Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Your Band Needs Media And People Who Are Haters And Criticize Your Work

What your band needs is people who criticize your work, not just fans who love it.
You can't just have positive reviews. Your band won't be focused mentally to do better if that happens. Don't analyze what I just said. Don't take it personally as a challenge to prove a music journalist wrong. Just be a better band because you want to play music that moves you and your band.
Find your band's own sound. For those who may not know, that picture is of Sir King Zakk Wylde. One of my favorite riff blasting axemen! He was at his Roast a few years back now. Some of music's best were havin' fun with the big man. 
Compose and play music that just blows you fuckin' away! Not what the public wants. They don't count. The music media and the music industry don't count either. Make music your band likes--and if you develop a rabid crowd who are fans great! I would rather have 1,000 people who love our music and bought a band's CD's, than 10,000 people who bought it listened to it once, then threw it in the pile and never go to a band's gigs.
The people who do buy and go to a band's gigs are the people I want on my buyer's list. They buy for the right reasons. The people who just look around, aren't really lovers of a band and put them down for just about any reason including what other people say, regardless.
But the rub here is real music lovers always show themselves,and real musicians and fans show that music is the real truth. Critics from media to fans will always show themselves and your band needs to mentally wrap it's head around the fact that negative press is every where. By pass it, and bring the bad press on. The people who get hung up on pigeonholing your music and saying you don't know shit about being a band, don't ever worry about them.
Just keep putting out better and better Demos, Albums and gigs.
Email here if you have any questions guys. Or head over to the site.
Mark Grove

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