Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: jalevinemd on January 08, 2017, 08:08:59 AM
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It's been a long time since we played this little game, but we've had quite a few new members since then. What's the story behind your username?
I'll start. My name is Jonathan Alan Levine and I'm a physician. Nothing too original here. :D
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My username has a nothing to do with my actual name (Brian) or a tried and true guitar'bass fingering technique but rather my past history as a competitive cyclist. According to my teammates (especially those who were sprinters) I always "putting the hammer down" (i.e., starting to significantly up the pace) far too early in the quest to earn sprint points in races. As a time trialist, I would start the sprint miles/km from the sprint line "putting the hammer down" so to speak to to make sure that any sprinter who stayed with me (most sprinters are known for sitting on someone else's wheel until the last 50-100 meters) would have to work to earn his points.
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My username has nothing to do with my name (Brian) or a guitar/bass fingering technique but rather my past avocation as a competitive cyclist. As a rider whose strength was going hard for a long time and whose grandmother could probably out sprint him, I was always accused of "putting the hammer down" too early in races in which one could earn sprint points. Rather than waiting until the last 100-200 meter to accelerate, I would take off miles from the sprint line to": (a) discourage riders who had a tendency to sit on others's wheels until the final meters of a sprint; and (b) insure that anyone who would beat me to the line would have to work for it. Thus the nickname I was bestowed by my team mates and my user name, "hammer."
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Edward = my middle name, traditionally assigned to firstborn male children in our family.
Huncote = our ancestral home in Leichestershire, England, and is the phonetic root of our name.
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Mine was bestowed by a college friend in '74 or '75. Back then there were many people who only knew me as Cozmik Cowboy; now I just use it on the web.
Peter (who named his youngest son after said friend)
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Username originally assigned to me by my parents.
Houck - a family name that is, as I recall, "Pennsylvania Dutch" in origin, brought to colonial North Carolina in the 18th century. On the Pennsylvania Dutch of North Carolina:
"As unoccupied land became harder to find in the populous Pennsylvania region where they had originally settled, many Germans migrated south and settled mainly in the backcountry or modern-day Piedmont, of North Carolina, the first arriving in the colony by 1747. Because they were migrating from Pennsylvania and because their own word meaning German-"Deutsch"-was not translated very well by English settlers, the newcomers into North Carolina were sometimes termed the "Pennsylvania Dutch"." source (http://www.ncpedia.org/german-settlers)
David - a ruler in the 10th century BCE of territory within what is now Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. The name in the original Hebrew meant "beloved", and it is fairly common here in the US.
Because the combined username, David Houck, can be somewhat difficult to pronounce, I sometimes use the username davehouck, which is significantly easier to say.
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No special meaning for me. First name and last name initial.
My understanding for "Pennsylvania Dutch" is the same as yours Dave. Dutch is a bastardization of Deutsch or Deutsche for those of German decent or that speak German (the largest branch in my family tree).
I guess the question on Houck is whether it is of Dutch origin or German as it can be either. I have some Dutch in my family. One set of grandparents on my Dad's side were Vander Hyde's which is what the name was changed to at Ellis Island from the original van der Heide. My understanding is the name is also associated with some German family lines that go by von der Heide.
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I think it was an Animal Planet show, years ago - a newborn Grizzly Bear was constantly growling, and being generally playful. They named him Growlypants, and I borrowed the same name!
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Waaaay back in the mid 80's I was hired by a band where every member was given a band nickname.Since I played bass ok and smoked a lot that's what nickname I was given.Smokin' DaveThe band was sort of popular and lasted a couple of years and all my friends and other bands in town started calling me Smokin' Dave.I've tried to disassociate myself from that nickname but it's like a tattoo that you can't get rid of.That's what I'm called by everyone who knows me.
Although some have started calling me Vapin' Dave since I quit smoking tobacco and took up vaping for my new pacifier.
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My surname is Jackson. in my native north east of England, as a child I was always called 'Jakka' which works fine in a Geordie accent (think Robson green or Cheryl Cole) but not so well in any other accent so it's gradually changed to jacko. - Nothing at all to do with Jaco ;D
Graeme
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My first name is Paul.
