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Post by frjdoasis on Feb 28, 2024 18:10:49 GMT -5
We two, with rock prideLiam Gallagher and John Squire on top of English charts The former Oasis frontman: "Reunion with Noel? No way" Translation PARIS - If Liam Gallagher has become and still is a Rock'n'Roll Star, as he sang almost thirty years ago in the first song from Oasis' first album, it is by virtue of a revelation, an apparition, seeing in a concert the person who is sitting next to him now, in a Parisian hotel. "I was 16 years old and I went to a Stone Roses concert – says Liam -. It was the first time I saw them and it was the best thing. John (Squire, ed.) was their guitarist, the best. I felt like I had found my place in the world and everyone around me felt the same, it wasn't just me, do you know what I mean? It was a shock for all of us in the audience, fantastic. As for me, that night I realised that I too had to be part of a band and that music would be my life." Today Liam Gallagher and John Squire, after the end of Oasis and the Stone Roses, release an album that is exactly what you might expect from the best voice and guitar of English rock in recent years. The singles Just Another Rainbow and Mars to Liverpool are already on the top of the charts, Brit-pop strikes again with a kind of supergroup. "But I've never liked the Brit-pop definition for Oasis' music and for this one – says Liam -. Brit-pop is good for Blur, Elastica, Menswear, not for us, we were more classic, more aimed at the tradition of the Beatles, Kinks, Faces, The Who." John Squire also claims roots that are more rock than pop. "Since I started playing the guitar, through Jimi Hendrix I got into the great English blues rock guitarists, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, I have always loved the Stones . I've listened to them so much that it comes out in the way I play." For example in pieces like I'm a Wheel or You're Not The Only One, homages to the psychedelic rock from the 60s and 70s rather than to the Brit-pop from the early 90s. Liam and John seem to be made for each other, from a musical point of view and beyond. Maybe it's their age (51 and 61), maybe it's the excesses in past groups, but today they are two gentleman rockstars and between one fuck and another Liam almost apologizes for finding the album fabulous. "You'll say I'm the usual arrogant one but I'm not surprised that the album is doing well, because you don't have to be a space scientist to understand certain things. We have some great songs, John plays great, I sing well, the bass (by producer Greg Kurstin, ed.) is amazing, the drums (by Joey Waronker, ed.) as well. It's not me being arrogant, it's actually the album that turned out well." John says that he sent the first demos "with the guitar out of time" to Liam and that he received them back with his voice on top, "there I convinced myself that we had to move forward, because even on those makeshift recordings Liam's voice on my songs was perfect." The collaboration could continue because "people keep on loving real music, really played and sung, even if YouTube is full of fakes made with artificial intelligence. But it's like watching a real match at the stadium, or playing FIFA on the PlayStation," says Liam. For John "it's a matter of breathing. In the real voice there is something that connects with the listener on another level." The history of Oasis stops on August 28, 2009, when yet another argument between Liam and his brother Noel caused the concert here in Paris and the band to be cancelled. Since then the possibilities of a reunion have been a torment. Latest episodes: "He should call", "no, he should call", "yes, I used to drink, and so did he, but at a certain point Noel turned into Ronan Keating (the former Dudley-Do-Right singer of Boyzone, ed.) and decided that life as a rock star was no longer good", "and all to go tour now with the singer from Kasabian, Tom Meighan" (accused in 2020 of having attacked his girlfriend). Here in Paris, the city of the end of Oasis, it is inevitable to make the point. Reunion? "No". Not even in August for Definitely Maybe 30th anniversary? "No, nothing to be done unfortunately". We move on, there's the tour with John Squire. "We are going to Milan - says Liam -, one of the places I like most because the fans are crazy. Maybe even in America, but I love playing in Italy, France, Ireland, Great Britain. I like old Europe." Stefano Montefiori (Corriere della Sera, 28 February 2024, page 38) Source: oasisnotizie.blogspot.com
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