One of the biggest problems with being married to a musician is that anytime my husband sees anyone playing live music, he stops to listen. It doesn't matter where we are or what we're doing, we're stopping in our tracks. If he hears a steel drum in the subway, a pan flute at a craft fair, or the pianist at Nordstroms, I'm prepared to wait at least through the length of one song until we can go about our day.
This also applies to any live performances he happens to come across when he's channel surfing at home in front of the TV. One night we watched Guy Lombardo perform "Tiny Bubbles," I kid you not.
But this has also led us to some really good things. He's recently found an HD channel called Palladio that shows amazing music programming that you won't find on any of the mainstream music television channels.
Case in point. Last night we watched Genesis: When in Rome, a concert taped in Rome in 2007. I grew up listening to Genesis and watching this I remembered how much I enjoyed their music. In particular, I loved the "In The Cage" medley of some older stuff I hadn't heard before. I'd forgotten Genesis was a really progressive band before they went really commercial, and it was amazing to see them rip it up. I wouldn't have seen any of this, or heard any of this, if it wasn't for this channel.
Palladio is now our own brand of must see TV.
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