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Steven Wesley Guiles



Last Updated: 11/22/2009

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City: San Dimas
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 8/22/2005

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 

Current mood:  tired
As the title might indicate, I've been a busy bee, buzzin' all over the place.
I have to share this sweet video that my brother and I made. 
It's pretty cool!




We did the whole thing using the stop motion technique.  It's rough, but we did it in two hours (plus an hour or so of editing).


This weekend was the third Songwriting Showcase at Home Brew Coffee.  Each time it has grown and been better each time as well.  I'm very excited for what it might bring next.

Here was my set for the evening:

Live For The Line Not For The Dot
Don't Give Up
May He Keep You As You Go (Irish Blessing Song)
Keep Me Coming Back
All I Want Is You (U2 Cover)
1 2 3 4 (Feist Cover featuring Jaron Eldon on ukelele)


I think I might have done one or two other songs in there, but for the life of me I can't remember.  I do know that we had a great group of people show up.  Lots of new open mic'rs and many returning folks.

The Floating Heads made their second appearance...ever...and John R. Williamson dropped in for a lovely 3 song serenade.  Basically, there was too much to possibly try and write down.  Suffice to say, all had a good time and some great music was played.

Oh, and my new album is arriving next week.
CD release show scheduled for June 20th.
Be there?

Peace,

Steve





Currently listening:
Post Minstrel Syndrome
By The Negro Problem
Release date: 1997-09-23
Jaron Eldon and Music!

 
Oh my goodness I LOVE THIS! I'm so going to blatantly copy you at some point in the future. I always wanted to do a video that's all cut-out looking. And me, the purist, is thinking, "How can I do that in Flash or something, I don't know how to use flash". It's ridiculous that I didn't think about actually doing the real thing.

The song sounds great too. Did you record the album in some form of home studio?

 
Posted by Jaron Eldon and Music! on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 12:01 PM
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Steven Wesley Guiles

 
I totally stole this after watching some AMAZING stopmotion videos on vimeo and youtube.  Mine is pale in comparison...but I had fun making it and it gave me ideas for a future producion.

YOU do video, right?  Maybe we could collaborate on something sooner than later...

The album was recorded in my very own John Cash Studios (the large room in the back of my house that's set aside for recording).

The album was mixed by Garret Gengler via ftp.  I've never met him in "real life", but he mixed my entire album and I couldn't be happier with the results.  He was also the producer.  He helped make decisions and helped with song selection and some arrangements as well.

I did almost all of the recording on my own into ProTools mPowered 7.0. 

Here's the "history" of my studio (I love Google!  I didn't even know where this page was!)
John Cash Studios history

 
Posted by Steven Wesley Guiles on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 1:07 PM
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