[afterthefact]

I'm sure he really enjoy what he does, because he wouldn't do it if he was bored every night. He's got enough cred I feel that if he said, "Hey, I'm not doing this anymore, it's boring," people would say ok, whether they liked it or not, with a respect-the-man attitude. I've seen a few videos of him playing with Wilco and he seems to enjoy it.

Now I can see why people might think he would get bored; I might get bored playing with Wilco everynight, and I am nowhere near as good as Cline. Apparently though, he isn't, and I say good for him, to be able to go crazy-wild-jazz-improv-experimental-free-your-mind-pyschedelic, and still enjoy playing simple rock songs as well. He loves music, and he loves playing music. I really don't see him getting bored with anything.

Now come to think of it, and I've already admitted that I can get bored playing music, so I am just as guilty, I think getting bored with playing music (to an extent, of course) may be tied in with pride, and it may indicate that you don't enjoy the art of truly making music. For Nels to say "I'm bored with this, I could be doing so much more" would be somewhat arrogant, and from reading anything Nels writes or says, he is not an arrogant man. He's into music because he loves to play, and now he has a gig where he can play in front of people all of the time, and make what I would assume to be a decent living at it. My guess, and this is purely speculation, is that Nels would only be bored if he did not have a guitar in his hand.