Your Username

[serialnumber12]

my username is simply the serialnumber of my beloved alembic serialnumber12.

[cozmik_cowboy]

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

[fmm]

Just my initials: F Michael Miller.

[el8ed]

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.


Cheers, Oliver

[tncaveman]

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

[cozmik_cowboy]

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

[room037]

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

[epicowner]

Proud Epic owner!

[southpaw]

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.

[edwin]

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!

[slawie]

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

[Enzo]

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?

[dead_head]

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       

[David Houck]

Love the Coatbird Fishlock story, and painting the cottage in Terrapin Station colors.

[jazzyvee]

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.