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The SBL Podcast

145 - The Ups and Downs of Family Life as a Musician with Scott & Ian

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Scott's Bass Lessons, Bass Guitar, Bass, Online Bass Lessons, Education, Music Interviews, Electric Bass, Music, Sbl

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

How many times have you wished there were more hours in the day? Demanding gigs, impossible workloads, 24/7 email and social media – no wonder so many musicians struggle to make the shift back to family time. In this episode Scott and Ian offer up their advice for striking a balance between your day-to-day life and your life as a musician.

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0:00.0

Oh, dude, the gas returns.

0:11.3

Dude, I'm out of control as well because Lisa's away.

0:13.9

Lisa went away today and with the kids.

0:18.7

So it's like me and George the dog. You know, it's anything could happen.

0:24.2

Anything could happen. I'm just, I'm trying to, yeah, like generally when Lisa goes.

0:30.3

And George doesn't care. He doesn't care. No. George doesn't care if you're on talk base.

0:34.2

He's cool either way. Exactly. And like in general, when Lisa goes away,

0:39.9

I have all of these visions of like all of this stuff that I'm going to do. It's going to be

0:45.0

amazingly productive. It's going to be a good. It's going to be great. And what actually happens is

0:49.8

that I turn into a, um, like 13 year old child. That's what actually happened. I stay up way too late. Do, I mean, like, eat just junk. It's horrendous. Yes. Yeah. But this time is going to be different. I'm going to be in bed at 8.30. Every night I'm going to be getting up at 5.30. That's, have I can stick to that. Are you serious?

1:12.7

Yeah, 100%. Yeah, that's what I'm going to try and do. I'll check in on you after a couple of days and see where you're at, dude. So, okay, you're getting up, you're getting up at 5.5.30. What are we doing? Are we riding the Peloton? Are we taking a run? You're just getting up and

1:28.8

getting ready for the day? What's the, what's the routine? I am going to get up. I'm going to

1:34.0

have some breakfast. I'm going to work my face off for three hours, three hours. Then I'm going to

1:40.6

have a break. Go running. Stuff like that. Stuff like that.

1:47.5

That's how I know you're lying, dude.

1:49.7

That's how I know you're lying.

1:52.3

I never said that this was thought through.

1:58.8

Oh, hey, listen.

2:00.2

I mean, I'm not like, I'm not prescribing. and I'm not saying I'm doing any of the things I said.

2:05.2

I'm just seeing where you're at.

2:06.4

Like, my family keeps telling me like, hey, is Scott riding that Peloton yet?

2:10.4

Because when he does, that means that you better be jumping back on.

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