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Leave your drama at Home: More Rockin 'and less Squawkin'!

No matter how we happen to live as human beings, our lives … Drama. And the average Musician has more drama than the Crazy Cat Lady down the block has bags of used litter to her porch. At every turn, your average wannabe rockstar crazy one squeeze, a crazier ex, a harem of would-be lovers, and a host of insane stalkers. Then there's the band drama, drama manager, club drama, fan drama, Gear drama, and let us not even get started on the potential of online play. Before you know it, your band makes "Desperate Housewives look" like 60 Minutes.

Certainly, no one has ever said that was the music to be a safe, get safe and sound professional. Every industry, from buckets of money is charged, jump around to young, pretty people and showing off is bound to inspire his stupidity to some degree or another. And the creative process is often accompanied with some tortured genius fuels to grow the seeds of drama like miracle to weeds. Plus, there are more than twenty million musicians around the world, perhaps a thousand record deals, as participants on "Survivor" is running obstacles courses for a single meager chicken wing are vocal. If it is a country built on drama, a musician would be his queen be.

However, as much as the music industry with glitz and glamor and the things the tabloids have been filled, it is also a business. And if it one thing you do not want in the center of your company, it is drama. There is a reason why doctors do not argue dying patients about their golf scores, Pilots not to a plane full of passengers that they proclaim to have been dating the stewardess, and the chef did not come to tell you he forgot to wash his hands before he cooked your four-star meal … Drama does not belong in the business. No matter whether you are looking to get a record deal or the search for a Cure for cancer, leave your drama at home!

The following are a few tips to help you, the gossip and unpredictable turbulence of life in the music industry to navigate without a slave to your own drama is:

1) Do not Let The Internet Suck You In — Every since the invention of the Internet, there is more drama than in cyberspace been to a convention for bipolar drag queens. It is easy to gossip and slander while you can remain anonymous, so the Internet has always been a breeding ground grind for anyone and everyone with an agenda, an out-of-control jealousy problem, an ax, or an incredible ego. Mad, sad, small-minded people with inferiority complexes such as the size of Shamu will use the Internet to stick to your band with a cyber stick. However difficult it may be, you have to learn to let them roll all your back. As long as they have you posting, it means that they are hearing. Removing their inflammatory posts or replying with similar negativity, feeds the drama, until your entire message board about the intruder on your site and not the music. What happens if a potential magazine reviewer or an interested label rep Reading your page with interest only to find more info about your fight with some internet psycho than about your band? It is not worth risking a loss of opportunity to engage in drama.

2) Drama consulted Not At Your Gigs — If you are at a show, then your goal is to make music, lead the audience to sell CDs, and win over the club, so you play it again and again. People make room in their schedules, pay for gas and fork out cash for a place setting bar and cheap drinks, only to listen to you play your songs for them. They want to be entertained; away from the pressures of their real life and the flight to safety and excitement of music and poetry. What they do not need is more drama at your gigs then she will hold office staff, her crazy neighbors, and bully their children to school together. No matter what problems you have in your personal and professional life, keep it by your fans and your industry contacts or they start to your shows more for the drama Remember when the music will.

3) is not your manager, your therapist — Although a manager of professional tasks, they do almost like the band's parent, cry do not want to every time the drummer calls you a name or your mommy friend, she decides to play the field. It's too much music industry drama that your manager to deal with every day has to their efforts through a pile of your personal suffering stacked on top of his / her already overburdened shoulders add. If a Club owner stiffs you at the door, your manager. If another band records one of your songs without permission, your manager. If your wife flashes her breasts compulsive at your shows, send her to a therapist, but leave out your manager.

4) Take Off Your Mailing List — The Crazy Makers much damage control may made simply by removing your mailings are the nuts that show and bring their own boatload of drama. If you know that your ex has never been about you come that she's off her medication and that to show it to loves and vibration to every girl thinks she is catching your eye … why would you invite, He shows her? Comb your address book with a big black sharpie pen and ink from the stalkers, crazy, eye-catching, drunkards and exaggerated, that each and every one of your appearances in a three-circus of drama that you are forced to put off the stage during your turn is ringmaster.

Once you remove the drama out of your musical career going, you find that your gigs go smoother, your website is a positive place for fans to hang in cyberspace, and the industry is less cautious about short of what you do. It may be silly, but too much drama can often be a warning sign that something is really wrong with a band, and you will find that industry-types have become gun shy around your band if they're worried that your reputation as a drama queen is more trouble than it's worth. Working in the music business is hard enough. Do not give anyone any reason not to work with you. Be smart. Leave your drama at home and show the industry that your music is the most important thing for You and your band.

About the Author

Sheena Metal is a radio host, producer, promoter, music supervisor, consultant, columnist, journalist and musician. Her syndicated radio program, Music Highway Radio, airs on over 2,400 affiliates to more than 126 million listeners. Her musicians’ assistance program, Music Highway, boasts over 10,000 members. She currently promotes numerous live shows weekly in the Los Angeles Area, where she resides. For more info: http://www.sheena-metal.com.

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