Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Jimi Hendrix Wouldn’t Be Famous Today" video.

That's more or less what I was going to post. He was an incredible player, but he was also capable of doing some pretty impressive stunts that would likely get him enough attention to get somewhere. I have no idea what sort of music it would sound like, because he would arguably be even further out there today than he was back then. But, I think with his combination of charisma, talent and showmanship that he'd likely make it. He just likely wouldn't be as well known just because of the way the music industry has fragmented over the interceding decades.
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Have you heard any of the music lately? It's not necessarily bad, it just all sounds more or less the same. I'm not sure how you'd manage to attract a following the way they did back then. Even though Randy Newman and Harry Nillson wrote most of the biggest hits of the late '60s and early '70s, there was far more diversity of sound then than now. Oddly enough, it's largely still the case that most of the music today, at least as far as the hits go, is written by a small number of writers, they simply do not have the same level of talent or dedication to the artform that was the case previously. As long as it's a hit, that's good enough, even though it probably won't be something that anybody really yearns for the way that they do the older stuff.
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