You try your best to get the word out for your music. You’re proud of what you do musically and try your best to get everyone to like it and support it. Sometimes a small amount of people will be kind enough to support you but sure enough, there will be a handful of others who won’t support you. You will get a lot of people pretending to be nice about your music when in reality, they don’t really like what you do and they are afraid to admit it publicly as a way of being polite. You try to get people to join your facebook fan pages, twitter or other social networking sites; even your own family members and friends refuses to support your music. Some don’t mind you promoting yourself; some will find it annoying. Yes, you’re gonna come across a lot of people with whacky and strange attitudes. The people who don’t support your music prefer to support other bands who think that are more talented than you. You’ll get mixed reactions. I go through it all the time.

When you see all this, the last thing you want to do is see all of this as a bad thing. It actually lets you know that you do have something special with your music. Your fellow musicians and other people in the area who refuse to support your music even if they are nice to you are probably just a little bit “jealous” of you in a way.

When I support other bands & musicians, I’ve never had that kind of attitude. If you’ve noticed the way I supported local music over the years, I supported other bands ’cause I really mean it that I like their music. I was never the one to pretend to like their music just to be polite type, know what I mean? I know what talent is all about in a musician. I know a talented musician when I see one. If I don’t like a bands/artists music, I will try to find ways to say things without trying to hurt them. A lot of people around here like to be openly opinionated and outspoken of other bands, that has never been me. I like to treat music in a positive direction whether locally or nationally. I’m not negative about music that much. Once in a while, I’ll have something  negative to say about bands/artists but I try not to do that too much anymore.

I like to support other bands & artists as a music fan myself; not just to promote my own music, ya know? I like to be real with music. I’ll support bands/artists if I like their music so much and if I don’t like their stuff, I’ll just be nice about it and try to keep that opinion to myself. If other bands & musicians chooses to treat me in a negative direction, I’ll just act like they’re dead to me and it’s been working quite fine.

The trick is, just keep doing your thing with your music and don’t let the weird and mixed responses get to ya. Don’t be offended by it. Look at it as an inspiration and something to learn from. I certainly learned a lot from it! There’s going to be plenty of folks who are afraid to admit that you are talented yet they refuse to support you out of jealousy. It’s a good thing actually. Let ’em get jealous and pissed off at your talent. It’s letting you know, that you are good. Not trying to sound like an ego-maniac here. Just being real.

Kev