All posts by Kev Brock

I'm a musician, singer/songwriter, blogger, writer, poet, bodybuilder, movie lover, music lover, video gamer, history/political buff, conservative/republican, etc. I like to do a lot of things.

Everyone either wants to be famous or they think they are famous…

One thing, I find interesting about the Internet, is all the crazy delusions and fantasy worlds that goes around people. A lot of people, want to think they are stars these days, or they just want to be. This post is not aimed at just musicians and bands. This goes for other people who think they have a career in something. This goes for bodybuilder trainers in YouTube, models in Facebook, local politicians, professional photographers, etc. Whatever it is you do, everyone wants to think they are great at something, so they promote themselves to death on the Internet as a way to get their talent out there more.

I understand that these guys want to publicly show off their talents. If you like what you do, please try to understand that the Internet is not going to help you make the big time. Some of the guys even think they are in the big time when they are not. It’s very rare that the Internet makes people famous. If fame is what you want, you must do more work beyond the Internet. Again, this is not just for bands, any career.

Go back to college to study your career dream more, take some classes. Do a lot of reading. It’s a long road to be successful at something and sitting there on the Internet is not going to pull it.

Some will accuse me of thinking I am famous or wanting to be famous, but for you longtime readers, you would know I never thought of myself this way. I leave my ego at the door. The Internet makes it easier for people to pretend they are a celebrity, when they are not. It’s crazy. Everyone wants to think they are a star, because, I blame it on gossip sites like TMZ and such.

A lot of folks on here who think they have a career, think they are something important and special. In other words, they are self centered. They just want to be at the center of your attention at all times, and Facebook is evidence of that. People who run their own like fan pages are crazy. I just read them for kicks, I don’t post on like pages too much.

Kev.

Going to WWE RAW “World Tour” event tonight…

Yep. Tonight I’m going to a live WWE show, “RAW World Tour”, tonight at the Glens Falls Civic Center. It’s a house show, so it’s not going to be a televised event. Still going to be fun ’cause I like seeing WWE live. It’s fun to see all the guys you see on TV live in person. I’m looking forward to booing the hell out of John Cena tonight. Hopefully, Brock Lesnar will be in Glens Falls to perform. I doubt it ’cause WWE did a storyline with Brock that he quit the company (storyline, not real), so it wouldn’t make sense if he showed up tonight, but ya never know. Like they all say, anything is possible in the WWE. Lesnar could do a run in interference during the Cena vs. The Miz match tonight. It’s going to be a nice time, I’m looking forward to tonight. I’m planning to buy a CM Punk t-shirt and the sleeveless Lesnar shirt if they’ll be selling them at the merchandise area. I’m sure they’ll have them for sale there. I like collecting WWE shirts. I have wrestling shirts of Cactus Jack, Undertaker, the Nexus and the Rock. Even though I don’t like the current PG rating, I just appreciate the wrestling business and the performers. I still respect what they do.

Anyway, I’m no longer using Google Chrome. It keeps freezing up my internet every time I launch it. It’s Chrome doing it. Not the hardware or anything like that. So I uninstalled Chrome and now I’m back on Firefox. Firefox don’t seem to be freezing on me at all, so I’m all good now, I think. I’ll stay on FF. Chrome is crap.

Kev

When bands become obsessed making fun of me online… why they do it…

I’m okay with internet haters and people making fun of me online. I can deal with that stuff and stay above it pretty well. Why? Because I have better things to worry about then concentrate on that stuff which means little to me. I got a lot going on in my personal life off the computer, plus, all I care about doing is playing my music and working out, doing the fitness thing.

I don’t understand why other bands become obsessed making fun of me or bashing me online. They would go in this certain bands facebook account(this rock band that I still respect, should be nameless but you’ll figure out who I’m referring to), going around the entire internet looking for quotes that I said online, and making fun of it. They would call me all kinds of offensive names and all kinds of crazy things without mentioning my name. Joke around and laugh at me continuously like some kind of comedy thing.

I’ve been wanting to say that if these guys had a problem with me, then why don’t they just come say this stuff to me, like a real adult? I’m not that hard to find. Why not write me an e-mail or even better speak to me in person? Nope. Instead, they do the bashing, bullying and harassment with their fans like little kids in pre-school. Personally, I don’t find what they do funny, and this is part of the reason why I can’t add random people in my facebook account anymore.

