In today's music economy the path to success remains murky at best. One thing is fairly clear though - your relationship with your fans <strong>matters</strong>.

In today's hyper-connected speed of sound world of the interwebs information and rumors travel rapidly, opinions form and pretty soon you are no longer in control of your own message. 

Doesn't have to be that way. 

If the "and the Nocturnals" portion of Grace Potter is finished, and all information we presently have says it is, I would hope that Grace would let fans know something about it. Personally, I'm not interested in critiquing artistic, musical or career choices for other people. Business is business is business. What I <strong>am</strong> critiquing is the lack of attention paid to the relationship we've built - over a decade. 

Many folks I know have spent countless hours - countless - investing emotion, time and dollars in to GPN. Hey, we were rewarded for all that. No debts owed, paid in full. 

Now here we are on the threshold of change - and the fans, those who spread the word, drove for hours, wrote reviews, told their friends and dragged them to shows, posted endless crap on blogs are, well - how to say it - it feels like they don't matter. I won't speak to your relationships with your bandmates because it's neither any of my business nor is it something I know anything about. 

Maybe "The Nocturnals" will come back, maybe Grace needs to do the solo thing for awhile. Maybe "The Nocturnals" are all done, whatever. Go for it Grace! Totally go for it! As someone once said "Make it do what it do!" But reach out a little bit, look outward. We're listening. 

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