And thinking more about the next panic album, it's been reported to be pretty much done. And if they're sticking to release and tour schedules they won't have much time for rewriting. They may well have known (feared?) the split was coming and Spencer and Brendon will no doubt have creative control now and may change some things because of it, but till a few weeks ago, all of them were writing together.

So even though they'll need temps / session musicians, Jon and Ryan must surely get writing credit on the next Panic album and their influence will be there even if it's in a style of music they don't love any more.

(And that also ties in to my feelings that Spencer and Brendon wanted to continue what they were doing but Jon and Ryan wanted something very radically different -- I tink if they were just splitting into two bands whose rock influnces were taking them in different directions from PO it would have been much less a story of "Panic continues.."