I wonder if a part of that was due to the regionalism of the various music artist. London, Paris, East Coast of America, California, Seattle, and even Japan, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany. It has all been kind of homogenized now, all blended up spit out and meets the needs of the mass media world. The sound is now the same no matter where you go.

Perhaps dsound, dtube, 3speak, and block chain can change that and bring the artist back to the stage.