MR. MOCOS: “YOU CAN PICK YOUR FRIENDS”

Local Musician Appeals To Both Kids and Adults

Musician/singer “Mr. Mocos” will be our featured act at Hoco Family Fest and will perform songs from his new rock and roll album “You Can Pick Your Friends.” The hilarious, high-energy, original music with guitar riffs galore, is sure to have kids in stitches and dancing with their parents as the “big kids” reminisce about their own childhood. Remember getting flip-flop blowouts or building your own rocket ship out of a cardboard box?

 "Many of my friends who have families are listening to repetitive, tiresome songs just to appease their children.  I thought, why not make music for kids AND parents to enjoy together?” said producer Jim Gyuro, the mastermind behind Mr. Mocos’ catchy tunes.  Gyuro said the songs were spawned from his own great childhood memories and hopes they will spark a memory or two for other parents as well.

Gyuro has been writing music and performing in bands for over 15 years.  The self-produced album was recorded in Gyuro’s Tucson, Arizona, home studio and mixed at Jim Brady Studios, with assistance from jazz-great Jeff Haskell.  For the past year, Mr. Mocos has been entertaining young audiences and their parents during festive children’s rock concerts in Southern Arizona.  Today, fans can find out why “G-I Joe Married Barbie” or listen to a Johnny Cash-style “Ballard of The Bubblegum Kid”, by downloading songs on the Internet.

You can order a copy of the CD, visit iTunes, CDBaby.com, Digstation.com and Amazon.com or these local stores in Tucson, Arizona: Charlie’s Comic Books, Kid’s Center, Bohemia and Mildred and Dildred.