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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2016 15:07:57 GMT -5
Will he bring back his tambourine? Or will he stick with the towel? Or will he come back with an entirely new stage prop? idris elbas bobble hat
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Post by Derrick on Dec 12, 2016 15:25:29 GMT -5
Will atleast upload the singing over Beatles songs they recorded before christmas What's that exactly? Were these recorded in a studio or in a more informal way? & what's the purpose of these covers: just having fun playing tunes they like or is there any plan to release them officially (as b-sides or extra-tracks for a Mojo CD for example)?
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Post by guigsysEstring on Dec 12, 2016 15:28:52 GMT -5
bastardnumber1 Are you allowed to tell us which magazine the official interview is for? Just curious! I just have it in my head that (one for the older posters! ) bastardnumber1 interview will have been reminiscent of this scene from 'Human Traffic', only instead of a "magazine" blag to get in a nightclub it will be a blag to get to meet LG!
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Post by liamgallagher1992 on Dec 12, 2016 19:05:43 GMT -5
Its really strange that this solo career is taking shape.
I imagined there being co writers and some sitek style producer really showing us this is taking a new direction.
Yet its all been very reserved, quietly getting praised by people who have listened to it.
I think at worst we will get a solid album and a more interesting tour than we have had off either Beady Eye or HFB.
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Post by Rolo on Dec 14, 2016 12:01:09 GMT -5
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Post by bastardnumber1 on Dec 14, 2016 12:06:35 GMT -5
Not yet, having too much other stuff to do these days but as soon as I´m free I finish it and post it. Won´t be anything new about the album though.
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Post by Derrick on Dec 22, 2016 14:47:26 GMT -5
Not yet, having too much other stuff to do these days but as soon as I´m free I finish it and post it. Won´t be anything new about the album though. Can we expect the full interview with pictures as a Christmas gift for this forum? 48 hrs to finish typing it all, come on Santa bastardnumber1!
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Post by Rolo on Dec 22, 2016 15:00:30 GMT -5
Any new on that recording of Liam singing over Beatles songs bastardnumber1? Would be a nice engagement present!
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Post by bastardnumber1 on Dec 26, 2016 13:37:44 GMT -5
I´m sorry guys but I wasn´t even online those past few days - nice but stressy times. First of all congrats Oa just read about your engagement. I haven´t got any footage back yet but I have some time the next days to at least finish what I wanted to write. The rest will follow in the new year. This interview actually got me some interesting prospects for this coming year, we will see. Anyway just give me some more time please. Happy holidays to everyone and RIP to all those great people who had to leave this year. 2016 is a real bitch...
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Post by guigsysEstring on Dec 27, 2016 9:06:29 GMT -5
I´m sorry guys but I wasn´t even online those past few days - nice but stressy times. First of all congrats Oa just read about your engagement. I haven´t got any footage back yet but I have some time the next days to at least finish what I wanted to write. The rest will follow in the new year. This interview actually got me some interesting prospects for this coming year, we will see. Anyway just give me some more time please. Happy holidays to everyone and RIP to all those great people who had to leave this year. 2016 is a real bitch...
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Post by elroymeltzer on Dec 27, 2016 9:22:10 GMT -5
Any new on that recording of Liam singing over Beatles songs bastardnumber1? Would be a nice engagement present! Not to pick on Rolo, but does anybody else think this is a really strange thing to want/get excited about?
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Post by Rolo on Dec 27, 2016 10:17:34 GMT -5
Any new on that recording of Liam singing over Beatles songs bastardnumber1? Would be a nice engagement present! Not to pick on Rolo, but does anybody else think this is a really strange thing to want/get excited about? I love Liam's voice, I also love The Beatles. Why wouldn't I want to hear it?
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Post by Rolo on Dec 27, 2016 10:18:38 GMT -5
I´m sorry guys but I wasn´t even online those past few days - nice but stressy times. First of all congrats Oa just read about your engagement. I haven´t got any footage back yet but I have some time the next days to at least finish what I wanted to write. The rest will follow in the new year. This interview actually got me some interesting prospects for this coming year, we will see. Anyway just give me some more time please. Happy holidays to everyone and RIP to all those great people who had to leave this year. 2016 is a real bitch... Thanks mate!
