During my last musical run in the Capital District’s music scene, I’ve had my ups & downs. I’ve had good gigs and some bad gigs, like all musicians. I went through negativity and the egos of other musicians tried to put me down in the music scene. I’ve played gigs from about 2006 – 2008 and then stopped for a long while. A hiatus. I took time off from playing music to improve my guitar playing skills and vocals. I also took a long break to get into fitness & bodybuilding.

I’ve learned a lot of lessons through my musical adventure during my last run. When you get out playing, you’ll have to learn that you’ll get a mix of haters & fans. You have to ignore those haters & doubters completely. You can’t let the negativity & drama bring you down. I kind of admit it that I kind of let it bring me down the last time, but not this time. I’m going to be a tough guy, the next time I start playing gigs again this year. From this point forward, I’m only going to be caring about my music and not care about what anybody thinks.

Yes, you’ll get yourself trapped in ego clashing with other bands at shows. Yes, you’re going to get ripped off and put down by club owners/booking agents. Yes, you’ll get plenty of people pretending to like your music when in reality they don’t (you’ll find out soon enough). Yes, you’ll get all kinds of people laughing at you about your success and dreams of music, you’ll get called delusional and all that stuff.

You can’t let any of this stuff bring you down. You have to be confident and be a tough guy. Be above that negative stuff. If music is what like you to do and what you do as a passion, you shouldn’t have to give up because people don’t like what you do. Who cares. People attack you because it’s jealousy and ego.

You can’t be defensive of yourself toward the critics. I made that mistake before and won’t do it again. You can’t be self destructive. You only care about you, your music, and your supporters. I may not have a big following with my music yet, but I do have loyal fans who stuck with me after all this time. Believe it or not.

I’m coming back to music. Play a couple of gigs this Spring/Summer, hit some open mics, write some new songs, and hopefully record a new demo. I have a gig booked for this Summer and will announce it publicly soon whenever they give me the “ok” to start promoting the gig.

This is my facebook fan page, as I will use that for my music site to announce news, promote gigs and projects, all that stuff. Yes, the Brock has finally returned to music.

Kev