why you left your direction?- There are other vocalists who can sing like Chester
- and I'm sure you could find another DJ who could figure out how to work Joe's rig
- but if you lose Mike, you lose at least 75% of your songwriting capability and a lot of production know-how.
- but if you lose Mike, you need someone with songwriting capability and producer (probably separately).
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i guess i'm the only one with different opinion.
everybody in the band are replaceable. everybody here talks about if Mike leave, the band will collapse etc.. no. if Mike leave the band needs to sit down and write songs, and when they finish, they need to find good producer. but in that case the band will not sound like the way it was. but it's the same case if Chester leave, because then Mike will need to conform the songs and the production to different voice.
my point is everybody are replaceable, but if Mike or Chester will leave the band will sounds different.
Mike is a big part of the band, but you guys exaggerate with it too much.