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[srecreates]

Behind The Sound: People Make Love

Premiered Jul 2, 2021

See behind the vail as we worked on People Make Love visual. The shoot was two days long and consisted of an entirely WOMAN led team. Director, Producer, Make Up and Crafties. It was a very energetic shoot and we are glad to had worked with these beautiful souls.

Director: Kim Bosh

BTS Edit: Sharmon Jarmon

[moochilatv]

Men Who Wave and Megan Hozick presents: Almost Anything

Classic Rock at finest

Andrew Hardy & Doug Moore are musicians, songwriters and producers who feature a variety of our talented singer friends from Chicago, EEUU.

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Listen the single Almost Anything in Spotify:

[latenightsleuth]

John Spira - STILL MISSING

DuPage County Investigators Seek Help Solving Myster Of John Spira, Missing Since 2007

March 5, 2020 at 11:16 am Filed Under:DuPage, John Spira, West Chicago

Image from: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-spira-missing_n_2065412

DU PAGE COUNTY (CBS) — DuPage County investigators are again seeking assistance as they continue investigating the Feb. 23, 2007 disappearance of John “Chicago Johnny” Spira.

He was last seen in unincorporated West Chicago. John Spira, who was 45 years old at the time of his disappearance, is five feet, nine inches tall, 165 pounds with brown hair and eyes. At the time, it was known that Spira was recruiting investors for business opportunities and start-up companies, police said.

His sister Stephanie McNeil told CBS Chicago three years ago that she has led searches and given interviews about her brother, hoping somebody will give her answers.

“It’s hard to talk about. And it’s funny, the longer that time passes, it almost gets harder,” she said at the time.

Spira was headed to Oak Brook and never made it, but his truck was still at the West Chicago cable company he owned, Universal Cable. He played area blues clubs with the Rabble Rousers band. He was a well-known guitarist.

The DuPage County Sheriff says Spira is missing “under suspicious circumstances.”

McNeil believes her brother is dead and that the wife he was divorcing knew something. But she died more than nine years ago.

“There are people out there who know. I feel like more than one person knows. And I really wish they would come forward, even anonymously,” she told CBS in February 2017, the 10th anniversary of her brother’s disappearance.

The DuPage County Sheriff’s Office is requesting that anyone who invested money with Spira to contact Detective Dave Chiesa at (630) 407-2364 or by email at david.chiesa@dupagesheriff.org

Read article in full:  https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/03/05/john-spira-missing-dupage-county/

[kurmancommunications]

This week's guest at The Pony is our good friend @v_bprado ! Victor has been a staple performer at the Pony for a long while now. We know Victor as a powerful, energetic performer and a damn good time! See y'all Wednesday! Share this! We got open mic every frickin' Wednesday at @ponyinnchicago Music starts at 7! Come early! Hard shut off at 1am!🎶⚡🎸✌️ . 🥃🍔🍺: Grab a beer & burger for $10! We got $5 shots of Tullamore Dew! bartenders: @pmcc9025 & @giannacharron . . . #openmicchicago #chicagoopenmic #chicagobarscene #chicagobars #visitchicago #thingstodoinchicago #chicagomusicians #chicagomusicscene #chi #chicagoevents #chicagotourist #chicagococktails #chicagoburger #lakeviewchicago #fedorshit #nostoppingorstanding #whoszackfedor #ponyinnchicago #partyatthepony (at The Pony Inn) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoYYl-HLyTJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mikethebarberchicago]

Before / After on @bigsaxchi ... Schedule your next haircut online at www.CommonwealthBarbershop.com #chicago #chicagomusic #chicagomusicscene #chicagomusicexchange #chicagomusicians #asheville #pomp #pompadour #haircut #haircutsformen #menshair #mensfashion #mensstyle #menshaircuts #music #chicagomusician (at Chicago Music Exchange) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjFowLDT-f/?igshid=1uidnjncv1apm

[sharmonjarmon]

🟢HOME TURF🟢 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT! My song “In the Morning” has been pick in @wgci #HomeTurf! And thanks to your feedback I’m in the #Top50!!! The Home team fughin wit the song but now they want YOUR OPINION 📱 Could use your $upport! All you have to do is 📱 CLICK THIS LINK: https://m.me/128600047590?ref=s28v4x 📲 It will open Facebook Messanger 👂🏾 LISTEN THE SONG: RATE IT: HOT 🔥 NEEDS WORK 🔨 TRASH🗑 SPREAD THE WORD Shout out to @amimusic_ on production & @leaire_xciv on Vocals 🎙 #LinkInBio #IndieArtist #IndieMusic #independentartist #alternative #soul #music #chicagomusic #chicagosinger #chicagomusician #chicagoartist #wgci #hometurf (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGXjECPHDDi/?igshid=1ugkqwtw5k6wh

