"My parents really encouraged me"
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Four words that sound almost throwaway, yet they sketch an entire origin story: permission. In a culture that romanticizes the lone genius grinding in a garage, Randy Castillo’s “My parents really encouraged me” lands as a quiet rebuke to the myth. It’s not dramatic, not tortured, not packaged as adversity overcome. It’s an acknowledgment that talent often needs a domestic green light before it can become a public identity.
Castillo, best known as a hard-hitting drummer in the loud, swaggering ecosystem of rock and metal (Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford, Mötley Crüe), isn’t talking about abstract “support.” The word “really” does the work. It implies a level of sustained backing that goes beyond buying a starter kit or tolerating noise through the walls. Encouragement means rides to rehearsals, money spent on gear, patience with the obsession, and the emotional safety that lets a kid commit to something impractical.
There’s subtext, too, in what’s left unsaid. For many working musicians, the first obstacle isn’t the industry; it’s legitimacy at home. Parents can treat music as a phase, a threat, a distraction from “real” paths. Castillo’s line suggests he didn’t have to audition for belief inside his own house. That kind of early validation becomes a hidden advantage: it trains you to take your own ambition seriously before anyone else will.
In an era when rock biographies often sell chaos as credibility, this is almost radical in its normalcy. It frames success less as destiny and more as a relationship someone chose to nurture.
Castillo, best known as a hard-hitting drummer in the loud, swaggering ecosystem of rock and metal (Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford, Mötley Crüe), isn’t talking about abstract “support.” The word “really” does the work. It implies a level of sustained backing that goes beyond buying a starter kit or tolerating noise through the walls. Encouragement means rides to rehearsals, money spent on gear, patience with the obsession, and the emotional safety that lets a kid commit to something impractical.
There’s subtext, too, in what’s left unsaid. For many working musicians, the first obstacle isn’t the industry; it’s legitimacy at home. Parents can treat music as a phase, a threat, a distraction from “real” paths. Castillo’s line suggests he didn’t have to audition for belief inside his own house. That kind of early validation becomes a hidden advantage: it trains you to take your own ambition seriously before anyone else will.
In an era when rock biographies often sell chaos as credibility, this is almost radical in its normalcy. It frames success less as destiny and more as a relationship someone chose to nurture.
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