Good points.

i mean, think about it

drinking makes you sloppy: typing, speaking, walking, whatever....

why would playing the guitar be any different?

i know drinking gives u a great deal of euphoria, so im not doubting what he played may have sounded mega to HIM....but to everyone else it must have been shit lol

and i really doubt even HEAVY drinker could down a bottle of gin or any hard liquor without REAL problems occuring

but why would they lie on the dvd?

Mind you he never said how big the bottle of gin was

well I remember that in DM DVD the sound engineer said the Noel's Gin bottle thing referring when they was recording DM for second time, in the studio placed in that Wales' lake... she said that he drunk one entire bottle during one night, while they were recording, and I really think that he was able to do that... why not? he didn't drink it at once... he drunk it through one night recording (also, they said that they barely remember all detailes of those days, so...)

Noel's probabaly just joking around like normal.... don't take him so literally

but the one who talks about Noel and Gin bottle is the sound engineer, not Noel...
she is who says that in one night of recording, Noel drunk alone one bottle of Gin...