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Do you name your basses?


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1 hour ago, Deanol said:

I believe sir you have secretly married my wife. Have no worries, you can keep her!

Then she is a bigamist and should be jailed immediately.

Unless she is an MP and solicitor in which case she can be married to you still from within a cell and continue her duties from there until released after a sentence of a week or so

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3 hours ago, kendall said:

I don't name them.  Mrs Kendall does.  They are affectionately known as The Red One, The Black One and the Expensive one.  My black 7 string guitar is often mistaken for the The Black One, which is in fact a Squire 5 String Bass.  Nevertheless, the black 7 string is still called the Black One.

I asked Mrs. Pook if she had names for my basses and she told me that no, naming objects is silly and anyway, she knew what they all are so why would she need names ?

To prove this we went to the spare room of basses and she proceeded to give make and model of the half-dozen basses on hanging up, and just as she left, very pleased with herself she asked me "Well, where's the Geddy Lee then ?".

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My ‘1’ bass is called ‘bass’...I am not terribly sentimental.

Though, i did name all of our chickens after porn stars.  The kids and wife did not realise, my wife only found out after a fox got to them and I exclaimed that I would have to remove cicciolinas head from a large tool, which rather amused me.....I do hate it when people question why you think something is funny and then get all moral..

Though in bass world naming i don’t think that ‘Thunderfunk’ will ever be beaten, unless Dave Funk teams up with Ernie Ball....

BallFunk?

FunkMan?

 

 

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2 minutes ago, gpw5150 said:

My ‘1’ bass is called ‘bass’...I am not terribly sentimental.

Though, i did name all of our chickens after porn stars.  The kids and wife did not realise, my wife only found out after a fox got to them and I exclaimed that I would have to remove cicciolinas head from a large tool, which rather amused me.....I do hate it when people question why you think something is funny and then get all moral..

Though in bass world naming i don’t think that ‘Thunderfunk’ will ever be beaten, unless Dave Funk teams up with Ernie Ball....

BallFunk?

FunkMan?

 

 

Funky Balls?

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I have enough guitars and basses that naming them would save time compared to  referring  to them by model.  (the New York, the 339, the Telecaster, the SP6, the Sonoran, the US P, the Squire, the Tanglewood, and Pete's) , but nah, I dont bother. Unlike a Stradivarius all my guitars have a model and serial no to uniquely identify them, apart from "Pete's" which is my brothers bitsa.  I think you need to have a very deep relationship with an instrument, or have heavily modified the original beyond recognition, to feel the need to name it. 

 

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No. I have living things in the house that I don't give names to so I'm not starting on the inanimate objects as well. I could just about forgive BB with his Lucille but with the majority it looks like pretentious twaddle, sorry.

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"What bass are you taking to tonight's gig?"

"The old one" (1990 Thunderbird), or maybe "The new one" (1991 Thunderbird).

If I feel like an Epiphone for a change: The white one, the silver one, the sunburst one, the active one, the Explorer, etc etc ad infinitum.

To surprise my bandmates and make them think I'm ill: "The Jazz". :)

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On 30/01/2019 at 13:33, AndyTravis said:

Long before my married days I used to have different girls in my phone as 1,2,3,4 - it was great, like shag roulette.

But I don’t give basses numbers either.

Now why didn't I ever work out how to do that with our phone when I was that age?

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MAN I feel OLD!!

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15 hours ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

I haven't even come up with a name for my kids yet. I just call them kid 1 and kid 2.

Kid 1 is away at university now. 

Or, to give it a musical slant, Kid A...etc.  
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