Some of you have seen me complain about the local music scene over the years. The Albany of the Capital Region. It’s not that we have a pretty lacking scene (which we do, no doubt about that) but what’s bothering about this scene are the attitudes and different personalities of musicians. I tried my best to be supportive, helpful, and friendly to ALL of them as much as I can. Seriously, I really did. There’s no doubt that the world of local musicians can be crazy and weird. All musicians are different. We live in a world where musicians have short-tempers, musicians who are critical/opinionated of others, they can be pretty selfish, pretty obsessive of their self-importance, they can be pretty narcissistic, musicians can be sometimes unprofessional, they can have HUGE egos, thinking that they’re superstars/legends in their own minds, delusions of grandeur, etc. I can keep going. We have plenty of musicians living in their own fantasy worlds.

Not all of them are like that, though. We definitely have musicians out there who are friendly, down-to-earth, humble and we have positive musicians who will care. There are musicians who don’t take themselves seriously and they do keep negative opinions to themselves — they just focus on the music. Those are the kind of musicians who I support.

My point being to keep it small and simple. I avoid musicians who are negative and a bit crazy. I like supporting musicians who are positive and joyful. I know who they all are too.

Musicians maybe talented but that doesn’t necessarily make them a good person either. I’m not gonna lie that there are a lot of douchebags around here. I’m also gonna say that musicians have treated me horribly over the years, not gonna lie about that either. I tried to support their music the best I can and a lot of them didn’t care to show that support in return. While a musician maybe talented, it’s good to take their personality and their professionalism very seriously. It’s interesting how musicians think they can get away with it. You call out their attitudes, they’ll defend themselves and their supporters/fans will defend them too… that’s how their little clique works.

This is why you gotta stop caring. Stay out of other people’s drama and bullshit, just focus on your own thing musically. That’s what I plan to do from this point on. If I can give you some friendly advice, only show your support to musicians who treats you like a human being and treats with you with respect. Get the assholes out of your life asap. Works for me, all the time by just getting rid of the ones I don’t like. I have dealt with bullshit with musicians for years and still do to this day. I’ve had plenty of musicians who I thought was my friend and got stabbed in the back by many of them. It’s crazy, I know. I think it’s because a lot of them use me ’cause they know my web-presence is big and they try to get recognition off of that.

I do support local bands and musicians. I’m only going to support the ones that I like. There are very few talent that I respect the hell out of in this area, not gonna name names in this post but maybe another post later on.

This is pretty much why I have been avoiding the music scene more and more ’cause of what I’ve explained above. Sorry but that’s how I feel about the music scene currently. It never changed. We always had a garbage music scene.

Kev