Oliv/Eudoxa longevity

[Jamale Davis]

a funny story about olivs... i was talking to ratso harris, gushing because i had the chance to try out a pair of olivs on a loaned bass for a gig...(brief digression: having the opportunity to play a steady gig at smalls in ny, i've had the pleasure to be influenced by a lot of gut string bass players- ari roland, neal caine, and neal miner-thus my goal to get a pair of guts or something close to that sound)

... anyway, i was telling ratso how much i loved them and can't wait to get a pair or some straight gut strings... ratso tells me not to bother because you can get the same gut sound from steel strings- his words: " playing with gut strings is like wiping your a!@ with a leaf- there is no reason when you have toilet paper". does anybody agree with his opinion of achieving that gut string sound on gut strings, and if so what brand of steel string?