Your point of GnR and NiN is completely on target. nothing GnR did after 2000 (beside live albums of previous stuff) has been relevant enough to induct GnR into the hall of fame. To say that no one who was capable of making them inducted in the first place has no idea who his new band mates are is absurd. He's just doing that to throw a big hissy fit over nothing. I think, the biggest reason he is not accepting it isn't because of any of that, but because it would be admitting that without the input of his original band members, he's a has- been like the rest of them, and he has no one to blame for that other than himself. GnR was a solid band, (not the greatest...but solid) they could have easily trucked along like AC/DC does and Metallica does and still would have been just as good as they were (maybe not that great, but that's the business). He uprooted the whole band due to his own insecurities and when it wasn't embraced he played the "it's all their (the old band) fault". His new band is great, they play great music, but they didn't write and play Appetite for Destruction, Lies, Lies Lies, or any of the other bands biggest successes (which is why they are being inducted). He's just a big fucking baby.