[rossjernigan]

If you told me as a teenager that one day, with very little effort of my own, that my music would be played by people in 32 different countries across the world, I would be filled with glee, but I am also unsure if I would have believed you. If you took the time to follow and listen to any of my old work this year, I am appreciative of you. There will be A LOT of new stuff in 2020. So get yourself ready! 🎵 - - - - - #music #spotifywrapped #spotifyforartists #yearend #gratefulmusician #popmusic #chicagomusician #growth #amazed #comingsoon #newmusic #newyear #popartist #singer #singersongwriter #grateful #spotify https://www.instagram.com/p/B5zKrpCpzZd/?igshid=1deffj6oyi4fe

[sinnerintheinnercity]

Coming in hot with another song for the new EP! "Smoke and Tears" Please enjoy the full song on #youtube! #originalmusic #ep #newmusic #soul #rock #rockstar #rockstardreams #femalesongwriter #singer #songwriter #singyourheartout #dream #passion #acousticguitar #seagullguitars #acoustic #chicagoartist #chicagomusician #workhard #nomakeup #authentic #samiwolf #smoke #and #tears https://www.instagram.com/p/Butw_pvg_wk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=auhi1lgo9kbq

[chicagomusicguide]

Catch Big Dog Mercer at these fine establishments this month! Visit BigDogMercer.com for more information! @bigdogmercer #bigdogmercer #chicagoblues #blueshalloffame #chicagomusic #gandl #gandlguitars #quilteramps #chicagomusician #mickeyfinns #houseofblues #houseofblueschicago #hobchicago #foxfirerestaurant #attheoffice #frankfortfarmersmarket #mugshots #mugshotsbarandgrill #livemusic (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU7pxi4LzoI/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kyraleigh78]

It’s me playing guitar 🎸 🙌😎💗🏳️‍⚧️ #guitar #cranberries #zombie #playingguitar #singing #transmusic #transmusician #chicagomusic #chicagomusician #90smusic (at Rogers Park, Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQb3eophH_7/?utm_medium=tumblr

[srecreates]

Behind the Sound: Music Soul on Fire

Premiered May 14, 2021

Jess on a ladder Ty on the close ups Jerome on the camera Attack the Sound on the rise Take a look behind how we made our video for "Music Soul on Fire"

Creative Direction: Ty Omni

Edited by Sharmon Jarmon

[moochilatv]

Men Who Wave presents: Hechicero De Amor

If you like rock, this song it's for you !

Las guitarras están afiladísimas. La cantante Elizette Hernandez posee un tono agudo de voz que encaja perfecto con la canción

Featuring @elizettehernandez

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Men Who Wave

Andrew Hardy & Doug Moore are musicians, songwriters and producers who feature a variety of our talented singer friends📍 from Chicago.

[kurmancommunications]

This week's open mic guest is our senior jazz singer correspondent @anobletone ! Noble is a captivating performer and a disciplined student of jazz, soul, blues, and everything else good. He's got a big year of shows and music ahead. More Wednesday! Share this! We got open mic every frickin' Wednesday at @ponyinnchicago Music starts at 7! Come early! Hard shut off at 1am!🎶⚡🎸✌️ . 🥃🍔🍺: Grab a beer & burger for $10! We got $5 shots of Tullamore Dew! bartenders: @pmcc9025 & @giannacharron . . . #openmicchicago #chicagoopenmic #chicagobarscene #chicagobars #visitchicago #thingstodoinchicago #chicagomusicians #chicagomusicscene #chi #chicagoevents #chicagotourist #chicagococktails #chicagoburger #lakeviewchicago #fedorshit #nostoppingorstanding #whoszackfedor #ponyinnchicago #partyattheponychicago #chicagoopenmic (at The Pony Inn) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoG023nOGUo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kayocash]

even when the sun goes down we gone make this bih light up ✨ @kayocash ••• •• • How often do we confuse our wants and needs? In 2021, the main mantra of your life should be aligned with the things you manifested in the years before. You want a car, but you need transportation. You want a man, but you need love. This year, I challenge you all to change your wants to nothing and work on living selfishly through everyone else; that is, giving everyone you meet love and bliss without expecting anything in return. That is the law of Dharma, and that will make your life so much better. ✨ • •• ••• (ignore tags) #kayocash #explore #explorepage #viral #atlanta #chicago #south #southern #southernliving #northern #model #art #artofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #music #musician #chicago #chicagomusic #chicagorapper #chicagomusician #modeling #modelsearch #modellife #photo #photoshoot #love #happiness #manifestation #5d #locnation #locs (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJnDMz4g65x/?igshid=1bst071q0c916

[sharmonjarmon]

