the big thing I wanted to talk about is to those that are waiting on like this
big record deal or something from some label that's gonna come by and gonna
crush your dreams what's going on guys man I just got home from work
I got like tons of mail I don't know if you don't follow me on Instagram check
it out there's a link at the bottom there's a bunch of stuff down there I
just ordered getting ready for Baltimore I got a new camera bag slash throw my
laptop in it bag that I can take down for Baltimore I still had to record the
vlog my time I got home and I mentioned on Twitter that you know if anybody was
interested in me talking about a little bit a quick little story about my life
and experience as a musician I played in bands for since I was like 15 years old
and I just kind of wanted to share a little story for those that are in music
that you guys will know but those that are not music or anything or maybe
you're younger and you're trying to make it at the moment the big thing I wanted
to talk about is to those that are waiting on like this big record deal or
something from some label that's gonna come by and basically I'm sorry but in a
sense like nowadays especially gonna crush your dreams trust me on this just
hear me out oh by the way I got this awesome new
t-shirt from my friend Rachel rawson if you guys haven't heard of her check her
out I will plug her at the end of this video so you can go check her out her
channel go subscribe she makes awesome t-shirts this is just one of them I got
in the mail today out of all the stuff that I got but uh yeah so one thing I
wanted to show you guys since we're talking about like my music experience
and stuff like that this is one of my bass guitars that I used to play with
and yeah this is my bedroom so this is kind of like a tour slash music
experience thing that I want to show you guys cuz this is kind of cool
I don't I don't know maybe it's interesting some people maybe it's not
so this is my bedroom I have all my guitars and this was my first guitar
ever it's a cheaper Ibanez slap some stickers on that bad boy and you know
half at that since I was in eighth grade it was my first guitar check this out
so this if you don't know is The Wallflowers
they were a pretty big band back in the 90s that's Bob Dylan's son right there
Jakob Dylan actually got to hang out and smoke a cig with him back in the day and
kind of had a had a one-on-one for a good 10 minutes or so with them that was
cool that was probably one of my favorite experiences of meeting bands of
all the bands up hung out with and everything if you ever have the
opportunity to get out and meet do a meet and greet with a band that you like
or whatever definitely take the opportunity just kind of meet them and
talk to them and stuff especially if we look up to them and their music and
everything has helped you in your life like me there's tons I listen to
everything and tons of music there's been tons of music that has helped me
throughout my life so it's cool get out and make sure you guys go check out a
band meet and greet meet and greet all right I got the camera on the tripod got
the lighting set up and all that's fun stuff
so anyways alright so the story I wanted to share with you guys is basically you
notice when I was like 15 I started playing guitar and I sucked like
everybody cuz you're first starting I joined a band we were a garage band
underground we were pretty heavy like hardcore
underground type that was when I was first introduced to like hardcore music
I was probably remember what year that was like 96 97 somewhere around there I
went to my first hardcore show when I was like 15 years old and if you've
never been if you're not into hardcore that's cool it's the scene the hardcore
scene is just totally different than everything else I mean at least back in
the day then that that was like the type of scene I was and that's the type of
band knows and and funny thing I got show you guys
something check this out so this right here is one of those old
yeah really old pictures hopefully you guys
could see it hopefully you guys can see here alright so there's there's me right
there back when I was 15 years old probably I was a skinny skinny bastard
and there's that guitar showed you guys earlier that was in my buddy's basement
we used to play and we'd get in his we'd get in his mom's van cuz we were too
young we didn't even have a driver's license pack up her old school Caravan
with like the the wooden sides siding and crap on the outside but we'd take
the seats out there all our gear in there she would drive us to our gigs we
actually would play like these like these crap well we play like parties
sometimes in basements and we would go out and we actually played a couple dive
bars that's where the hardcore bands would play because it's not mainstream
and stuff but you would the place would be packed packed I mean it would be
insane so it was a lot of fun it was a really cool experience so going from
there I played with them for a while things kind of fell apart I went into
the Marines I'll tell a whole story about that at some point so I took a
little break while I was in the Marines I moved up to Harrisburg up in
Pennsylvania here I went on to a radio station website they called honor the
radar it's called and it's still out they play a lot of like underground
bands non signed bands or whatever but they'd have like this forum you could go
in and it's like bands looking for drummers guitar players bass players
everything so like I said if you guys are listening earlier I played bass but
I started playing guitar I used to think bass players were like cheesy and stuff
that was my whole thing I'm like why would I want to play bass dude you can't
like you can't go to parties and like bust out a guitar and play like cool
songs and stuff for the women like women don't want bass players you know bass
players always get left out or hair so I joined this I found this band I
went and auditioned and from that website met with this guy he was a
guitar player I went they were looking for a rhythm guitar went and played some
random guitar stuff and we had a girl singer and and a guitar player so this
was the guy I originally met with and my first band up here in Pennsylvania this
is this was like one of the shows we played and this right here was our very
first show we ever played there's the girl singer right there and I still talk
to them occasionally on Facebook and you're talking I mean this was 13 years
ago 1213 years ago probably so the guy that I met with the guitar player guy we
were in a band called infused in the in the female singer and that kind of we we
played a little bit in his basement and stuff and then I don't know things kind
of fell apart again you know like my big thing through experiences of being in a
band and being a musician is when you're in a band it's it's like being married
