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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-Z_l907DY
Ever noticed that all that stabs that Steve Cropper players in the verses are in the "wrong" key? Hey plays Bb over the home Fm and Eb over the Bb etc. Geniusly simply awesomely weirdly wrong. And now stuck in everyone's pop culture brain forever. That's what i'm talking about.
Love old wilco but i gots to say Nels is something special. From burn to shine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QSK6Jh47K4
Nels is pretty guitar nerdy funny too. Read his "amp du jour" journal. A detailed moany gearhead diary of touring with shitty loaner amps. (scroll about 2/3 of the way down).
http://nelscline.com/tech.html
and just cos i've gone a bit muso i feel the need for a bit of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEag0ss9pFU&feature=related
nero fiddles while gordon burns.