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Post by elroymeltzer on Dec 27, 2016 10:19:32 GMT -5
Not to pick on Rolo, but does anybody else think this is a really strange thing to want/get excited about? I love Liam's voice, I also love The Beatles. Why wouldn't I want to hear it? Just seems strange to me...like a bootleg video of somebody doing drunk karaoke. To each their own, just seems obsessive. Not trying to be rude.
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Post by Rolo on Dec 27, 2016 17:42:39 GMT -5
I love Liam's voice, I also love The Beatles. Why wouldn't I want to hear it? Just seems strange to me...like a bootleg video of somebody doing drunk karaoke. To each their own, just seems obsessive. Not trying to be rude. I find it strange, that you find it strange, that I want to hear my favourite singer sing over some Beatles tunes, what's not to like? Even if it was drunk karaoke (which it's not going by bastardnumber1's description), it's surely got to be worth a watch right?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2016 18:12:41 GMT -5
I love Liam's voice, I also love The Beatles. Why wouldn't I want to hear it? Just seems strange to me...like a bootleg video of somebody doing drunk karaoke. To each their own, just seems obsessive. Not trying to be rude. Nah, sir. Obsessive would be Mark Chapman level.
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Post by bastardnumber1 on Dec 30, 2016 13:45:31 GMT -5
So I wanted to write the whole day down but it´s just too much and also not that interesting when you haven´t been there I guess so I put it down to the stories by Liam and whatever I think was fun/interesting. First of all he was in a very good mood as we came to the pub, he even remembered my face, just didn´t know from where which was a huge honour for me. Then the other guy did the interview with him and he fucked it up as I told already and Liam seemed to get a bit annoyed and I was afraid he will leave right after. But as they were done and he left Liam came up to me and said „So what you want from me“ with a wink. I was really nervous, I mean I already met him and chatted a little with him but this was totally different for me. Beside that I never really did anything like that it was fucking Liam Gallagher, the guy who I actually stalk for years via youtube, forums and other media and probably know more uninteresting things about his life than he does himself. The good thing was he didn´t know that but the even better thing was that he saw I was nervous so he just ordered two pints for us and started chatting about everything and nothing. After a few minutes it was all fine so we started to talk more about music/Oasis/his stuff. We started with BHN cause it was just released and I didn´t really wanna talk about Supersonic, it was known anyway already. As already told Liam wasn´t involved in any of the Chasing The Sun releases but liked the idea of it. As I love BHN and the whole era I wanted to get at least one story that I haven´t read yet. And to my surprise he had a lot to talk about. Beginning with the recording and that he was proud to be able to record at Abbey Road although it turned out to be shit, ending that he is thankful nobody died back then cause of their lifestyle back then. So BHN: He said Abbey Road was all fine but it was more of a nostalgic thing to to. He loved being there listening to Beatles tunes but the rest was shit. He also was not in the right mood to sing properly and only tried 2 or 3 songs. He prefered Ridge Farm but loved the Air Studios recordings cause it was „all family“. As for the build up he said it was all too much and everyone around the band got too coked up. I asked him if there really was a meeting about the stage set as Noel said and he said yeah, but it didn´t last longer than 30 minutes. Someone just said put up what´s on the album cover and that´s it. But yeah he hated it being in that small Phone Box every night I asked about touring and what he can remember about it. HE said he hated to do the U2 gigs cause Oasis shouldn´t have been a support band at that time, no matter if it´s america or not. But they of course had a good time even then. He said he almost broke his foot during rehearsals for it cause he jumped off the stage. He remembers the Cardiff shows were great. Worst show for him was one of the US shows before they got to Japan because he was totally drunk, couldn´t even walk and fell a few times. I showed him the Lille footage and he said that was one of his better days and everything was cool About the end of the tour as said above he is glad everyone was alive. Even he thinks now that they overdid it at some points. Drinks and cocaine everywhere. But it was all worth it... The interesting thing for me was that he knew quite a lot about back then. Don´t wanna make him sound like an idiot but we all had black-outs and if I would have been him back then it would probably been a 5 year long black-out. As I didn´t really wanna talk about the DM/MG years as it´s all know pretty well now I just asked him about any