Many years ago there was a gathering of old friends and there was also a variety of very nice bourbons and other accoutrements.
Events unfolded and I was dubbed Pauldo, as a play on the "Where's Waldo? -
"Where's Pauldo?" Because my 'photo-bombing' skills were in rare form! After the event when people were reviewing pictures it became apparent that I was darn near omni-present! :)
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Tubeperson - Connects my love for Tubes in electronics to me. Get those valves hot n nasty!
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Nothing exciting here, I'm afraid. My name is Glynn Murray hence username is the surname murray.
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Farufyno is the name of one of my bands, but we took it to quote one of Hanna Barbera's character (as it is named in Brazil). We've always played lots of brazilian music from the sixties and seventies (when all members were kids) and the idea was to made some emotional conection to that era and our childhood.
As many of these classic records never got remastered to CD, the best way to dive into those songs was to find them at some stinky secondhand old vinyl records store ("sebo de discos", as we say here in Brazil). So all of us were what we call here as "rato de sebo", a way of saying that we are one of those guys you can always find fooling around in secondhand store's dust and mold in search of our prize, as mices searching for food on old warehouses ("rato" means rat but is also a slang for cop/police).
Our goal was kind of reclaiming that repertoire and put a magnifiyng glass over all that beautifull forgotten music of our idols at the same time we presented our own stuff. So the idea was to link our 70's childhood musical universe to that investigating habbit. Childhood, mouse, 70s, investigator... and we ended picking an old cartoon character's name we used to watch on TV, Snooper and Blabber ("Olho Vivo e Faro Fino", as we called them in Brazil and could be freely translated as "Quick Sight and Fine Flair").
Faro Fino became Farufyno just to prevent any legal issue with HB...
ps.: I know Quickdraw McGraw Show is from the sixties, but it came to Brazil just in the seventies.
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I own 2 35" scale Rogue 6 strings, a fretted and a fretless--therefore...
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Mine is pretty simple. D is for my first name Darrell and C is for my last name Calloway. My golf buddies call me dtothemfc. I think you all know what the MF stands for. So I drop the MF for these purposes. :-)
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A tribute to the fantastic top on my first Alembic: SCSD S/N 10SC14089:
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Just my first name, after my maternal grandfather.
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811952 is the serial number of my '81 Series 1.5 (master volume, LEDs and a custom body shape were all upgrades from the Series I back then).
My other online persona is Scarysharkface, which comes from needing a username on short notice and conveniently noticing a shark logo in my peripheral vision from where I sat. I didn't think I'd ever actually use it, and now I use it pretty much everywhere except here.
John Ford is my meatspace user name.
John
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Twocan:
A college nickname that I was given, having to do with a combination of my drinking habits and nose size.
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A friend and fellow bass player said that's what my tone sounded like; I took it as a compliment(it was) and have had similar reactions from other bass players...my friend was working at a meat plant at the time so he heard the Cow chipper...sometimes I wish I stayed vegetarian...but that's a whole other thread...
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Ok I'll play.
My first guitar that I ever loved was a 78 Gibson Les Paul "The Paul" Walnut with an Ebony fretboard. Man I miss that guitar.
So like the song "Soul Man" I became a "Paul Man".
I have an account for email named Alembic Man, but the handle here was created long before I got my first Alembic.
Who's next on deck...splain it!
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It's my first name and my mommy gave it to me! My dad was driving her to the hospital in the morning the day I was born. There were springs trickling down the coastal mountains, and they were talking about the mineral mica that was making things sparkle and glimmer even more than the water alone. If you're wondering it's pronounced MY-kuh.
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Mica, thank you for some of the details of your name.
I'll start. My name is Jonathan Alan Levine and I'm a physician. Nothing too original here. :D
Jonathan, I have to admit, every time I see your username I read it as "javelin mind"!
