February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

Missile Wings (@jake)

progress: 15

winner!
joined: February 24 2007
location: Minnesota, USA
website: missilewings.com
influences: GBV, Frightened Rabbit, Pixies, Interpol, Beck, REM, White Stripes, Black Keys, and all my friends

Bio

2012 marks my 5th FAWM! My goal every year is to make music that I want to hear, and sometimes that happens. I usually get about 2 to 5 collaborations to complete my 14 songs, and though much of my stuff is post punk, there is usually at least one errant bluesy song in there.

My DAW is working now, Reaper with a Digi 003 interface and some free plug-ins. The drums sound bad and I purchased Steven Slate drums but have no idea how to make them show up on Reaper. Waste of $100 so far.

2012 Songs

1	On The Green Line	13 comments // 3 months ago
2	Twilight	17 comments // 3 months ago
3	Contagious	12 comments // 3 months ago
4	Aftermath	15 comments // 3 months ago
5	Clearings	10 comments // 3 months ago
6	Narcissist Earth	9 comments // 3 months ago
7	Life On A Flood Plain (with dapple)	zong // 3 months ago
8	Wichita	8 comments // 3 months ago
9	Angelica (with autoclamp)	7 comments // 2 months ago
10	A Going Concern (with autoclamp)	11 comments // 2 months ago
11	Back On Board (with ericdistad)	5 comments // 2 months ago
12	Like Knowledge (only better) (with ericdistad)	7 comments // 2 months ago
13	Tripwire (with sacraficialglam)	9 comments // 2 months ago
14	Extra Pale (with tigewill)	6 comments // 2 months ago
15	Team America	8 comments // 2 months ago

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staticcaptain 2 months ago

Thanks for your comments. They do mean a lot. One problem I have this year especially is that while my production is good the songs don't always seem to be there. Something to remember for the future I guess.

Great FAWM for you too.
sacraficialglam 2 months ago

Amazing FAWM Jake! Look forward to working some of these in the coming year.
ericdistad 2 months ago

Congrats on crossing the finish line - and doing so in style! You have a great crop of songs here!
staticcaptain 2 months ago

Congrats on a great finish and a great FAWM overall - sorry it took me so long to comment on your material - a lot of stuff going on here, and the FAWM server appeared to be overwhelmed at times. You should be extremely happy with your output. ... oh and your FAWM songs as well.
toddnorem 2 months ago

Congrats on finishing. Looks like you were incredibly busy in the last day or so. Looking forward to listening to them all. As far as my You Tube Acoustic songs, the idea is to record live videos of some of my songs and post them to my page. Maybe of some of the more rocked out ones to provide a contrast. If I don't get them up in the next week or so I'll delete the links.
sacraficialglam 2 months ago

c'mon Jake, one more!!!
staticcaptain 3 months ago

Thanks for your comments on The Orion Project. I thought it was too repetitive so I changed it up a little bit.
toddnorem 3 months ago

No problem. Love supporting what you do. And your feedback keeps me going as well. If we didn't have this local community I probably would have quit submitting myself to this torture some years ago.
staticcaptain 3 months ago

Thanks! If you want, you could just do that. Maybe re-download it before you do just to make sure you have the latest version. I made some little tweaks.
staticcaptain 3 months ago

Jake When you have time - I'd like you to add BG vox to "Every Man is and Island." Just during the choruses. It's just too high for me, so I took my attempt out of the mix. Let me know. thanks!
autoclamp 3 months ago

"Buddy Holly journeys through the valley of the dolls!" Best comment ever! I laughed pretty hard.
staticcaptain 3 months ago

Great first song as always. Nice to see you out of the blocks. Nice to see you out of the jail cell for that matter. Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck! [is shot]
staticcaptain 3 months ago

DAW be Damned. I need some Missile Wings!
scottmcb 3 months ago

I love incorporating legal disclaimers into songs! I'd be happy to do it. (Also, thank you for the kind words)
sacraficialglam 3 months ago

nope I will probably last out of the gate. we can be slow buddies like in mice and men.
jake 3 months ago

My DAW is working now, but there's a learning curve, so I'll be late out of the gate. I downloaded Steven Slate Drums, but can't get that working.
mikedebenham 3 months ago

Cheers, Jake. Hope you fix your DAW blues and get back on the FAWM train soon.
gslab 3 months ago

Is it OK for us to still be doing this?
toddnorem 3 months ago

Is it really this time of year again? One week away? Crazy. Looking forward to hearing a new album of Missile Wings and hopefully getting together at some point.
sacraficialglam 3 months ago

Myspace link? people still use that?
sacraficialglam 3 months ago

I am here for you. kind of like a gift that keeps on giving. now to publish my articles about money laundering. feel free to claim those as well.
tspoon 4 months ago

Hey Jake.. I look forward to your creations this year. Good luck to you sir...
tigewill 4 months ago

Hey Jake, Lets collaborate this year. I have a renewed interest in getting some new music written this year! Just wrapped a really cool song ( pre-fawm) that I think you may like- I may need some help playing it live too and you'd be a good fit for it!
sacraficialglam 4 months ago

Hmmmm.....you look Fantastic!
thevelvetdrone 4 months ago

Hey Jake, lookin' forward to hear your 14
ericdistad 4 months ago

Collab is a requirement! I'm looking forward to it!
max 4 months ago

Here's hoping you'll have a fantastic, productiveTwentyTwelve FAWM.
ericdistad 4 months ago

Great to see you back Jake! Can't wait for another installment of Missile Wings!
autoclamp 4 months ago

Missiles, take wing! On missile wings, and on dapple throats!

So, yeah. Good luck this year.