This area thinks they are promoting local music, “positively” but from what I’m seeing… they aren’t. They never had and they never will. How??? Let me explain…

It’s not only jealousy or ego… it’s always been about “cliques” around here. It’s just different groups of musicians trying to promote their little community of musician friends. That’s all it is around here pretty much. It seems that musicians only support musicians with talent and think they have something. They only support the ones who are “professional”. It’s all about supporting their musician friends in this area. It’s all about promoting their friends and trying to get them recognized. They ignore the musicians around here who think that don’t matter. There are plenty of talented musicians who are struggling around the area who are being left out of these guys. Musicians around here can be pretty opinionated and “negative” when they come across musicians who they think are untalented (like myself, for example).

I’m not trying to defend myself… even if I’m a struggling musician… (am proud of what I do, I work hard and try my best to get myself out there)… I’m just saying that there are tons of talent around here that are getting ignored by the area. This area doesn’t care about struggling musicians trying to break into the music scene.

What I’m saying is that this area has always been a popularity contest… period… end of story. It’s not just that award show… it’s always been a popularity contest all around. This area is about trying to get their name known instead of supporting musicians of all levels and talent.

I hosted my own acoustic shows in the past at Caffe Lena, Slow Jed’s, and Valentine’s back in 2006-7. At those shows, they were never about “cliques” or trying to promote a musical community of friends. Those shows were just a good ol’ time. Just a bunch of musicians getting together and play each other songs that we wrote. It didn’t matter if they were professional or amateur musicians. It didn’t matter if they were established or not. It didn’t matter if they sucked musically as well. I welcomed all on those gigs of mine in the past. That’s HOW you treat local music positively folks. Supporting it all. No egos. Keeping our negative opinions to ourselves and just enjoying ourselves playing on the stage.

If you want to promote local music positively we should all get together and welcome all talent (even me). Nope. Nobody wants to promote local music like that. In this day and age it’s about becoming a big rock star with these people.

This area promotes local music, “positively”??? HA!!!!!!!!! KISS MY ASS!!!

This area has always been a negative music scene.

Kev