Hanging from the ties that bond.
"It doesn't really matter. I know it'll be fun, and I know I'll feel good. Here, you see, I'm accepted as an equal, as one of them, and that's really something. This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that close; somewhere there's been an immediate bonding between total strangers. We share each other's triumphs, and when one of us gets hurt, we all bleed-it's corny, I know, but it's true. I've never experienced anything like this before. It's great. It turns up the heat in life."
- Johnny Cash from "CASH" the Autobiography
When I read this I felt like I could relate with him one hundred percent It's hard to explain the bond felt with musicians that you have become associated with. Even if for just a few shows here and there or the occasional casual conversation. We speak a language to each other that can only be understood by one another.
Much has been lost in the undergroud music scene and I have noticed it lately. I am even to blame. We have become competitors in a competition-less scene. The constant backstabbing and shit talking that I hear going on about my band and about other bands, bands that I have considered some of my closest friends (even if only because we both play music) is sad. This used to be about family, support and having a good time. Everyone seems now to walk around with an ego. We have lost the tightness that bands of the past have had with each other. When I hear about my friends disrespecting my band, my life, it really brings me down. We're not here to be rockstars.
This scene has become so saturated with imposters that have no other agenda than to become "famous" that we have lost the meaning behind all of it. We used to spend time trying to help each other, now we spend it hurting each other. We used to scream to get a point across. Have we lost the meaning behind it all? It's time to step away from the mess that we have made and start becoming a family like it used to be.
It's time to leave the ego behind.
Peace kids,
CraigTMB
- Johnny Cash from "CASH" the Autobiography
When I read this I felt like I could relate with him one hundred percent It's hard to explain the bond felt with musicians that you have become associated with. Even if for just a few shows here and there or the occasional casual conversation. We speak a language to each other that can only be understood by one another.
Much has been lost in the undergroud music scene and I have noticed it lately. I am even to blame. We have become competitors in a competition-less scene. The constant backstabbing and shit talking that I hear going on about my band and about other bands, bands that I have considered some of my closest friends (even if only because we both play music) is sad. This used to be about family, support and having a good time. Everyone seems now to walk around with an ego. We have lost the tightness that bands of the past have had with each other. When I hear about my friends disrespecting my band, my life, it really brings me down. We're not here to be rockstars.
This scene has become so saturated with imposters that have no other agenda than to become "famous" that we have lost the meaning behind all of it. We used to spend time trying to help each other, now we spend it hurting each other. We used to scream to get a point across. Have we lost the meaning behind it all? It's time to step away from the mess that we have made and start becoming a family like it used to be.
It's time to leave the ego behind.
Peace kids,
CraigTMB