"is it really necessary to play that loud?"
"i cant understand a word he's saying."
"all it sounds like to me is ARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!"
"why dont you guys get a lead singer?"
"you guys make any money from this?"


completely supportive of what i do.
not always a fan of what i do.

the Classical wrote:they might come to see us play tomorrow afternoon...I will ask them and get back to you

Please do.

My parents like it - they seem to like the pretty/countryish stuff more than the noisey shit - go figure.

wiggins wrote:

my dad kept wondering why i put the vocals so low in the mix.

my mom only likes the early stuff


the folks were no shows on Sat (probably pissed I didn't put them on the list)...but I am going to go ahead and say "no" they don't like my band. I am sure they like me tho

my mom likes everything i do. the weird syncopated grooves of my own thing or the plain pulsing of the main project. she heard two songs i wrote myself and said "it feels so edgy and tense. but it's good."

my dad doesn't know what instrument i play.

I grew up in the woods without indoor plumbing or a phone, but a huge record collection and awesome stereo. My parents like most of the stuff I'm doing these days cuz it's mostly acoustic stuff, though they were not so sure when I was playing math rock..... then again, in retrospect, it was't that good. Still they are incredibly supportive and open minded and cool.
-n

My mom liked the first album, with the old drummer.... when it was more about the 'music', ya know? She is so old school...

I've never let them listen to it. They have never really expressed interest in it, and I know they wouldn't get it, so I don't care. :0

They saw a gig we played about three weeks ago, and actually admitted to liking it. They said the energy was good, and the songs were "nice."

Then they told me that they really, really hated the band I was in in ninth grade, but didn't have the heart to tell me at the time.

my mom was always really cool about letting us play in the basement and leaving all of our shit all over the place. she never got pissed when we'd throw shows in the basement. she did, however, get pissed when we went through our 20 minute song, Earth/Melvins phase.

she was a little less supportive of my band in college, as we liked to tour a lot and she felt that that was taking away from my studying to become a teacher or record store clerk.

my dad liked Michael Bolton and Abba so he was never really a pillar of support.

-jeremy

What if someone, in another band's mother, like your band, better than their's?

This guy in another band has this hip mom. She is always calling up radio stations pumping her sons band. Well she works with my singer Craig and she ask him work to come see her son play, so we did. At the show we gave her one of our CDs. The next show we play, she is out there going apeshit singing along to all of our songs. I talk to the guys little brother and he tells me as soon as his brother gets out of the car their mom takes his CD out and pops our's back in.


Back to my own mom:

I found that she swiped one of ourCDs from my house the other day. Hell yeah, I was going to make her pay for it. Not really.

Anyway, she calls me and tells me you should have more of that funky sounding song. I sitting there trying to figure out what she is talking about. We did not have anything that funky on the CD. Then I remember this one song. By the way we recorded this with Steve. This song our bass player Willis, who sings back up, sung. Willis asked Steve for this real crackly distorted sound. So Steve has Willis cup his hands around an SM57 which is run through some transformer to change the impedence, and then into a battery-powered, four inch tall, miniture Marshall half-stack, which is then miced and ran into the board. The end result is basically incoherent babble. Willis never sounded better.

Well this is the sound my mom likes the best.