A lot of people would like me to stop. A lot of people would mistakenly think it’s wrong, but I’m not gonna stop. I’m not gonna stop talking about local music in a brutally honest kind of way. Why, you may ask? Ask yourself, these questions. Is this music scene really so lovable and positive that everyone mistakenly thinks it is? Are musicians really musicians, around here? Can you trust everybody you meet? Do people actually like you when in reality, they don’t? Do musicians act professional at the shows? Do they promote and market themselves online, right? Are people in charge of the booking at gigs friendly and professional acting? How strict is the booking of shows around here? Are there any real venues to play anymore? Do you really have to make friends with other musicians in the scene to create a community? Do you think a band’s talent is worth putting your money toward to? I can keep going with the list of questions.

I would like to believe in this music scene more in a positive direction and would like to appreciate it more, but how can you? They call this area, Smallbany for a reason. There’s honestly no music scene here, to be honest with you. There are too many bands & solo artists struggling to get gigs, and get recognition. Why? Because all there is to play around here are bar rooms and nobody really goes to shows anymore. Think why the Albany music scene, has an obsession of musicians supporting other musicians, and they don’t get much people supporting their music. There are only very few bands around here where a lot of people go to their shows and EBJ is one of them, they got very very lucky!

The reason you have to be honest and real about music ’cause it actually helps your own music career. You must do what’s best for yourself and your music. Also, if you want the scene to get better, you must be real about the local scene. People mistakenly believe it’s wrong to be real about stuff in the scene, but like I said repeatedly, it’s actually a pretty professional thing to do. Why be a fake? Like most people are around here? Being real about yourself is a good thing to do. This is why I do what I do. I’m doing what’s best for myself.

My music gets treated in a negative direction quite often and I get so much misinformation about me from all over, so I have to.

For example, people are always saying I don’t have a lot of fans or they accuse me of not doing much, in my local music career…but I have done quite a lot. Usually when people say that stuff, chances are, they haven’t seen me live at a show or don’t know much about me. Before accusing me a bunch of things, you should see me live at a show, and then you’ll see immediately see that I can be a somebody in music, right away. I had a pretty good musical run. It may not be good to everyone else, but to me it was good. I’ve played almost every venue in the Capital District, played everywhere as much as possible. I played everything from no crowd to small crowd to larger crowds. Yes, I played successful gigs before, that were a packed house. All my gigs were years ago, maybe that’s why people today think I haven’t done anything, but that’s okay.

I guess that’s what happens when you take a lot of time off from music, that’s when people will start seeing you in a negative kind of way. If you want people to believe that you can be successful and be something, you gotta keep going, and that’s what I’m planning on in the near future. Next time I get myself back out there, I’ll try to gig on a full time basis, year round. I am doing some writing and going to start learning new covers again. I’m planning on making new originals and new covers so I can have a completely different song repertoire than the last time. I’ll try to book myself a gig when the Holidays are over. Might set something up in Feb. Hopefully, open for EBJ again.

Back to the topic, yes, people will think what I’m doing is bad behavior, but do I give a flying two fucks? NO. I love the controversial and negative reactions. Doesn’t bother me a bit. It’s why I keep doing this. It lets me know people are paying attention. I’ll write what I please. Not only that I do this for what is best for me and the music scene, I also do it for fun. Seeing mixed responses on my local band rants is just entertaining as hell! Yes, it’s addicting.

I’m never offended at what people write or think about me. Who cares. Like I said, the trick to keep going in music and surviving in the scene, is not giving a shit about anybody whatsoever. It ain’t the end of the world. I’m no different in my songs. In my original songs, they’re full of rants and honesty. I’m going to try to make my next round of original songs less controversial though. I want everyone to enjoy them.

This is my last write up about this for now. I got better things to post.

Kev