{"id":3890,"date":"2017-08-13T22:36:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T20:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iskcrocks.com\/?page_id=3890"},"modified":"2017-08-13T22:37:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T20:37:46","slug":"overture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iskcrocks.com\/?page_id=3890","title":{"rendered":"Overture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/iskcrocks.com\/foto\/OvertureFull.jpg?w=848&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"OvertureFull.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world without music!<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nHave you ever visualized how this world would feel like without music?<br \/>\nNo birds chirping, introducing spring with the first warm sunrays,<br \/>\nno melancholic ballads, no cheerful summer beats, no euphoric rock-<br \/>\nanthems coming along with us, bringing to our mind, our very feelings.<br \/>\nAnd what would a Spielberg, Disney or Nolan film be without the<br \/>\nright soundtrack?<br \/>\nComparing it with your visual sense, it would be like seeing everything<br \/>\nblack and white&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Music is linked with emotions and powerful emotions create powerful music!<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nHave you ever heard a person say &#8220;Music is my life&#8221;? Many people believe in music and that it can change lives. But what does that mean?<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re really living in a stressful world where time and peace of mind gets rarer and rarer whereas pressure and mental overload gets more and more. Can music change it?<br \/>\nYES! If you use it with the right measure of appreciation and humility.<br \/>\nAnd by saying &#8220;use&#8221;, I mean listen to it, create it or even talk about it.<br \/>\nMusic is a gift and if we just take one minute to think about it, we realize how important and powerful it is &#8211; and the best thing is &#8211; it\u2019s cheap, easy accessible and absolutely legal&#8230;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nMy name is Jim Creard and I started to make music when I was 18.<br \/>\nI always listened to it and it really helped me through dark times in my youth but starting to learn to play the guitar, figuring out the first riffs, that was a whole new world and today I can really say that it became my life.<br \/>\nI bought my first guitar just to decorate the wall of my first apartment but always felt some magic vibes coming from it and ever since the first girls said &#8220;uuuh &#8211; can you play?!&#8221; I knew I had to get into playing\u2026<br \/>\nA few months later the greatest time of my life began, founding my first band, getting on a stage for real &#8211; I soaked up every magic moment between the crowd and myself, then and ever since!<br \/>\nLater I discovered my passion for playing drums as well and since then I didn\u2019t let one day go by without grabbing my guitar, smacking some beats or writing some lyrics. Sometimes I really have to get up in the middle of the night to write down some idea, I just heard in my dreams. Spooky &#8211; sure! But I think that\u2019s when you start to live for music and music becomes your passion.<br \/>\nSince the first &#8220;Magix music maker&#8221; edition came out, many years ago, I also started producing and arranging my ideas and since then, most instruments on my songs and projects are played by me. Now I use Logic pro X.<br \/>\nSpeaking of my equipment, here are some details of my &#8220;craft stuff&#8221;:<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve played a couple of nice guitars, including premium models from Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, PRS, Kramer and many more &#8211; my favorite still is a Johnson LP model, body\/neck mahogany with a bigsby tremolo and filtertron pickups &#8211; this piece weighs about 6kg and the output is blowing you into another dimension! I play through an ENGL Powerball and a Mesa Boogie Studio Caliber DC-2 (stereo, using a Boss CH-5).<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nA few years ago somebody who was very close to me said, &#8220;You give everything to music &#8211; one day, you will lose everything and start to hate it!&#8221; &#8211; That really shook me up badly and I fell into a hole! But guess what pulled my out? Right! Music will always be my life and I\u2019m so thankful and appreciative for all the positive feedback I get.<br \/>\nThe biggest goal in music will always be to touch somebody\u2019s heart. That way you will create soulmates and maybe &#8211; lighten these hard times of terror and fear, if only a little bit.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nAre you stuck in some dead end or struggling finding sense in life?<br \/>\nYou CAN find peace and luck AND &#8211; you can give it to others!<br \/>\n&#8211; Do everything you do with passion!<br \/>\n&#8211; Live every day of your life deliberately<br \/>\n&#8211; Appreciate the small things in life<br \/>\n&#8211; Never stop increasing your skills<br \/>\n&#8211; Show others what you&#8217;ve learned<\/p>\n<p>The Overture has been a musically association, existing 2015-2016.<\/p>\n<p>Various great musicians has been involved in the project such as Ritchie Kelly, Jojo Rauch, Michi Tietze, Zoltan Dragus, Mark Ischia, Eddy Winter and more; building up a great and very special sound, influenced by big artists like Queen, Muse or Pink Floyd. Songwriters and composers Jim Creard and Ritchie Kelly created a masterpiece of &#8220;theatralic rock&#8221; &#8211; called &#8220;requiem for a dying world&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimcreard.com\/overture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.jimcreard.com\/overture<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/overturetheband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/overturetheband\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Imagine a world without music! \u200b Have you ever visualized how this world would feel like without music? No birds chirping, introducing spring with the first warm sunrays, no melancholic ballads, no cheerful summer beats, no euphoric rock- anthems coming along with us, bringing to our mind, our very feelings. And what would a Spielberg, Disney or Nolan film be&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iskcrocks.com\/?page_id=3890\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3890","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PbEcyi-10K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskcrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskcrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskcrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskcrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskcrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iskcrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskcrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}