Naltav pretty much nailed it.

When you're down to rationalizing "they didn't play Civil War or Estranged last time"... just shows you the joke this has become. Especially when it's by a bunch of guys who didn't even record the song. This ain't like dusting off Oh My God or Riad N' The Bedouins.

True, but in the defense of a band like GN'R, Soundgarden never had instantly classic hits like GN'R did that people expect to hear.

For example, I don't think it's as easy for AIC, Pearl Jam, or even a McCartney-fronted Nirvana to do what SG are doing. People would expect to hear Man In The Box, Even Flow, or Smells Like Teen Spirit, among several other tracks. I know PJ already fought it, but they caught tons of flack when they did, even by their hardcores. Basically other than Black Hole Sun or Fell On Black Days, SG can perform whatever the fuck they want.

That gives them alot of freedom that a GN'R would not have. Any version of GN'R, even if it was an AFD/UYI-hybrid reunion with Steven, Matt & Dizzy behind Axl, Slash, Izzy & Duff, people would still expect to hear the "big three" from AFD, and probably Patience & NR, even if it was just a performance on Letterman or Kimmel.

Pretty much agree with everything Buzz & ID have said and fought for. It's really not about "you guys in Canada and Europe" are wrong, as much as it's just trying to make you guys understand how different we are, and we are born and we are raised and we are indoctrinated and our entire culture here in America.

"But it's fatally flawed"

No it's not. You just don't understand it, because you weren't born here and you don't understand how we roll. Comments like "the wild west of America", are ignorant and show obvious lack of knowledge of how the country is worked.

We get it... you don't get it. It'd be like me going up to and telling a black man (i'm white) how it is to be a BLACK man. He'd look at me and laugh. Just like a black man will never know what it's like to be white. He can't. The same thing with gay vs. hetero.

Its the same thing with America versus everyone else. You just don't know, so I forgive you because you know not what you say.

I would never go to Canada and start poking you in the shoulder and go "yer wrong, you's need to do it the right way". Never, ever. Canada's survived this long, just like America, so what they've got works for them. I don't know what it is to be Canadian and would never dictate to them (that universal health care thing sounds good).

You can't understand. It's a cultural thing, of which we really don't want change from it, because we've "been there, done that". It doesn't work. IT SHOULD. But it doesn't. This is the country we live in, and alot of non-Americans are just refusing to accept that.

If Neemo or Bono feels safer across the border, they should. Because they are home. In their homeland. That's why I feel safe in America. I don't really see it as anymore than that. Guns have nothing to do with it.

I could get mugged and stabbed in Vancouver no different than Seattle.

No, you get the full 'round the world experience with Seymour, then she turns around and cheats on you with your sister, and you feel like a used and abused dickhead.