I usually don’t use the internet to post a lot of selfies. I’m not a “selfie whore” like a lot of people are these days so here is one by me.

Is image in music important? In a way, it kind of is. Especially for a live performing musician. If you want to play live on stage or release promotional material… you gotta be looking good and recognizable. Well, here’s my look. My new makeover. I think I’m gonna keep this look as this look is already getting a lot of feedback.

Who does that photo remind you of? Buddy Holly? Elvis Costello? Rivers Cuomo? Michael Stipe? They all wear those similar glasses with the black frames.

That’s the kind of look that I was after so enjoy. I want to do a photoshoot for my music this year and this is how I wanna look for it.

Kev

I’m not an expert at producing my own music. Mixing and mastering and all that stuff but I definitely would like to learn. I’d like to improve on that stuff but is a perfectly good sounding mp3 or a Demo need to be perfect? Not really. I just want a decent enough sound that sounds pretty clean, ya know? When I’m talking “clean” sounding… I’m talking no background noises like hissing, buzzing and other background noises. I never wanted any of that stuff. That’s why I had to get myself a whole new recording rig. I finally figured out how to make my music sound like they aren’t “clipping” by staying out of the red most of the time so that’s taken care of. I’ve been doing a lot of research on “mixing” and “mastering” ’cause I want to teach myself how to do that stuff.

All mixing is it’s pretty much if you have more than one tracks recorded, you gotta use the mixer so one track doesn’t sound louder than the other. You can also add in other sounds like compression, equalizer, reverb and all that stuff. “Mastering” is putting on the final touches which doesn’t seem that hard. I could probably figure out how to do both just fine.

When I start recording again on my new rig, I’m gonna try to make my next batch of songs as best sounding as I possibly can. They’re probably not gonna turn out all the way perfect but they’ll be good enough for the listener. I read somewhere that “mixing” is important but “mastering” not really. I’m not a professional musician. I’m admittedly a hobbyist who just enjoys making music for the fun alone. I just like to make original songs and perform covers for friends, family and fans. I also like to make music for myself pretty much. I read that “mastering” is only used for professional bands & musicians like if you’re going to sell your music professionally which I’m not gonna do so “mastering” probably isn’t important anyways.

So when I start recording music again on my new home recording rig, I think you’re going to hear a big improvement in sound for sure. I just haven’t started recording on my new rig yet ’cause I haven’t came up with new song ideas yet but I will.

I just want to make music for the internet, ya know? I want people to download my songs so they can listen to them on their Ipods, Mp3 players and listen to my songs in their cars or where ever… that’s why I’m dying to make the internet album to happen so people can listen to my music at home or on the go. It ain’t like I’m gonna be a full time musician or anything like that. I just make music for fun and that’s all. I don’t really want a real career in music. I don’t live under the delusion of becoming a rock star like so many musicians live under these days. I’m just happy where I am right now.

Kev

I never understood why a lot of people get off on trying to make me look bad on the internet but it is what is. I can’t do anything to stop trolls and cyberbullies. They’re all dead to me really. I just try my best not to give ’em any attention. I’m always getting people dropping me negative and hateful comments about me all the time. I’m always getting people creating fake anonymous pages attacking me all the time. I just don’t give a fuck about any of it.

Usually when I look at this when people do nothing but treat me negatively, they are usually people who aren’t happy in life. I’m almost right most of the time about that. I don’t know what it is. Maybe these people have personal problems in their lives, not happy or they just have nothing better to do but to talk shit about people online?

Yeah, I’m always gonna get trolls and cyberbullies. I’ve always had and still do to this day. Can you all understand why I’m so strict at moderating everywhere I go online? My blogs, youtube, twitter/facebook, etc. I just don’t allow trolls and negative people in my life, ya know? I have a choice. I know they don’t like me censoring but that’s tough. That’s why they give you these “moderation” features to begin with so you can have complete control of what you do online. You can say hateful things about me everywhere else but you can’t do that on my watch. No freakin’ way.

Sometimes I’ll admit that it’s kind of hard being popular on the internet ’cause you have to watch what you say all the time, haha. I don’t care, though. I’m always gonna get a bunch of assholes that do nothing but treat me negatively. That’s fine with me. They can think and say what they want about me. I’m gonna stay above the haters and not let ’em bring me down. I’m a strong and tough dude. I’m just gonna continue to be who I want to be and not care if anyone else doesn’t like it. Just give them all the middle finger and continue to live life the way you want to and continue to be happy.

Never listen to negative people and just be yourself. Don’t change for anybody. Continue to do that and the more people you’ll piss off. They hate it when you stay above them. That’s why they continue to do what they do. They want to see you get upset and get hurt. It’s never gonna happen with me. I’m just gonna continue to be me and that’s the end of it. Getting haters, trolls & cyberbullies just continues to make me more stronger and makes me want to feel more confident about speaking louder. The more they get pissed off, the more I’ll piss ’em off. That’s how it goes. I don’t mind getting haters & trolls ’cause I see it all as a big compliment for the most part.

Kev