how does a band move on when your guitar player passes away?

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Depeche Mode after Clarke left
The Fall
Rolling Stones

A man walks into the street and manages to get a taxi just going by. He gets into the taxi, and the cabbie says, "Perfect timing. You're just like Mike."

Passenger: "Who?"

Cabbie: Mike Glickman. There's a guy who did everything right.

Like my coming along when you needed a cab. It would have happened like that to Mike every single time."

Passenger: "There are always a few clouds over everybody."

Cabbie: "Not Mike. He was a terrific athlete. He could have gone on the pro-tour in tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone and danced like a Broadway star and you should have heard him play the piano."

Passenger: "Sounds like he was something, huh?"

Cabbie: "He had a memory like a computer; could remember everybody's birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to order and which fork to eat them with. He could fix anything. Not like me. I change a fuse, and the whole neighborhood blacks out."

Passenger: "Wow, some guy eh?

Cabbie: "He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic jams, not like me, I always seem to get into them"

Passenger: "Mmm, not many like that around"

Cabbie: "And he knew how to treat a woman and make her feel good and never answer her back even if she was in the wrong; and his clothing was always immaculate, shoes highly polished too."

Passenger: "An amazing fellow. How did you meet him?"

Cabbie: "Well, I never actually met Mike."

Passenger: "Then how do you know so much about him?"

Cabbie: "I married his widow!"
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"Tonight's the Night" to thread...

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It never happened to me, but I'd say give it time before you decide anything. I mean I'm sure you're asking the question at least in part just as a kind of throwing your hands up at things, which is understandable. But give it time. You may find you want to keep going, or you may want to go in a totally different direction under a new name, or who knows what.