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Coming out of my cage: The story of an Iowan writing one of this century’s biggest rock songs
Dave Keuning shut himself inside the closet of his Las Vegas apartment when he first strummed a guitar chord that he thought sounded pretty good.
He played the chord on his Epiphone SG, running the guitar through a fuzzbox to give each note a scruffy texture.
He knew he was on to something.
"I just thought I liked the feel of that chord," he said.
So he did what any aspiring guitarist would've done in the early aughts and grabbed his Tascam four-track tape recorder — "I’m terrible with computers,” he said — to cut a demo.
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He huddled between his clothes, the best spot in his apartment drown out noise, noodling with the chord.
He pieced together parts of a song, layering the demo in guitar ideas.
Keuning emerged from the 5-by-5-foot makeshift studio with the outline of what would become one of his generation's paramount