Tell that to Pete Townsend, I'd love to hear every mediocre guitarist play rhythm like he did. Same for Keef.

Well, Noel is just Oasis guitarrist. A band that doesn't have very complicated solos. Noel cares more about the melody.
BTW, I quite like Morello, Buckethead, Hammet and Van Halen, becuase they create very nice guitar stuff.

The list is spot on TBH
If you're looking for a speed-tapping-licking-playing behind your back-setting your guitar on fire-fret wanking-Santana solo then Champagne Supernova is shit.
But it still sounds awesome none the less and that's what matters really.

if not for pete townshend's guitar playing, we wouldn't have rhythm guitar the way we have it today. don't play down townshend for just smashing guitars.

I prefer melody over 10000 notes a second. noel isnt the most technicol guitarist ever but i like the melodic stuff he writes. Why i love johnny marr coz he plays reasonably fast but his stuff is complicated but simple still and extremely melodic prolly why noels likes him aswell

Noel may not be a really technical guitarist like Slash or Angus Young but he still does really catchy tune without having too make it complex. I love the solo in Champagne Supernova, its one of Oasis's highlights, its really psychedilic. That guy who said its one of the worst can shove a guitar up his ass.

Definitely gotta agree on Noel's guitar skills suiting Oasis perfectly, he doesn't have to be technically amazing at guitar playing, his guitar playing suits the songs he writes perfectly, n THATS what its all about. Me personally, I'd choose the more slower melodic guitar solo playing of Noel, Paul Weller and The Beatles over any guitarist that plays like Van Halen n Stevie Ray Vaughn. Its just the style thats influenced you and the style of music you make. If Noel started playing like van halen n started doing all this tapping shit n that I'm sure it'd ruin a lot of what oasis music is all about.

I remember randomly running into my high school head football coach at Guitar Center one time and he was playing a Les Paul. He was incredible; shredding up and down like no other.

Then he gave me the guitar and told me to play. I just started playing at the time, so I kind of sucked. And he told me, "It's not about how many notes you can play in a certain amount of time; it's about what notes you play . . ."

He's absolutely right. There are tons and tons of guitarists out there who can shred up and down the fret board in no time. But what seperates the good players from the great ones is what notes they hit during that allocated time; whether simple or complicated.

I totally agree. Noel's melodic solos are exactly what began to disappear in his later stuff.

Ever listen to Be Here Now? Plenty of shit solos on that one.

i wouldn't even call Slash, Clapton or Page good guitarists cause they just do what they did and never improved. maybe they can play solos but a fuckin solo in every song, maybe as a climax, gets boring.
how would a fretboard wanking solo sound on champgane supernova? i think just shit! they made the right solo for the right song, so they are good guitarists. it's important to know what to play and even more important is to be able to hold yourself back as a guitar player.
for me one of the best guitarplayers (and a great guitar player ) is Peter Hayes from the BRMC. cause he playes in i think 8 different tunings and has full knowledge abouth these AND he really knows how to use effects to get a great sound for a song. I personally prefer this kind of shoegazing stuff over these boring blues pentatonic solos with knee on a speaker and wind in your hair.

This is your first post? What a questionable response!