Yeah, Eric's a pretty honest guy who gives away the weakest point of every guitarist. Bassists never suffer from the I-hate-my-tone syndrome. But honestly after more than 20 years I got my nice tones together and made a huge improve with the purchase of my JTM45 and my OCD pedal. There is only one tone that I still haven't reached, it's the Eric Gales kinda Strat grit tone, hollow woody sounding...you know what I'm talking about. Overall I had times where I was on the tone quest, but somehow I have reached a good point in my search. Eric, you are absolutely right with the fact that our imagination of good tone changes with the music we listen to.