As I said repeatedly before, playing music as a musician shouldn’t be about getting fame, awards, money, popularity or bringing home women — whatever — music should really be about appreciating the art and for the love of music. It should be about enriching people’s lives with your talent and enriching your own life. When you get all desperate for fame, awards and all that stuff, you really are playing music for the wrong reasons. All it’s doing it is just boosting your ego even more. All you’re doing is jerking yourself off and feeling comfortable in your own ego. You’re not gonna enrich your music life by getting some silly trophy.

I don’t care to get some silly award with my music. Not what I do this for. I pretty much make music for me. It’s fine that other people wanna like my music too but I play music ’cause it’s pretty much all I have in life. I don’t know what I would be like without music. Getting an award wouldn’t make me a better person. You don’t need to let people know that you’re talented by getting some award. People will let you know that you are talented by going to your shows and buying your music. That’s all you really need. You don’t need some silly trophy.

Deep down inside though, musicians around this area knows that a music award show is silly — the only reason they are defending this thing and willing to support it is because they got nominated and they thrive over flattery every time they get mentioned anywhere. I don’t need to be like that. Never have and never will.

My question is, will this award show be giving the winners a trophy? TierOneTalent, the organizers still didn’t say what they will be winning and they didn’t even post photos of the trophy. That doesn’t sound fishy enough for ya, huh?

You don’t need an award guys. You’re doing fine of what you all are doing now… just making the music… playing the gigs and getting people to support your music. THAT’S MORE REWARDING than getting some stupid trophy.

I’ve tried to tell musicians this in facebook that they don’t need an award ’cause it takes the love out of music but they won’t listen to me. Musicians are living in their own fantasy worlds.

A lot of these guys think they’re rock stars. All they seem to care about is getting their name known. That’s not what I care about either. I just like writing the songs and performing the cover tunes… and just sharing them with people — getting feedback on my music. That’s what I do. I’m more focused on getting people to listen to my tunes. I don’t care to get awards and all of these accolades.

An award is not important. It won’t make you any bigger if you win one so keep dreaming. A true music artist wouldn’t care about an award.

Kev

Welp, I think it’s safe to say that little award show that is happening in this music scene Friday is good enough proof that a lot of musicians around here suffer delusions of grandeur. There are like over 200 people planning to go to this thing and a lot of musicians are willing to support it. I really feel that you guys out there are supporting the wrong thing.

If you go to this garbage award show at Trickshot and if things start to look all screwy… then don’t go crying about it online ’cause you’re the one who agreed to support it in the first place. I’ll be the one to tell you all “I told you so”… if anything shady happens at this event.

For the past week, there have been some heated debates about this in facebook. Nobody wants to believe that TierOneTalent can’t be trusted. Most of them believe they are a legit company and a few of us tried to warn everyone they aren’t. Most people in the Capital District really believes this local music award show is a big thing. Local musicians are all excited about it and they honestly believe that getting an award is a big thing for them, and I’m like, really?

On top of that, getting an award is not important. It’s not that big of a deal and it’s nothing special. Get off your high horse and stop acting like you’re so great. Getting awards shouldn’t really be what we play music for… you people out there just don’t get it, do you? I’ll put up another post tomorrow on why getting awards shouldn’t matter.

Enjoy your music award show Friday night. Don’t be surprised if you walk-out disappointed.

Kev

Over the years in local music, many in the scene has mistakenly accused me of being a hateful and negative person. In other words, what people most like to call me which happens to be their favorite word is a, “troll”. Maybe part of that is true. I can be a bit negative over the music scene but you know what? I don’t really care and will not be apologetic for all the things I’ve said about the scene. I mean well, and have every right to have negative opinions and be real about stuff all I want to. I always thought it was pretty important to be real about music as much as possible. I don’t have any regrets with any of it whatsoever.

Thing is, I tried my best to change for the better for everyone. Tried to change my attitude and tried to be good to everyone as much as possible; however, no matter how good of a person you are or how nice you become… you will always get a few people who will criticize you and say something hateful to you.

If you put yourself out there for the world to see and if you become a public figure… people are always going to criticize and hate you no matter how you are. If you put yourself out there on the internet, everybody’s gonna get haters and trolls. I don’t deal with negative people. I try to eliminate all of them the best I can. I don’t read negative comments from trolls and haters… I just delete ’em all. I treat my facebook the same way… if people wanna be negative for no reason… they either get blocked or deleted. I’m not gonna let people think it’s okay to say what you want about me… not gonna happen… and you can’t hide behind freedom of speech about it either.

There is really no reason for people to hate me and say negative stuff… I honestly believe they just do it out of the pure sake of hating. They do it ’cause they enjoy it. All the hate usually comes from other fellow musicians around the area. Yeah, I have seen a lot of them say some nasty, hateful and spiteful stuff about me over the years but I learned to get used to it and ignore it all. A lot of them continue to say nasty, hateful and spiteful stuff to this day.

I don’t think it’s because it’s the way I write on the internet or the negativity about the scene. They know I have every right to say what I want about it. Musicians go out of their way hating ’cause like I said they find it fun and enjoyable. They get laughs out of it. So a lot of other musicians join in on the bandwagon. They’re like kids in school… they’re like bullies who pick on kids who think they’re weak. Musicians bash me ’cause of my music and who I am as a person. Period.

It isn’t just me, I’ve seen musicians around here bash others too. I have also seen other musicians say negative stuff about the scene so they’re all just being a bunch of hypocrites.

I tried to please everyone the best I can but I’m done. I should have never changed. Nothing wrong with being yourself, ya know? Don’t let others think you can’t.

