“I was pretty much over trying to ‘make it’ as a musician and mostly listening to jazz (although still playing any gig that came my way, any genre).”
Reminds me of one of my close friends. He “switched” to jazz or cool music, and he had the largest collection of bootleg Metallica albums and tapes..and he gave it away. I was pissed because he didnt tell me and I would have bought them.
I love it all. Anything that makes someone happy listening to it, is “good music” in my book. Anything people will pay me several Franklins to play is “Great music”.
Once grunge and other stuff that didn’t prioritize musicianship got popular, a lot of the fun of discovering new rock went away for me, not all of it, but a lot.