Happy Halloween! I hope you enjoy this scary good performance from this scary good band. The band is Wilco and the track is Impossible Germany off of their album Sky Blue Sky. Nels Cline's solo is my favorite thing about this song. I'm not sure if I like this one better than the solo he played on the live version of Ashes of American Flags from Kicking Television, but this is just awesome. I love the way the band comes out of the solo section, too. Nels Cline is a bad, bad man and Wilco is about 800,782,114 times better with him playing lead. Reason number 1,213,872,463 why I want to be Nels Cline when I grow up.
For some reason I'm in a random ridiculous numbers kind of a mood today. Sorry.
Here's a bonus video of Ashes of American flags. The audio on this one is a little weird, but the performance is awesome. The solo is at around the 3:45 mark.
Super bonus video, only for the truly brave: Here's what Nels does (well, one of the things he does) without Wilco. I now present the Nels Cline Singers:
Still here? Now that was a track for Halloween!
Here's something completely different to send you on your way.
Did I mention that this guy is one of my all time guitar heroes? Have a happy Halloween and enjoy your own scary good music!
