Good to chat with you again Kirk...it's been a while.

I respect your views and in many ways I agree with you. I don't, however, believe that Martin is doing the 'remake' of Argus as a slight on his old band mate Andy Powell. When I saw Martin a few months ago he was just excited to be recording and playing some of the songs that he wrote years ago. His Cds of new music such as "Walking the Reeperbahn" have a lot of merit IMHO and deserve a listen.

You could, maybe, look at "Son of Argus" as new arrangements of songs and this is something that happens all the time in many genres (I hate that word but it fits here) of music. How many versions of My Way have there been? How many different recordings of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony are there out there ? Thousands. And what is beautiful is that they are all different in some way and offer something joyous to the ear that would have been lost were they not to have been recorded.

I'm looking forward to Martin's effort and will listen to it when it is released. If it turns out to be a bummer then I'll say so.