Usually your posts are pretty good, but this one fails.  Now you are trying to tack on some sort of objective truth behind your opinion of Slash's playing while trying to throw out those of us who don't agree by saying we must not understand guitar? 

You don't exactly have to be a singer to understand Miley Cyrus doesn't have that good of a voice.

Or that Chris Cornell can melt the paint off walls. 

It's all subjective.  I can listen to his work in GNR, and his live playing as well, and it moves me.

Very few of his material moves me in that way.  There are some instances where it has a lot to do with the vocalist.

Good for you.

Care to point out the other ones then?  If not, then that post was kinda useless.

James is going to LOVE this one. 

I talked to Hiro, who was in attendance.  That's not the good part- I DIDN'T KNOW WHO THE FUCK HE WAS until someone told me that today.  So I'm bullshitting with this guy about how excited I am to see these guys live finally,  we're up in the bar having drinks, and I had no idea he used to be IN the band. 

Oops..

Ben and Cornell did not interact.  It was mostly Cornell/Thayil and Matt/Ben as far as the interaction goes.  Hopefully that's enough to keep this thing afloat. 

I LOVED the fact that they didn't play Black Hole Sun.  They chose Spoonman and Fell on Black Days.  Spoonman is a perfect song to do live, and Fell on Black Days is just an awesome song.

I also loved how they picked Blow Up the Outside World and Pretty Noose. 

The rest was older stuff.  It shows that this isn't a cash grab since they played 2 songs off of their most popular and best selling album, and didn't even play their biggest hit.  THIS is the way reunions should be done.  People need to learn from this band.

My theory is that Cornell is tired of playing the hits.  He played the hits with Audioslave, and on all his solo shows.  So now since he's back to Soundgarden they can start diving deeper. 

I wish I had kept that sign. 

Oh, and Waiting on the Sun- THAT is how you do a cover song.  It sounded nothing like the Doors.  Ben put a huge emphasis on the lower parts of the song, combine that with Kim play it almost like a metal song, Matt's drumming, and Cornell screaming his balls off the song sounded demonic. 

These guys are the definition of professional.  They can go from joking and laughing between songs to being 100% focused in a matter of seconds.  Cornell looked like he was possessed on stage while singing.  In between singing he was smiling the entire time. 

Ben smiled as well.  I think we know that's a good sing.  He's showing his age more than the rest of them though.