You know how when local bands like to put on benefit shows to raise money for a charity of their choice for a good cause? While all this is good and cool, don’t trust every benefit show these bands hosts. A lot of these benefit shows can be fake. Well, these benefit shows really do happen, of course but the question you have to ask yourself is — will the benefit show organizers be sending this money they raised to that charity or will they stick that money into their own pockets for their own financial income? That’s what you gotta watch out for, ya know? Hey, I love Benefit gigs. I played on a few of them myself in the past but before you go attend a benefit show, you do your research and be careful with things beforehand. If you go to the wrong Benefit gig, your money that you gave them could be going in the organizers pockets instead of the charity. You wouldn’t want that would ya?

If you want to go to benefit shows for whatever charity — whether it will be for the troops, cancer victims, natural disasters, etc. — don’t believe in all of them. People jump into these benefit shows ’cause they immediately believe they are legit. If things start to look a little suspicious, don’t trust the organizers. I just came across a benefit show that was done by tribute bands that they took money from people for themselves instead of sending the money to charity.

You gotta watch out for that stuff. In your local music scene, you can’t trust anyone and anything.

I don’t trust anybody in local music as people can be too crazy around here. This area is not a positive and lovable music scene as everyone mistakenly thinks it is.

Kev