It’s sad when musicians get into it, though. All it’s showing that this scene is one of the most negative music scenes that I’ve ever come across from.

If you wanna play music or become an online blogger and get yourself out there… you have to ignore negative people completely and stay above them. Don’t give a shit about anybody. This area is full of trolls and negative people. You know it’s true… don’t lie. Don’t change who you are ’cause others don’t like you. Take all the criticism you get like a grain of salt.

I do have kind musicians who have stuck with me throughout the years… why? Because they’re cool enough to treat me like a human being and they never take my online web presence seriously. If you don’t take my online web presence seriously, you would find me fun and entertaining. That’s what a lot of people don’t understand. People don’t understand that I do my online rants and raves for entertainment purposes on all topics. They maybe negative and harsh rants but they can be entertaining if you take it like a grain of salt. I try to keep everything funny and entertaining.

Just relax, chill, and don’t take what I do personally.

If what I do is angering and offending people, that’s good. That’s part of what I do this for as well if you think about it. They just don’t like me being truthful about things and having a different opinion than everybody.

I’m just one of those who doesn’t take the internet seriously, that is all. The internet is the internet and that is just that.

The world is not about pleasing everyone. Remember that.

Leaving the comments closed in this post ’cause I know the trolls will wanna try and write a bunch of ridiculous things.

Kev

This post maybe controversial and might get some responses throughout the Capital Region but I don’t care… the truth needs to get out there.

I know how a lot of people around this area are excited for our very first Award show which is called, the “Capital Region Live Music Awards aka The Jammy’s” and I know how a lot of people mistakenly want to support Tier One Talent wishing this show well but you really need to watch who you trust around this area. While the guy behind Tier One Talent may seem like a friendly and likeable guy… I wouldn’t go trusting him easily but the truth is… this guy is nothing but a pathological liar.  In this event on his facebook page he’s been lying to you about a lot of things. Not only that… this guy is nothing but a scam artist. He scammed money from people out of his shows in the past before and don’t be surprised if he has plans scamming you again for “The Jammy’s”. Another thing, I have also been hearing stuff about that this guy named Dan maybe a drug addict — a cocaine user like his hero Layne Staley was.

Also, you need to watch out for his crazy friend who is a woman named, Christy, she runs a website called, “Capital Area’s Whose Gigging“. Yes, that’s the actual title of her stupid website… major grammatical error fail. She seems to be working closely with Dan for Tier One Talent shows at Trickshot. I believe it’s these two who helped put this stupid award show together.

I know you guys out there want to be nice and friendly by supporting these two people as a way to support local music but they aren’t to be believing in. Seriously.

I’m starting to go around publicly warning Capital District people about these two. I’m trying to talk people not to go to this event and starting to talk musicians out of performing this thing.

This event is scheduled this coming Friday and it has potential that a lot of people may end up going to that show — I’m just trying to stop that from happening ’cause this show simply doesn’t deserve the support. There’s honestly nothing wrong with an award show… it’s cool if this area wants to do one but it shouldn’t be hosted by these two idiots.

These two… Dan and Christy don’t care about the talent in the scene. They are only doing this show as a way to pat themselves on the back and to jerk themselves off with also to potentially scam money off of people for their own financial gain. These two claim to be promoters of “local music” which they are real lousy and amateurish at it.

I understand you guys wanna support local music positively but you can’t treat everything positively. I like to treat local music positively but I am careful of who I trust around here. I supported the wrong things and fell for stuff but I am learning to be more careful with myself. You can’t trust everyone and everything around here. Some people may seem pretty cool around this area but later on you’ll learn that they can be complete scum bags. I’ve met plenty of people around this area over the years who I thought was once cool but turned out to be a scum bag later.

There maybe some crazy people around this area but Dan and Christy are 10 x’s crazier. I know some people around this area will get pissed at this post and will try to defend these two, say stuff like, “Oh no, you shouldn’t bash these two, they are sweethearts and good people,” blah blah blah, you get the deal but you need to wake up about them.

I hope people will do the smart thing… don’t make plans to go to this show… you’ll be sorry if you did. To the bands and musicians booked to perform this thing… you should back out of it. They even lied to artist, Margo Macero when they asked her to perform this show… they said she was up for several awards when the nomination list said she was up for 1. See? These clowns can’t be trusted. I hope Skeletons In the Piano does the smart thing and back out of this show ’cause they are  a talented band and would hate to see them associate with these two. Bands won’t cancel out of this show ’cause they’re too psyched to perform their first award show and they think it may be an unprofessional thing to do to pull out.

I never met Dan and Christy in person (I hope I never meet them) but as long they are putting themselves out there publicly on the internet… that opens the doors for public criticism so I have the right to do this. If they want to confront me or threaten me… BRING IT ON. I’m not afraid of them.

Just a word of advice for you Capital District people. Don’t be believing and trusting people too easily. Not everyone is your friend around here. Only believe in the people you can trust and know.

I’m still interested in seeing how this show comes out Friday. Will this show be a big success or will it fail? I’m hoping it will fail but it wouldn’t surprise if it’ll be a success. I wouldn’t be surprised if Dan and Christy would get so much negative criticism from people the day after this show, though. That’s what I’m afraid of. Again, I’m not all over this thing ’cause I’m jealous, no… I don’t give a shit about awards anyways… I simply don’t wanna see people get hurt by these two and that’s what’s gonna happen if you associate with them. They’re crazy animals, trust me on that.

I’ll be looking out to see how this show goes, though. I’m actually curious on how it’s gonna turn out. I can actually go to the show myself just for laughs but I’m not gonna do that… I refuse to put my money toward these two idiots.

Kev