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Originally Posted by Jim Williams  I believe the opposite is true, They know when they see real talent. It's not what they are looking for. They want marketability. They don't know what to do with real talent. Accomplished musicians are "difficult". They don't take directions well. They scoff at being told what to do. Only other great musicians would appreciate or understand what they do. There arn't enough of them to support current business models.
The guitar god era is over. We are in the Jessica Simpson era.
Jim Williams
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You are right when you are talking about fairly recent history, the present and the foreseeable future, but it wasn't always the case.
I was watching old videos of bands like Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Mahavishnu Orchestra and even Zappa (a few people familiar to you.)
Well, once-upon-a-time they did figure out how to market good bands with highly talented people.
Granted Mahavishnu Orchestra and Zappa didn't have GIANT sales, but you can't argue that ELP wasn't just HUGE.
It could come back!
One really big problem these days is that it is too easy for artists to work alone.
As soon as you have only one guy in a room supplying the bulk of the creative ideas the ideas are only going to last so long.
At least with a band or group there is a collective effort.
Creativity spawns creativity and other people's influences meld together and the sum is often more interesting than the individual parts.
The extremely creative individuals like Zappa and his like are rare.
He was signed on a fluke anyways, so...