"....well, today we had been recording a screamin' 10 minute guitar solo, but in the end decided that the song is the boss and replaced that track with flutes...."
Given the lack of enthusiasm Mark has been displaying when soloing over the last few tours it's pretty safe to assume they went straight for the flutes lol
The thing is MK is "too much" into that folkie style, that makes him choose the songs that will go in the record depending on if they fit with each other, with maybe one or two songs out of the style, and sometimes great songs are left out...
Do you remember when the Get Lucky diary, Guy told us about a song in which MK Les Paul was recorded at a high volume and with a great number of mics positioned in different places? It was a song that didn't make on the record because it was so rockier that didn't fit with the rest, and having "Cleaning my gun" in the record already was enough.