Seen this comment come up on a number of bass themed youtube videos. The P bass is the bass is now the bass of choice. Seems that conventional wisdom is now that after 'all these years' that good ol' Leo hit the nail firmly on the noggin. The p bass sits sonically at the best place in the mix cutting through where other basses fail.
Now I have owned many, many .....many basses and they all have their character, good n bad points and most recently started building bits basses up out of