, I brought so-and-so today, and I think it just sounds dumb. It has to be pretty darn original for it to sound good to me.

 

[ThinCrappyTone]

Well I do lovingly call one of them "the sh*t bass". But other than that, no.

 

[rohi]

My older brother gave me his upright bass when I got married, her name is petunia. Once they’re named, you can’t unname them and I’m not much of a name giver, so she’s the only one.

However, in middle school I named my Squier P Bass “Senor 4 String”. I was a weird kid.

 

[rashrader]

Yup. I call them “fretted” and “fretless”.... If I get another bass, it’d probably be a fretted six string, which I would creatively call my “fretted six”

 

[saabfender]

then there's the one my husband named "the f hole bass".

Umm. Possibly TMI?

 

[micguy]

Holey:

Tiger:

 

[jd-ns]

Names? I usually barely get to know them before I send them on their way.

 

[TheReceder]

What's the old saying... if you love something let it go... if it comes back to you, odds are good it'll be really pissed and take your bass collection in a divorce settlement...

Sorry.. that seems unrelated... but if I named my basses my wife might figure out my favorites... and when she got wise about it... she might demand the favorites in any possible future settlement.

 

[scowboy]

My Stingray 5 is called Stingray. My Conkin Groove Tools Rocco Prestia model has a really original name, "The Rocco Bass" or "My Rocco Bass" if I'm feeling more possessive. Then there is my yet to be named and new to me Modulus BassStar which is still un-named, it's getting awkward between us.

 

[jd56hawk]

Naming your u bass isn’t as weird as some people believe.
And no, it doesn’t mean you’re an old lady.

 

[REV]

I have a couple that I have named because of some special connection to people or events. I have others with no name.