Mix Analysis 2

Song:  Stop
Artist: Joe Bonamassa
Witten by:  Sam Brown
Producer:  Kevin Shirley

Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMXXnLSRdBE

Two things:  This is a fantastic video of them recording the album version.  (I'll admit, I didn't hear the keys until I saw them on the video).....And secondly...feel free to laugh as his ridiculous "baby bird" faces during the solo....
                                                                    (i'm not going to continually list effects)
0:00 - 0:01   Lead Gtr (dist + reverb)
0:01-  0:19   Lead Gtr (dist + reverb), kick, snare(reverb), hat, bass, keys, vox(light reverb)
0:19 - 1:28   All of above + 2 lighly distorted guitars
(:33-:35)      Lead Gtr fill
1:29 - 1:52   Lead Gtr, kick, snare, hat, bass, keys, brass, vox     (chorus instruments)
1:57 - 1:59  vox
1:59 - 2:30  Lead Gtr, 2 light gtrs, kick, snare, hat, keys, vox
(2:20-2:23)  Lead Fill
(2:29-2:31)  Lead fill
2:31 - 2:51  Lead Gtr, Kick, snare, hat bass, keys, brass, vox
2:51- 2:52  Vox
2:54- 3:25  Light Dist solo + all chorus instruments
3:26 - 4:01 Distorted Lead solo + all chorus instruments
4:02 - 4:15 vox, drums, lead gtr (alternate for short fills)
4:16- 4:52  All chorus instruments
4:53 - 6:50 2 lightly distorted guitars, Lead Guitar, kick, snare, hat, bass

Ok....I realized this song was a bit of a nightmare to analyze after 20 seconds...but I went with it anyway.
Here's the volume/pan layout as best as I can pin it down.....there is A LOT going on, especially during the last 2 minutes....

Track                                      Volume                        Pan
Lead Guitar                                 10                             0
Light Dist                                      6                             -4
Light Dist 2                                   6                              4
Vox                                              8                              0
Kick                                             6                              0
Hat                                               5                              0
Keys                                            3                              4
Brass                                           8                              -3  (sounds like it moves to 0)
Snare                                           3                              0
Cymbals                                     4-6                            2  (they come in a bit louder towards the end)

I also think there's a fourth guitar...but it's a bit hard to tell if it's a clean/chorus guitar or the keys....so I'm just going to leave it at that.

In my opinion this song is awesome, but a good example of over-production.  Don't get me wrong it's mixed incredibly well, it's just too much.  When you take Joe's massive lead tone, add couple rhythm guitar, and some keys, and then a bass, and then some loud brass.....it becomes just a bit fatiguing to me.  My ears are like "Wait....go back.  What was that?"  You can imagine how they feel after listening to it 20 times.