Pretty much all musicians deal with drama with other musicians in music, at some point. I’m not the only one that goes through this, all musicians go through drama. All musicians will run into other musicians who thought they were their friend but they weren’t after all this time. They fight publicly online and offline privately as well.

You’ve been nothing but supportive and kind to this other musician you’re trying to be friends with but suddenly the other musicians wants nothing to do with you. The other guy (or woman) wants nothing to do with you ever. No contact online or they don’t even want to see you in person.

I’ve dealt with this a lot, and I’m sure you’ve had your share of it as well. Why is it that drama happens with musicians?

Ego & jealousy for sure. That is a small part of it. I’m sure there’s more reasons to that, maybe misunderstandings during a discussion or something like that. Everyone has their own reasons why drama happens, but ego & jealousy is pretty much what starts it all.

If you’ve been through this, don’t think for a second that it will damage your music career. It won’t. Sometimes drama in music is needed, if you think about it. It can actually help your career. When musicians say that they have had a positive career their whole life, bullshit. You know that’s a lie. Every musician and band dealt with some negativity & drama, here and there.

Things would get boring if everything was happy, positive and joyful, all the time, right? So it don’t hurt to have different emotions. It’s good to have those ups and downs.

Drama can actually make you a better musician and a better songwriter. Can inspire new lyrics and songs. It can also help make you a more popular musician with all the controversy surrounded it, if it’s made public.

So don’t feel regretful if this stuff happens to ya. I don’t let drama bother me anymore like I used to. I just let it go, let it slide and move forward. I act like it never happened these days.

Even the famous bands & musicians deal with a lot of drama. Music maybe a hard & difficult world, but don’t ever be upset over the drama in music. You gotta be a tough SOB and stay above this stuff, the best you can. Drama is okay in music sometimes.

Kev

Like always, you should not blame other people or even the music scene itself for failure in music. If you get lack of support or respect of your music, then that’s a sign that you have a lot more work to do.

In my previous post titled, “lack of support from your hometown”, I wasn’t exactly blaming my hometown for not supporting my music. I was just expressing my disappointment about it. How they supported other Greenwich musicians, instead of supporting my own, ’cause of this “support your hometown musicians” thing, know what I mean? I wasn’t really blaming anything at all and I’m not jealous of anything either.

Then, I learned that when you want to become a successful musician in your hometown or a wider audience, I guess you can’t ask for the respect, you have to earn it. How do you earn that respect with your music?

A few things:

– Improve your playing on your instrument
– Improve your songwriting
– Improve your singing
– Practice more, do not rush, and take your time
– Promote yourself more
– Have a professional and good attitude, at all times

If you can do all these things, then you might have a good chance of moving forward to bigger dreams.

You have to reach for your goals yourself, they don’t fall in your lap.

Kev

While I do plan on interviewing local bands and giving CD reviews and more on here, keep in mind, that I’m not going to be choosing bands/artists randomly. I will only do this stuff on bands/artists if I like their music. If I come across a band or artist that is interesting to me and if I like their music good enough that is worth posting here, I’ll do it. So if you try to submit your music to me to get looked at, don’t feel offended if you don’t get any responses or no blog posts. The reason is, there is so much music out there, that I can’t listen to everything, so I just go around trying to find stuff that I like.

I won’t give bands/artists negative reviews like I used to in the past, this will be a positive thing.

Also, if I’m lucky enough, I would even welcome indie bands and national bands if I can get them. It seems that more famous artists are using the internet to interact with people these days, so never know I could interview a famous musician for this site someday, would be cool!

This site is welcome for all bands and artists. In the area or out of the area. If I like your music good enough, it’s pretty likely you’ll get a shout out on here.

Kev