[jhv48]

Good point! So is the band Journey the real Journey without lead singer Stephen Perry or now just a tribute band?
How about Foreigner without Lou Gramm?
Van Halen without David Lee Roth?
Queen without Freddie Mercury?
The Doors without Jim Morrison.

As far as I'm concerned, these bands are now just tribute bands of the originals. Except, perhaps, Van Halen. They actually replaced DLR with a great singer Sammy Hagar and went in another direction. But, in concert, Sammy doesn't sing David's songs and David doesn't sing Sammy's.

If someone told me they saw Styxx and Dennis DeYoung wasn't the front man, I would say they saw a good replica, but not the original.