Your better half does not like

[Keith Erickson]

My wife does not like the following:

Ozzy Osbourne
Metallica
Led Zepplin
Van Halen

...but she does like them all on a bluegrass genre

So when she asks me to play the Ozzy CD, we both know what she's talking about.

As for the mandolin, she's my biggest supporter & fan

...and I am luck in Love

[Steve Davis]

My wife doesn't like any music. She prefers talking heads,(politics,) or Red Sox or Celtics games on television. When she comes to the computer the first thing she does is shut off Mandozine Radio. If I want to play mandolin at home I need to do it quietly in the furthest room or wait until she is elsewhere.

[mandopluker]

...darn Steve! I don't suppose we should show up at your place with beer & mando's or mando's and beer Ayeeeee

[JHo]

My wife dislikes bluegrass in a big way. Furthermore, since she considers anything acoustic and string band oriented to be akin to bluegrass, she dislikes most of the music I play by default, regardless of the actual musical genre that it may fall under. Hence I rarely if ever play when she's around. I may practice some technical things while sitting on the couch at night, but I don't really play music around her, the music comes out once she goes to bed. This is unfortunate.

[Jack Roberts]

My lovely bride of 25 years doesn't like Kabuki. #I love it, and fortunately my mother-in-law enjoys it too, so I go on dates with the MIL.
She also doesn't care much for my fiddle playing, but I agree I've got a long way to go. #She will stop what she is doing and come listen to me play Bach on the mandola, so that is good for my ego.

[LKN2MYIS]

I would guess that my wife just doesn't like ME!

(Someone had to say it!)

[Santiago]

I get that feeling sometimes too LKN... but I am pretty sure it's the mandolin.

[Bill Van Liere]

My wife did not like the sound of my x-braced Flatiron, so I bought a Brentrup and now we are both happy.

[hoffmannia2k7]

my girl only complains when I stop.

She loves John Specker, thinks he is cute, may be right!

[Mike Snyder]

My wife likes most acoustic music, adores Tim & Mollie O'Brien recordings, and is a pretty good sport about most things. She does not like; feeling abandoned at jams, the price of EXP74s, petrol prices, the heat & dust at BG festivals, the exessive crowd at Winfield, cute & flirty fiddlers. I don't like that they never flirt with me anymore.

[bryankimsey]

I met my wife on a field trip to Mexico in 1984. I supplied the boom box for the trip and after listening to a New Grass Revival tape, she said "Those guys are good- did you bring any more of them?" By the second listen, she was singing along with John Cowan. I saw potential. She doesn't like swing/jazz. The only reason I do is because, as a musician, I should.

[woodwizard]

I hate to say it but my wife dislikes most bluegrass & old time but loves the Newgrass Revival, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Tony Trischka, Mike Marshall, Edgar Meyers, Sam Bush, Dawg, the Punch Brothers, Chick Corea, Classical & Jazz... Go figure... She does put up with my mando pickin and occassionally gives me positive feedbacks.

[jim_n_virginia]

She does not like much folk or bluegrass or Old Timey stuff

She like's like George Michael,Nek,Prince,Cold Play, Rod Stewert and pop

Whats that old Tammy Wynette song?

D_I_V_O_R_C_E!

I think just liking Prince alone is reason enough!

[GS7]

My wife likes the fact that I began playing the mandolin 2 months ago. She hates the fact that in those two months I have learned only three songs. By now she hates Soldiers Joy (or my rendition I call Soldiers Dred), Red Haired Boy and Rakes of Kildare. When I learn a new song tomorrow, she will dislike that one to in about 3-4 days.

Other than that, our musical intersts are very similar and going to shows is a big part of our joint experience.

[HddnKat]

From the girls standpoint again: #My husband was the one who told me I should learn to play mandolin and bought me my first one plus lessons. #He seems to tolerate all my efforts around the house well, but really doesn't understand that jams or band practices don't end on a set schedule as long as there's anybody left who wants to keep playing. #So I just make sure that he's had a good supper before I go, and sneak in quietly whenever I do get home after - seems to go over better on a full stomach.

[Santiago]

Wow. I should have married you! Your husband sounds like a lucky man. She cooks AND she enjoys the sound of a mandolin! I'd settle for just one of two. lol.

[Mr Piggery]

My wife of 20 plus years is pretty tolerant of my musical endevours - she realises their a big part of me as a person. Refuses to talk to me when I have an instrument in my hands - she says I don't pay her enough attention!

I must admit I pretty much hated it when she used to practice her violin, even when it was up the other end of the house. Since I bought her a banjo, things have improved considerably. As she said the other day, its much easier to make a banjo sound tolerable than a violin.

She hates football and makes me turn the sound off when I watch it on TV.

[Eddie Sheehy]

My wife was casting disparaging remarks about my mandolins the other day so to change the subject I asked her if she would remarry if anyhting happened to me. She replied that she hadn't thought about, so I expounded my support for the idea saying that I could RIP in comfort knowing she was being taken care of. She thought about and said that in that case she definitely would. She said it a little to quick for my thinking so I tried to put a damper on it. I said: " I suppose that you'll let him play my mandolins as well?". To which she replied...
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No!
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He's left-handed.