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Do you name your basses?

Do you name your basses?

  • Yes

    Votes: 59 26.5%
  • No

    Votes: 149 66.8%
  • all named carrot

    Votes: 15 6.7%

  • Total voters
    223
A few of mine have acquired names

This is Bucephalus after the effigy in The Black Stallion. My then kids named the bass ca 1988, as I would sit noodling lines while the family watched movies.

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This is the Bass of Clubs, or BoC. It’s an accumulation parts bass, and sees duty in all the sketchiest places.

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This is The Albatross; my reference for my stupidity in assembling all the wrong parts, which somehow provenance salvaged.

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My cars are all referred to as the Gigmobile.