Yes, I am aware that people refuse to support my music ’cause of my singing, playing or even my online web presence. There are even some folks who even said good things about my music but they still refuse to support my stuff ’cause of my online web presence. I am aware that people refuse to support me ’cause of my image, who I am as a person or the way I discuss things online. It’s all idiotic and very hypocritical, I know. There are so many people in the local music scene who claim they support “local music” but a lot of them seem to forget that I’m a musician and singer/songwriter myself. There are some kind people who are willing to support but we need more people supporting everything, even my own music. That’s okay if people don’t care and if they don’t want to do that. I can’t please everyone. I’ll just continue to play for the small fanbase who continue to support my music and that’s all I need really, that makes me happy enough.

That previous post about “Weird” responses and criticism wasn’t just about me. It was about other musicians & bands who go through the same things I do. Trying to give advice to them that  they shouldn’t feel offended by the mixed responses, and see it as something inspirational. It helps make you an even more stronger and powerful person as a musician.

If you want to go somewhere in music, another trick is not listening to what anybody have to say about you. Just keep doing what you do. Simply put, to keep it small and simple — fuck everybody. If people don’t like what you do, you don’t have to give up. The more you keep going in music whether people like it or not, the more respect you will get from the people. It lets people know that you can be a confident and tough SOB ’cause they’ll know that’s what you love to do is playing music for the love and passion of it. Don’t listen to the nay sayers, haters, and doubters. Just be yourself, do whatcha wanna do, ya know?

If people refuse to support your music, just keep going. There will be some that will like what you do and they will be loyal followers. Proving people wrong that you can be something special in music is what it’s all about. Yes, there are going to be a lot of those who will be openly outspoken about you; people who are not afraid to publicly talk trash about you. I get that stuff all the time from other bands and people from the music scene. If there are negative people who can’t say anything positive about you at all, chances are, they are jealous. They know that you are doing something with yourself, while they sit there and do nothing.

A lot of bands & solo artists like to assume they are so big and talented; I never had that attitude. I’ve always liked to let the music speak on it’s own, and that’s the way it should be, ya know? I can never tell if I’m liked or how popular I am and it’s good to be that way. If other bands & musicians think they are liked by everybody and if they think they’re so good, chances are, they have a huge ego problem, and that’ll make me not want to support your music right there. Just be real and humble with yourself.

Happy Mothers Day and hope you’re all having a good one.

Kev

You try your best to get the word out for your music. You’re proud of what you do musically and try your best to get everyone to like it and support it. Sometimes a small amount of people will be kind enough to support you but sure enough, there will be a handful of others who won’t support you. You will get a lot of people pretending to be nice about your music when in reality, they don’t really like what you do and they are afraid to admit it publicly as a way of being polite. You try to get people to join your facebook fan pages, twitter or other social networking sites; even your own family members and friends refuses to support your music. Some don’t mind you promoting yourself; some will find it annoying. Yes, you’re gonna come across a lot of people with whacky and strange attitudes. The people who don’t support your music prefer to support other bands who think that are more talented than you. You’ll get mixed reactions. I go through it all the time.

When you see all this, the last thing you want to do is see all of this as a bad thing. It actually lets you know that you do have something special with your music. Your fellow musicians and other people in the area who refuse to support your music even if they are nice to you are probably just a little bit “jealous” of you in a way.

When I support other bands & musicians, I’ve never had that kind of attitude. If you’ve noticed the way I supported local music over the years, I supported other bands ’cause I really mean it that I like their music. I was never the one to pretend to like their music just to be polite type, know what I mean? I know what talent is all about in a musician. I know a talented musician when I see one. If I don’t like a bands/artists music, I will try to find ways to say things without trying to hurt them. A lot of people around here like to be openly opinionated and outspoken of other bands, that has never been me. I like to treat music in a positive direction whether locally or nationally. I’m not negative about music that much. Once in a while, I’ll have something  negative to say about bands/artists but I try not to do that too much anymore.

I like to support other bands & artists as a music fan myself; not just to promote my own music, ya know? I like to be real with music. I’ll support bands/artists if I like their music so much and if I don’t like their stuff, I’ll just be nice about it and try to keep that opinion to myself. If other bands & musicians chooses to treat me in a negative direction, I’ll just act like they’re dead to me and it’s been working quite fine.

The trick is, just keep doing your thing with your music and don’t let the weird and mixed responses get to ya. Don’t be offended by it. Look at it as an inspiration and something to learn from. I certainly learned a lot from it! There’s going to be plenty of folks who are afraid to admit that you are talented yet they refuse to support you out of jealousy. It’s a good thing actually. Let ’em get jealous and pissed off at your talent. It’s letting you know, that you are good. Not trying to sound like an ego-maniac here. Just being real.

Kev