If I can think of one problem going on for the internet and the people of America today is everybody getting easily offended at everything. It seems that no matter where I go on the internet whether it’ll be facebook, this blog, twitter or where ever… somebody is gonna get offended at something I post. Even if the post is really really good, informative and positive… somebody is gonna get offended at something.

Ya know, I don’t really give a shit if people get offended ’cause I actually enjoy it when people do. In the past, I used to worry about whether I am going to post something offensive or not and I used to try to post things to everybody’s liking but these days, I don’t care anymore. I just post whatever I want to and fuck what everybody thinks.

Easily offended people really do suck and they’re everywhere these days. Some may say, “it’s not what you post, it’s how you say it” is full of crap. I try to watch what I say most of the time and most everything I say is usually positive. To be honest, I can never tell whether or not I’m posting something offensive ’cause in my mind, I see myself being informative and different. I think people get easily offended these days ’cause they don’t like you having a different opinion and thought than theirs. That’s what it is, I think. It’s their way of telling you that you are wrong and they say they’re offended just to silence you.

Yep, I’m at this point right now where I don’t give a fuck whether people are offended or not. I no longer care about how people feel about my online writing. Fuck everybody. Seriously. These days, I enjoy it when people get offended ’cause it inspires me to speak loudly and proudly. It fires me up even more. I feel no regrets of how I am online ’cause I’m just being me and that’s the end of it.

Kev

Usually when I write about local music and local musicians in a honest direction, many others out there would look at it as if I’m doing a bad thing. I’ve been called a troll for it and all kinds of other names… been kicked off of local music forums… blah blah blah. Is what I did over the years was a bad thing?

No. Not really. I tried my best to keep things civilized. I was pretty cool with all my local music rants over the years. It’s just that I believe the only reason people get angry is ’cause they can’t take the truth and it’s bothering them. They couldn’t take the “heat”. Which is why I get labeled as a “troll”, “controversial” or “outspoken” which I will take as a compliment, btw.

People think what I was doing as a bad thing is only entitled to their opinion. All I wanted to do was to keep everything real as best as possible. The reality is all of my local music rants I did over the years was actually helping people and inspiring other musicians ’cause I’ve gotten some great feedback from them. I continue to get great feedback by other musicians about my blog posts about local music. So yeah, I think I’m definitely helping other musicians with this stuff and I never realized it until now.

I just want to give people a reality check of what the music scene really is like. A lot of people live under this delusion that local music is a “positive” and “wonderful” thing when you know it isn’t. I just wanted to be real about it all. I wanted to be real about the attitudes of musicians, promoters and club owners. I wanted to be real about the scams and pay to play stuff around here. I just wanted to be realistic about everything. Period. End of story.

People like to believe that musicians are “wonderful” and “down to earth” people. I want to give a reality  check that not all of ’em are. There are too many musicians around here that are assholes & douchebags for sure.

The music scene continues to be the same. I have no interest in local music too much anymore which kind of explains why I have stopped gigging.

I just wanted to be real about it all and glad I’m actually helping people with my local music rants. I should keep it going and never listen to people who disagree with what I do.

Kev

Over the years when I do sometimes play electric guitar, I mostly played light strings on the electric. To be honest, I’m real tired of “light” strings ’cause it’s easier to play. Way too easy. I think from now on when I play electric guitar, I’m going use heavier strings for electric. I’m going be using the size 11’s on electric, the medium gauge. With the heavier strings on electric, I can keep my calluses going. I’ll also be able to pound on the guitar harder and will be able to have a fuller and bigger sound too.

Throughout the 20 years or so I’ve been playing guitar, I’ve played acoustic my entire life and I really wanna focus on electric more. Become more of an electric player. I love the electric guitar. I’ll never give up the acoustic, of course but I wanna focus on electric. I wanna focus on different sounds. Using all kinds of effects and stuff so soon I’ll start a pedal collection. Thanks to AmpliTube for the Ipad, I’ve been messing around with all the virtual pedals on that app and a lot of their pedals sound badass: fuzz, delay, chorus and echo. I wanna buy a real pedal of all those sounds soon. I’ve always wanted to get a fuzz pedal and will get one soon. Fuzz pedals are great for rock music and lead guitar solos.

The whole reason I picked up the guitar is ’cause I wanted to be an electric player. It was important to learn on acoustic first. Now I think I finally wanna focus on electric guitar. I wanna to start writing a lot of rock songs with distortion, fuzz and all that stuff. Make some real guitar music!

Kev