Then you can use that to buy new basses all the time.
(Points to brand new bass)
"No, sersiously, baby. That's Sheila. I just put a new pickguard on her."
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Risky or just a good nickname?
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Then you can use that to buy new basses all the time.
(Points to brand new bass)
"No, sersiously, baby. That's Sheila. I just put a new pickguard on her."
I only have one named bass. Henry, my 1962 Jazz bass after the aged old-timey-music cat I bought it from.
Henry went from roots and fifths only to “Good Times, Bad Times” in a breath. I decided to name it in an attempt to keep all that history inside.
My Jack Casady is Jack, for obvious reasons.
The rest are just tools for a job. The day I open the case and they begin whinging at me because of neglect is the day I’ll begin naming them. I guess if they have no story, they won’t get a name.
I have day-dreamed of whacking the drunk goof in front of the stage over the head with a few of them, and if I ever do, I’m sure the bass will get a name at that point for posterity; perhaps after the arresting officer.
Henry went from roots and fifths only to “Good Times, Bad Times” in a breath. I decided to name it in an attempt to keep all that history inside.
My Jack Casady is Jack, for obvious reasons.
The rest are just tools for a job. The day I open the case and they begin whinging at me because of neglect is the day I’ll begin naming them. I guess if they have no story, they won’t get a name.
I have day-dreamed of whacking the drunk goof in front of the stage over the head with a few of them, and if I ever do, I’m sure the bass will get a name at that point for posterity; perhaps after the arresting officer.
My bass nicknames:
- "My P"
- "My U-Bass"
- "CONUS sale only"
- "Local sale preferred"
Spung
Creenie Beenie
Schwarzengreenenbluenbraunenblackenredenwhitenberger
Tudd
Rameses II
Creenie Beenie
Schwarzengreenenbluenbraunenblackenredenwhitenberger
Tudd
Rameses II
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I called my ammoon jazz “slappy” after it got its first round of mods.
I don’t slap but that thing really wanted to be slapped... a lot.
in the second round of mods I pulled out the frets and it doesn’t like to be slapped any more and thats ok.
I don’t slap but that thing really wanted to be slapped... a lot.
in the second round of mods I pulled out the frets and it doesn’t like to be slapped any more and thats ok.
Aboot Luck and boats- Weather is unstable. The water is unstable. You can map where the rocks are but unless the current helps you, you will hit a rock or a tree stump, etc., your boat is your Life Support System. You Need luck to be with you, it's a constant struggle when luck deserts you Out There. Sailing definitely counts on luck and you need luck for the motor in a powerboat. Every moment in boating involves a bit of luck, or uncertainty. You don't even know if you are going to make the first step from drydock to the rocking dingy!
Makes sense to name a boat after a God (post above) or something lucky. Human beings have an automatic brain circuit that Personifies things of a certain complexity. A boat has a personality for sure.
My tradition is to not name basses, it's stupid (except for my first, a hollowbody named "the spoon" which deserved to be made fun of) All my basses have plenty of identifiers, like- Schecter, DePinto, Dan Electro, I have 2 Sterlings called the blond & black one and the butterscotch, or the flat wound and the roundwound. Plenty of identifiers. My trumpets are The 89 Yamaha 6340T and The 77 LA Benge mlp, coprion bell 67 Conn 1000 and 1929 PanAmerican. Not one is named "Bessie" or Destroyer Of Worlds (although that would be cool)
If you go to the harbor and want the launch to bring you out to your mooring, the driver asks you, which boat? You don't say the "white Hinkley". There are 3 white Hinkleys out there. There are 10,000 of them from Maine to Fla. (Hinkley, a Maine builder of high end sail boats just used for example. numbers may not be factual) You say, "I'm going out to Paraclete", location well known to the driver. (Paraclete is an actual boat name, North East Harbor MtDesert) Actually commerce volume and the law of the sea convention necessitates naming boats, numbers when necessary.
Google def: Paraclete (Greek: παράκλητος, Latin: paracletus) means advocate or helper. In Christianity, the term "paraclete" most commonly refers to the Holy Spirit.
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No nicknames, but I sometimes refer to my basses by their given model name or top wood. But I have, in the past, called all of my girl friends by the same nickname so as not to get them confused.
None of mine do. Rather, I use descriptors, i.e.: The Sadowsky, the Devon with rounds, the 75 turquoise reissue with flats, etc. But these are internalized. I don't use these out loud nor use them to identify the instruments to others.
It’s stupid to name a bass, but naming a boat gives your boat super powers. Makes total sense.
I have always found giving your instruments names a bit silly, but then again I have never bonded as much with any instrument before as I have my Ibanez Mikro Bass, which I someday decided a bit tongue in cheek to name "Dud Bottomfeeder", which stems for how ravaged it's old original body ended up looking after some rather haphazard modding attempts :
Here's a closeup of the most noteworthy blemish, that stems from an attempt to drill (
) an extra far neck pickup cavity, which also took a chip off the fretboard, as I hadn't even bothered to remove the neck under the haphazard procedure, though luckily it was purely cosmetic (I filled out the failed drilled cavity with fillermass and painted and varnished it over, though in similar haphazard hack style) :
Looks considerably better now, after I transplanted the outstanding GSRM20 neck to the body of a Weathered Black finished GSRM20B Mikro Bass that I bought at some point that otherwise had been banished to colecting dust in a corner of my appartment, since it came with a neck with absolute horrible fretwork (with just an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup installed, wired directly to the output jack socket, the original side mounted barrel type jack socket having been replaced and relocated by a regular one to the front, installed in one of the redundant pot holes) :
And here's an artistic tribute I made to my Ibanez GSRM20 neck + GSRM20B body Mikro Bass, named "Dud Bottomfeeder" :
Here's a closeup of the most noteworthy blemish, that stems from an attempt to drill (
) an extra far neck pickup cavity, which also took a chip off the fretboard, as I hadn't even bothered to remove the neck under the haphazard procedure, though luckily it was purely cosmetic (I filled out the failed drilled cavity with fillermass and painted and varnished it over, though in similar haphazard hack style) :Looks considerably better now, after I transplanted the outstanding GSRM20 neck to the body of a Weathered Black finished GSRM20B Mikro Bass that I bought at some point that otherwise had been banished to colecting dust in a corner of my appartment, since it came with a neck with absolute horrible fretwork (with just an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup installed, wired directly to the output jack socket, the original side mounted barrel type jack socket having been replaced and relocated by a regular one to the front, installed in one of the redundant pot holes) :
And here's an artistic tribute I made to my Ibanez GSRM20 neck + GSRM20B body Mikro Bass, named "Dud Bottomfeeder" :
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This old man biker guitarist whose band I played in for a while called my old Kay grandpa. But I don't use names on inanimate objects.
Don’t psych yourself out with a negative sounding name. The power of persuasion is huge, and once you hear something, it’s pretty hard to get it out of your head.
If you grab your fretless and play it fine, you have made a prudent decision, not a risky one.
If you grab your fretless and play it fine, you have made a prudent decision, not a risky one.
Can’t do that anymore - you have to refer to your basses as they/them.
This!! because inanimate objects don't have the ability to tell us their preferred pronoun.
