Overthinking the obvious

I was listening passively to a syndicated radio show one night during the '80s, and I thought I heard the announcer refer to the band just played as "a reformed Traffic with empty pages."  "That's poetic," I thought.  "That's an eloquent way of saying that the band must have lost some members who could never be replaced."  Then, I realized that "Empty Pages" was the song I'd just heard.  Admittedly, things are simpler than they seem sometimes.