Interesting thread on aus.music on bands that have survived the death of their lead singer. Examples given are AC/DC and New Order (sort of).

OK, so Chuck didn't die, but Faith No More went on to bigger and better things when Mike Patton replaced him. The Soulfly vs. Sepultura arguement could go on for years...

Ultimately any member of a band is replaceable (see recent KISS tour) but is the band the same? FNM pre-Mike Patton was a similar band (it was the same music, just with different lyrics).

My band has discussed this and it's very difficult to concider continuing without a given member, particularly one that contributes significantly to song writing. Go on with a different name (New Order) by all means... but continuing with the same name seems wrong (see Supergroove's second album).

Saw "Final Destination 2" on Saturday. Excellent movie. Both not as good and as-good as the first one for different reasons. The first one definitely had the X-Files feel about it. This one was more about the violence and shock laughter factor...

Got iuVCR working well. Finally video capture with no dropped frames. I believe the fault was attempting to capture outside of what the capture drivers allowed. So it's capturing to 640x480 and converting for me it seems. Converting the capture harddrive to NTSF seems to have helped a lot to. 4gb+ files! Using Huffy compression I'm down to 4.2Gb per fifteen minutes. Much more managable.

Recording with the band at the moment. Going OK but it looks like it's going to take months. I threw together a couple of tracks last night (One Of These Days and Mosquito). Not really happy with the guitar sounds. It's hard to get good guitar sounds without mic-ing the amp (at the moment I'm using the line-out). Trial and error... Have to go buy a good mic.

The mixer is excellent by the way. Highly recommended. Although do not press the tape-to-mix button when you're using the mixer to monitor. Feedback loops are impressively loud. I bought it at Blackburn Music Junction. Much cheaper than Allans. And I went with the 2 mono, 8 stereo input version with FX loop. Everything's plugged in at home. No more crawling around the back of the computer and wires everywhere.