This bass guitar has neck-thru-body construction with dual active pickups, trem-set on the E tuning key, and a gray-burst finish from peghead to end pin.

The history of the bass guitar is the subject of "The Bass Book" by Tony Bacon and Barry Moorhouse. This well-illustrated volume covers the evolution of the bass guitar, from its invention in 1952 by Leo Fender through the latest electronic updates of the 1980s and 1990s. The illustrations include instruments owned by Paul McCartney, John Entwistle and other stars. The text also contains excerpts from interviews with many of the most notable innovators in the design and manufacture of the instrument.

Hartley Peavey graduated from Mississippi State University and founded Peavey Electronics in Meridian, Mississippi the following year. The initial products of the new company were musical instrument amplifiers, which found immediate acceptance in the market and were especially well favored by bassists in all genres and steel guitar players in the country music market.