Whether you’re a professional musician, amateur/hobbyist, or if you’re not a musician at all and just a music lover, anyone is welcome to be an honest critic in music. I’ll repeat for the 100th time, this is what music is here for. Whether you want to say  that a band’s music is good or bad. If you want to judge their professionalism of how they act or play their shows, you have the right to do all that if you please. Honest feedback is good for the music world. The negative feedback can help. If everybody had to be 100% positive at everything, then that would make the music world boring, wouldn’t it? What ever is on your mind, you shouldn’t have to be afraid to say it, even if it might hurt people’s feelings.

It’s just that when ever a musician tries to be honest about something whether you’re a professional or amateur, they would get criticized in return. It’s almost like it’s a crime for musicians to be honest about stuff. Not only local musicians have a hard time trying to be honest about stuff, famous musicians too. For example, outspoken musicians like Dave Mustaine, Ted Nugent, Billy Corgan and Noel Gallagher. They try to be real about stuff in the industry and they get all kinds of shit back from the public, a backlash. It seems that regular music fans are welcome to be real about stuff, all they want to, but when a musician tries, it’s almost against the law.

If one musician comes out and says this band here sucks or these guys are a bunch of douche bags, everyone else will tell him stuff like, “You shouldn’t have the right to have an opinion on them, when you haven’t done anything in music ’cause your music sucks, anyway”. You get the deal, what I’m talking about. Then this musician all of a sudden becomes the most hated person in music, only for having an opinion! That’s the way music goes for a musician. It’s tougher for them to be honest about stuff ’cause music is world wide and everyone can read and hear their thoughts on stuff.

I know a lot of people have a lot to say about me or my music, either positive or negative. I can take the mixed reactions ’cause I know honest feedback can go both ways.

I get people criticizing me in return, all the time. I’m used to people telling me, that I don’t have the right to be real about music when they think I haven’t got the success or experience to back things up with. When I’m being honest about stuff, I’m doing that as a “music fan”. I’m a music lover just like everyone else. So why can’t I have an opinion? Other people are free to be honest all they want to, but when the Brock joins in, I’m all of a sudden a troll or the bad guy of the music scene.

See how the music world is messed up? See how insane people can be? People are gonna be crazy yes, but if you want to speak your mind in music, best thing to do is not care what anyone else thinks. I’m done talking about this topic now, just had to vent.
Kev

I’ve been a part of local music for years to know that it’s never been a positive scene. It never was and never will be. This music scene is full of short tempered people, and some of them also have huge egos, it’s crazy. A lot of them can also be pretty pretentious and unprofessional. Not all musicians are like this, I know some of them can be nice and professional, you just gotta find ’em. They’re all different. Once you put yourself out there publicly as a musician, you’re going to get jealous people trying to destroy your dreams and goals. Not only that musicians can be crazy people, bars/club owners/promoters can be much worse as well. I’m sure other music scenes around the U.S. are no different, but I’m tired of people thinking this is a positive scene when you know it’s a lie. I’ve seen how people do stuff at the shows and seen how local music people use the internet. I’ve seen it all.

If I see things with my own eyes, it’s pretty likely I’m going to respond and give my opinion on it. I don’t lie about things and don’t make things up. So after all these years, after some of the things I’ve seen in local music, the scene deserves to get called out on stuff on here. It is why I rant about local music. Trying to get people to have a more positive and better scene.

It’s getting even more difficult for bands & artists to get gigs these days ’cause of the bars & venues, all they care about is money. You don’t have a fanbase, you don’t get a gig. There are also too many big shot musicians who pretend to be celebrities or something.

I support local music yes, but honesty is what I’m all about. I am the Simon Cowell of the Capital District, and not ashamed of it. Sometimes this scene can be good, sometimes not. I just want whats best for musicians and for the music scene, that is all. Plus, I want what’s best for myself and my own music, that’s the big reason why I do it. If I get treated unfairly by other bands or clubs, I won’t be afraid to call out on that stuff. Nothing wrong with being real, ’cause it’s actually a pretty professional thing to do, if you think about it. Look it up yourself.

You can agree or disagree with my local music discussions, it just needs to be said.

Kev