In answer top your questions, yes, no and yes. :-) (I had a friend who used to do that.)

Phil had, and still has a very loyal following and wrote a body of songs that still live on. I heard him play in the early 60's in Greenwich Village on the coffee house scene and I didn't think that he was as mesmerizing a performer as Dylan. As for airplay, in the beginning Dylan profited immensely by having others like Peter, Paul and Mary and the Byrds have hit recordings of his songs. In honesty, I don't ever remember hearing a Phil Ochs song on commerical radio. I'm sure college stations played his recordings a lot, and he was an important part of the anti-war movement, although certainly nowhere near as influential as Dylan. Dylan pretty much over-shadowed everyone, and even moreso when he shocked the folk community and went electric. I think it was hard for other songwriters to be compared to Dylan.. Just as a personal opinion, I'd put Ochs at a similar level of recognition with Tom Paxton, Eric Andersen and a handful of other writers in the 60's.

Others probably have more extensive experience with his music. I never knew him as a person.

Jerry