Who was that boxer that said “no mas” while throwing in the towel against Sugar Ray Leonard or was it Tommy Hearns… I can’t remember.

Was it Roberto Duran? I’m guessing.

–It wouldn’t make Ed a “publicity and attention whore” if he kept us updated better. If he hates interviews, his publicist/wife Janie could put some blurbs out on the official site. So much for that.

–If there were yet another nostalgia tour without new material he would get definitely get knocked down for that. But most of the feedback on the 2007-08 tour was positive, with some understandable complaints about no Mike and the appearance of piped-in back vocal tracks. But overall, the last tour was very well received.

–If a new album were released and it’s good (how could it not be?) it will be nothing short of monumental. And it would be great for the rock n roll business in general.

–It’s very easy to like Hagar and Chickenfoot immensely at this time. They’re doing what a band should be doing. Good for them.

In all fairness, though, I disagree. I don’t think he’s just making excuses to cover up having gone dry (do real musicians ever run dry forever? I mean he’s not exactly a one hit wonder, and he seems to have successfully battled some of his worst demons). I guess what could be burdening him is that we do all see him in a certain way, the king of ten fingers and six strings, the prototype gunslinger guitar hero, genius wizard of fun tasty hardrock… while in fact he’s maybe something else than that and sometimes on a different trip making different music, yet confined to this role by his fans. Let’s face it, whenever he would release something else he would get knocked down, people would be crying “crap”, because it’s out of the scope of what we would appreciate from him or it doesn’t display the chops and sound we expect from him…nobody wants to see him play keyboards (at least not for long). So he’s kind of a prisoner of his 22 year old self. And even if he tries to deliver this to his fans (reunion tour with Roth playing the classics) he gets knocked down for grabbing cash, delivering no new music, and doing a nostalgia act (which everybody has been wanting him to do for years!!!) So people indeed complain no matter what, its not hard to see if you look around on this site. And the fact that he is clearly disgruntled and that it gets to him only shows he actually cares. And about the lack of information and updates…he always said he hates interviews and talking, so that’s just the person he is, he’s just not the publicity and attention whore other people are.