其實Oasis已經不是第一次碰到這種場面
早在剛出到那幾年
就領教過在台上所有可能接到的東西
我在書上看過印象最深的情況是
有站在最前排的人丟鞋子上去
Noel事後很不解的說,
"如果他花了一整天排到前排的隊只是為了要砸我鞋子,那他也太執著了吧!?"
還有一次在唱Acquiesce的時候
Noel正唱到副歌的對唱部分
突然一罐玻璃酒瓶朝他砸過來
結果就變成, "Because we need...OH MY GOD~"(呵呵呵呵呵;)
最誇張的就是還有人直接跳上台揍了Noel一拳(當然是還沒紅的時候啦...沒請保全)
唉,反正巡迴中可能發生的情況和變數實在太多了
今天他們會到蘇格蘭的Murrayfield Stadium做表演
Noel表示希望不要下雨
"否則我們大概會表現的一團糟吧!"
Cheers!
Patsy "Gallagher"
Brothers grim bid to recapture glory days
SOME 60,000 fans will pack into Murrayfield Stadium on Saturday
evening to see and hear for themselves whether Oasis are still rock
legends or on their last legs.
The controversial Manchester band’s real-life soap opera has
rumbled
on for six years now and they remain the most compelling focal point
of the British rock music industry.
But for the 40,000 fans expected to make the exodus from Glasgow at
the weekend, the concert could spell the end of an era or herald a
new dawn in the group’s fluctuating fortunes.
The poor critical and commercial reaction to the group’s fourth
studio album, Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, preceded the most
damaging of the band’s personal upheavals, when guitarist and
songwriter Noel Gallagher decided to opt out of playing a series of
European tour dates following yet another bust-up with younger
brother Liam, after the singer expressed public contempt for
Noel’s plans for a solo album.
Now back in the fold, Noel Gallagher is all too aware that the band
simply have to deliver on this series of UK stadium shows.
"Liam and I have had tons of arguments before and people have come
and gone from Oasis," states the 32-year-old songwriter. "But
we’re
still here and planning to be around for a while yet.
"And if being failures means selling out five stadium shows,
including two at Wembley, then I’m all for being a flop!"
The fall-out with Liam has, according to the senior brother, been
patched up ... and blamed on the demon drink.
"I really hate him at times when he has a good drink in him because
he can be the biggest pain around. But I’m probably not much
better at times."
"If I hadn’t stepped back the band would probably have called it a
day there and then."
After the band’s 1997 third album, Be Here Now, was savaged by the
critics and failed to achieve the remarkable success of its
predecessor, (What’s The Story?) Morning Glory, Noel Gallagher
admitted that the band had failed to make the musical progress he had
hoped.
Three years on and he is singing from the same hymn book again about
Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants.
"It’s a more personal album and maybe lacks the anthems of old,"
he
admits.
"It’s not a classic, but it’s not the pile of dross some people
have
made it out to be. There’s a few songs I’m really proud of."
The contrast between the first three years of Oasis’ public career
and the latter three could hardly be more marked.
The trail blazed between 1994 and early 1997 was nothing short of
extraordinary. Two album sales approaching a combined total of 20
million and an unprecedented public demand saw them selling out with
ease every concert they played, whatever the capacity.
The culmination was Knebworth in 1996, when 250,000 fans flocked to
see the band. More than four million applied for tickets.
The band’s former label boss, Creation records founder Alan McGee,
admits he should have parted company with the label and Oasis the day
after those shows.
"It simply could never be bettered," he told me recently.
And within a year the mood had indeed changed. The band found
themselves on the end of their first critical savagings as the Be
Here Now album found little favour.
The fans also seemed to sense this was the beginning of the end and
its stay at the top reaches of the UK chart was short. It would
eventually match the six million sales of 1994 debut album,
Definitely Maybe, but the writing did seem to be on the Wonderwall.
"We didn’t help ourselves a lot and Oasis suddenly were being
watched not for their music, but to see what rumpus we could come up with
next," Noel admits.
Now free of the cocaine addiction that spiralled in 1997 and much
less dependent on alcohol, the husband and father last year gave up
London madness for life in the Buckinghamshire countryside.
"It’s time Oasis let the music do the talking again," he says.
GLASGOW TIMES
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You shall no longer take things at second or third hand....
nor look through the eyes of the dead....nor feed on the
spectres in books,
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to ALL SIDES and FILTER them from YOURSELF.
--Walt Whitman. [Song of Myself]. Leaves of Grass
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