Naming your bass

[Yellow Bang66]

Did you give your bass a name? I’ve never named an instrument before but my new Eko 995 has become Betty and I don’t know why.

MORE Like Nick names, something funny or after a big star of the time ( agelina, lindsay& salma) just for fun, My ex GF & band mates loved to know their names! almost peer pressure if one didnt have a name! I would think of something on the spot just to appease them, there fore, Hot stars of the day! I guess it was easier for them to ID and request,"bring Rita next week", than bring that red bass. whatever. My new recently new rebuild#! doesn't have a Name yet, so My GF wants me to name it after her. Ugh!

 

[Hounddog409]

Did you give your bass a name? I’ve never named an instrument before but my new Eko 995 has become Betty and I don’t know why.

Never named an inanimate object. Find the whole thing rather silly.

 

[Stewie]

No, but I name the members of my band. We are Thumper, The Guv'nah, Dan and Uncle Mudflap. The Spider kinda disappeared at the beginning of Covid and doesn't respond to texts anymore. Hope he's okay

 

[Yellow Bang66]

Because he told you to and you didn't want to put you life in your own hands.

Good call.

Hah! ruined Betty for me!
I once read a book(exGFs cat book) which stated if you discover the Real/true name of something/somebody it has to do your bidding thats why cats dont mind you when you call them! You have to get their True name! so I try in vain to Name my basses! hopefully after Time it will let me know & I'll be able to play it proficiently!

 

[Dave Leighton]

Dorothy, due to the Ruby Slippers. Have been a huge Wizard of Oz fan all my life.

 

[JW56789]

So I had an Alembic Spoiler Five, rarely packaged in a full Series-shape body/neck, in long scale. A big, long bass, it was almost long distance to play at the nut even for me, and I wear a 44 Long jacket. You can imagine how big the case was. In see-through red tint.

So my sister and brother-in-law came to town and I showed it to them, and he says, 'wow, that's a big red bass'.

And so it was.

 

[Ostie]

My Jack Casady is Jack, the Allen Woody is Woody. I put a lot of thought into naming them.

 

[SLPimp]

Did you give your bass a name? I’ve never named an instrument before but my new Eko 995 has become Betty and I don’t know why.

Yes. I've had a Fender Cyclone in graffiti yellow (not a bass) since 2003 who i named Blondie. I typically name basses based on color or association with other players.

 

[sonojono]

Because he told you to and you didn't want to put you life in your own hands.

Good call.

“If you got an ass I’ll kick it!”

 

[dalkowski]

"Start making me sound better and I'll start thinking about letting you name me."

X 4

 

[KohanMike]

I never give inanimate objects human names, my names are based on the instrument; yellow jazz, Hofnelele, SG, walnut acoustic, PigNose, Narwhalele, green T-bird, purple Ibanez, white Ibanez, Les Paul teal, black ESP Jr., Ric walnut skunk, grey and pearl, Brian May mini, tortoise...

 

[mapleglo]

Yeah, meet the walnut 5 string Ric:

and the mapleglo 5 string Ric:

Others have similar names, such as Mikro

 

[Smooth_bass88]

Yeah: white one, red one, five string, sixty-two, p bass and fretless. Also hollowbody, and gold one. I know, really original names!

 

[GretschWretch]

Whatever you do, avoid names like these.

A Collection of Unpronounceable Welsh Town Names

 

[coyote1]

Did you give your bass a name? I’ve never named an instrument before but my new Eko 995 has become Betty and I don’t know why.

Nope. Never named my instruments, my cars... no inanimate objects in fact.

My Tobias bass is simply my Tobias bass.

 

[Son of Wobble]

we used to call Ma "Hickory" on account of the wooden leg Pa made for her.
When folks would ask about the origin of the name, they would inevitably suggest that Ma
would be much more comfortable hauling around a leg made of less dense wood. But Pa would just laugh, and say,
well, that's what I had to work with on the day, she'll manage, a heavy leg builds character.

Never named no guitars tho

 

[CJAZ]

Why name it? It ain't gonna come when you call.

Like a dog with no legs.

 

[Pdaddy1978]

Ive been calling my #1 P " Blondie" for 40 years.
For you sticklers, yes yes, I know its a Natural finish, not what Fender calls
" Blonde ". But its sorta yellow, so I christened it " Blondie" and that was that.
Over the years, I became so identified with that one instrument, that on the rare occasions I showed up to gigs with some other bass, people would ask..
" Where's Blondie?"....

 

[BadSanta1281]

Since I lack enough talent to assert any kind of dominance over any of my instruments it would be presumptive of me to assign them any names other than what they came with.

 

[OkayistBassist]

James
Ox
Lemmy
Caligula
Charlie
Duff