Glad you got to go. Quite an experience.

I feel like they could drop one of the illusions ballads. They play Estranged, Civil War, November Rain every show and each is 8 minutes plus. Hell cut one of then and give me Perfect Crime and Dust N Bones anyday.

Off topic but the three "new" tracks on the Above deluxe edition from a few years ago with Mark Lanegan on vocals are superb. Magnificent material.

I think it was actually Duff who toured with AIC to play some rythym guitar to the best of my recollection.

I think in a lot of ways Duff regretted leaving the Seattle scene before it exploded. Like in some way he feels he sold out or something. At any rate later in his career he connected with many of the major players from Seattle, and has recalled his airplane story with Kurt countlessly.

Is the madagascar link still out there?