I'm feeling silly. Best "nicknames" for Your bass?

Marc DLarosa

Marc DLarosa

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#1
I'm a little TIRED of all of thee SERIOUS threads, soooooooo, I'll go first...
"Shmoobass." P.S., I'm still looking for someone who can help US out, with a knob...
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This is Junior (2010 Fender HW1) and Blondie (2005 Fender HW1). Junior got his name from a big and heavy Fender Studio Bass combo I used to have. I uploaded a pic of it with the bass standing in front of it, and someone commented "Big Mama & Junior" and the name stuck.
Blondie is more obvious. I swapped the stock black pickup covers to make it even more obvious.
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And this is The Rebel Bass, a Ibanez SR300E. It's got a Millenium Falcon sticker on the back, to. Playing it feels like swinging a lightsaber compared to the two Fenders which are more like blunderbusses.
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LinusKarlsson said:
This is Junior (2010 Fender HW1) and Blondie (2005 Fender HW1). Junior got his name from a big and heavy Fender Studio Bass combo I used to have. I uploaded a pic of it with the bass standing in front of it, and someone commented "Big Mama & Junior" and the name stuck.
Blondie is more obvious. I swapped the stock black pickup covers to make it even more obvious.
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And this is The Rebel Bass, a Ibanez SR300E. It's got a Millenium Falcon sticker on the back, to. Playing it feels like swinging a lightsaber compared to the two Fenders which are more like blunderbusses.
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See? Isn't this much more FUN than arguing? Seems to me, that SOME People here prefer to TALKBASS, than to PLAY Bass...
 
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The "orange one", as my wife so aptly named it. It's been two and a half years with this bass and everything I've come up with has been lousy in comparison, so "orange one" it is.
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For anyone interested, here's a former bass of mine, my "love affair" as I called it. The bass that stole me away from my main of eight years, a Mexican Jazz Bass. Killer instrument that I regret selling more than anything, ever.
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twinjet said:
The "orange one", as my wife so aptly named it. It's been two and a half years with this bass and everything I've come up with has been lousy in comparison, so "orange one" it is.
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For anyone interested, here's a former bass of mine, my "love affair" as I called it. The bass that stole me away from my main of eight years, a Mexican Jazz Bass. Killer instrument that I regret selling more than anything, ever.
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Oranges, Poranges... who cares? Well... We do!!! Beauty, my friend. Love it!!!
 
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Only ever named one bass. My first Alembic, at the time just called The Alembic bass, but quickly named the series I.
I bought it new, but the truss rod cover was missing. (f'ing thieves/vandals)
Alembic was very quick at getting me another one (free) but I had already replaced it with one engraved Cosmic Charlie. I never put the replacement on.
 
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I have owned so many basses that I lost track years ago ... at any given point I own between 12 and 20 basses ... It's gotta be still be under 100

But out of all of those basses I only ever gave one a nickname

I called this one the blue beast

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This bass was my main player for several years ... I used it on this recording here ...



But I sold that bass over 10 years ago
 
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I only play bass ukulele or mini bass, some of the names I've come up are from the make, style or the color, like Hofnelele for the one that is shaped like a Beatles Hofner, Tortoilele for the one with a tortoise pickguard, Ukenbacker for the one that's designed like a Rickenbacker bass, Bassenfacker for one that looks like a Rickenbacker 325 guitar, Thunderlele for one that looks like an original Gibson Thunderbird, and Verdelele for the one that's painted green.
 
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