As for myself, my "real" name is Harry Pearlton Bridge III. I was never happy with my name - "Harry" was old fashioned and sounded like "hairy" and I had never (and still have never) heard anyone with the name "Pearlton" besides my dad. I got really into the Beatles in 7th grade when we moved to Japan and I wished the P in "Harry P. Bridge" could stand for Paul.
It wasn't until after I turned 30 that I had a flash that "Harry" could be short for Hieronymus, as in Hieronymus Bosch, so I adopted it as part of my musical identity, except I misspelled it with an extra "o" - hieronymous - and I've stuck with it ever since 2002.
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Twocan:
A college nickname that I was given, having to do with a combination of my drinking habits and nose size.
Would that be only 2 cans, or 2 at once?
It's my first name and my mommy gave it to me! My dad was driving her to the hospital in the morning the day I was born. There were springs trickling down the coastal mountains, and they were talking about the mineral mica that was making things sparkle and glimmer even more than the water alone. If you're wondering it's pronounced MY-kuh.
I could have sworn there was a thread a while back about old paperwork where someone asked who Michael Wickersham was, and you allowed as how that was you, and Mica was a nickname. Am I losing my grip?
Peter
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Would that be only 2 cans, or 2 at once?
Yes.
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I could have sworn there was a thread a while back about old paperwork where someone asked who Michael Wickersham was, and you allowed as how that was you, and Mica was a nickname. Am I losing my grip?
You're close! Michael is what the hospital put on my birth certificate, and it was an error - when my mom said, "Mica, just like the mineral" we figure the nurse thought she was a crazy hippie and meant Michael, and that is what my legal name is. However, I didn't even know until I got my driver's license that my name wasn't legally Mica. When I started working here, I used my legal name on everything. But then later I just morphed into all Mica all the time.
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Ok......I used to build race cars[C.A.R.T cars,now Indy cars] and all my friends used to call me "Big D " so......carsbybigd !
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RV = my initials and bass is what I play :)
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My username is my name, which my parents gave me. Apparently I was unnamed for a long period of time (months) before they could come to a decision. They named me after a friend of my grandparents and one of my mom's mentors, Edwin Dickenson, an early and mid 20th century painter who was influential in many schools of 20 century painting (and was one of the first artists to go to Provincetown, MA, arriving in 1912 to establish a long tradition of art). I only knew him as a scary old man in his 80s when I was a wee lad. Later, I found out he was quite dashing in a Hemingway sort of way in his youth.
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my username is simply the serialnumber of my beloved alembic serialnumber12.
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You're close! Michael is what the hospital put on my birth certificate, and it was an error - when my mom said, "Mica, just like the mineral" we figure the nurse thought she was a crazy hippie and meant Michael, and that is what my legal name is. However, I didn't even know until I got my driver's license that my name wasn't legally Mica. When I started working here, I used my legal name on everything. But then later I just morphed into all Mica all the time.
Ah - I see. Maybe the same nurse the Zappas had who refused to put "Dweezil" on the certificate.
Peter
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Just my initials: F Michael Miller.
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When Internet recording factotum "Fletcher" of Mercenary Audio tested Empirical Labs' "Distressor" for the first time he urged them to give it the designation "EL8" because he was elated by what it did to his tracks - and so they did.
I "borrowed" the idea and extended it to EL8ED, which has been the "brand" of all our music and art related endeavors since 2003 - EL8ED Artists, EL8ED Records, EL8ED Visions - now mostly in hibernation as el8ed.com (http://el8ed.com).
Cheers, Oliver
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TNcaveman = Tennessee + caveman. I'm from Tennessee and went to grad school studying Karst Hydrogeology at Western Ky Univ. One of the guys started calling me Caveman. And it kept spreading. CB handle by truckers and grading guys I worked with. Mostly because I keep bring photos from the caves I explored. It was a perfect nickname. I still go two to three times a year. But caving hurts my body more now.
And as a Geologist it's quite fitting.
And I really appreciate Mica as a nice and sparkley name :)
Stephen
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Stephen, you just reminded me of a guy I knew way back when who'd start stories (often) with "My great-great-granddaddy was a Cherokee Indian chief, and he lived in a cave in TENNessee.......(yes, being a Volunteer himself, that's how he said it).
