It seems that people who dislike me (or the haters), read my site to this day, even if they want nothing to do with me. I can tell that they are, ’cause they still talk about me in facebook and other places on the internet. It seems that haters read my site more than actual fans and supporters of mine. I’m alright with that. If they want to continue to be assholes, while reading my site, that’s okay with me. I think the reason these guys still read my site, ’cause deep down inside, they actually like me still in some way, they still respect me even if they don’t want to admit it.

When you get into music you’ll get this a lot. When you don’t get along with people anymore, they’ll continue to pay attention to what you’re up to. Jealousy is also a little part of it. They continue to pay attention to you ’cause they know that you are doing the things that they aren’t doing. I’ve gotten into fitness and trying to move forward to a higher level in guitar playing, and people get mad at that when you move forward.

Don’t worry about it if this happens to you. Part of being a successful person as a musician or fitness person, you want to make people jealous. People can get very jealous of you. It’s crazy. The more jealous people get, the more successful you are at doing things. When people stop supporting you for no reason, chances are they are jealous of you. Just don’t let jealousy of other people bother ya, and be proud of it.

Kev

A lot lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of unsigned bands going on shows where they have to make fans go on websites or contact the band themselves to get tickets in order to get in the show. I would refuse to play shows like that when I get my own band going. Why? When you do shows like this, it could be a possible pay to play scheme or a scam. Don’t trust anything that’s not ticketmaster. Even if these ticket websites could be legit, the ticket pricing are usually overpriced anyway. The reason that a lot of bands want to get on shows where fans are forced to buy tickets, is that this is more evidence that these local bands want to feel like “rock stars” when they are not.

When you’re just a local musician, you should be willing to play free gigs, or play shows where they have to pay at the door. I’m willing to play free shows, ’cause I’m not about the money when playing music. I don’t have the rock star attitude like most bands have around here. Plus, it’s a bit of a pain to go on websites that you don’t know well to give them money to people you don’t know. See, what I’m saying? Fans would do anything to go see their favorite band, and they just don’t realize what they’re doing when their using credit cards on ticket websites that you don’t know much about.

I wouldn’t force people to go through all that hassle just to get a ticket. Bands disrespect their own fans when they do that, just my observation. It’s not ticketmaster guys, get out of your fantasy worlds.

Kev

If you’re the type of musician that will bash the music scene, hate on bands or blame the area for failure in your career, then you have no right to call yourself a professional musician. It also shows that you’re never going to be successful and achieve your dreams, if you keep acting this way. There are certain musicians around here, that still act this way, which should be nameless. For example, if a musician gets fired from a band or leaves a band, this musician will start bashing them publicly in facebook or some other social networking site. Calling out bands or venues, giving them threats or name calling is not the way to go.

I completely understand that a musician wants more respect with your talent around here, I hear ya, but being a negative nancy and a self centered drama queen, is not going to give you that respect. Do you have the right to say what you want about local music? Sure you do, of course. All that’s doing is damaging your career and dreams even more. Next thing you know, you won’t have a career at all. I know from experience, since I used to be this way.

Of course, this musician will think he’s doing nothing wrong. He will think he’s in the right, no matter the situation. He will think he’s telling the truth and think he has the right to do it. Point is, being an asshole in music is not good. There are too many musicians that are assholes around here, not naming names. Sure, I may agree with some that this music scene is not that great and wish this area could be better, but hating on people and disrespecting people is not going to make it better.

If you’re the musician who is the drama queen type, then maybe you’re not the good musician that you say you are. Demanding respect is not going to cut it. If you’re the type of musician who is like this, then you’re nothing but a huge egomaniac and won’t admit it. You’re not better than everyone else. You’re not god’s gift to music. You’re just the same as every other musician around here. You’re not a rock star and you’re not special.

Maybe you do have some talent, but if you’re having trouble going somewhere with your talent around here, then maybe this area isn’t for you. Move to a new area where it’s suitable for your music. Don’t blame the area for not giving you the respect around here. If you’re going to continue to be an out of control, egomaniac, then I don’t want to support you. Get out of my sight. I don’t understand why other people continue to support musicians like this. Musicians act like this for attention, that’s it. When a musician acts like this, I don’t want anything to do with them. I’ll act like they don’t exist to me. Block them from facebook. I won’t allow them to contact me, and won’t even talk to them in person. Everyone else should do the same when they see a musician act this way…but they won’t…why? Because I’m willing to bet other musicians find it entertaining, they enjoy it when a musician acts like an out of control ego-maniac. That’s how delusional people can be around here.

It’s just not a good career move. If you want the respect, I’ll say it again, you must earn it. By being a professional and treating others how you would like to be treated, then you would have a great career. I’m sure this musician knows this, but this musician will keep being a negative nancy ’cause he loves that kind of attention.

Kev

Why is it that when you bash a national band you don’t like, everyone is all cool with it? They think it’s alright to bash national bands. When you bash the unsigned and local bands, it makes you the bad guy. I’ve always wondered this. Why is this you wonder? I’ve been trying to figure this out and I think I just did. The reason it’s okay for people to bash national bands is that they are big & famous, rich. A lot of them don’t really read the internet, so they won’t really care what people would have to say about them online.

When you bash the unsigned & local bands they can, read the internet. They are able to read & reply to things since they aren’t famous and not in the big time. When you bash the unsigned bands that have a large following, their fans and supporters would usually stick up for them, no matter what is said about them. A lot of times, bands would usually reply to all the critics bashing them and they would try to defend themselves.

There are still unsigned bands & artists that I don’t like. There are some out there that I think are crap musicians and they can be unprofessional. I would like to continue to bash unsigned bands to this day and give my honest opinion on them publicly, but I would keep my opinions to myself from now on. I’m done being the bad guy in music. I have been done for a long while. It’s still okay to be brutally honest about unsigned music, just leave names out of the public and you won’t get a backlash, things would be fine.

It is weird how this is, but people are just being people. It is hard to be a critic in unsigned music ’cause everyone would get upset over the things you say, when this is only the internet. I don’t feel regret of how I posted on the internet in the past. If you think I feel bad for it, then you’re wrong. It was a learning experience for sure, and that’s how I look at it.

Kev