TNT PRESENTS

the

FANDOM TAPES
a WALTEN FILES Zine

HOSTED BY TAILSY EVERGREEN AND TINA SCRIBBLEZ

 FOREWORD
Since its premiere in 2020, The Walten Files has
steadily grown a sizeable following. Theorists, artists,
and viewers alike eagerly discuss the contents of the
episodes, non-canon specials, unlisted bonus videos,
music albums, and website updates. Intrigued and
terrified of the show's haunting atmosphere, stark
visuals, and immersive story, as well as the various clues
that further intertwine the lore involving memorable,
well-written characters, the community flourishes as it
shows their appreciation of the series through various
modes of expression.

The Fandom Tapes: A Walten Files Zine has been a

project in the making over the course of the past several
months. With a team of 45 artists from across the world,
we bring to you a celebration of Martin Walls' analog
horror series The Walten Files. Our zine depicts the
events and aftermath of episodes one to three, as well as
"The Mysterious House," and "Boozoo's Ghosts." In
addition, the zine contains an exclusive interview with
Coker Easler, the lead guitarist of Sweet Tuesday and
the voice actor of BSI co-founder Felix Kranken.

Thank you for all your support, and happy reading!

Sincerely,
The Fandom Tapes Crew

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C OKER
LEAD GUITARIST OF "SWEET TUESDAY" AND VOICE ACTOR OF FELIX KRANKEN
How were you brought into "The
Walten Files?"
Back in about February of 2020, I was really
into this guy called Sagan Hawke. He had
some videos about "FNAF VHS," Squimpus
McGrimpus’ series. And I was sort of in that
whole thing where I was like, “Nah, I don’t
want to watch something about FNAF.” So I
put it off until I had watched all of Sagan
Hawke’s videos. And then I was like, “Well now,
I gotta watch these.”
So, I went and I watched them and thought,
“Hey, this is kind of interesting!” And then
Sagan Hawkes posted a video on "The Walten
Files." I saw how small Martín’s channel was at
the time, and I saw how active he was with
people. And I was like, “I’ve got to somehow be
a part of this.” I was in a server with a friend of
mine (DBR Games). They’re the voice actor for
Brian Stells, and they’re a really good friend of
mine. They had a server that Martín was in,
and they added me to it. I asked Martín, “Hey,
do you need someone to do music for
anything?” And he responded, “Oh, well I
already have somebody.” And he did! It was
Jacob Woodson, who does the scoring and
soundtracks for the series. I was like, “Okay,
well if you ever need anything, you can always
call me.” And Martín said, “Thank you, I’ll
remember that.”
Time goes on in that server, and it goes to
about April of 2020. If you don’t know, I grew
up watching Thomas the Tank Engine as a little
kid. One of the things that I always would do
when I first started playing music was trying to
recreate some of the songs from the show. And
there’s a thing that a lot of people in the
Thomas community do, when they take songs
that are preexisting and make them into the
style of that show. I did one of The Beach Boys'
song “Do you Wanna Dance” and I sent it in the
chat. Martín looked at me and said, “This is
really good. Would you want to do some stuff
for the series?” And I was like, “Okay yeah, sure!
Of course I’ll do something to help you out.”
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Martín asked me to do a couple things
mainly for "The Showstoppers," the main
[album] he wanted me to do the music for. I
didn’t want everything I do for him to be
covers. So, I sent him a song that was in a
similar style called "I Can't Feel Anything. He
would use that later on in the teaser and
credits for Episode 2 [Relocate Project]. It
would blow up and become one of my most
popular songs until "Love is Linda," which I’ll
get to later.
The way I got to be Felix in the series was
that we would do these readings, a lot of us.
Martín would give us a script and we’d read
it. And I just naturally would always get
picked out to be Felix. And eventually, I
guess I never even auditioned! Martín told
me, “Hey Coker, here’s Felix’s lines.” And I was
like, “Oh okay!” I sent them in and did them.
That’s how it happened… I had already done
the music for everything, so Martín knew
who I was, and we had done a couple table
readings of the scripts, so Martín knew how I
had sounded as Felix. So I guess he just liked
my voice and thought I was perfect for the
role. That’s the whole story, the rest is
history!
What is it like being Felix Kranken?
It’s kinda weird how just over a year ago, if I
went and tweeted out “Hey, I need a PFP
guys. Can someone make me a profile pic?”
I’d get two or three responses from my
friends sending crappy MS Paint art, saying
“Here ya go!” as a joke. And I wouldn't get
much response after that. Now[adays], if I did
that, I'd have people clamoring to try and do
it. And it’s just weird to me. I keep myself
humble... it’s nice to have what I have and I
need to appreciate it. But it’s just weird! The
good thing is that aside from TikTok, the only
place where I really have this problem, I
experience a good separation between Sweet
Tuesday and Felix-related stuff.
I don't put out something for Sweet Tuesday
and have people out in the comments, making
Felix car crash jokes and stuff like that…TikTok
is the only place where it’s bad. Because Tiktok
is mostly 14-year-olds who think that they’re
being funny, so I’ve come to expect that with
TikTok. I don't like to diss anybody in the
fandom, because they are supporting us and
giving us the drive to keep doing what we do.
But you can kind of tell the age range of the
people on TikTok!
What brought you into music and choosing
the name Sweet Tuesday for your band?
Like I said, I grew up watching Thomas the Tank
