Dave in the second gen they had the Jaguar pickups, 1st gen a strat like from memory? the 1st gen were connected to a base plate and gave a lively telecaster type sound, they only had them for 12 months. I will have to look at one of my pickup books tomorrow, i am over tired so i could be completely wrong.

But yes the Bass VI is on my to do sheet, 30" scale dropped an octave with the 4 postion switch in it.