KID NEBRASKA For the Love of Music How did you get influenced by the music industry in the early days of your life? When I was really young, my dad won tickets to a concert from a local radio station. I think the name of the group was “Reality Check.” They were a hip hop group, and it was the first concert I’d ever attended. They were dancing and rapping and doing backflips off the stage, and it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen. I was hooked. From then on, music was a huge part of my life.
lot of self-doubt, there are people telling you you’re wasting your life, there are people telling you you suck (even if you don’t). It’s difficult to filter out the signal from the noise. Pile on the fact that you never make enough money and most music careers die before they ever get started. I sort of gave up after my first serious band broke up. We’d been together
Who inspired you to be apart of the music industry? My biggest inspirations were Jonny Lang and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. At the time I was playing guitar, but not all that seriously. Then, one day I heard Jonny Lang on the radio. At first I thought, “Eww, that’s old people’s music,” but then the DJ said he was 15 years old. When I heard that, I immediately went to the record store and bought his album “Lie to Me” and the book of guitar tabs for the album, and I learned it front to back. In that same time frame “Blue on Black” by Kenny Wayne Shepherd started playing on the radio and it was the coolest thing I’d ever heard. After hearing that, I went back to the record store and bought “Trouble Is” and the book of guitar tabs, and that’s where much of my style developed. What are some of the biggest problems you have encountered in this journey of music? Being a musician is not a peaceful journey. There’s a
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