He also would say "You that 'n' they'll have send yer saddle home in a pickup truck".
Peter
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My username "room037" means my hobby collection room.
The sounds like Larry Carlton's song "room335".
"037" means my beloved car "Lancia Rally". The car often called her development number "SE 037".
"Alembic Car thread" http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=20837.45
In fact, there are most of my basses, amps and pedal effects, model cars, car parts, poster and photo, many of books about music and cars in my room.
But you know, the most of Japanese house is so small. Here is just like stacking warehouse !
Eiji
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Proud Epic owner!
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My user name states the obvious: a darn lefty! Everything on my desk is on the left side; phone, mouse, pen etc. I write throw, kick left side (no 'hook wrist' though when writing). I wear my watch on my right hand too (the 'wrong' hand per my wife).
The one advantage is no one can borrow my instruments! Though lefty gear is harder to find, as a true 'sinister' rarely sell instruments, e.g. I am aware of at least two of my basses that were sold to me after the previous owners passed away! Including my Orion bass, and yes, that will be the only way my instruments move on to the next owners. If you see a lefty collection for sale in the future, that may be my dear wife funding her "Going to Grieve for him in the Caribbean" sale.
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When Internet recording factotum "Fletcher" of Mercenary Audio tested Empirical Labs' "Distressor" for the first time he urged them to give it the designation "EL8" because he was elated by what it did to his tracks - and so they did.
I used to know Fletcher from my Boston days. I have a pair of his MA KM69 small diaphragm condensers. Great mics!
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Slawie is my name. pronounced like SL OW(like in ouch) EE
I use all lower case in my user name because I am humble.
slawie
I remember an interview once with Feargal (pron. Furgull) Sharkey who was quite big in the 80's
"A good heart" was an international hit in 1985.
He decided to use symbols/drawings to assist in pronouncing his name correctly, and drew it out
His friends then called him Coatbird Fishlock
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Enzo my real name which is a short for Vincenzo and also the name of my dream Ferrari. While I will most likely never own that car, I'm the lucky owner of what I consider the Ferrari of the bass guitars.
PS: Eiji, that Lancia Rally is to die for, where the heck did you find it? :)
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My user name is pretty self explanatory. I'm not the Grateful Dead fanatic type who can recite dates and stats like an encyclopedia, but when I was first
married way, way back many moons ago, we had a dog named Jed, and we painted our first house, a small cottage, in the same colors as Terrapin Station
on the album cover. It was a hit with our friends. So now, many years later, I'm thrilled to own the '06 Custom Tribute 5 Bass, continuing my love of the Grateful
Dead, and to be a member of this wonderful Alembic family.
Rob
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Love the Coatbird Fishlock story, and painting the cottage in Terrapin Station colors.
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Mine came when I started to play guitar in a calypso band band in the mid 90's and at that time most people used to refer to me as Vee. Anyway when I started in that band I also played in a jazz fusion band and so my jazzy chops used to sneak into the calypso music and one gig after doing that for a while the band leader introduced me as jazzyvee and I liked it and when the Internet came along I decided that would be my email address and hence forum name. Outside the Internet no-one actually refers to me in person by that name.
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I used to play in a band while serving on active duty in the military. The band played country, classic rock, pop, blues, etc...
I always want to play Funk and/Jazz songs so one night the keyboard player said something like 'this song is for our bassist, a funky jazz junky' and the name stuck
VMG
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My username is the front end of my email address. The first three letters are my initials - Timothy Harris Evans - the. The end establishes that it is not my work email, it is my home account... the_home.
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My name is Jason. Somewhere along the line, a bandmate of mine noticed that "Jason" doesn't actually need any vowels--you can spell it "Jsn" and it'll be pronounced the same way. The other band mates started gleefully dropping the vowels when referring to me, and Jsn has been my music moniker ever since.
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Mine is created that way because I got myself a Spyder built in 2015 - in 2015 ;D