What does your family/significant other think of the music you listen to?
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SilentRealm
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all these guys that cant find chicks that like metal, and me a chick that likes metal that doesnt meet the same quality in guys in the real world. not nice ones anyway, the few i have met i've thought extremely 'up themselves', also i dont like guys i have to fight for the bathroom mirror with. Truly the style of music a guy listens to isnt as important as being able to connect on other levels, as long as we can respect each others tastes in music.
The Metal Chick
In the Dragon's Den
Where were all you guys when I was in high school? All the supposed 'metal' guys went for the popular girly girls that dressed in tiny clothes. I dress in black, I wear chains, and I listen to metal 24/7. People around where I live suck.
I met my SO at a Symphony X concert. 
The guys I've dated in the past might have liked a band or two that I liked, but none of them really had a passion for music and they pretty much thought I listened to it too much and was maybe a little weird. Which was fine - I didn't require that they like my music. But now it is soooo nice to be able to share music with someone I'm dating. My boyfriend just went to 4 Dream Theater/Queensryche shows with me. Of course he likes SX, and also Vanden Plas and Evergrey. I've been getting him into Threshold. One of the Dream Theater shows we went to was right on a river, and there was a bunch of little fountains in the area and an outdoor bar right next to the venue. When the show was over they started playing Awake at the bar and he said that it just doesn't get more perfect than that - seeing the show in such an incredible, and then being right on the water, having a drink, and listening to a bar playing Dream Theater afterwards... I don't think I should let this one go. He also thinks that James LaBrie has a great voice.
As for my family - my dad thinks all metal and most hard rock is just a bunch of noice, and won't even try to listen to it. He loves classical and I think if he opened his mind just a little he might like *some* of the stuff I listen to at least. My mom doesn't really listen to a lot of music, but she does like some Rush, Queensryche, Pearl Jam, and even Black Sabbath that she's heard on the radio. I'm thinking of making her a disc for the next time I see her. My brother and I always shared the same tastes (Rush, Queensryche, some early 90s bands like Alice in Chains), but he won't listen to the stuff I've been recommending for him. I'm not exactly sure why he won't just take my word for it - I can't believe he wouldn't like Dream Theater, Symphony X, etc, if not all of it.
The guys I've dated in the past might have liked a band or two that I liked, but none of them really had a passion for music and they pretty much thought I listened to it too much and was maybe a little weird. Which was fine - I didn't require that they like my music. But now it is soooo nice to be able to share music with someone I'm dating. My boyfriend just went to 4 Dream Theater/Queensryche shows with me. Of course he likes SX, and also Vanden Plas and Evergrey. I've been getting him into Threshold. One of the Dream Theater shows we went to was right on a river, and there was a bunch of little fountains in the area and an outdoor bar right next to the venue. When the show was over they started playing Awake at the bar and he said that it just doesn't get more perfect than that - seeing the show in such an incredible, and then being right on the water, having a drink, and listening to a bar playing Dream Theater afterwards... I don't think I should let this one go. He also thinks that James LaBrie has a great voice. As for my family - my dad thinks all metal and most hard rock is just a bunch of noice, and won't even try to listen to it. He loves classical and I think if he opened his mind just a little he might like *some* of the stuff I listen to at least. My mom doesn't really listen to a lot of music, but she does like some Rush, Queensryche, Pearl Jam, and even Black Sabbath that she's heard on the radio. I'm thinking of making her a disc for the next time I see her. My brother and I always shared the same tastes (Rush, Queensryche, some early 90s bands like Alice in Chains), but he won't listen to the stuff I've been recommending for him. I'm not exactly sure why he won't just take my word for it - I can't believe he wouldn't like Dream Theater, Symphony X, etc, if not all of it.
arglebargle said:
Guys like you make me scared to go to festivals.
(just kidding!)It's not nearly as bad as it was five-ten years ago, before the internet *really* exploded in popularity. I'd go to Dream Theater shows and the audience was always three quarters guys - nowadays it's fully half and half. When I joined the ytsejam mailing list in 1995, the general reaction was: "A chick?! Whoa...." -- back then, on a list of about 1200 subscribers, there were fewer than 20 active female posters.
