Geek99 Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 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 Quote
ahpook Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 (edited) 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 ?". Edited January 31, 2019 by ahpook 1 2 Quote
gpw5150 Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 22 hours ago, ribbetingfrog said: My basses are Handbag and Mr. Sparkle. No prizes for guessing which this is Handbag? 1 Quote
gpw5150 Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 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? 4 Quote
Teebs Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 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? 1 Quote
Skinnyman Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 2 minutes ago, Teebs said: Funky Balls? You had to go there, didn’t you.....? 1 1 Quote
Teebs Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 1 minute ago, Skinnyman said: You had to go there, didn’t you.....? Yes. I felt compelled. 1 1 Quote
Skinnyman Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 Just now, Teebs said: Yes. I felt compelled. Good man, keep it up 1 Quote
Teebs Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 Just now, Skinnyman said: Good man, keep it up It gets me in all sorts of trouble 1 Quote
ribbetingfrog Posted February 5, 2019 Posted February 5, 2019 On 31/01/2019 at 18:56, gpw5150 said: Handbag? This is handbag. makes me think of a Luis Vuitton every time I play it. 2 Quote
Teebs Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 11 hours ago, ribbetingfrog said: This is handbag. makes me think of a Luis Vuitton every time I play it. Nice though! 1 Quote
Baxlin Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 On 31/01/2019 at 10:23, HazBeen said: Yes, I name them "bass" I’m about as imaginative, mine are 'the solid' and 'the new one'..... Quote
chaypup Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 On 29/01/2019 at 20:44, AndyTravis said: Bless him. He was called “Mr Toob” - we also had a nickname for other regulars. ”Nicky Vimto” was my favourite. And music shops wonder why their custom is declining. Delightful. 😐 Quote
Nicko Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 (edited) 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. Edited February 6, 2019 by Nicko Quote
KevB Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 (edited) 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. Edited February 6, 2019 by KevB Quote
HengistPod Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 "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". Quote
Grangur Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 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? MAN I feel OLD!! 2 Quote
Newfoundfreedom Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 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. 5 Quote
Teebs Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 (edited) 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. Edited February 7, 2019 by Teebs 1 Quote
Newfoundfreedom Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 6 hours ago, Teebs said: Or, to give it a musical slant, Kid A...etc. Kid A and kid A flat. I didn't look after the second one very well. 1 Quote
AndyTravis Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 6 minutes ago, Newfoundfreedom said: Kid A and kid A flat. I didn't look after the second one very well. Gobshite, curly sue, shitehawk and fatso. Quote
A.G.E.N.T.E. Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 The are all adopted so i call them by their birth names (brand and model) Quote
Stub Mandrel Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 On 30/01/2019 at 11:18, Deanol said: I'm not keen on naming guitars, unless there is a really good story to them, like Lucille. Aren't they ALL named Lucille, so he doesn't get too attached to them? Quote
Stub Mandrel Posted February 13, 2019 Posted February 13, 2019 Not really, but I did name my Hohner B2 'Deathburger' as a play on 'Steinberger' 😀 1 Quote
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