hidden versions of songs sung by him like Sad Song and there still should be a lot around. Maybe not Noel sung songs (as already said he did Step Out and DLBIA but isn´t sure if they still exist) but there are for sure tons of other versions he did back then which are not released and „should be on the next re fucking issue“. Also there are demos, better said outtakes, from Liam starting to write songs back then which he still has apparently (And I´m working to get my hands on them or at least listen to them one day). The rest I already told I think about the Real People recording and the 92 TV thing. He just didn´t know a lot about it anymore. The next obvious thing was the time after BHN and Liam really got serious about it. Talking about that it was hard for him with Bonehad and Guigsy leaving cause they were his best mates then and he couldn´t think of doing it all with someone else. But Noel brought in Andy and Gem so it got alright. Still a lot changed for him back then. Noel changed a lot, a new band more or less, Noel and Liam had a lot of fights from the start on. Noel quitting the band wasn´t that bad actually from Liams point of view. He thinks Noel just wanted to prove a point so he had to prove his point that even Noel isn´t irreplaceble. At the end it was the same as always for him „just without Hitler telling everyone to shut up“ The next interesting thing to me was the DIV sessions. He said he loved what they did and thought it would have been a nice new direction but the songs were weak and Noel didn´t wanna go that way. They did 2 sessions, each around 8 songs (which is more than we know so far I think). The interesting thing is that Liam did vocals for all those songs, also for Mucky Fingers. But I will have more information on that next year I also asked about the end but Liam just said it´s all said and done and shit happens. Didn´t wanna ask more as it looked like he wasn´t too happy talking about it. We didn´t talk a lot about Beady Eye. Liam said he couldn´t just stop doing what he did for 20 years and the rest also wanted to keep on doing music. He thinks it was the right thing to do and he would do it again although it was nothing like Oasis anymore. He was disappointed that the second album didn´t do better though. Liams future then... well I can´t tell a lot about it yet. I actually thought there will be some more festival announcements this week but looks like no. All I can say is that in my opinion it will be advertised more and there is a lot more thinking behind it than the Beady Eye stuff (from what I can say at least). From what I heard so far this will be a really great album. Not the repetitive stuff we know. More than Liam plus an acoustic guitar. His voice is magical (believe it or not). He is still mad fer it Live I already wrote he will do Oasis songs but not just the typical stuff (I fucking hope he sticks to that). Have a bit more patience and you all will be happy I think This is not all we talked about and and as soon as I get any footage I upload everything including some funny stories. I had a great afternoon and night with the guy talking about every shit there is. He is just a really great and funny guy. One time we got out for a cig his phone rang so I went in. As he came back he looked pissed and I asked if everything is okay (thinking he had to leave) he just said „Yeah, just never get kids. They fuck your life up more than drugs can ever do“ As for the songs he sang, I´m uploding them them minute I have them. I already told him that I have to do that cause there´s too many people loving to hear this and he is all fine with that. If everything works out I can do some online-diary for his tour but this isn´t fixed yet, I still have to figure out some private/work things. So... thanks to Liam, I´ll send him the link to this so he might check it Happy New Year and if you have questions, I won´t answer them in the next few days
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 13:57:02 GMT -5
he liked the idea of chasing the sun but told people not to buy into it
Liam sure does like saying one thing then turning around and saying the complete opposite, hes certainly Noels brother. Sounds like he shouldve been involved though, probably wouldve gotten more alternate Liam versions, seems like theres many more lurking around than we though, again though I think that the lack of Liam versions is Noel not wanting to draw comparisons and possibly end up having people say Liams is much better.
I agree about supporting U2 though, always thought that was weird.
I kind of disagree with Noel "proving a point that he was irreplaceable by leaving the tour", Noel is irreplaceable as the songwriter but they pulled off live shows perfectly well without him, your just losing the Noel sung tunes and some backing vocals, I would say as a guitarist Noels been replaceable ever since the BHN tour tbh, Gem could play his parts just as well for the most part, Liams more irreplaceable as live shows go, you can work around Noel not being there but if Liams not there then its a bigger problem.