I don’t get why bands do these things. It’s childish and pretty unprofessional. As for why they do it, I believe it’s just their way of secretly promoting themselves off of me. They like that attention. When they do it and they won’t stop, their fans will like what they do and they join the bullying bandwagon. The sad part is, most of these guys don’t know anything about me and they haven’t even met me. Their fans go along with it, because they support that band and will think they have the right to do this stuff ’cause the band is doing it. It’s just this band’s way of getting more fans, that’s pretty much it really. That’s the only reason why they won’t stop their bullying.

I’ve said it before, I have nothing personal against this band. I enjoy their music and think they’re good performers. I just wish they would leave me out of things, but there’s nothing I can do about it. Free country, I guess. I just want these guys to focus on the music. Notice I don’t obsess with bullying other bands anymore like I used to? It’s because I have better things to do and better things to worry about. Plus, I’m trying to make my life as positive and happy as possible. I don’t have time for bullshit.

Kev

Musicians & Bands don’t need a label to be successful!

Reverb Nation website just put up a great blog that I just had to post here. The blog shows you how musicians & bands could get success in their music even without a label, and this article gives proof on how that could happen.

Read it, here.

If you want success with your music, all it takes is hard work and doing it all yourself. Making the best music possible if you want to be respected. You can become a recognizable musician by not signing with a label at all. If labels ever started asking me to sign with them, I’m not saying it will happen but what if, I would probably turn them all down. I wouldn’t care how much money they would offer me ’cause I don’t do music for money and fame.

You can still get thousands of fans even without a label. You can still have a great career on a high note even without a label. You can still get great opportunities even without a label. Who needs, a record label, ya know?

The industry is such a difficult world, it’s going to be overwhelming for you, I’m telling you. The way the industry is today, I wouldn’t want anything to do with the major label industry. If today was the 1950’s or even the 1970’s, yes, I probably would have signed a record contract back then ’cause those days the industry was something special. The industry is not the same anymore. It’s all greed, power and corporate bullshit.

Like the article said, you’re better off staying unsigned. Period.

Kev

Cool Video: Bono makes surprise appearance at “The Living Room” in NYC to perform with Glen Hansard…

Bono, the lead singer of U2, makes a rare and surprise public appearance at “The Living Room” music venue in NYC to perform, a song with Irish singer/songwriter, Glen Hansard. I believe Glen and Bono are pretty close friends, as they are both from, Ireland. Glen was in NYC last night to play an intimate acoustic show, and Bono just happened to be in town, so Glen invited Bono to sing a song with him.

Pretty cool performance, and this proves that Bono can really sing too.

Kev

Well, look like this will make President Obama to win the re-election no matter what happens…he is now all for same sex marriage…

Just when you’re thinking that Obama lost all the respect from people, look like he might win the respect back ’cause he’s doing a little flip flopping on gay marriage in the USA. At first he was against it, now he’s all for it. You know what this means, right? This means he could get a lot more supporters, especially from the gay community. Him supporting gay marriage to be legalized in the U.S. all around, will alone, make him win the re-election. The republicans can try their best to defeat Obama, but it’s not going to happen now.

I don’t support same sex marriage, that’s how I feel on these things, and if other people don’t like it, I don’t care. Call me an asshole for it, that’s fine. I have a right for what I want to believe in and entitled to my own opinion.

More on the story, here.

Sorry, Obama haters, but it looks like we’re going to have to put up with him for another 4 years.

Kev

Been having computer problems, but things seem to be fine now…

My computer kept freezing for the past week or so. Kept thinking it was the internet or something to do with software. Then I realized that it had something to do with hardware. So I opened the computer up and it was really dusty and dirty inside the machine. I’ve had this machine for several years and have never dusted it out ever since I got it. Yeah, it was a real mess. So I went out to Kmart and bought one of those canned air dust cleaner things. So I cleaned the inside of the computer to make it look shiny and nice again. Hooked my computer back up, and the computer was no longer freezing anymore. Things seem to be back to normal. So that’s why my computer kept freezing ’cause it was asking to get cleaned out inside. So if I haven’t been posting much this is probably why. My computer seem to be working good now, I’ll see how it goes from here on.

Kev

Cool Video: Here’s the trailer for William Friedkin’s, “Killer Joe”, looks like a badass film too!!!

Look like Matthew McConaughey is playing the badguy in this movie. The film also stars Emille Hirsh and Gina Gershon. This film looks pretty cool as well. It’s an independent film so it won’t be shown in that many theaters when it’s released. I will see it when it arrives on DVD/BluRay though. I didn’t even know Friedkin was still alive and still directing, kidding. Enjoy!

Kev