There is too much bashing and hating going on, even to this day. It never ends. I know musicians wants to get respect for themselves as a person and as a musician. One way to get more respect, is to stop the hating and bashing of other musicians completely. Support them, even the successful and more established musicians. I understand you may not like other musicians but keeping your opinions to yourself is the best thing to do, on a professional level.

If you support other musicians, you will get support from them in return, trust me. I’ve supported too many musicians over the years. If you support other musicians, they will reward you stuff in return. Some will just simply give you respect in return. Some musicians will be willing to even become your friend. Some will offer you free CD’s. They will ask you to play on their gigs. They will also give you shout outs on their websites or social networking pages. Things like that, ya know. Some of you have seen me support a lot of musicians over the years, and I got some of the stuff I listed above, back from them. It does make you feel good.

Sure, there will be some bands & musicians that won’t even give you support in return no matter how much you try to support them. Some bands & musicians don’t even play music for the people, they do it for themselves. If you don’t get support from bands & musicians back, then never mind them and move along. Even if they ignored you, at least you did good for the music scene. Believe me, I’ve tried to support some bands and solo artists, the best I could, and they didn’t even care.

Supporting other musicians is key to getting respect around here, and a good way to get your own music out there. Treating other musicians how you like to be treated, is a good way for a positive music scene. It would be nice if this could be a more positive music scene though. There are too many negative musicians that want to rant and rave about everything. People blame it on the old crumbs board, but it’s not the internet. This is how people are.

Kev