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From SGF to the future? Former Fools Face bassist Jim Wirt launches Crushtone Music

There was a time when Jim Wirt was the young musician fighting for recognition, the guy rolling the dice and moving away from Springfield to take a shot at making it in rock ‘n’ roll. That was in the early ’80s, when his band Fools Face was all the rage in SGF and getting signed to a major record label and put on the radio was the big goal. Twenty-five years later all of that has changed; Fools Face split up less than a year after its move to Los Angeles, record labels are on shaky ground and Wirt, together with wife Claire, Tony Barille and Randy Chase, are out to put the power back in bands’ hands with the launch of Crushtone Music.

CRUSHTONE MUSIC

IS a regional development Recording Company in the business of Producing, Manufacturing, Marketing and Promoting Recording Artists and/or their music products.

Formed in 2009 by Tony Barille and Randy Chase along with Prodcuer Jim Wirt and his wife Claire Wirt. The Cleveland, OH based Company intends to launch recording artists on a regional basis with a "ripple outward" strategy.