ThatGuy said:
I'd like Elvis to explain how someone he "knew" to be Don from Chicago (or possibly his wife) could suddenly transform into a member of U2. And when did he know AllBecauseOfYou was also Don/Dalkey/The Edge/Jill? Was it before or after they had a nice chat in EYKIW?
This whole affair is shameful. As I've been saying from the beginning, transparency really is the best policy here. The fact that Elvis won't or can't be totally honest with the members of Interference speaks volumes.
At this point, I apparently 'knew' nothing, and I'm not sure what to believe or not to believe. I've seen so many conflicting things in dealing with all of this that (to qoute Angela) my head is going to explode.
The name on the email 'Don and Jill Smith' was just that, a name on an email header, but that same person (whomever it was) was constantly changing that field to all sorts of things, including some that were obviously not real names.
In the end, the only thing we KNOW for sure (fact) is what this persons IP address(es) are/were. No one can state anything else as fact, or fiction, including myself w/o based on things that transpire over the Internet. We could sit here and argue about what 'edge' said, or didnt say, but ultimately there will be no way of proving if its true or not. Even if everything 'he' said was eventually proven as true, one could still assume that this 'person' had some sort of inside info, or even was a good guesser.
In any case, even if this ever ended up being even an ounce true (that edge was involved)... I hardly doubt that the real Edge would say on TV or radio "That interview for Interference.com, it was real." He mentioned Interference once before on national radio back in 2000, but if it ever happened again... again I hardly doubt that's what he'd ever say.
In hindsight, to qoute my favorite band... 'everything you know is wrong', real, fake, and inbetween. I've read so many things that arent true about me, the staff, and the site here that I really wonder where people even get/make up this stuff that it's making me ill, literally.
I've already said it, but I'll say it again... if this was a hoax, we got hoaxed too. We fucked up, we brought that fuckup to all of you, and the decision or lack of, was a fuckup.
And still, I'm not sure what to believe.
One other thing, while I did have my own reasons aside from anything to do with 'edge' for removing Angela and Salome, I would like to say that I'm sorry with how everything happened, and how hastily I acted - that doesnt however mean that my decision ultimately would not have been the same. I'm not sure if I said that prior or not, or in public or not.... but I just wanted to make that clear.
Joel