I must admit, I don't share this performance enough. one of my FAVORITE original songs and no matter how CRAZY the World is outside, this song takes away ALL my anxieties. WATCH. LIKE. SHARE PLEASE. SharmonJarmon! -- #OpenUp | via @ChiBrations

[theclichebluejay-blog]

So here’s what happens. I drive a lot, usually for the purposes of schlepping my precious cargo i.e. children.  While driving my brain tends to get all “Alpha” - ideas, images, song lyrics, melodies, good deeds I never intend to do, etc - and them BOOM, I arrive at the intended destination with no fucking clue how I get there.  I stop, look around bewildered, and shiver.  Then I immediately voice text myself whatever thoughts I can still manage to remember while my children start yelling things like “CRACKER! THIRSTY! WHY ARE WE STILL IN THE CAR?! Am I late? DID YOU MAKE ME LATE?!” I named my phone number “Ideas Inspiration & Whimsy” for the specific purpose of holding on to some of my thoughts, however the texts usually read something like this:

“Suffragette holding poster Joe Cannon Ace Personal Trainer Test triceps exercises with kettle bell the abyss is a narcissist woman with snake wrapped around her body masturbating ancient cross stitch of cantoring mare.”

yea, so that���s been SUPER helpful.

I have inspired moments interrupted on the regular by a smiling toddler, expectant eyebrows high, offering me a handful of his fresh, warm shit.  There is a white board in my “office” that I have written at least 6 different blog ideas on. The margins of my enormous day planner are scribble-scrabbled with to do lists that I am certain are subconsciously created to fill me with shame and make me eat too much burned cheese off my childrens pizzas.  But I knew I’d get here eventually, I always do.

Today I would like to talk about The Grey.  Or The Gray.  I prefer the E.

In 36 days I am testing to be a Personal Trainer.  Originally I took on this challenge believing that because I was a massage therapist already the studying would be a breeze! No. Fuck No.  There’s like, NUMBERS. Formulas. Tables of numbers and formulas that require me to convert Lbs to kilograms. Then there is the psychology issue.  Rarely is it a problem to get a person on my massage table.   Everyone loves to see their massage therapist.  Getting someone to do 1 lunge? 1 plank? 1 mile? That’s much harder.  I frequently have tried to imagine what it would be like to try to motivate my mother-in-law to take a walk around the block, or get that teenagers at the gym to stop hypertrophing himself into a gorilla shape.  The dislike, the anger, the excuses.  Gag me now.

So right now I don’t know exactly what I am doing.  I know lots of “information” but it it is not yet gelled into the practicality of action.  I call it “The Grey”.  My therapist (SHOCKING!) says that The Grey is very hard for recovering perfectionists.  Worst of all, sitting in the pit of my stomach is the knowledge that in order to become great at something one must really try, and when we try we must make MISTAKES: **LOTS OF MISTAKES** : Unacceptable and Inevitable.

I was originally introduced to “The Grey” by my voice teacher, Doug, about a fifteen years ago.  The concept was that there are simply instances where you must allow the mechanism (the brain, the voice, the body) to do what it needs to do in order to find it’s way.  The person owning said mechanism has very little control of the process, and you must be willing to allow strangers see you FUCK UP IN PUBLIC repeatedly.  The Grey can last anywhere from 1 day to 100 years.  You’re supposed to “enjoy the natural process” he would say, and sometimes I would cry in his studio.  But Doug was always right. Always.

The cruel beauty of The Grey is that there is no short-cut.  It is an expanse of time musically punctuated with slogans like “growing-pains” “fake it til you make it” “awkward” and “oh my god I’m so sorry.” It is also a time of seemingly endless synchronicity.  Strangers come up to you and say things like “No one else decideds your value.  That is up to you.” The right people come walking by your table while you are studying; people that are in charge of hiring fitness professionals.  Suddenly all the information you have stuffed in your jumbled brain becomes accessible in a shining momement, and you are able to help someone in a new and improved way.  

But most excruciatingly, The Grey is a time of faith despite glaring evidence to the contrary. When the whispering voices in your head argue about WHO THE HELL YOU THINK YOU ARE.  Maybe you don’t know who the hell you are yet?   Maybe you never really tried?  Maybe it’s finally worth it. Things I would do if I could tolerate more Greyness and/or imprefection: -Apply for a job as a Personal Trainer as soon as I’m legally able. -Paint my house one wall at a time instead of believing it all needed to be done beautifully and immediately.  I have about 600 walls. -Learn to sight-sing without having a panic attack. -Call myself a Jew in front of much more religious Jews, while my tattoos are showing. -Write 50 songs a year instead of 8.  Draw 100 pictures a year instead of 20. -Learn all the Kung Fu. -Collaborate with other musicians more often. -Make my basement into an Air BnB.

What would you do?