Bollocks.... [quote name='iiipopes' timestamp='1342472392' post='1735872']
Look carefully: as 1957 was the first year of the split-P pickup, the pre-production pickup cover in the picture has a different profile than the standard pickup cover we've all come to, well, either love or hate as your personal style may be.
And his bass is a "transitional" '55 or '56, with the single-coil pickup, but beveled front armrest.
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Bollocks.... look how high he has that bass.... 2 years later it was up under his chin.