Sure. Musicians can act how they want to in the music world. I’m not trying to force people how to act. They can act like they’re better than everyone, have short tempers, and have bad attitudes all they want to.

Or, you could be the nice guy musician. Being nice, friendly and courteous at all times. Being nice to people, and you get the same respect back.

It’s your choice, who you want to be. All musicians have different personalities. Some can be the niceguy and some can be the badguy.

I prefer to be the nice guy. If things don’t go my way in the music scene or if I run into someone I don’t like, I’ll let it slide right by and focus on the positive instead. You gotta understand what good & bad karma does in music.

When you be the niceguy, everyone will start to say great things about you and will respect you even more. Wouldn’t it be cool if someone said, “I haven’t seen anything negative said about this guy and he’s always smiling”. Talk to fans and musicians as if they were your friends, just be positive about everything. I’m trying the best I can. You should try it too.

Sure, there is still going to be people that are still not going to like me, no matter how positive or nice I get. That’s okay, you should still keep it that way. Staying positive and ignoring the negative people.

A lot of musicians and music fans like to call me, “delusional”, which that word seems to be the most over used word in the music world. Musicians seem to want to call each other that all the time. One guy thinks they’re telling the truth and the other is delusional. *yawn* Can you come up with anything new? All musicians want to think they’re doing nothing wrong, all want to think they’re better and smarter than others.

Not all musicians are like that, I know. I do know there are kind musicians who treat people with respect, and I know there are some that still treat me with respect. I do know there are professional acting musicians who never get into this drama stuff. Those are the kind of musicians I like to be around with. I know who they are.

If you all of a sudden, don’t get along with musicians anymore that you’ve been friends with in the past, that means they never supported you after all this time. If there are musicians that still support you, no matter what happens, that’s what a true professional really is.

As some of you can see, I still get some support by other musicians around the scene, which I’m honored for that. That’s one of the reasons why I decided to start talking local music again to start promoting the scene more with reviews, interviews, etc.I want to return that respect back. I’ll start the musician interviews next week.

Kev

Yes, that’s right. I’m going to legendary bluesman, Ernie Williams, funeral tomorrow. Gonna go and pay my respects. Even if I never saw the man perform or met him, I respect him for the legacy he created here, so I’m going to show my support.

Tomorrow will be an interesting day. I’m sure a lot of local musicians all over the place are going too. I’ll be going with a musician buddy of mine, he actually invited me to go.

I’ll probably write all about it, when I get back home. I usually don’t go to funerals for people I don’t know, but somehow, I knew Ernie Williams even if I didn’t.

Kev

When you try to give friendly advice to bands & musicians if you disagree with something they do, a lot of them get angry and upset about it. You were nothing but nice and friendly about it, and then they start yelling at ya for no reason. Why?  I believe it’s part of an ego thing, period.

The band is doing something with their music and going places, they feel that you are not up at their level, so they look at you like second class citizens. Which makes them feel like that you don’t deserve to give them advice and your 2cents.

The only time a band will take advice from people are from other bands and promoters that are successful in their own way. Some of them will ignore real people like me. That’s okay though. Like Steve said in this blog in the comments, let the bands have their big egos and bad attitudes. Let them mess up their careers.

That is why I write band posts on this blog ’cause I do know, most of them are reading (probably about 90% of local musicians reading my site on a daily basis still). This is why I write about band stuff here, it’ll hopefully get musicians think, “Hmmmm, maybe Brock is right”. Get the deal? That’s the goal with the blog. Get my message across to musicians to a hopeful better music scene.

Kev

I’m sure some of you musicians out there have family members as musicians. As some of you know that includes me. If you have brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, or who ever being a musician just like yourself. If you think they support everything you do, think again. You even have to win their respect as well. It sucks but it is what it is. You’ll learn this harsh truth soon enough.

Sure, some musicians that have family members as musicians will get along no matter what, but every family is different. There are family musicians out there can dislike each other, just ask Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis.

When it comes to family musicians not getting along, ego and jealousy gets in the way with everything between the two of them (including me too). That’s all it is really. I guess this is pretty normal in the music world, so I’m not worried about it.

One wants to think you’re doing nothing wrong and the other side wants to think you are. Ah yes, drama. Gotta love it. It never seems to end. I got my own music to work on and my own life to concentrate, so I’m all good. Gonna move forward and keep on making the music.

Kev

I’ve said it before guys. When you want to be in a band or be a solo artist, when you become successful and established in your area, you need to act like professionals. You need to act like a professional at all times, no matter where you go and no matter who you talk to. You have to be friendly, positive and have a good attitude at all times. Even on the internet.

When you become successful and get a lot of fans, get a lot of press, etc. You can’t be a negative person. In other words, you can’t be an asshole. That’s the problem with the local music scene. Bands become successful, their egos would get even bigger and when they’re publicly being negative in facebook, twitter, etc., on the internet, after you just became successful, that’s not a cool thing to do.

If you want to make it in the music industry, these guys take professionalism very seriously. The industry is no joke, if you want to make it. You have to have good karma at all times. Being a negative person, bad karma will get at you. Think how club owners and other promoters would think if they see a band acting like an asshole online, they’ll say, “No thanks, next please”. I’m serious. I’m only speaking from experience, ’cause I’ve dealt with the same thing.

What is going to happen if you’re being a huge egomaniac, an asshole or a drama queen online? Well for one, club owners get could you banned from playing there. Promoters will refuse to book you, and the press could start writing some pretty bad stuff about you. Even worse, you could turn off your fans and they will no longer support your music. I’ve been there, done that. Learning from my mistakes.

I tell other bands this, they get all pissed, and become defensive. Like I said before, they’ll think you’re the badguy. I know I’m right on this, it’s just that the truth bothered them. They just didn’t like hearing the truth, simple as that.

If this is how you’re going to act toward people, then you’re not fit for the music industry. Sorry but it’s the truth.

I know many musicians out there don’t like my internet personality. I’m sure some of them are going to laugh at this and hide behind freedom of speech, but I speak reality here. I am, who I am. An honest guy, who is not afraid to be real about things. Some musicians may accuse me of being delusional, but I mean well. I’m an honest guy who sees everything with reality. People think they can get away with reality. Some musicians may disagree with what I say here, but I have some musicians that support this blog and agree with everything I say on here.

I’m the same guy on and off the computer. If you want to hate only for being honest, go right ahead. It just shows that you aren’t really supportive, and I’m okay with that. I can’t please everyone. Bad karma will kick your ass hard. You won’t even make it in the industry if you keep acting like an asshole.

On a lighter note, I’ve been quiet most of the day ’cause I ended up writing and recording music. Yep, recording new songs again. That’s why I’ve been quiet lately.

Kev