I respect the decision to avoid a strip singer and the idea of wanting to show what they were about at that point,That takes balls and as artists it is only natural for wanting people to respect you for what you can do now and not just get lost on the nostalgia of the past.But I think i just miss the point with Weiland and as you have pointed out his range is very small.I have never really sat down to listen to STP,perhaps if i had been a fan i would have dug VR.Personally i would have preferred they went with Baz for entirely selfish reasons ,Imagine Slither with his trademark screams thrown in.Have to say although i am not big on VR I prefer prefer Libertad to Contraband.Contraband was always going to be compared to Guns 'N' Roses and was always going to fall short.I think with Libertad people were thinking this is not Guns with a new front man but a new band and that comes across more clearly in the album