Originally Posted by: Hsien-Hsiu LiaoA stage name can help you get noticed, but you still have to have good music. Nobody would care who Nikki Sixx is if his band wasn't good

Who? :)

I don't care to be noticed. I do not consider myself a professional musician and definitely not a good one. I just perform for the experience (it's fun) and mostly because someone asks me too. Odd, more and more people are asking me to perform. Do you think they just want to make fun of me? :)

One group wanted me to play with them, but you have to play in time to do that! :) I like to stop and talk to the audience. I just perform by myself. That way if anyone is offended it's just me they are mad at and nobody else.

The stage name thing came about because some of friends said I should have one, so I have been going by just pain and simple "R.L.". That's what my father called me.

I have made a few bucks writing songs. Though I do perform other artist's songs, I mostly do my own. But a professional, I am not!