On the other hand, at the BWBK festival in Cleveland last month, the audience was *still* more than three quarters guys. But most of them had enough sense to keep their tongues in their mouths; seeing chicks at such shows isn't such a mind-bender anymore.
Nowadays, if I want that kind of reaction, I'll go to a Wizards of the Coast store.
Pharaoh
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I, my wife and 3 kids are SymX fans. Some of the other music I like (not metal), is not a hit with them, though. But everybody here agrees on one style of music. We're a prog metal family. This is why we have no friends.
Polyeidus
I know you're out there
Pharoah said:I, my wife and 3 kids are SymX fans. Some of the other music I like (not metal), is not a hit with them, though. But everybody here agrees on one style of music. We're a prog metal family. This is why we have no friends.
Well Pharoah, if we (my fiance and I) ever move to PA.(her home state) like we were planning but decided to wait until I finish school, we'll definatley have to hook up!
The Metal Chick
In the Dragon's Den
Harp Heaven said:Got any pics, MetalChick?
Check out the off topic thread and you will see. And no I don't look anything like Franka.
Grom Hellscream
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SilentRealm
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underullospell
RULLO AND ME! OMG
Luckly I meet my man in high school. He was in a metal band and had long hair thats what I was looking for. heehee!
I was 15, he was 16.
We got married at age 19, and just had our 10th ANN. july 10th.
So I don't give a S#*T what anyone else thinks about MY music.
As long as we are 2gether, and SymX keeps putting out new Cd's.
WOOHOO!!
Symphony X Rocks!
heehee!I was 15, he was 16.
We got married at age 19, and just had our 10th ANN. july 10th.
So I don't give a S#*T what anyone else thinks about MY music.
As long as we are 2gether, and SymX keeps putting out new Cd's.
WOOHOO!!
Symphony X Rocks!
Marre79
Metal,& only Metal
Well... Actually my family listens metal all the way!! My mom listens Black Sabbath,Led Zeppelin,Deep Purple,Uriah Heep etc.
My little brother is like "darkest" of us all he listens like Black+Doom metal alot,when my father (he's Greek) refuses to listen anything else than greek music (hi is a musician too)
My family ROCKS!!!!
My little brother is like "darkest" of us all he listens like Black+Doom metal alot,when my father (he's Greek) refuses to listen anything else than greek music (hi is a musician too)
My family ROCKS!!!!
Cat5Messiah
Violator of Sheep
My parents listen to most of the same shit I listen to...........and I have no significant other......... 
Grom Hellscream
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Medusa's eyes
Member
I have a nephew in Amsterdam who listens to metal and rock music. He's a very nice dude and has long hair too, it's a pity we don't talk to each other anymore 
SilentRealm
Member
OMG that is so sweet, like soulmates. congratulations on ur 10th ann.underullospell said:Luckly I meet my man in high school. He was in a metal band and had long hair thats what I was looking for.
I was 15, he was 16.
We got married at age 19, and just had our 10th ANN. july 10th.
nckissfan
Civil War reenactor
My mom and dad have grown to accept it over the years. My mom will listen to some of it. My wife really likes it. She likes more country music, and Def Leppard is her favorite. That's cool. She listens to my music while we go places. She is getting into Symphony X, and Dream Theater. She, also, likes Fates Warning. The other bands I listen to, she likes, but can't keep up with the names.
Russel Allen®
The King of Terrors
My mom totally supports me... and she is freak'd about Symphony X too... I even made her a copy of my The Odyssey, so she couldn't get mine from me!
My dad... he just considers it good music... period.
The rest of my family thinks that I'm a completely wacko.
My dad... he just considers it good music... period.
The rest of my family thinks that I'm a completely wacko.
Episteme
Member
My parents have to put up with my music in the car, they don't mind Symphony X because of the nice vocals, but they don't like it when I put Children of Bodom, Decapitated or anything with growling really, apart from Opeth which my mum really likes. My sister is into hard rock and rock, and various other styles of music. Some of which I am also into(such as Radiohead, Tool, A Perfect Circle etc). My girlfriend listens to some Children of Bodom and doesn't mind Decapitated. She's going to play keyboards for my band in my school's up and coming Battle of the Bands.
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