Do you name your basses?

[Chad Michael]

In high school I had a 4001 - my guitar friend Glen used to call it "Rickenpecker"

 

[sedan_dad]

Blue Jazz
Yellow Jazz
Precision
Tiki
Zemaitis
Longhorn
Pin Stripe
EB-0
Red bass

 

[Nick Danger]

Let's see, there's Jazz, Beatle Bass, Ibanez and Schecter. My wife started calling my Stingray "The Squid" so there's that.

 

[pappabass]

No, especially after meeting this long haired slob of a bass player who was asking everyone to name his guitar

 

[Bassbubble11]

Let’s see. There’s the black one and the other black one. Oh..... and the blue one and........

No!!!!

 

[Eddie LeBlanc]

Yes; only the three in middle. Star, Blondie, and Brownie (L to R)

 

[Juststanley]

I name my basses after women I slept with....so most of them remain un-named !

 

[Fxpmusic]

I do...

-The white one
-the black fretless one
-the big one

 

[jnewmark]

Yup. I call this one, " Old Red ", my 98 Fender Jazz.

 

[Richard Martin]

Yes. One is called 5 string. One is called Squier. The third I affectionately call Aerodyne. It's just like my vehicles. I have truck, Subaru and Cobalt.

I'm sorry, I've just never understood the concept of becoming so attached to an inanimate object as to give it a personalized name. Everything and I do mean everything, is always for sale.

 

[greggster59]

They already have names

Fender
Birdsong
Rickenbacker
Sadowsky
Kala

 

[Nedmundo]

I've named a few, but have only one left: my 2003 Chrome Red MIA Jazz, which is named Jazzmine Jean after my late mother-in-law. She called bright red her "signature color" and I played the bass at a Relay for Life event when she was sick, so the name truly fits. I also had a gold DiPinto Belvedere Standard I named "Goldberg" after two friends with that name, which they found highly amusing.

 

[okcrum]

Don't name my cars, either. I do call them names when I work on them, but those vary.

 

[Uncle Hanky]

Lots of people name their basses…

Lots of...?

 

[selowitch]

It just never seemed like the thing to do. They are referred to simply as:

1. “The Fender” or “The Green One”;
2. “The StingRay” or “The Five-String”;
3. “The Headless” or “The Traveler.”

 

[JRA]

i named one once. she left me for a drummer...so i stopped.

 

[Frank77]

No. I don't give names to inanimate objects.

 

[Jason42]

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I can only imagine the holes are to make the bass lighter. Did it come like that or was that a mod you did?

 

[Lesfunk]

I have four basses.
I refer to them them each as,
The Music-man
The Yamaha
The five string
Andy Gibb

 

[krfoss]

My wife names the instruments. My upright is Lorane, my red lakland is Dante, my blue pbass is Skye, and the banjo is Tallulah. If I buy a bass to flip, it doesn't get a name. Oh and my Moog is named Synthia.