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Do you name your basses?


ChrisLovatt

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My Bro in L names his cellos and get his pupils to name their instruments.  So, @ChrisLovatt, you're not entirely alone.

I do call my maple Streamer "The Blonde one", but the others are:
"fretless" fretless Streamer
"Corvette" Corvette Standard
"Double-Buck" Corvette $$
 and "Bubinga" Bubinga Corvette.

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I don’t have names for my basses but Mrs Skinny does.

We started with Scary Bass, Sporty Bass, Posh Bass, Ginger Bass (which is actually a ‘burst finish) and Baby Bass.

The more recent additions have been called, in order, Nora Bloody-Notherone and Annie Moranamoff.

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3 hours ago, Ricky 4000 said:

It's even more moronic than naming your dog.

I can assure everybody that saying "would you like a biscuit, dog" gets exactly the same response as "would you like a biscuit, Winston Churchill" or whatever.

My cat must think he has several names, including "Don't just lick the gravy off".

Basses - the thing that makes it unique (so the Dean 10-string is referred to as "the 10-string" but the Warwick fretless is "the Warwick fretless"). Bikes - the model name, except that my Triumph Tiger 800XRx is called Tigger sometimes.

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5 hours ago, fleabag said:

It's pretty cheesy. Inanimate objects. And why are they always female ( mostly )

There is probably no response to that which would not attract the well-earned approbation of #metoo.

That was not an easy sentence to compose after large quantities of Scotch.

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3 hours ago, tauzero said:

My cat must think he has several names, including "Don't just lick the gravy off".

And "Don't just walk off showing me the old pencil sharpener, damn you!" 😁

Was it Mark Twain who said: If your cat could speak, he probably wouldn't speak to you. 😥

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10 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

Bless him. 

He was called “Mr Toob” - we also had a nickname for other regulars.

”Nicky Vimto” was my favourite.

Naming guitar shop customers.... Now that's a game we could play. 😂😂😂

My fave was 'shitkid'/'spectrum' who used to interfere with high ticket sales with things like "have you heard this song before?"

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22 minutes ago, bigsmokebass said:

Naming guitar shop customers.... Now that's a game we could play. 😂😂😂

My fave was 'shitkid'/'spectrum' who used to interfere with high ticket sales with things like "have you heard this song before?"

We had “hairbear bunch”

a big fat kid with an Afro and personal hygiene problem.

and a massive attitude. 

Might still be the worst bass player I’ve ever heard - not because he was learning, just no humility no idea that playing fast and loud was no substitute for playing slowly, with dynamics - well...

I remember keeping the Ernie Ball string and finish wipes to hand when he tried anything.

it was his “birthday - next week” every Saturday for 3 years.

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7 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

We had “hairbear bunch”

a big fat kid with an Afro and personal hygiene problem.

and a massive attitude. 

Might still be the worst bass player I’ve ever heard - not because he was learning, just no humility no idea that playing fast and loud was no substitute for playing slowly, with dynamics - well...

I remember keeping the Ernie Ball string and finish wipes to hand when he tried anything.

it was his “birthday - next week” every Saturday for 3 years.

White kid though? 

If so, I swear he moved to Chester and hasn't changed. Only, he's "off on tour to America next week" looking for an acoustic that comes with a hardcase 😂😂😂

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1 minute ago, bigsmokebass said:

White kid though? 

If so, I swear he moved to Chester and hasn't changed. Only, he's "off on tour to America next week" looking for an acoustic that comes with a hardcase 😂😂😂

He was mixed race, really really bad attitude.

he would’ve been about 14 around the time i suffered him.

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