a chance conversation with a guitarist two nights ago sent me in search of some of my old lost vinyl - the start of this track sent me straight back 25 (30?) years to my old Monitor Audio speakers and Linn LP12. Student days...
Other famous players of the Bass VI (commonly called The Six)...are Rick Danko of The Band, Glenn Campbell, Jack Bruce of Cream, and a few others I can't recall at the moment.
That's a Fender Bass VI he's playing. It's kind of a hybrid, between a guitar and a bass. More of a baritone with a 30. inch scale. It's the guitar that "Nigel" in the Spinal Tap movie said, "don't touch it, don't even look at it". His had lace sensor pickups however. The Bass VI, unmodified, wears 3 jaguar pickups.