Neon Trees Drummer

Описание: It's play time for little two-year old Bryce who's mom and dad have no problems diving right into being kids themselves. Walking into their home the Bradley's look like your typical young Utah County family.

But how many kids have a mom, that's also a rock star. That's exactly what Bryce has. His mom Elaine Bradley is the drummer for the hit group – Neon Trees.

Elaine says music was something she always took very seriously. "Even when I was a kid it was never a hobby or a joke," said Elaine in an interview with 2News Dan Rascon at her home. "For me it was always a means to an end. I was in bands not as a hobby but because I wanted to make it."

But oddly enough the drums were not what Elaine dreamed of playing. "I never wanted to actually like be in a band playing drums and have that be the thing I made money from. No, I wanted to like sing and play the guitar."

But that all changed when Elaine joined her first group while attending BYU called Another Statistic. She met the guitarist in Germany while the two were serving in the same LDS mission. They both agreed to get together and play some music when they got home.

"I [Elaine] will just play the drums while you play the guitar and it will just be a fun thing and it ended up being cool so we started a band called Another Statistic," said Elaine. During that time she also graduated from BYU in public health at the top of her class. Her only B during her college career was in music class. "In my defense, I don't read music and it was music history," said Elaine with a smile.

In 2007 Elaine joined Neon Trees as their drummer, but it wasn't all success after that.

"Two thousand seven, 2008 was the worst year collectively of all of our lives," said Elaine. "We would play any show that we could get our hands on that meant some really bad shows - seven people."

In 2010 they had their first big hit “Animal.” That's when things turned for the better.

"I don't like it when people are like, 'I was just happy to play music to play music'. We were not happy playing music to play music. We wanted to get it out there and we were really happy that so many people got to hear it and so many responded to it and it just kind of snowballed," said Elaine.

The band now has plenty of hit singles to show off, but Elaine's favorite award is on her living room wall among the platinum records. "And then my prized possession, the key to Provo City. I live in Orem now. Shhh," she says with a wink.

Neon Trees is a Provo Band because that's where it got its start, but Elaine says it is not a Mormon band like some might think, even though Elaine makes it very clear that's she's a faithful Mormon.

"We happen to have some Mormon members. Not all of us consider ourselves Mormon anymore. It's one of those things were we try and keep religion away from our business, because it just doesn't make sense to include it," said Elaine.

But they do have some band rules, "When we are doing band stuff, when we are on tour and shows, no drinking no drugs. Let's just keep that stuff out," she said.

Balancing a band and parenthood is not easy for Elaine and her husband Sabastian, who jokes about not even liking the same music. But the two have worked out a system and Sabastian says he loves being a stay-at-home dad.

"I love it. Did I ever think this was going to turn out this way? No, not really, but after getting into it, it's what I want to do. I'm fulfilled in my role," Sabastian said.

"It would be terrible if I resented having to be gone and he resented being home. But we don't resent [our roles] we embrace them," Elaine said.

For this mother and rock star, this is just the beginning of what's to come for Neon Trees.

"We still have things we want to do. We’re not done. We are not just resting on the fact that we have a couple of hits. That's not good enough for us," said Elaine.