Are you one of those musicians always getting ignored in your music scene??? Ya know, you try to get your music out there the best you can and people around here always act like you’re nothing? You release mp3’s of your songs or videos of yourself performing your songs and you don’t get many views/plays? If you make albums on CD… you submit your albums to online websites to get reviewed but you keep getting rejected? You try to contact local online promoters hoping to give you a shout-out of your music and you get nothing? You don’t even get a write-up in the newspapers or any of that stuff? People you know well refuses to go to your gigs and they don’t support your music. Other musicians pretending to support your music when they really don’t. They seem to support their friends music more than yours. You get the deal here.

I’ve been through all this shit myself but you know what? Who cares… it just proves that this scene promotes music in a negative direction and not positive as they all think. What I explained in the paragraph above, I’ve seen other musicians go through the same thing — not just me.

It’s really hard to get recognized in your area, it really is. We all try our best to become successful — even me.

The thing is, if people continue to treat your music negatively, who cares. Just worry about your own music and care about that only. Who cares about what everybody else thinks. If people don’t wanna believe in you, what you wanna do is keep playing your music. Keep making music and create your own scene/community. Prove everybody wrong that you can be something special. Music should really be for you, anyways.

Who cares about getting popularity or being successful. As long as you’re writing songs/playing covers… you already are successful. You’ve come a long way. Try not to let the negativity around people intimidate you. In my opinion, success in music is not getting lots of fans and getting your face everywhere as much as possible. Success to me is being able to write a song or master a cover song and being good at it.

Let people in the scene live in their own fantasy worlds and do your own thing. A true “local musician” is not worried about becoming big. They just do what they love, that’s it. These are guys who don’t mind playing in crap bar rooms or playing regular house gigs… they don’t care to hit the big stages and make lots of money — they just wanna ROCK!!!! \m/ To me, that’s more successful than anything. Even if you suck and can land a gig at a crap bar or a cafe… you’ve already came a long way, right? Think about it.

I’m doing fine and happy what I’m doing. Even though I haven’t been playing gigs or open mics lately myself, I’m just happy making music for the internet. I don’t see other local music websites and blogs writing about my music but I’m cool with it, ya know? I have my own blog here, that’s all I need. That’s part of why I started a blog years ago so I can promote my music and get it out there my own way. It works. If I never had a blog… then people wouldn’t have known about me being a musician.

I try my best to get people more interested in my music more than my online web presence.

It maybe hurtful that people around here don’t care but take that as a compliment. It could be that they might be “jealous” a little bit and they don’t want to admit that you’re talented. If people think you suck, don’t let it bother you.

Just do what you love and don’t trust anybody. Believe in your own dreams and goals… not worrying about what everyone says or thinks about you.

Kev