merlin:

The Wrens - “Everyone Choose Sides” (Live Acoustic, 2006)

Please watch this 5-minute video. Because it encapsulates a lot of what makes the Wrens special to me.

• Terrific song
• Giant acoustic guitar mayhem
• Lovely playing and harmonies by the Bros Whelan
• Charles Bissell? Truly, a guitar nerd’s guitar nerd.
• Jerry the Nicest Drummer in the World plays a goddamned box of Cap’n Crunch™
• They’re playing in this guy’s apartment. Just for fun.

Per the poster:

You know when you really really like a band or a person, and you think of them in the highest possible regard, so if/when you find out they’re really assholes, it crushes your soul and makes you reconsider everything you hold dear…Not only are they not assholes, they turned out to be the nicest most genuine people I have met in a very long time (and incredible musicians). How nice you ask? Well nice enough to find time between two sold out Chicago shows to stop by a fan’s apartment and give him one of the most amazing experiences of his young life. That fan was me…

It’s like Charles says,

“Just do it in any kind of ‘breakfast-y’ tempo.”

Dude, the left-handed guy is playing a normal guitar *upside down*. He *didn’t restring it*. Either he does that a lot or he’s a *super-genius*.