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Steven Wesley Guiles (@stevenwesleyguiles) progress: 24 winner! joined: January 22 2008 location: California, USA website: www.stevenwesleyguiles.com influences: Simon and Garfunkel, Elliot Smith, Pavement, Paul Westerberg, Joseph Arthur, Sesame Street, Arcade Fire, U2, the Replacements, Wilco, Sufjan Stevens, M.Ward, radiohead, and You

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2012 Songs

1		Psalm 70	56 comments // 3 months ago
2		A California New York Midnight	40 comments // 3 months ago
3		Eko Letting Go	30 comments // 3 months ago
4		Bacon Tacos of Love	22 comments // 3 months ago
5		God Almighty - Scott Lake (with scottlake)	22 comments // 3 months ago
6		Deadly Salsa of Death	13 comments // 3 months ago
7		Space Love (with  eshouse)	14 comments // 3 months ago
8		Oh, Look At Us Now	10 comments // 3 months ago
9		Hurley's Lament (For Libby)	14 comments // 3 months ago
10		I'm Gonna Fly My Robots	13 comments // 3 months ago
11		Mara's Bacon Song	13 comments // 3 months ago
12		California Was a Harsh Mistress	21 comments // 3 months ago
13		Summer, My Love	9 comments // 3 months ago
14		I Hope You're Feeling Better Soon	8 comments // 3 months ago
15		Do This Like We Got Tall	19 comments // 3 months ago
16		The Choice of Love	4 comments // 3 months ago
17		The Clowns of the Amish (with ego093)	9 comments // 3 months ago
18		I Can't Bear The Thought Without You	9 comments // 3 months ago
19		Before The Days When Gasoline Was Gold (with danvaillancourt)	11 comments // 3 months ago
20		You're Not Gonna Be My Aftermath (with localrockstar)	7 comments // 3 months ago
21		I'm Not Your AFtermath (with  eshouse)	4 comments // 3 months ago
22		More Than We Can Carry (with  mattblick)	3 comments // 2 months ago
23		Del Taco, You've Broken My Heart	6 comments // 2 months ago
24		Thank You For This New Day	4 comments // 2 months ago

Soundboard

•  johncrossman 2 months ago

  I'll get you my info shortly, yes!

•  johncrossman 2 months ago

  Me: Irvine, 3/16-3/22 with at least one trip to La Verne. Sadly, I will arrive to late on 3/16 to make a show with your band, possibly by the name of... Vegas Nerve?
  
  Will you be in the area within that window that I could possibly try to arrange a run-in? My friend in La Verne is a musico, so we could maybe hang out when I'm up there or come over and visit you in your natural environs. If it doesn't work out, I may sneak by in the night and place 4 Del Taco tacos strategically on your lawn. Although I don't know where you live, so I might have to blanket the city.

•  billysea 2 months ago

  So Mr SWG, 2 questions. What did you use to do that cool video and how much do you use that 3 string guitar?

• scottlake 2 months ago

  Steve, take note that I used your drums in God Almighty right before the FAWM deadline. Listed you as a collaborator. Let me know if you want me to remove the collaborator aspect.

• stephencope 2 months ago

  Most definitely, sir. I've been away from this all for two years. Cut off from the world. In Cambodia. I need music in my brainwaves.

• stephencope 2 months ago

  Just got back yesterday. Uber excited. I missed FAWM, but are we still going to do musical things?

• devinhill 2 months ago

  Congrats on getting in 25 great songs this FAWM! Let next year be just as good or even better!

•  boyatheart 3 months ago

  Congrats on the win Steve! Plenty of time for many more I'm sure.

•  mattblick 3 months ago

  NO probs Steve. Guess what - I'm just about to post my Valentine's Day song for my wife! How does it feel to be a positive role model?

•  nickdickies 3 months ago

  Everything is recorded except for the drums. They are programmed in using the note editor and Toontrack Superior Drummer.

•  evelbist 3 months ago

  Steve, i meant every word. I just had to hear 3 and 14 to get it. and you've definitely got it.

•  jonniegrunge 3 months ago

  Howdy Steven! You asked, so here's the rough details on my new machine: It's a 3.3 Ghz Core i5 2500k on an MSI board built for overclocking. I put 16GB of RAM in it, and a 1GB PCIe video card so as much of the RAM could be dedicated to the applications, and not shared for video output. I put a 750GB hard drive in it because I figure that's enough for now, and I can always expand it with some drives I have laying around. I'm using a Tascam US-122mkII as my soundcard and audio input/mid device. And I'm running Windows 7 Pro on it.
  
  For software, I'm running Mixcraft, which is like Garageband for Windows, I'm told. I'll sometimes use Audacity if I'm on the road. I use EZDrummer for drum loops, PodFarm for guitar effects, and a small stack of VSTi's.
  