Engine, and it’s still a show that’s very close to
me. As a kid, I always loved the music for that
show! And that was sort of my first experience
really looking at music and thinking, “That
sounds really good.”
Later on in life, in about 2011, [my family and I]
went on a cruise to the Bahamas, and we went
to this show that they had on the cruise. It was
this live Beatles tribute show. It wasn’t a tribute
band, it was more of acting out the songs in a
theater setting where [performers] acted out
the songs. The only memory I really have is the
scene in “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” of the
Judge getting a silver hammer banged on his
head. That’s the only thing I remember from it…
when I got home, I immediately went and
bought “Abbey Road” on iTunes on my second
generation iPad from back then… I listened to
the whole thing front and back through, and
that’s why that album in particular still holds a
very special place to me. People will ask, and I’ll
tell them that Magical Mystery Tour is my
favorite Beatles album; but Abbey Road is
probably the one that holds the most
sentimental value to me as a whole because it's
the first one I listened to...
In sixth grade, I got a bass guitar for my
birthday, and I immediately played that thing
out. I still have that thing and it does not work
anymore… I started late compared to most
people, cause most people start music when
they are little. But I started when I just
[began] middle school. I had a little Yamaha
digital piano and I would record stuff with
Audacity, just improvised stuff on there. I
would burn them into CDs and give them out
to my friends at school…
Most of what I was doing was downloading
MIDI files and revoicing them to make them
sound a little better, and then singing over
them with no vocal training at all. So they
sounded awful. I kept doing that until about
2018. I met a guy named Jacob (his name
Cosmic Domino on YouTube) and another
guy named Austin (he’s known as World
Famous Secret). They’re both really good
friends of mine and [...] are responsible for
how Sweet Tuesday shaped its sound, just in
the sense of the amount of work I put into it
now. Before I met them, I was doing this
more as a hobby. And then I met them, and
they introduced to me the whole idea of
actually doing it to put it out there and let
people hear it, and try and gather a
following for your music.
I starting off calling myself "Coker0415." That was
the main name of everything; it’s still my Twitter
name to this day. Then, I changed it to "Coker
Easler" for two singles. Finally, I had an idea. I
went up to Austin and Jacob and was like, “Hey,
do you guys want to start a band?” And they
were like, “Okay!” They were all coming up with
different names, and I came up with the name
“Sweet Tuesday Morning,” which is a Badfinger
song… Austin [suggested], “You should shorten
that to ‘Sweet Tuesday.’” I thought, “That’s a
good idea.” We were going to call ourselves
"Sweet Tuesday," but they had other things they
had to do in their lives, so they left. I thought, “I
guess I’ll just do this as a single thing on my
own.” I put out that first album for Sweet
Tuesday back in 2019, all on my own. And it just
sort of kept on going from there. I always
wonder about the people listening to my first
two albums back in 2019, and if they’re still
listening now, just to see what it’s become.
How long have you been pursuing music?
For about six years. I started when I was in sixth
grade. I started getting tutored in math in sixth
grade, and this woman who was tutoring me also
taught piano. So I took a couple lessons with her
before I switched to bass. That was in about 2015.
As a little kid, I would go over to my cousins’ house
or my grandma’s house, and they always had
pianos. In particular, my maternal grandma, had a
piano that I would play all the time. I never knew
how to play, but I would play what I thought
sounded good on it. I thought piano would be the
next step to go, but I ended up switching over to
bass, and then later on guitar.
Which musical influences inspire you
the most in your work?
So, The Beatles. I’m not even going to mention
them, because they’re almost like, the group
that everybody is inspired by in some ways… My
favorite group of all time has always been
Badfinger. When I was little, the only song I had
heard from them was “Day after Day.” Later on, I
was listening to this Beatles compilation, and
there was this song that Paul McCartney did
called “Come and Get It.” And I [thought], “Man,
they should’ve released that as a single, that’s
such a good song!” Then, I found out that it was
because he wrote it for Badfinger, and I started
listening to Badfinger’s music. This was when I
was in seventh grade. And I just listened to their
whole discography the whole way through. By
the end of it, I was learning so much about the
group, like what genres of music they
influenced.
From then on, I tried to emulate their style of
music. I found out about other groups from that
time period as well. I guess the whole musical
influence that I could say is just all the power
pop groups from the 70s to the 90s. Badfinger’s
the biggest one, but [..] second to them would
be Big Star, a great group from Memphis from
the 70s. After that, there’s groups like Cheap
Trick, Teenage Fan Club, Weezer… Supergrass
(that, I’ve always been a huge fan of), Oasis…the
Laws (I’ve been a huge fan [of them] for a while
now). We even did a cover of one of their songs
on “Ocean Thoughts”.
Just the music that was made after the
Beatles. When you look up “power pop” on
Apple Music, there’s a playlist there, and it
puts it best with the whole range of
influences that we’ve had. They’ve said
about power pop that it’s music with the
