Hades wrote:how did having kids match with your music profession ?
most of us here with kids only have very young kids,
I think you're probably the only one that can talk on the subject out of years of experience.
it would have been impossible to survive on music sales alone, but i've always been involved in lots of different areas of music, engineering, promoting, running labels, sound systems, etc. when i was in my band we made money from merchandise. i also travelled alot, living in a bus, doing sound systems and cafe's and market stalls at free festivals and Glastonbury till it became all corporate and they stopped the travellers getting in. my kids grew up alternating between the city and on the road for 6 months each year, my youngest son was travelling from 3 weeks old... those kids had the time of their lives at the festivals, and travelling, it broadened their horizons and wised them up early on.
the main thing is that your kids respect you and love you for who you are when they grow up, i know alot of people who lived 'normal' lives thinking it was proper thing to do because they had kids, whose kids dont want to know them once theyve left home... the worst thing anyone can do imo is change because you have kids. as long as you love them, feed them and teach them about life, then you cant go wrong.