I liked several songs on that album.
I saw them on that tour at the Riverfront Arena in New Orleans. They were okay live. We were mainly there to see one of the opening acts, Fuel, touring for their Something Like Human album. Fuel blew them away, as well as the other opening act--can't remember who that was, they had a single out, Oleander, maybe. We wound up leaving about halfway through the 3 Doors Down set because it was anti-climactic.
You can gauge pretty well before a tour who is gonna be the bigger deal and avoid "mixing up" the lineups....although some bands do wind up bailing if they become a huge deal mid-tour or shortly before and a lot of times it's mutual. You don't want to be the "pretty big" band headlining a tour and have a mega-band opening for you any more than the opening band wants that. That's a recipe for an empty arena by the time you go on stage. But you often can't gauge the musicianship and how good another band is on-stage, regardless of how "big" they are. Fuel was hard to beat, live.
