eh 4got : live in the netherlands close to amsterdam. and playing from my 13th on. learned to play myself by listening to records of mking, r&B soul and the police... in my early days wanted a ibanez like sting wich i couldnt afford. and chose the wrong second bass out of a used ibanez roadster and aria pro Ii thor sound 450 wich wass new. Nice bass, but i seemed to be 2ce as fast on the ibanez. Stupidly chose the new bass who looked like a NT expensive bass haha.
then went to six string... bought a superb 6-string set of basses, returning a decade later to 4 string. Right now teaching my son of ten the first steps on a status.
yeah.