do you name your gear
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LifeIsGoodologist
Re: do you name your gear
Yeah man. They all get a name either due to a trait or just a play on what it is. Simple stuff like RV for a red V or Victoria for a sweet woman I met around the time I got my Dean P90 Z. YNMV. Your Naming May Vary. :headbang:
Nice lil threesome of guitars you have.
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RV
Victoria
Yeah man. They all get a name either due to a trait or just a play on what it is. Simple stuff like RV for a red V or Victoria for a sweet woman I met around the time I got my Dean P90 Z. YNMV. Your Naming May Vary. :headbang:
Nice lil threesome of guitars you have.
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RV
Victoria
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Snake Aces
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silvertonebetty
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proud boogie owner
don't know i don't use it lol. the eq is for the lead chanel i use rythem
proud boogie owner
blueman335
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Boogie Bill
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I name many of mine, but not all. With 55 guitars, it's become a simple short-hand to communicate with Miss Leslie, my paramour and part-time roadie. Saying I want "The Chevy" is simpler than, "I want The Bel-Air Green G&L Legacy". I also have an S-500, an upgraded model to the Legacy...and since it's also Bel-Air green, it's known as the "Impala". Some other examples:
"Judy" is a S/B Legacy that an old GF gave to me as a present.
"Mom" is an S-500 that was bought with money from my mother's estate.
"JoJo" is a hot-to-trot Fullerton Red Legacy.
"Les Paul" is my first 1960 Classic Premium Plus LP in Honey Burst; "Lolita" is a Classic Premium Plus in HCSB.
"Jake" is my HCSB LP Supreme (for my late Dad--he would have loved the grain and color of the wood on this guitar); while the Root Beer Supreme is "Diana Ross".
"Goldilocks" is a gold metallic Legacy, "Ice" is a Legacy in Lake Placid Blue metallic.
Not all of them are named, but with so many guitars, it helps to have a code and not a long descriptor when talking with my roadie.
Bill
P.S.
(And no, I have never named a car...other than calling one a ####-ing POS, every time it needed another quart of oil!!!!!)
I name many of mine, but not all. With 55 guitars, it's become a simple short-hand to communicate with Miss Leslie, my paramour and part-time roadie. Saying I want "The Chevy" is simpler than, "I want The Bel-Air Green G&L Legacy". I also have an S-500, an upgraded model to the Legacy...and since it's also Bel-Air green, it's known as the "Impala". Some other examples:
"Judy" is a S/B Legacy that an old GF gave to me as a present.
"Mom" is an S-500 that was bought with money from my mother's estate.
"JoJo" is a hot-to-trot Fullerton Red Legacy.
"Les Paul" is my first 1960 Classic Premium Plus LP in Honey Burst; "Lolita" is a Classic Premium Plus in HCSB.
"Jake" is my HCSB LP Supreme (for my late Dad--he would have loved the grain and color of the wood on this guitar); while the Root Beer Supreme is "Diana Ross".
"Goldilocks" is a gold metallic Legacy, "Ice" is a Legacy in Lake Placid Blue metallic.
Not all of them are named, but with so many guitars, it helps to have a code and not a long descriptor when talking with my roadie.
Bill
P.S.
(And no, I have never named a car...other than calling one a ####-ing POS, every time it needed another quart of oil!!!!!)
beaubrummels
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Re: do you name your gear
Only when it ceases to function on stage.
Only when it ceases to function on stage.
ehdwuld
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Little Pigbacon
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The Ibanez RG with all the butterfly stickers is The Butterfly.
That's about as far as I go beyond "the Les Paul", or "the Dinky", or "the blue Soloist".
The Ibanez RG with all the butterfly stickers is The Butterfly.
That's about as far as I go beyond "the Les Paul", or "the Dinky", or "the blue Soloist".
Snake Aces
Singlecut Slut
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I actually do name my guitars and basses. Sometimes I have a name for them right away and sometimes I have to bond with them a bit to name them.
I actually do name my guitars and basses. Sometimes I have a name for them right away and sometimes I have to bond with them a bit to name them.