style of the 60s British Invasion groups, but
with heavier production and much more
loud guitars, and that’s power pop. 10cc
weren’t power pop but were a huge
influence on our sound, them and Slade. So,
some of the Glam Rock groups from the
early 70s were also huge on us.
The thing I like about Sweet Tuesday is that
it’s always been a melting pot of different
genres of music that I enjoy. We’ve had
influences from Nick Drake, who’s a folk
musician… the Ex-Seaman’s Institute… it’s a
wide variety of stuff. Even jazz like Dave
Brubeck gets thrown into there… it’s weird
to try to pick out a [single] musical
influence when there’s so many that go into
it that all hold a significant part. If I could
just round off the big three, it would be
Badfinger, Fishmans (which is a really good
Japanese group), and Big Star.
How long have you known your
bandmates?
I’ll start off with Tyler, because Ronnie is kind of
a long story. I met Tyler back earlier this year
[2021]. I first met him because Tyler is well
known for doing the whole “FELIX! PICK UP THE
PHONE!” You know, that screaming TikTok audio
that’s used everywhere. That’s Tyler! We had
been in a couple calls together and we had
shown each other our music stuff. Ronnie and I
got into a stump working on the new EP that
just came out [Brighton 82]. I was like, “We need
to get someone new.” So I went and I asked
Tyler, “Hey, would you want to do some stuff for
Sweet Tuesday?” And he [responded], “I could do
some synth ambiance stuff for y’all.” He joined in,
and sure enough, you can hear it all over that EP.
That literally, in my opinion, rounded off the
sound of Sweet Tuesday that I had been looking
for, for so long, was his synth ambiance…
On the other hand, I’ve known Ronnie for ages.
Him and I are both from the Thomas [the Tank
Engine] community. I met him through some
friends back in the day…in late 2017… around late
2018, I met him again and we started talking
more. Eventually, we started talking about music
because we both had that as an interest. We sort
of became friends after that.
It wasn’t until 2020 when we really started
working together on music. We would collaborate
and help each other out with different projects.
Finally in early 2021, when “Ocean Thoughts” came
out, I asked him: “Do you want to help out with
Sweet Tuesday?” Ronnie was like, “Sure man, what
do you want me to do?” And I was like, “You can do
drums” because he’s really good at doing those…
He finally joined the group! I’ve known him for a
while now, but he only recently joined [the band].
What’s one piece of advice you would give
to your younger self in regards to music
production?
Quantize everything. When I first started out
music, I had no clue how to do any sort of
rhythm. I’d be sitting there and you’d hear the
drum parts on those tracks, and they’d be
completely random because I did not know
how to do any sort of drum beat at all.
“Quantizing” means putting everything on the
grid and making everything in beat… the
recordings I did were pretty decent sounding
stuff, if I had just bothered to make it on beat…
there’s plenty other [pieces of advice] like
learning how to mix right, but the main thing
that all my old recordings suffer from is
because I had no idea of how to play on beat,
and I really wish i had.
At this current time, what do you think is
your biggest achievement?
I guess it would be having a decent-sized
fanbase. Because when I was starting out, I
would only have a couple people a month
listening to my music, and most of the time
they were, like, my family, you know. And I
kept to it, and now I have a decent fanbase. I
never revealed this, but I made $500 with
splits counted into it off the last album we did
from people streaming it and buying it. If you
told me that I was gonna make 500 dollars off
of a single release back then, I would have
never believed you, but it’s the truth. It’s what
happened! At the end of the day, it’s having a
fanbase now that’ll look at my stuff
if I release it.
I just want to round out more of a sound for us
that’s separate. Not just “Oh, they’re imitating
Badfinger again.” I want to do something that’s
kind of “us.” … At the rate we’re going at, I’m
hoping we can have a decent sized album come
next year.
What do you plan for Sweet Tuesday in the
future?
I want to have more group involvement on
the parts of Ty and Ronnie. I feel like for the
past couple albums, it’s been just me telling
them what to do, and I don’t think that’s
right. I think we should all be doing it. Not in
the sense that they’re bad, I mean in the
sense of I’ve been doing bad by not letting
them have more ideas in the music. I want to
do a more creative album, and something
thats a bit more off-the-cuff compared to
what we do usually.
Are there any personal aspirations you
want to achieve?
I want to be remembered for the stuff I do. That’s
the main thing. I’d like to find out that my
music’s helped people and that I’m going to be
remembered for doing it by a good portion of
people. I’m not one of those people that are like
“I wanna be a rock star, I wanna be famous, I
wanna have 30 million dollars coming in every
six months.” I would really enjoy to be able to live
off my music, but at the end of the day I would
just like to be remembered for my music. I want
at least one album that like, critically gets
reviewed. I want an album to get reviewed by
some people and it’s not bad reviews, which is
any musician, but I've never had that before. All
my reviews have been from rate your music… I
would like to have an actual music critic… that
would review my music and like it. That would
be a win for me.
Thank you all for having me, I really enjoyed this.
This was fun to do!
-C. Easler
November 25, 2021
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AND OUR COVER ARTIST...

