When you want to be a musician, it maybe a little hard to find out who your real and true fans are, but you’ll find out soon enough. How? If they actually listen to your music, going to your gigs, and staying by your side no matter what happens, that’s when you know you got a true fan. People staying loyal to you and not giving up their support, is being a true fan.

You will also get the negative side of things. People pretending to support you just to be nice. People support you at first, and then they quickly become your enemy (or hater, whatever you want to call it). I got this all the time over the years. Someone will act like they like your music, then they’re publicly talking trash about you behind your back on a social networking site somewhere.

You will always get mixed reactions in the music world. Every band and musician deals with this, not just me. Getting mixed reactions and opinions about you is actually good for your career. When people are talking about you good or bad, you gotta be doing something right? It means that people are paying attention to you and it’s a sign that you may be pretty popular.

You will get fans and lose some. There’s nothing to get heartbroken or sad over this small stuff. You just continue to do your thing and play the music. Write songs however you want to, not caring what anyone else thinks.

Kev