Anyone married/raising family with little time for metal music?

corplhicks wrote:

Scott, thanks for sharing; I've been curious about how you managed Ultimatum and nolife while raising two kids. That's basically the kind of thing I'd like to pursue, which seems impossible now. Perhaps it happens when they're older?

As a guitarist, starting a thrash band is no. 1 on my bucket list.

You just have to make time for it around your family schedule, which sometimes isn't so easy. Also, I am blessed with a wife who put up with all my band/music stuff for all these years.

That is a good wife.

My wife is not into straight metal, but she has gotten heavily into some of my music. She loves and has gone to see both Alice Cooper and Pretty Boy Floyd with me, and we are seeing Andrew WK in June. She also went to see KISS with me in 2010.

We have a 16-month-old son, and I listen to music with him when we are hanging out, but I prefer to listen to things like Neil Young or Springsteen with him.

Also, I've posted this elsewhere before, but my tastes changes a lot after he was born. Things like Deicide and Carcass just had no place in a world where this little guy would wake up smiling at me. Definitely a persepctive changer, to say the least. Of course I still like metal, but am just less interested in listening to certain stuff.

I used to always consider myself a good manager of time. Turns out I didn't even know what time management was until I had kids.

No kids but my wife usually encourages me to play the music I want. She mostly prefers Iron Maiden or Dio - she's a choir singer so she enjoys bands with good singers (although guys like Halford turn her off because of the crazy falsettos). It's when I start getting into heavy thrash territory that she might turn around and request that I please turn it off

Things just took an interesting turn--my wife has been getting into Gossip Girl, God help us, so at night after the kids go to bed she watches her cringe-worthy show and I get to put on the headphones. For hours! It's been awesome, and we still keep the weekend nights free for mutual activities (hush. you have a dirty mind). I've also started my workouts again. That give me an idea; think I'll go start a new post...