Street Fighting Man Recording Session (Read 1,871 times)

[Jim]

Via Kyle from the Oasis Collectors Group.

Strange to hear Noel singing!

[welshylad]

Nice!

[jezza2]

It’d be really nice to get the files, but at least he’s sharing them, so I’ll give him credit for that. Good shit.

[deadman]

Respect to Kyle for sharing some of this material.

[ajito]

Thank you! I miss so much Oasis… All this old “new” stuff is gold.

[thespiderandthefly]

Wow very cool to hear Noel on this, but that Liam vocal really takes this to the next level

Great groove too. Nice one, Alan!

[madferitusa2025]

This is def a great listen. It's very clear. Noel vocal. Every version I've heard, seems like 10 layers of white noise on top.

Kyle

[Manualex]

Love it, these kind of things are never going to be in a reissue. So for OCG kindly releasing to people to hear is very nice.

[The Chief]

Very interesting to hear! Good thing this ended up with Liam on vocals!

[mahsteve]

Wow thank you for sharing this.

Always liked this song but never realised all the detail behind it ie Alan’s drumming and the layers of guitar.
I always thought that there was a promo with an extended outro with the solo but I realise there is not now.
It sounds great to hear it build up like that

Thanks again

[carlober]

Mar 3, 2023 16:49:08 GMT -5 deadman said:

Respect to Kyle for sharing some of this material.

A massive, massive thanks to him!

[Loaded Silence]

Thank you Kyle

[fabulousbakers]

Great stuff! Many thanks to Kyle!!

[glider]

With a pair of monitor headphones I can hear how dynamic and punchy the multi-tracks are. A better sounding Be Here Now remix is definitely possible.

[morning_rain]

This is great, massive thanks for sharing this!

[oasisunited]

If anyone's interested, this was recorded at Ridge Farm Studios in Surrey the week of October 13th, 1997 in between the brief trip to NYC and the start of the European leg of the tour. Paolo Hewitt mentions in Forever the People that Noel sang Flashbax because Liam was "incapacitated" due to being on a 2-day bender, so I wonder if this means that they did Street Fighting Man first during the session before Liam bowed out. Otherwise, we would have had the Noel sung version on the single that we hear on that DAT recording.

[thespiderandthefly]

Mar 6, 2023 8:37:11 GMT -5 oasisunited said:

If anyone's interested, this was recorded at Ridge Farm Studios in Surrey the week of October 13th, 1997 in between the brief trip to NYC and the start of the European leg of the tour. Paolo Hewitt mentions in Forever the People that Noel sang Flashbax because Liam was "incapacitated" due to being on a 2-day bender, so I wonder if this means that they did Street Fighting Man first during the session before Liam bowed out. Otherwise, we would have had the Noel sung version on the single that we hear on that DAT recording.

Great background info, thanks! Note: It's REALLY hard to imagine Liam on Flashbax...haha. That one seems made for Noel. 

[jezza2]

Mar 6, 2023 8:37:11 GMT -5 oasisunited said:

If anyone's interested, this was recorded at Ridge Farm Studios in Surrey the week of October 13th, 1997 in between the brief trip to NYC and the start of the European leg of the tour. Paolo Hewitt mentions in Forever the People that Noel sang Flashbax because Liam was "incapacitated" due to being on a 2-day bender, so I wonder if this means that they did Street Fighting Man first during the session before Liam bowed out. Otherwise, we would have had the Noel sung version on the single that we hear on that DAT recording.

To quote! 

Noel Gallagher, in his downstairs den, is again silently fuming. He has just played me 'Flashbax', one of the two songs - The Stones' 'Street Fighting Man' is the other - that Oasis have just recorded for the b-side of 'All Around The World'. (Another song, 'The Fame', is already recorded and will appear on all formats. 'Street Fighting Man' is the same except for the vinyl 12-inch version.) Noel sings 'Flashbax'. He didn't want to but he was forced to. Liam was 'incapacitated'.

'He came down,' complains Noel, 'and went on the piss for two whole days. Then he turned round and said, "I can't sing, my throat is too fucked". I mean, why the fuck does he do it?' He must have been through situations like this a million times but the songwriter still seemed genuinely puzzled by his sibling's errant behavior (61-62).  

-Forever the People, Paolo Hewitt

[thewalrus67]

Thank you Kyle

[tomlivesforever]

Thanks Kyle! Top man.