Yet another great blog by Loren Weisman, check it out, here.

That blog is kind of similar to what I was saying here for days. Can’t please everyone, not everyone will like you or your music. I also agree with him that any kind of publicity, bad or good, is good publicity.

All those hateful anonymous blog postings and people bashing me on youtube videos, that stuff don’t really bother me too much ’cause all it’s doing is helping to promote me, giving me more publicity. Haters can sometimes be good. I know I got a lot of bad publicity with people making fun of me and all that stuff, but that’s fine. If people want to hate me or make fun of me in facebook, blogs, twitter, or youtube, go for it.

A mixed reaction toward you or your music is actually a good thing for your career. It lets you know that people are paying attention to you and following you on a daily basis.

Musicians do have a big problem defending themselves when they’re being attacked by critics or haters. I tried not to do that too much as I’ve pretty much ignored most of it, over the years.

Here’s another good blog by a different blogger giving advice to bands/musicians with a twitter account or other social media sites. How to deal with haters and trolls? “Don’t engage, walk away“.

Don’t respond to any negativity, or you’ll be looking like the asshole instead. I  used to do it, and am learning from my mistakes. If you’re getting a mix of love and hate, that means you’re pretty successful and popular in some way, right?

Kev

Dear Bands & Musicians,

I’ve said it many times in the past and will say it again, just for this one last time. If you guys want to get further in your careers, then you need to stop being a drama queen online and get rid of your self centered attention whoring ego. It’s bad karma. I used to be like this in the past, but I couldn’t be that kind of person anymore. It’s just proves my point that the Albany music scene is so negative, everything about it. Being a negative nancy won’t help your careers folks, I know from experience. It’s just going to make your dreams worse.

Don’t blame other people that your musical dreams are getting destroyed, you’re just destroying yourself. Keep your personal problems & private life off line (’cause no one cares to read this shit). Stop your angry rants. Keep your swearing and profanity to a minimum, (I swear sometimes but not a whole lot).

When you see musicians do things like this, they just do it to try and get a reaction out of their supporters. Just their way of getting their supporters & friends online to make him/her feel better. We all have problems in our personal lives, even I do…but when I have a problem, I don’t post it online for the whole world to see, I would talk to family & friends privately behind the scenes if I had a problem.

Being a drama queen online, other musicians, and other people in the music business will NOT want to work with you if they see the way you act online. And like I said before, you could lose a lot of fans & supporters.

If you want a great career in music, you have to be positive, always. Have a good attitude at all times, and good things will come out of it.

I had to delete a certain musician in facebook that will be nameless yesterday ’cause he was acting like such a big drama queen. I don’t want to delete people like that but when all you want to do is be a negative person, get out of my sight. I will continue to delete people off of my facebook, if I see musicians continue to act this way.

I want to be around happy & joyful people. I don’t have time to deal with negative people. That’s why I’m strict with posting comments in this blog and youtube ’cause I don’t tolerate negativity. It just proves my point that some musicians can be assholes. I want to be around the good musicians, the ones with a positive attitude, the ones that act like a true professional. I want to be around the cool people. I can be a nice guy and prefer to be around the nice people.

Of course, bands & musicians will not take this advice, ’cause they will be hiding behind freedom of speech and think they can be honest whenever they want to. Nothing wrong with being real and honest, but there are positive ways of being honest.

Kev

It’s very rare that original bands get so successful in music. To the ones that do get successful, how are they doing it? It’s not because the music is good. Well for one, they write very catchy songs that you maybe able to hear off the radio. They write simple radio friendly songs that could easily catch a listeners ear. They write pop songs that would get the audience dancing and going crazy, or write a bunch of sing along songs. An original band can be a party band, just like a cover band can be a party band. That’s how they are able to attract a large fanbase ’cause the original band concentrates on being a party band or a pop band. Know what I mean? They try to make themselves look like a mainstream band even if they are not.

No offense to original bands out there, this is just an observation.

With my own music, I never cared to write party music or pop songs. I just wanted to make art. Write whatever came out of me. Once in a while, I’ll write an original song that a lot of people would actually like. I just wanted to write songs. Write, write, write. It didn’t matter if the song attracted a lot of attention or not, I just wanted to express myself. That’s what I do songwriting for.

If I ever get myself a band going, it sure won’t be a party band or a pop band that’s for sure. I’ll be playing some serious music where people can actually sit and listen. Sure, people dancing and singing along to my songs would be fun, I’d like it, but that’s not what I look for in my music. I look to send a message out with my songs, and I am a storyteller with them.

Again, nothing wrong with being a party band giving the audience a good time, but I’m all about the music. I like those kind of bands that are not worried about being a party band and concentrate on making the art.

You have to ask yourself. Do you want to be a pop star or an artist? I want to be the artist. That’s the goal that I hope to achieve with all of my songs, getting the message out.

I’ll be having more originals coming soon.

Kev

If you’re a struggling musician who’ve been overlooked & ignored way too much like myself, don’t be bothered by it too much. You do your very best by making music, playing a lot of gigs, and yet you get nothing out of it. No local press, no respect from other bands, etc. You get the deal. What that means, it doesn’t mean that you suck. I’m sure you probably have some talent and your music maybe good. You may have talent in some way.

I’ve always believed that people just don’t want to admit that you are talented. They just want to be like you. Jealousy is a small part of it, for sure.

And just because other bands & musicians are big & successful in their area, have lots of fans and playing gigs all over, that still doesn’t make them any better. Their music can be crap as well.

I’ve always believed that overlooked & underrated musicians who don’t get much recognition are more talented. When I used to gig in the past, that’s why I always looked for musicians who weren’t that successful to share gigs with. I wanted to give them a chance to get them out there playing and give them a chance to be heard. I was willing to share the stage with bands and artists whether they were successful or not.

The not so successful musicians can make good music.

Kev