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Sophie and Showbear — @piggy.soda Bon and Sha — @paintedhen
Ladies' Night — @PeachFruitCake Banny and Boozoo — @kristamillerarts
Sibling Tragedy — @roomtempuraturemeat Billy — @SlotheroozArt
Witch Sha — @poobit_pespillo Rocket — @pearseaa

pC WALLPAPER ACRYLIC CHARMS

Bunny Parade — @saorsay_ Jack Walten — @roomieartz
Felix Kranken — @paintedhen
sophie & jenny die cut sticker Sophie Walten — @ggl00mz
@jaybler
Bon — @sitandsai
TMH & BG STICKER SHEET bon's burgers sticker sheet
@Dirky_Toxic
Showstoppers — @hot_smokey_cowboy
GIVEAWAYS Sha with Flowers — @staticneon
VALENTINE'S: @quiggloo Rosemary — @SugarySpring
ST' PATRICK'S: @saorsay_ Jack and Felix — @o.no.i.draw
INTERVIEW
Special Guest — Coker Easler
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Interviewers — Tailsy & Tina @hot_smokey_cowboy
Transcription and Layout — Tina
SKETCHBOOKS
FOREWORD & BACK COVER @UncannyVilla
@tinascribblez
server moderators
ASHLEY — @ashleytheweirdo
EMMY — @wateseme
PANIC — @pbpanicbutton
JADE — @alrightyjade

executive Duties
Tailsy — @tailsylennon
Tina — @tinascribblez
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