  Also, thanks for the song comments! The Oingo Boingo and Joy Division references made my day. I promise I'll be around to listen to your tracks soon enough. Congrats on the early win!

• stevekey 3 months ago

  My favorite of my four new songs, "Dystiny", is currently a zong. Want to bust it?

• bitshred 3 months ago

  congrats on winning Steven!!, you rock fo sho.....

•  kevinemmrich 3 months ago

  congrats on the big win!

• besatree 3 months ago

  Super sick man. Def will be visiting your website.

• ddtgball 3 months ago

  Thanks for all of the song comments! Sadly, I've never played Fallout 3, although I love Fallout: New Vegas. Congrats on finishing already! And all of them recorded too! Not something you see often.

•  brownium 3 months ago

  Last week we did your song with me on Uke. This week we're going to do it again with the full band. If it gets recorded (and it isn't too embarassing) I'll send it to you. When I told my daughter that we were going to do it again, she said "YESSSSS!!!!!", with the enthusiasm of a football fan watching their team get a last minute touchdown. You've got a new fan.

• nadia 3 months ago

  hey stephen! thanks for your kind words about "i used to think" *22704...it is *close* to being a direct translation, but it's not exact. i took some license with it to force a rhyme and such. and i'm certainly guilty of some anglicisms, as my french is well-out of practice. however, after consulting with some *a-hem* more grammatical frenchies, i decided i didn't care about the mistakes bc even i (the english teacher) throw grammar out the window and do what i want with English when i write songs.
  
  that was an embarrassingly, selfishly long response. the end.

•  simonwaldram 3 months ago

  Congratulations on reaching the finish line

•  natchdan 3 months ago

  Steptoe is almost entirely constructed using a synth called Harmless, which is part of FL Studio but I think you can get it separately. The bass isn't a preset, I tweaked it into being that huge
  
  And yes, I road-tested Mystery on Sunday night and it got a good response!

•  natchdan 3 months ago

  Says the man with 14 songs!

• devinhill 3 months ago

  And I was proud of myself for having 9 songs on day 8... Then I see you already have 14 songs -_- Good work, though. I've enjoyed all your tracks so far!

•  oneslowtyper 3 months ago

  Way to go Steven!! You now have 21 days to come up with half a song. LOL

•  mattpierce 3 months ago

  Wow, just Wow!

•  timmyriordan 3 months ago

  Congrats on the win Steven. If only I could write six songs in a night. Ok... I could, but I think I'll sleep instead.

• devinhill 3 months ago

  Thanks for your feedback on Deja Vu. I've been trying to mix it up this year, instead of just have straight-through verse-chorus-verse-chorus-end. Glad people are taking notice

• thesupernalists 3 months ago

  I think you are my favorite new FAWMer I've come across this year! Much luck to you and your writing!

•  steffan 3 months ago

  SWG - slow down! You're gonna hurt yourself at this pace!

• devinhill 3 months ago

  Wow, you got a lot of songs already! Give some people a chance to catch up!

• theawkwardsleep 3 months ago

  wow, i love your voice. what a gem to find. beautiful. i have a tune i'd love to share with you and have you sing on (with me singing harmonies with you ) , if you could/would? -ru

•  johncrossman 3 months ago

  Hi, wow, you're cooking this fawm! I think you did this last year too. Stupendous!
  
  Oh yeah, I stopped by with a listening recommendation - fun stuff I just accidentally ran across that I thought you might dig: http://fawm.org/songs/22759/

•  mattblick 3 months ago

  Someone is gonna lend me that Pedro album on sunday. If it grabs me expect more depressed christian songs soon!

• littlenature 3 months ago

  They're my 2 favorite people in the world!

• elijahmc 3 months ago

  mate your on form! 5 tracks already!!!

•  johnq 3 months ago

  Hello Steven Wesley! Looking forward to hearing more of what is shaping up to be some amazing output from you this year!

•  mattblick 3 months ago

  Thanks for the comment Steven - I've heard a tiny bit of Bazan solo but no Pedro. Any albums/songs you'd recommend?

•  cts 3 months ago

  Man, I wish I had cool teachers like you when I was schoolin'.

• seantwright 3 months ago

  hello, I'm back! I think.... how you doing?

•  petemurphy 3 months ago

  Thanks for the comment, Steven. I'm trying something new with fawm... composing all the songs at the piano (I only started playing piano 2 months ago), so I'm hoping it will bring out some new and different sounds for me. Best wishes, Pete.

• mikeskliar 3 months ago

  never thought of that 'the nyc folks dropping the ball three hours early for you guys' idea before -- hey, sounds good!

•  ptr 3 months ago

  Thanks very much for the feedback on my Transgalactica track, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

•  nickdickies 3 months ago

  I listen to a lot of Sonic Youth where those sort of fuzz sections happen, but the idea actually came from the Prodigy's "No Good (Start the Dance)" middle section of all places (which I don't listen to really any more).

