The band should've had the balls to say no. It is not helping their image to perform songs that were popular ten years ago. And my point was that it's irrelevant how good Stapp sounded, his quality performance is negated by the fact that that Higher is old news.
Also, having read the article, I'm horrified at Stapp's comments about only playing five songs off of Full Circle. That's incredible. It's the fricking Full Circle tour and you're only going to do five songs off it? Wow.