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vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 3:56 pm

how do you think i feel? my gf has bought tickets for u2! worse still one of them is for me!

penguinfromdeep · Post by **penguinfromdeep** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 4:01 pm

At the moment I'm alone, always my passion was a problem for my girlfriends - though at first they said they understand it but when they saw how much time I spent on my passion and how unavailable I can be at times ... Then it became a problem. Well can't blame them really I guess... 4ever alone I guess! Or maybe I just need to find a person who has same kind of driving force in their life too ...

fluffy_little_something · Wed Dec 31, 2014 4:02 pm

Oh my

At least it's not Justin Bieber

I have found that women tend to be much more tolerant in terms of music, most will listen to a much wider variety of music then most men do. Don't know why that is...

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 4:08 pm

vurt wrote:how do you think i feel? my gf has bought tickets for u2! worse still one of them is for me!

On New Year's Day or Sunday Bloody Sunday?

Zombie Queen · Post by **Zombie Queen** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 4:38 pm

vurt wrote:how do you think i feel? my gf has bought tickets for u2! worse still one of them is for me!

Oh, crap.

Alone, yes. My family and friends know I'm doing something, but I'm quite certain, it's not considered music.

damoog · Post by **damoog** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 4:52 pm

Good topic Op...yeah I'm alone in my studio but I don't mind that at all,my wife is on another planet music wise(she loves her 80's music) and I'm basically from the early rave scene so our music tastes couldn't really be different

To be fair to her though she doesn't complain about my hardware synth buying habit even when I stretch over £1000 for one,all she says is "all that money for something that makes bleeps and farting sounds!"

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 5:03 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:I have found that women tend to be much more tolerant in terms of music, most will listen to a much wider variety of music then most men do.

Obviously you don't know Tricky Loops, I'm listening to everything. Whether I like it, is another question...

(But I hate over 30s parties, they always make me look so old - I cannot stand listening the whole night to the chart hits from the 70ies and 80ies!

)

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 5:24 pm

Yes and no... I typically make music alone but I do have a lot of friends who are musicians and/or work in the music industry. It's a lot of fun working with other people but I acknowledge that I can be very difficult to work with.

My wife listens to my music, I have even convinced her to sing a few times (she has a beautiful voice) but it's not really her thing. She likes it when I play guitar and bass (which isn't very often). She is very supportive of my music pursuits.

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 5:28 pm

justin3am wrote:She likes it when I play guitar and bass (which isn't very often).

That's pretty much when my wife shows interest - I can think of a few times when I've set up a drum loop and sequence and soloed over the top and she will just sit and listen.

She hates me playing the trumpet though (and so do most people...

)

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 5:34 pm

robojam wrote:She hates me playing the trumpet though (and so do most people... )

...not if you mute your trumpet (I LOVE these muted Mexican trumpets in Ranchera/Norteño!

)

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 6:04 pm

my neighbours have been known to join in on percussion when im playing. their timing is awful though and i always forget to mic the walls up.

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 6:09 pm

vurt wrote:my neighbours have been known to join in on percussion when im playing. their timing is awful though and i always forget to mic the walls up.

Maybe if you go round while they're playing along and knock on their door you could stand there when they answer and clap the correct time to them?

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 6:12 pm

maybe in summer i will
its a bit nippy out at 3 n 4 am this time of year.
to be honest im surprised theyre up as well.

beltrom · Post by **beltrom** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 7:58 pm

vurt wrote:maybe in summer i will
its a bit nippy out at 3 n 4 am this time of year.
to be honest im surprised theyre up as well.

Maybe it's the monitoring that's off? I suggest you drill a few holes in the wall to improve, then you could slide a microphone in as well to get recording from both sides.

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 8:38 pm

Tricky-Loops wrote:...not if you mute your trumpet (I LOVE these muted Mexican trumpets in Ranchera/Norteño! )

I used to work at a commercial studio where we recorded a lot of stuff like that. It was really weird because almost all of the records we made for those bands were funded by drug cartels.

I later came to find out that it was one of the ways they would launder money. They would sell drugs in California and pay us cash to produce an album or even just a few songs. Then they would take the CDs down to Mexico and sell the music for a profit. I guess it was less risky than carrying cash across the border.

I'm not saying all of that kind of music is for the benefit of drug smugglers. I know most of it is a combination of traditional music and European music styles that were brought over in the 1800's (including Polka

). That said, there is even a modern sub-genre called Narco-corrido which seems like folk-tales of narco gangs and drug smugglers.

Are you alone?