Apparently, the so-called award show called, “The Jammy’s” which is happening at Trickshot venue later this month has gotten mixed opinions from musicians around the scene.  There has been some controversy over it. When musicians disagree with this event it isn’t because they are jealous. There’s a pretty good reason why musicians disagree with an award show in the local music scene. I think the main reason why musicians turn it down is ’cause they don’t need to be awarded for the music that they do. That’s not what they do this for. They don’t need a trophy or a medal to do what they do. It’s not about jealousy at all… it’s about themselves and being a musician. As I explained in a post before a lot of these guys just play music for the love of it. They don’t care to win anything.

Musicians who do happen to support a local music award show are probably those who are willing to do whatever it takes to get recognition… in other words, they are desperate. Mostly musicians who are struggling to get recognition. The more successful musicians wouldn’t care about something like this.

I understand that people want to do something positively for musicians who work hard for what they do but an award show is not a way to do it. Musicians award themselves on their own terms… we don’t need people in the music scene awarding them. Kind of hard to explain but I think you might understand what I’m trying to get at here.

On top of that, an award show shouldn’t be hosted by amateurs such as Tier One Talent. If there was gonna be an award show in this area… it would be run by professionals, and not frauds. An award show would not be at a small pool table hall either. An award show would be at a small theater or at SPAC in Saratoga Springs. Not at some freakin’ bar.

I’m pretty sure these guys at Tier One Talent can’t afford real trophies or medal plaques (they would be very expensive). So chances are, the winners are probably gonna get some cheap plastic thing.

I think this event is going to fail, anyways. It’ll probably still happen as planned but I don’t think there will be a good crowd turnout. I think the only crowd they’ll get are the usual regulars at Trickshot, probably a bunch of drunken whack jobs. A lot of musicians nominated probably have shows that night anyway and I’m sure a few of the bands scheduled to perform probably won’t even show up. This event is scheduled pretty close to Thanksgiving and people won’t show up for that reason alone. Local music gigs usually slow down during the Holiday season.

I’m still interested of how this show is going to turn out, though. It’s probably gonna be a disaster of a show. They’re just going to try and be copycats of what you see on TV. I can see a lot of bad Miley Cyrus jokes going through this whole show.

Kev