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Are you going to vent the installation somewhere to let the heat out?

Was that a list price or a genuine 'street' value? £2,400 must be pretty close to what you could get a US made Spector for?

I've had a couple of basses with these - seemed to work pretty well but I did notice one of them weighed a ton & helped to make, an already neck heavy, bass dive a little I'd go for the lightest (matching obviously) you can get

Watson 5 String Deluxe neck-through active bass. (Serial 06B004) Materials: Sapele, Bloodwood and Flamed Redwood with Hawaiian Koa veneer between laminations. 7 piece neck has tapered stringers, 2 truss rods and 2 carbon fiber rods. Fingerboard: Macassar Ebony bound with Koa Veneer and Bloodwood Pickups: Bartolini Electronics: Aguilar OPB-3 5-Band with mid-range selector switch Bridge: Hipshot-A 19mm spacing Finish: High Gloss Polyester Resin by All Wood Finishing Weight: 8.5 lbs. The core of the body is made from alternating pieces of Sapele and Bloodwood sparated by Hawaiian Koa veneer. The neck is a 7-piece laminate of Sapele and Bloodwood with tapered stringers and Hawaiian Koa veneer between each laminate.

[quote name='Linus27' post='571685' date='Aug 17 2009, 03:00 PM']Don't talk to me about your '75 RI Jazz. I have played it, love it and want it with a passion. It was one of my dream basses. However, I can't afford it and I can't justify having another Jazz bass. I already have a Lakland Darryl Jones as my main bass, an ESP 400 Series Jazz as my backup which is amazing and a Squire VMJ fretless. So the less we say about your '75 RI Jazz the better :) Of course, I am willing to carry out certain jobs but refuse to work with goat, small children and insects. After that, anything goes [/quote] That made me smile (and I need all the smile I can get at the moment!). The '75 really is very nice, I hadn't ever really put it up for sale and will probably hang on to it for a while. In fact one of the nice things about loaning out basses is that when they come back home it feels like you're getting something new again

[quote name='Linus27' post='571540' date='Aug 17 2009, 12:45 PM']my Lakland Duck Dunn is on loan to Old Horse Murphy at the moment.[/quote] He's got my '75 RI Jazz as well, do you think he's stockpiling them

[quote name='RhysP' post='571025' date='Aug 16 2009, 08:35 PM']As much as I love Squires sound on the earlier albums, my favourite sound of his has to be the Harmonised (via an Eventide Harmoniser) Rickenbacker used on the "Tormato" album. The sound on "Future times/Rejoice" & "On the silent wings of freedom" is just awesome, and I've never heard anything like it anywhere else.[/quote] Checking it out right now Ok - so I'm not 100% sure about Yes from this era. Sounds a bit over-processed to me & missing that classic Squire tone - probably need to listen a bit more though Don'tcha just love Spotify though

[quote name='Hamster' post='571006' date='Aug 16 2009, 08:18 PM']Loved it from the first day I heard it [/quote] Check out the expanded Close to the Edge for some interesting mixes of SK & And You and I

If anyone does try out Spotify then have a listen to the studio run-through version of Khatru on the Expanded Close to the Edge. Obviously lacks all the multi-part harmonies and smooth gloss of the final version but bass is therefore higher in the mix - and still sounding pretty damn impressive

Just been listening to Planet Rock's review of 1972 and they played Siberian Khatru in its entirety (preceded by Watcher of the Skies - prog heaven!). It's a while since I listened to the studio version & I'd forgotten just what a great bass sound Squire has on this. When I was an impressionable teenager this was always my least favourite track from Close to the Edge but I love it now Couldn't find the studio version on YouTube anywhere so if anyone hasn't heard it & wants to hear Mr Squire's mastery of prog bass then Spotify is your friend. . .