to like three or four other people honestly you guys know if you're in a
band I mean everybody has their own opinions and everything like that when
you're in a band so you kind of you got to make things work but with three or
four there however many people I mean you know like Slipknot or something that
big of a band I don't know how to do I don't know how they do it I don't so we
kind of split up we went out the guitar player myself went out and found another
lead singer and we went and we started playing covers shows and basically long
story short we started playing like the cover scene around here
bigger venues and stuff that would hold three four hundred sometimes five
hundred people in their big clubs in the Harrisburg area downtown and we would
travel a little bit we'd go to like Ohio and Pittsburgh and everything and we
were doing our thing as a cover band we thought about like writing our own
stuff and all that but that didn't come till later on so if you guys are an
original band anybody that's watching or ever has been in a band that where you
wrote your own original music and didn't really play covers you know I'm talking
about how that's the story is true I mean I've played with bands like the you
know where one-hit wonders like trust company I don't know if anybody's heard
of them they were an early 2000s band and we opened for them actually out in
Allentown Pennsylvania one time and I'm like hell yeah this is trust company
dude no you know that I like their song they had one big hit and we went and
opened up for them and they had this we parked next to them they had the same
van as a same trailer and they were once they went on we played they went on and
they had a little change jar out in front because their transmission was
busted I mean so you sit and you think like man this was like a band that was
like had a big hit on the radio and now they're like in this situation so like I
said through my experience with other musicians I never made it that far or
anything like that I had I had a great time but I've met a lot of bands I've
opened for a lot of bands hung out got to talk to a lot of bands the guys that
are big-time now and you know guys that never even made it or whatever but from
what a you know what I know is it's it's not all about the dollar bills and what
you see it's it's about just you got to have that passion it's almost like being
here on YouTube you've got to have that passion behind it it's you're not gonna
get rich in anything like that and especially in a band nowadays my two
cents would be if you're waiting for that huge label deal or that record deal
or whatever to come along I'm not I'm not going to shatter your dreams it
could happen it could definitely happen anybody could do it if you're in the
right place right time you bust your ass you get the music out you promote it and
everything like that it's a lot of work it's a lot of work but the best way to
do it nowadays is just do it yourself do it yourself
get your stuff out there you it's so easy to get on iTunes and Spotify
nowadays how you can get it on like the jukeboxes and crap out and uh at bars
and stuff like that get get the music out promote the crap out of it promote
it there's a thing I don't know if it's still out there but it's called the
indie Bible it's all for indie bands because you venues internet radio
stations that are willing to have you on for free or like a very small donation
to like interview you play your songs but that stuff like that you can use to
promote yourself you got to have like a press kit together and and to you know
it's it's just like being a photographer or videographer or anything like that
anything I mean it's a resume your press kit is your resume that you have to
submit to different clubs and if you want to try to play festivals there's so
much stuff I can tell you guys about that you could do but that's just my
experience in my tweet like I said earlier where I mentioned there was one
big band that I used to play with and I used to talk to a lot a lot I used to
talk to other dad a lot and they they want a Grammy about well it's probably
been like five years or at least since they've won the Grammy I don't know if
they won another one yet I've kind of lost touch out of from them lost touch
from them because their dad is he was the driver of their RV before now they
have a bus and all this crap they're like big sign band I'll show you guys a
picture with them if you guys want to see here hold on alright so here here's
some pictures these are pictures of me playing bass we had a photographer come
out and everything yeah I used to have hair and I was younger so these guys are
the guys I'm talking about right here so this is the band hail storm I don't know
if you guys have heard of them if you haven't then check them out they want to
grab me about five years ago this was a party man probably like back in
2008-2009 somewhere around there um that they came out to and we partied and I
was really good friends with their dad the way I can tell you guys the story
about that how I met them how I met them and their dad and everything like that
sitting down with him I mean hailstorm is a perfect example of like a newer
band and how how they made it the sacrifices they went through and just I
don't their dad was like they they got that they got to where they are because
of their parents their mom was their manager their dad rode the RV
dude like built drum risers for the it like did everything dude was a penny
pincher like he knew how to save money you know Lizzie and RJ they grew up
instead of getting cars they would get like a new drum set our Jade get new
drums something with drums Lizzie would get like you know anything involving
music with her singing singing put money towards singing lessons put money
towards a new microphone all kinds of stuff like that they you know from what
I've was told the conversations we've had they sacrificed a lot for their
childhood because their parents believed in them and you know they didn't force
them to do any of that stuff but they wanted to be a musician so their mom and
dad was like listen this is what you got to do if you want to make it big time so
I just kind of wanted to share this little story with you guys I'm sure I'll
talk a lot more about about my music career and everything like that I know I
got carried on a little bit too much I love talking about music I could sit
here for hours and crack a beer open and chill with you guys and and talk and
talk and talk but you know I don't want to make this crazy long video or
whatever about it but I figured I would want to share a fun story fun story time
it's windy it's cold outside it's getting dark I wanted to get out and do
some stuff outside but now you know what it's good to tell a story if you guys
enjoyed this story let me know in the comments below if you want to hear some
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