•  carleybaer 3 months ago

  Yes, class of '08! And I'm pretty sure you've been on my watchlist from the beginning.

•  briansmith 3 months ago

  Hey Steven! I hope we can collaborate again this year... maybe even in person since we just moved to San Diego

•  fineexcuses 3 months ago

  Looking forward to your new stuff this year - always a treat.

•  rickamorphis 3 months ago

  I will think of FAWM 2011 as the year you fended off song pirates with one hand and caught falling kidney stones with the other. I even have a song on my iPod to remind me. May it be a less eventful go-of-it for you this time around, kind sir.

•  mattblick 3 months ago

  Hey Steven - kidney stones, degrees, teaching, family and all permitting - would you be interested on a collab this year? I'm working on my EP but I think I'm still going to do SOMETHING on FAWM just to keep me remembering what writing a song feels like!

• mrbirdbath 3 months ago

  Hey, thanks for the comment.
  
  This guy on Reddit drew it for me.
  
  I'm from sac.

•  patfee 3 months ago

  ride your scooters with your daddy

•  boyatheart 3 months ago

  So you had kidney stones last year. I have gall stones this year (probably had them last year as well without realising it!).
  
  Thankfully it appears Ican deal with them naturally and am doing just that with good results so far. Let's see if any pain turns into song this FAWM. Best of luck!

• tomslatter 3 months ago

  Hi Steven, I'm glad you liked the video. It was made by my brother Joe:- Here's a link to his site: http://www.thedarkpower.com/php/beastoftheair.php

• elijahmc 3 months ago

  That was quick mate. lovin the beat bro!

•  eshouse 3 months ago

  Yes... Let us do this thing!

•  joshbelville 3 months ago

  STEEEEEEEVE! I really love what you've done with newcoolnow.com by the way. Clean and simple!

• jessem131 3 months ago

  I would be pretty happy if you would just do Weezer rips for all of February...

•  tizzdizz 3 months ago

  You were one of the first usernames I started to recognize during my first FAWM, you applehead, you. Good luck this year!

•  natchdan 4 months ago

  By the way, I still regularly listen to Eddie Vedder and Control. They are wondrous.

•  chasingandromeda 4 months ago

  Looking forward to your schtuff...have a great FAWM!

• temily 4 months ago

  Thanks Steven, you too!

•  captainvulpine 4 months ago

  Oh the classic and amusing tales of Steven Wesley Guiles. Glad you're still around, fella.

•  dustymason 4 months ago

  Bust a move & have rockin' FAWM

• danieljacob 4 months ago

  It's almost time!

• devinhill 4 months ago

  I hope your FAWM this year is as fun as last year's (and hopefully you'll be kidney-stone free )

•  wyatt 4 months ago

  HI Where do you find the option in donating to donate for someone else.? I couldn't find it, either be cause I'm a Komputor Klutz or because there seems to be a glitch when I try to donate. I had to do a workaround to donate for myself
  Thanks

•  ianuarius 4 months ago

  Hi there! Interested in seeing how many songs you complete this fawm!
  Good luck anyways!

•  charliecheney 4 months ago

  ARE YOU CALLING ME MULE-HEADED????
  Well, thank you sir.

•  johncrossman 4 months ago

  I'm taking a little mini-vacation to visit family. I'll email you when I nail down some dates. It would be great to meet up!

•  natchdan 4 months ago

  HELLO.

•  johncrossman 4 months ago

  If you don't write at least 200+ songs this February, I'm going to have to come out there. Seriously, I'm prob'ly coming out to your area in the third week of March.

• danvaillancourt 4 months ago

  Hi Steve. Looking forward to more FAWMepicness from you.

• drewb92 4 months ago

  Group? I did a few collaborations with @jgardner last year, but otherwise I've just been my own self.

•  max 4 months ago

  Here's hoping you'll have a fantastic, productiveTwentyTwelve FAWM.

•  scottmcb 4 months ago

  Hot dog. Looking forward to your jams. We may be able to work on a collab. I was telling someone the other day about "Eddie Vedder told me there'd be days like this" after seeing Eddie Vedder guest star on Portlandia.

•  kidd 4 months ago

  Dude, Birthday absolutely slayed me!

• musicbykatie 4 months ago

  Mr applehead I am so thrilled to be here on your fawm paaaaaaaaaaaage looking forward to the music. i hope theres lots of kids' stuff.

• scottlake 4 months ago

  Yes we are my friend. However, I will likely be doing a half-FAWM this year. I have a conference to attend for work that will eat the entire last week. I may be trolling for collabs as I could write lyrics and add vox as I can take a USB mic with me on my trip, but that will be about it.

• drewb92 4 months ago

  Hoooray for Steven Wesley Guiles!

•  nancyrost 4 months ago

  Howdy!

•  burrsettles 4 months ago

  Welcome back, applehead.

•  steffan 4 months ago

  yeeeehaw!