Looks horrible. What could possess him to play it?
I'm guessing maybe he had one as a kid. The new show appears to have them traveling backward through time. Figured I'd go on the hunt for a cheap one of these. I think the value may be going up soon.
OTOH, the heart is a strange muscle. I miss my first Johnny Guitar Jazz Bass Ho too (which my dad threw away after - I had defretted in delusions of being a mini-Jaco and miserably failed turning it into a functional fretless - leaving it for years discarded in our cellar). Today, I'd just have it refretted and sometimes play those Harvey Vinson bass riffs on it with which I started in 1977!