Eldon Tyrell

Could well be. Julie's father, Thomas Walters, was an English builder and decorator 🙂

Thanks. Good to know. I checked the photos and the one on ebay was a 34'' (bridge pickup not aligned with balance and treble pots).

Are there 34 and 35 versions of it? It only said 2016 Ian Hill signature bass, so I assume it is the 34 one.

Well, I tried securing another potential "not for sale" bass, the Ian Hill signature model, today. Unfortunately, I was outbid on ebay 😞

Good idea. However, it is probably only creating a business opportunity for the artists' lawyers.

Maybe read it again carefully. Hint, it is not the "Roger" bit 😉

No? Me neither, but he must be famous. Andertons is selling his Fender signature bass (second hand) 😁

@Paulhauser followed your advice. Sold the Euro as I just could not make it work for me. Still have the Starr, my only "not for sale" bass. Killer combo -solid maple wings, EMGs and the US Haz (originally came with the TP, but I got it replaced with a Haz when they were still available to buy). Man, times, flies, they introduced it more than 10 years ago! Check out this video from the launch event at NAMM in Jan 2015. It shows Mike Starr's sister Melinda, Stuart Spector, and PJ Rubal. Don't know who the bloke on the left is. Any idea?) The video features one of my fav basslines. The one that really got me wanting to buy a Spector. If I would, could you?

Looks familiar 😉 Enjoy 👍

Steve recently bought my Euro 4LX. The whole transaction was quick and smooth. Cool guy. Thumbs up 👍

Thanks, Steve. However, we better don't jinx it. Let's first hope that UPS collects it today and delivers it safely tomorrow! 🤞

In case someone is looking for something special 🙂 https://reverb.com/uk/item/90319243-spector-ns-x-black-1984-05-28

Looks like he also played it in Chic:

You are right. I need to find an Ian Hill model, the PJ version. That also visually goes well with the Mike Starr - Black and White, Yin and Yang, the dark side and the light side etc etc etc.

Man, I clicked on this post, thinking he had passed away. Good to know that he is still alive 😊

My poorly taken photo does not do the bass justice. It looks much better in real life. The Japanese retailer's photos capture the finish much better.

It finally arrived on May 1st. Great looking and sounding bass. I haven't sold it yet, but I am tempted. The neck is too chunky for my taste. Not as bad as some others I had, e.g a black LT with Fishman Fluence pickups. I am telling myself that I will get used to it, but I just played my Euro Mike Starr signature that has a nice thin neck (probably modeled on Mike's Kramer era NS-2) and it felt sooo much better.

Shipping to the US can get stressful. The value of the shipment also seems to matter. At least that's what I was told when I shipped my Timmy C to the US back in 2023. I posted this back then (Oct 2023) in another thread: I recently (June) sold a Stingray Timmy C to a buyer in the US. Well, the local depot here in the UK wanted to know if I had a CITES license. I could convince them that there was no need for one. I also had to send them the commercial invoices again as they somehow had managed to lose them. I only found out about the "missing" commercial invoices after checking the tracking info online where it said that they were waiting for the forms and that they had contacted the seller (i.e., me). Well, they obviously did not contact me and I had to chase them up. Then the US counterparts asked me to fill in a toxic substance control act declaration (TSCA, I guess because of the fretboard glue!), a manufacturer's affidavit (actually this should have been filled in by EBMM but I put in the info myself and I also attached the original invoice from EBMM. Interestingly, after some googling I found out that a manufacturers affidavit is normally used for shipments over $10,000.00. Well, the Timmy C is a great bass but not not THAT expensive ; -), and a foreign shipper declaration. The buyer was also asked to fill in an import declaration and a TSCA form (importer single entry). Looks like these checks came into place as the bass returned to the US where is was made and because the value was above $2500. All in all a lot of hassle, costing me time and energy. So, in short, my advice to you - if someone from the US wants to buy one of your basses that was made in the US and that is worth more than $2500, then kindly decline it (unless you don't mind filling in several forms and spending lots of time emailing custom officials and people working in depots ; -).

As others have already said, within your budget, the Pulse is a great choice. Get rid of the TP Jr preamp that everyone seems to hate and replace it with a Haz clone, like the LHZ (new version LHZ-04 is out now) or use the LHZ-HL-1 pedal (Haz clone in pedal format), and you are almost there. Enjoy 🙂