The Response To Your Next Big Post

When another artist sees your post about the awesome gig you landed, you signed with the big company, you wrote with the big star, your sold out show…how do you hope they feel?

I’m gonna guess (but it’s not really a guess) and say you hope they feel genuinely excited for you, that they’ll share in your moment of liberation.  That they’ll have a moment of respect and admiration for all the hard thankless work that went into making this shining moment happen.

You hope they share in the joy of your joyful moment.

And while this is how you hope others respond to your moment…

How do you respond to others’ moments?

In the comparison business….er….I mean in the music business the way many respond to other artists big moments tends to be with skepticism, jealousy, envy, undermining, and contempt.

The exact opposite of how we hope people are responding to us.

Learn to be truly happy for others’ success, as you hope they are learning to be truly happy for yours.

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It Won’t Get Too Bad...

It won’t get too bad…

the tension

the belly fat

the timid relationship

the bad attitude

stinky armpits

life on the road

If you’re already saying “It won’t get too bad…”, the only way you’ll be right is if you do something different than you’ve been doing.

Things don’t nonchalantly mosey there way to getting better, to getting great.

Doing something different is hard.  But that’s what’s required of you now that you’ve read this and are thinking of that thing that won’t get too bad.

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What We Don’t Need To Know

I don’t need to watch Finding The Yeti.  The show is about finding it, but if one is found I would hear and see about it then.  It would be all over the place, not just on the Discovery Channel.

Also the recent headline “A Smart Phone Battery That Lasts a Week?”.  I don’t need to read that article.  When that battery is available to me, I will know about it.  If that battery was available to me now, the headline would read differently.


We’re looking for a reason to click, to engage. But we’re also looking for a reason why we don’t have to. 

If we need to know now, let us know now. If we don’t, save it for later, or for never.  Respect your audiences time and attention.

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Nightcap 11

I heard a lady clearly order a ham and swiss on chewbacca bread. 

Could being on time ever be considered sexy?

I wish I would have been able to over hear Jay-Z introduce Beyonce to one of his buddies while they were engaged…”This is my fiancé, Beyonce.”

Once you’ve arrived, the trip doesn’t seem that bad.

If you’re a famous NFL player your body tells you when you need to stop playing in the  NFL…If you’re a famous musician…

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Where The Streets Have A Giant Mistake

A friend of mine saw U2 a couple weeks ago in San Francisco.

Seeing U2 is a big deal if you’re the type of person who goes to see U2.

Its a big show with big songs. Some of the biggest songs.

(First of all, regardless of political leanings, homeboy can still deliver a speech.)

Probably the biggest of those songs is Where The Streets Have No Name.

When that guitar riff comes in over the synth pad, heaven opens for a brief moment in time.

Then after the synth and the guitar riff do their thing for a while, it’s Adam Clayton’s turn on bass to thump those eighth notes.

My pal sent me the video he took of this song.

This is THE moment. The full band comes in and it’s everything you love about music and life.

But when the bass came in…he was in the wrong key.  The waaaaay wrong key.

And it didn’t get fixed quickly, it took a while.  On the video I could see Adam and the Edge walk to the middle of the stage trying to figure it out.  And eventually they did, but man it was painful.

The biggest band with the biggest show during the biggest moment of the biggest song.   Probably the biggest mistake Adam Clayton could conceivably make.

I just thought this was worth passing along.

p.s.  My friend said the show was absolutely amazing.

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The Smartest Reviewer

How come we think the smartest, most correct review is the one that talks about us negatively? 

We believe they’re the ones who see the truth, who see through us, so we hold onto it…because most of us believe about ourselves what the negative review is saying.

The thumbs down, the one star, the negative feedback, the snarky comment…

The truth is you’re the one who has put something out into the world, and it just so happens it’s being “reviewed” on any number of websites in any number of ways.

An overtly negative, hot-headed review doesn’t take courage to write. Digital courage is not real courage.

All this review really tells you is that you’ve put something out that has the potency to hit people hard and elicit a reaction.

So if you’re the type to concern yourself with reviews…the one star and the five star are both great reviews.

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