I try to support local musicians the best I can. I enjoy meeting different musicians all over the place, and I have met many local musicians over the years. They all have different personalities and they are all different. I have also spoken to many musicians online who I haven’t even met in person yet.

So what musicians get my respect and the ones that don’t? I’ll do a brief explanation with a list.
The Musicians That Do Get My Respect: 

• Are the ones who concentrate on the music alone. Just playing your gigs, and writing the songs
• Acting friendly and down to earth to people, even to me.
• Does not have an ego problem whatsoever.
• If you play music for the love of it alone, not worrying about fame, popularity, or money.
• Just acting like a true professional in music.
• If you have talent in what you do musically.
  

The Musicians Who DON’T Get My Respect:

• Are the ones who act like douchebags, musicians who act like assholes to people. They are out there.
• The ones who have a huge ego problem. Musicians who jerk themselves off with their self importance. Thinking they’re so talented and big, most of the time.
• Musicians that think it’s okay to attack and criticize other musicians. This has been a problem for years in the musicians community.
• Musicians that try to scam people money with their kickstarter projects and other fundraising stuff for their albums, tours, etc. A lot of them are capable of doing that stuff with their own budget.
• Musicians who act unprofessional either online or off.
• Musicians who don’t care about fans supporting them. I’ve seen it. Some bands are not good with their fans for shit, when their fans don’t even realize it.
• Musicians who fall for scams easily and non-trusting label signings. Musicians who actually go for pay to play gigs.
• Musicians who get upset at criticism easily and gets defensive over attacks aimed at them online. If you can’t take a bit of honesty, then being a musician isn’t for you. Sorry.

I can keep going with these lists all day.

The problem with the music community here, that a lot of musicians like to support every musician they set eyes upon. Not with me you see, I like to look at things with a bit of reality. Just gotta be real about stuff and not be a faker or a liar, you know?

I have been criticized for my negative rants at musicians over the years, and just wanted to clarify.

Kev