by JimN » 20 Nov 2016, 05:12
I've never heard of John Rostill personally owning a Precision Bass of any colour.
It is well known that he had a Fiesta Red Jazz Bass before he joined the Shadows. There is also a shot of him in the EMI studio (circa 1966) with a sunburst Jazz Bass (that photograph is distinguished by the sight of Hank playing his 1960 Gretsch 6122).
Later on, one of those two Jazz Basses was re-finished in white (a more brilliant hue than Fender's own Olympic White) and John used that bass on the Cliff / Shadows' 1969 tours of the UK and Japan. He was also seen with it on the well-known New Year's Eve 1969 Anglo-German version of TOTP, when Hank, Bruce, Tony Meehan and John mimed to Apache.