Performers: How does your spouse/SO feel about your playing?

[GGJaguar]

I have a few Kraan albums. Thankfully they didn't come with mimes.

 

[dwasifar]

I have a few Kraan albums. Thankfully they didn't come with mimes.

Yeah, if it was anyone here, it'd be you.

 

[Roland]

My wife is an electric bass player. She bought me my Guild D-20 as a birthday present. So it isn't one of those deals where the spouse doesn't know anything about it. She's a pretty good multi instrument musician and singer but she is picky about what kind of music she plays and who she plays it with. She just flat doesn't like country/bluegrass.

I wasn't a fan of it either, but I got invited to sit in with a country/ bluegrass jam some time ago and thought that it was an opportunity to play out with other people, to socialize with some other musicians, so I thought that I would give it a chance and see where it went. My wife wasn't interested in country/bluegrass, but it grew on me and now I'm jamming most weekends and doing some less than prime time gigs with some people from the jam. My wife is still very supportive but she isn't interested in participating in it

Honestly, our approaches to music have been very different and we've always been at odds when it comes to to music. We've always been two musicians living together, going in separate directions. She sings on a choral group that I have no interest in being a part of. It has worked for forty two years. It's all good. We enjoy hearing about each other's experiences when one of us gets home from something.

 

[PreacherBob]

My wife is an electric bass player. She bought me my Guild D-20 as a birthday present. So it isn't one of those deals where the spouse doesn't know anything about it. She's a pretty good multi instrument musician and singer but she is picky about what kind of music she plays and who she plays it with. She just flat doesn't like country/bluegrass.

I wasn't a fan of it either, but I got invited to sit in with a country/ bluegrass jam some time ago and thought that it was an opportunity to play out with other people, to socialize with some other musicians, so I thought that I would give it a chance and see where it went. My wife wasn't interested in country/bluegrass, but it grew on me and now I'm jamming most weekends and doing some less than prime time gigs with some people from the jam. My wife is still very supportive but she isn't interested in participating in it

Honestly, our approaches to music have been very different and we've always been at odds when it comes to to music. We've always been two musicians living together, going in separate directions. She sings on a choral group that I have no interest in being a part of. It has worked for forty two years. It's all good. We enjoy hearing about each other's experiences when one of us gets home from something.

Dang Roland that’s the best story I’ve heard. I’d seriously watch that movie on the Hallmark channel any day.

 

[E-Type]

We have kind of a spare room and my wife is cool with me using it for weekly band practice. But she basically couldn’t care less. She got home after a few hours out and asked what I’d been doing. I said I had tested our new band setup by recording a videos of me playing two songs. Her response… “Oh.” And she walked away.
I’ll take it, but with the other spouses All into it, she has to pretend to care.