Brandenburg
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i said i only give my guitars #'s to represent importance to me.. this is true but i forgot that i have coined a name for my squire strat.. i call her the "ultra Squier" and i refer to my red jackson as "my soul".. mainly numbers are easier for me though
i said i only give my guitars #'s to represent importance to me.. this is true but i forgot that i have coined a name for my squire strat.. i call her the "ultra Squier" and i refer to my red jackson as "my soul".. mainly numbers are easier for me though
Gone_Shootin
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Re: do you name your gear
For the most part, no, but my Eerie Dess Jackson Dinky gets called "Swirly" alot.
For the most part, no, but my Eerie Dess Jackson Dinky gets called "Swirly" alot.
BeatTheBastard
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My latest project seems to have adapted the name ****ing ****ing ****.
My latest project seems to have adapted the name ****ing ****ing ****.
daan
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My "guitar mentor" (the guy who started me wanting to play when I was a kid) was named Howard, so that seems to be what I wanna call all my guitars.
Except for this one, it got called "Leftovers" because it was made up of all the (duh) leftover Squier parts from guitars I modded.
I realized I had enough to build a whole guitar, and it turned out so good it just needed its own name.
My "guitar mentor" (the guy who started me wanting to play when I was a kid) was named Howard, so that seems to be what I wanna call all my guitars.
Except for this one, it got called "Leftovers" because it was made up of all the (duh) leftover Squier parts from guitars I modded.
I realized I had enough to build a whole guitar, and it turned out so good it just needed its own name.
PushedCrayon
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Re: do you name your gear
I name mine, no real reason I guess, but to me each guitar has its own personality, might as well have it's own name to match.
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I name mine, no real reason I guess, but to me each guitar has its own personality, might as well have it's own name to match.
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BriGuy1968
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Update... we finally got a consensus in the George household on names for guitars (actually my daughters lost interest, but my wife helped me).
"Lita" (2010 Ibanez RG3EXFM1)
... because she's sexy and bada$$
"Holly" (2002 Ovation Celebrity Deluxe CS247)
...because she's green, natural looking, and "Christmas-y"
"Diana" (2011 Ovation Celebrity GC057M)
...after Princess Di, who looked so elegant in her black dress right after leaving Chuckster
"Jewel" (2005 Ovation CC-045-HB Celebrity Standard 12-String)
...because she reminds my wife of sunshine, and that makes her think of Jewel
(stock pic from Ovation website)
"Betty" (mid-1980s Applause AA-31)
...my first guitar, named because she's black (Black Betty) and because she's old (I just went to a birthday party this weekend for a 100-year-old woman whose name is Betty)
"Mandy" (unknown year Galveston Mandolin)
...if you can't figure out why the Mandolin is named Mandy, well... :dunno:
That's it... all nine guitars in BriGuy's herd are now named. Now I gotta start thinking of good possible names for a Tele (that'll be my next guitar purchase... at least that's the plan for now!)
Edit: by the way, I don't bother naming my amps... they're just not as personal to me as the guitars!
Update... we finally got a consensus in the George household on names for guitars (actually my daughters lost interest, but my wife helped me).
"Lita" (2010 Ibanez RG3EXFM1)
... because she's sexy and bada$$
"Holly" (2002 Ovation Celebrity Deluxe CS247)
...because she's green, natural looking, and "Christmas-y"
"Diana" (2011 Ovation Celebrity GC057M)
...after Princess Di, who looked so elegant in her black dress right after leaving Chuckster
"Jewel" (2005 Ovation CC-045-HB Celebrity Standard 12-String)
...because she reminds my wife of sunshine, and that makes her think of Jewel
(stock pic from Ovation website)
"Betty" (mid-1980s Applause AA-31)
...my first guitar, named because she's black (Black Betty) and because she's old (I just went to a birthday party this weekend for a 100-year-old woman whose name is Betty)
"Mandy" (unknown year Galveston Mandolin)
...if you can't figure out why the Mandolin is named Mandy, well... :dunno:
That's it... all nine guitars in BriGuy's herd are now named. Now I gotta start thinking of good possible names for a Tele (that'll be my next guitar purchase... at least that's the plan for now!)
Edit: by the way, I don't bother naming my amps... they're just not as personal to me as the guitars!
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