You gotta love the way local musicians post in social networking sites. Musicians who have their own personal pages and I’m not talking about their band pages — their personal pages. The way these musicians post in their pages is absolutely crazy (not naming names). A lot of them would have somewhere around 2,000 to 5,000 friends or way more. They would add all kinds of random people and then they would pretend to have a huge “fanbase”. They would also use their personal pages to promote all kinds of band stuff when their personal page is originally used to be more “personal” with stuff. I’m noticing a lot of musicians don’t reply to people that write to them ’cause these musicians think they’re too good for people to get a response. There are some musicians that do respond to people but when they do it’s usually either a thank you or a thumbs up to their facebook posting, not much of a response. So basically, what I’m saying here is that a lot of musicians like to jerk themselves off with their self importance. It’s because they think they have too much “success” with their music and then they have a celebrity-like attitude about it. It’s pretty ridiculous, all of it. They can be pretty arrogant people.

I’ve never had that attitude. I’m not a celebrity, a star, or a “legend” like what some people mistakenly call me. I’m just a simple human being enjoying life and playing the music. That’s the kind of attitude you should have. Leave your ego at the door. Be approachable and humble to people. I never had that attitude where I pretend to be “popular”. I never acted like I am the better musician than others ’cause I know there are musicians out there that are way more talented than me. I never acted like I play so great ’cause in fact, I’ll have to admit that I’m not that great musically — I play ’cause I love it. Playing music is what I do. I don’t do it for popularity or fame like so many local musicians get so obsessed with… I don’t care for that kind of dream.

If I have a large fan following, great… if I have no fans, that’s great too.

If you’re getting so much success, great opportunities and other accolades with your music… congratulations… I’m happy for ya but you don’t need to act like a big shot about it. It doesn’t make you any bigger — you’re still a local musician like me.

On the internet… I’m willing to respond to everyone who writes to me. I won’t wait to respond to people with silly, “Q&A” sessions. I’ll respond to people personally all the time. I won’t make silly youtube videos or facebook postings with a bunch of nonsense “thank you notes”, thanking fans for the support. This isn’t the freakin’ Oscar awards. I won’t respond to people to promote my music with them, I’ll respond to them directly — treating them like real people.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried writing to so many other local musicians and got no response back ’cause they think they’re too good for you to get a response from them.

We’re unsigned musicians, ya know? That’s all we are so stop taking yourselves so seriously.

Kev