Nothing wrong with supporting other musicians that you like and becoming friends with them… all of that is good but the trick is you don’t wanna support musicians at random. I stopped doing that a long time ago. I don’t support musicians who don’t share the same respect in return. What you wanna do is support musicians who really believe in you. If they really like you as a person and musician, that’s when you wanna return the favor. Show them your full support in return. When you do this that way you can absolutely tell that these musicians really do believe in you.

Ways you can tell that other musicians really believe in you and respect you:

1) They are always positive about you. They think you are a good person.

2) They support your music and willing to help you. They go to your shows. Always giving positive feedback on your music and playing. Things like that.

3) They stay loyal to you no matter what others say about you. In other words, they stay friendly with you no matter all the negative things people say about you.

When musicians treat you like shit for no reason and treat you with disrespect, why continue to support them, ya know? They no longer deserve the support and respect when they all of a sudden act like a jerk. You were nothing but nice to this guy. You went to his band’s shows a lot, you bought his albums… gave his band good reviews… they don’t care to return the same respect.

This is what’s going on with me. I was nothing but extremely supportive of this band. A well known local original band who plays country/bluegrass rock and I’m sure you know who I’m talking about. I went to a lot of their shows. Bought all the albums they released. Gave them plenty of shoutouts on my blog and even gave their latest album a positive review. I’m done with that now ’cause their frontman won’t show me respect. He have seemed to join the Brock hating bandwagon.

You see, don’t support musicians like that when all they want to do is spew out all kinds of negative opinions about you.

Make no mistake about it, though… I have other musicians around the area who respect me and I am grateful and honored for that. I do have other musicians who fully support me around the area… agree with it or not. It’s true.

Just because one musician is saying all kinds of negative opinions about you doesn’t necessarily mean the rest of them will agree. All negative criticism about you is just all opinion. That’s it. End of story.

Like I repeatedly say, haters are gonna hate.

Like I said before, only support musicians who support you. That’s how you create your own little music community. No matter what people say about you… you’ll always get supporters and fans. Never listen to the negative jerks.

I know you enjoy this band’s music but why would you want to continue to support them when they don’t seem to care about you at all?

That’s not how a band should act around people. They shouldn’t even have a career and shouldn’t even be playing music. Bands who treat people like shit should be banned from playing clubs and venues. They don’t deserve all the opportunities and good stuff they are getting.

It’s all ego. They’re egomaniacs who think they’re better than you. Pay no attention to them and only support the musicians who DO like you. Music life would be easier this way. 🙂

Kev