@edcyn, I still love Cream’s debut album Fresh, on which Jack recorded with a Fender 6 string bass. By the way, the best sounding electric basses I’ve heard live (ready to again be envious ;-) were those of John Entwistle on The Who’s ’68 U.S. tour (performing the "A Quick One" suite), playing his Fender Precision strung with roundwound strings (Rotosound?), and Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane in the panhandle of Golden Gate Park, Summer of Love ’67), also with roundwound strings.
I was in a band with a bassist who loved Jack’s tone, and thought it was inherent in the Guild Starfire bass he played. So he bought himself one, and was disappointed when it arrived; he didn’t know Jack’s tone was more a result of the roundwound strings than the Guild bass.
I have seen Van Dyke live too, at McCabes Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. McCabes deals exclusively in acoustic instruments! They have a nice little theater in the rear, and VDP did a set playing piano accompanied by a small orchestra. Playing fiddle was Sid Page from Dan Hicks' The Hot Licks. Wonderful!