Music Will Set You Free...

So here we were in the middle of a pretty hot original music scene and we had No clue. Like I said based on what we saw and who we were playing with, it kind of wasn't even close! But you know music, you have to look a certain way and you have to have a message whether it was clear or not!!That played against us because we were so naive, we thought that having great songs was the number one thing, but we didn't have a clue. Musically everynight we played these Boston clubs, not one band was even close to ur tightness, rehearsal level or musicianship. The cold hard truth was it really didn't freakin matter! I was from the inner city and our first review was a guy who was talking out of his ass saying these suburban kids? Are you freakin kidding me, everyone I met in that scene, half of them weren't even from Boston and the other half had mommy and daddy renting them an apartment in Boston proper. You know Newbury street, Boylston Street, ya di da di da da. It was crap, they were the real silver spoon fucking bullshit artists and we were the real deal. Shame on Boston radio and all the so called underground shit that was going on at the time!! Good job, you were promoting upper middle class kids from the metropolitan NY area and beyond!1 There wasn't many homegrown Boston bands and we were one of them and they failed to see that!! Ok I didn't shave my head like the guy in La Peste who was from where New Jersey? Then go back to the freakin Pony Room in asbury Park and do your thing. As time went on I realized half or more of these Schmoes were college students from God knows where! Well go back there and make your mark! It pissed me off!! This was our city but you know, the kids that came to the clubs were college students and this wasn't there city they were just trying to get f'd up. It was really frustrating but a big eye opener too. to compete, we would have to change!! But I was pissed because, we wanted to keep it real, without compromising. It was pretty tough, to do. And this was on the live club level, I was thinking, shit, what happens when you get popular? Do you have to give away everything? That really wasn't worth it to me or anyone else in the band! But we wanted to play our music and be heard! Shit I thought this was art not business? But everything is business my friends! Everything either monetize or vaporize was our saying! Tough to learn, tougher to accept.