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Originally Posted by ThunderVamp9
True, but they knew they could continue on with him. He had a plan for returning that could work, and they felt it was worth waiting for. He wasn't GONE. But when Steve Clark died, I had no problems with him being replaced, as much as I loved his work and miss it. He'd never be back, there wasn't something like egos, or pride or something that could be surmounted standing in the way. He was gone forever.
An argument could be made that the front man in almost any band is the band. But those other guys contribute just as much with their talents, and I think, even in the case of INXS, they have earned the right through their years of work and effort to still be known by the same name. Unless, of course, that singer also did all the songwriting and composing, and the band members were practically along for the ride.
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Hutchence had a certain hand in the songwriting and all but he wasn't the lone composer. Andrew Farris certainly had a large hand in that as well. But you could have easily chosen a new band name and just touted that the band was former members of INXS. When Ian Curtis of Joy Division died, the remaining members became New Order.
And if you're going to make any kind of argument that the front man is almost always the band, you have to acknowledge "Chinese Democracy" as a true Guns N' Roses album and not an over-glorified Axl Rose solo piece. Rose definitely had a huge hand in the writing process and was writing without his bandmates on several occasions.