If you’re a musician and you start criticizing other bands successes; chances are, they’re gonna respond and become all defensive. They’ll start saying the usual bullshit like “you’re only jealous”, “you just sit at your computer while other bands are out there making music and packing up crowds”, and blah blah blah. You get the deal. Then they’ll start making a list of accomplishments they achieved, and make a bunch of claims on how they got there with hard work and commitment. Some would even go out of their way to criticize my music and the way I do things. If that is the best response some of you out there can come up with, then that just even more proof that you aren’t the professional musician that you are making yourself out to be. I’m pretty used to dealing with musicians who respond to me in that way. It’s nothing new with me.

A true professional musician wouldn’t respond to people in that attitude. A true professional would just ignore it, laugh it off and move on with their music. A true professional wouldn’t care about what’s written about them online. A true professional wouldn’t have time to deal with honest reviews. If you were a true professional musician, you wouldn’t write me the way you do. You would be spending most of your time making records or playing shows.

The last thing a musician wants to do is to jerk themselves off with their accomplishments. It’s a big turn off. It’s pretty arrogant and all you’re doing is proving how much of an ego you really have. A real musician wouldn’t talk about their own success. They can’t even tell if they’re successful and that’s a good attitude to have. You don’t want to call yourself a “successful” or “established” band. You want to let the people tell you that.

I’m happy that other bands get success in their music. I’m not knocking the success of other bands & solo artists. I’m only knocking the way they get it. A lot of them use managers/promoters to get there and they get there by entering stupid contests like Battle of the Bands/radio contests/etc. They would even go as far as going through Pay to Play scams such as Afton and things like that. All that stuff is not a DIY approach to getting success in music. It’s called being lazy and cheating, in my opinion. That is not hard work and commitment the way I’m seeing it.

I have seen bands & artists out there who have gotten lots of success and opportunities on their own without anybody’s help. Bands/artists didn’t even use managers/promoters to get bigger. They got bigger by making the good music and promoting themselves to death. They didn’t get there by using other people. They got there by doing the work themselves.

Even if you got success in music, that still doesn’t make you god’s gift to music and doesn’t make you better than everyone. You’re still a local musician like the rest of us. Bands also claim they make money for what they do around here when I know that’s a flat out lie. The reality is, bands don’t make a lot of money around here these days. I’m sure they make some but they certainly don’t make a lot.

A lot of bands & musicians are pretty pretentious people around here.

This area of local music is not such a friendly scene as some people mistakenly think it is. Everybody wants to criticize one another. People would want to mistakenly believe that musicians have a problem with me and they accuse me of starting negativity/drama with my online rants but that’s okay, let ’em think that way. If my writing style and online presence bothers you so much, then why are you still reading & replying? If you think you’re so great at what you do, and think you’re so successful & big, then don’t pay attention to me… continue to work on your music. Nope. A lot of them continue to read my blogs for whatever reason. I just think they’re addicted and they can’t wait to see what I’m about to write next.

Musicians have horrible attitudes around here, that’s a fact that can’t be denied. I just try to be nice, supportive, helpful and even try to give ’em advice but they just want to be douchebags. Can you blame me for my honest rants? Quite frankly, I think they deserve it. The reason they usually get defensive and try to put me down is ’cause they feel that I’m not in their league musically, not at their level so they feel the need to think they’re better than me. Make no mistake about it, I don’t get hurt at the way musicians respond to me as I’m a pretty strong and tough dude. I don’t let ’em get me.

They also make claims they get success with a professional attitude but the way they write me sometimes… that’s not a professional attitude at all the way I look at it. They have hypocrite written all over their faces.

We could have a better scene if this area was a little more friendly and “professional” acting ’cause we don’t have either of that around here, for sure.

Kev