Please explain the origin of your user name

[dannyk]

First name/last initial. (And when you say it, it sounds like Danny Kaye.)

 

[TinIndian]

Tin Indian is a nickname for Pontiacs. And I love my Pontiacs. Only one I currently own is a 1968 Firebird 400.

 

[dalkowski]

Nom de vinyl, inspired by baseball's legendary "Scary" Steve Dalkowski.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Dalkowski

 

[1960jbass]

Born the same year the Jazz Bass made its debut. Funny thing is I'm a P bass kinda guy.

 

[Angel Switch]

It's just the name I wanted to use for EDM production when I was into that

 

[Phalex]

My drummer and I were using the restroom during a break and he peered over the wall dividing the urinals. It kinda stuck. The name that is...........

 

[jaypee]

phonetic spelling of my initials....then I realized it looks naughty spelled out so I kept it.....

 

[Chainsaw Willie]

A nickname I was given in the early '80s for playing guitar poorly with lots of distortion at high volume.

 

[guitarflinger]

Named after a character in "Tumbleweeds" an old old western cartoon. This character was a gunflinger (would throw away his gun at the first sign of trouble). I picked "guitarflinger as my ebay name years ago, seemed appropriate for Talkbass.

 

[emdsd]

Electro Motive Division Special Duty refers to what used to be General Motors locomotive building division + SD which is/was their 6 axle locomotives. I have been a train/model railroad buff for some time. A very good friend is an engineer. It's just become habit to use it in various versions over the years and is usually readily available especially on non-railroad sights.

 

[Joe Louvar]

Please explain the origin of your user name

to funny - it was given to me by my parents

 

[SpottedBass]

I have two hobbies I am passionate about - I raise and show Dalmatians and I play bass hence... SpottedBass

 

[HockeyDawg]

I used to play a lot of hockey yet I never really got very good at it. I was a goalie 'til my knees gave out on me.

 

[punkjazzben]

My old account with TB was under 'fingerstyle' and this was also my user name on the Musician Forums/MX forums; not bad forums when they were up and going and had lots of good members.

But then I dropped off the face of the planet, forgot my username and the email I used to sign up, and so I created a new one on TB that was just my real name. But then I started university teaching and noticed my students were googling me quite a bit (I have an Academia.edu webpage that tells you when you're Googled), so I changed my username here to 'punkjazzben'.

Obviously, my name is Ben, and the reference is to both Jaco in general, and to the two music genres I grew up playing and loving.

 

[Treadstone71]

It's a reference from Robert Ludlum's Bourne series.

 

[Unrepresented]

It was an attempt at irony that comes across as more angsty rebellious. Story of my life.

 

[sharkbait130]

Scuba diving with about twelve 8' sharks off the N.C. coast. I was taking videos and asked the captain of the boat if I could go down before the other divers so they wouldn't scare them ( the sharks) away before I got the video. He said "I don't care if you wanna be sharkbait."
130 is the depth in feet that I am certified to dive to. (N.A.U.I. advanced certification) Deepest I have ever actually been was 124 feet.

 

[tmntfan]

I am a fan of the teenage mutant ninja turtles (TMNT)

 

[tr4252]

My initials are TR, and 4252 comes from the hull number of a little racing sloop (Lightning) I had when I started using screen names some years ago.

Tom

 

[silky smoove]

It was a joke in a Pablo Francisco standup routine about 90s RnB singers.