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Post by guigsysEstring on Dec 30, 2016 14:13:08 GMT -5
he liked the idea of chasing the sun but told people not to buy into it Liam sure does like saying one thing then turning around and saying the complete opposite, hes certainly Noels brother. Sounds like he shouldve been involved though, probably wouldve gotten more alternate Liam versions, again though I think that the lack of Liam versions is Noel not wanting to draw comparisons and possibly end up having people say Liams is much better. I agree about supporting U2 though, always thought that was weird.IIRC it was a (perhaps badly thought out) plan to re-establish the band somewhat in the USA after the MTV awards and unplugged problems, along with the cancelled tours, etc. TBH I don't think it did the band any favours or harm and was just a footnote in their career in retrospect. Looking back perhaps it wasn't the best way to attempt to restart their US promotion in the same way an extended tour, good interviews and other such actions would have been, but as I have said before the band were in a strange situation mentally where they were almost universally adored in the UK in 1996/97 yet either disliked or not even on the radar for many American music fans. This meant it would probably have been quite difficult to get their heads, especially coked up, around not simply rolling up into cities and towns like the UK, selling out arenas or theatres and shifting millions of records. For the whole three year period from 1994-97 the USA was almost stuck in the rising stage of still having to book long tours and small to mid sized venues whilst seeing massive results in the UK and elsewhere. I think once the millions of pounds rolled in it was simply too much hassle for the band to want to go through the same scenario with a different mindset for the US market, which in terms of both mentality and time was far more difficult to crack the the UK.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 14:22:51 GMT -5
he liked the idea of chasing the sun but told people not to buy into it Liam sure does like saying one thing then turning around and saying the complete opposite, hes certainly Noels brother. Sounds like he shouldve been involved though, probably wouldve gotten more alternate Liam versions, again though I think that the lack of Liam versions is Noel not wanting to draw comparisons and possibly end up having people say Liams is much better. I agree about supporting U2 though, always thought that was weird.IIRC it was a (perhaps badly thought out) plan to re-establish the band somewhat in the USA after the MTV awards and unplugged problems, along with the cancelled tours, etc. TBH I don't think it did the band any favours or harm and was just a footnote in their career in retrospect. Looking back perhaps it wasn't the best way to attempt to restart their US promotion in the same way an extended tour, good interviews and other such actions would have been, but as I have said before the band were in a strange situation mentally where they were almost universally adored in the UK in 1996/97 yet either disliked or not even on the radar for many American music fans. This meant it would probably have been quite difficult to get their heads, especially coked up, around not simply rolling up into cities and towns like the UK, selling out arenas or theatres and shifting millions of records. For the whole three year period from 1994-97 the USA was almost stuck in the rising stage of still having to book long tours and small to mid sized venues whilst seeing massive results in the UK and elsewhere. I think once the millions of pounds rolled in it was simply too much hassle for the band to want to go through the same scenario with a different mindset for the US market, which in terms of both mentality and time was far more difficult to crack the the UK. just think its odd that youve got a band like oasis at that time in their career coming off WTSMG going on to support another band, I guess its a method but just seems like a step back from our side of the pond. theres a video on youtube though where they played I think acquiesce, supersonic and morning glory and the guy behind the camera says "Im not all that impressed " but by the end of the set he said "Ive changed my mind they do have some good songs", this was in 97 and I just think "how can you not know about oasis at all to the point of your only judging them now?" but I guess they really didnt break america, oasis had some odd success really, huge band but not really at the same time.
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Post by bastardnumber1 on Dec 30, 2016 14:26:02 GMT -5
he liked the idea of chasing the sun but told people not to buy into it Liam sure does like saying one thing then turning around and saying the complete opposite, hes certainly Noels brother. Sounds like he shouldve been involved though, probably wouldve gotten more alternate Liam versions, again though I think that the lack of Liam versions is Noel not wanting to draw comparisons and possibly end up having people say Liams is much better. I agree about supporting U2 though, always thought that was weird.IIRC it was a (perhaps badly thought out) plan to re-establish the band somewhat in the USA after the MTV awards and unplugged problems, along with the cancelled tours, etc. TBH I don't think it did the band any favours or harm and was just a footnote in their career in retrospect. Looking back perhaps it wasn't the best way to attempt to restart their US promotion in the same way an extended tour, good interviews and other such actions would have been, but as I have said before the band were in a strange situation mentally where they were almost universally adored in the UK in 1996/97 yet either disliked or not even on the radar for many American music fans. This meant it would probably have been quite difficult to get their heads, especially coked up, around not simply rolling up into cities and towns like the UK, selling out arenas or theatres and shifting millions of records. For the whole three year period from 1994-97 the USA was almost stuck in the rising stage of still having to book long tours and small to mid sized venues whilst seeing massive results in the UK and elsewhere. I think once the millions of pounds rolled in it was simply too much hassle for the band to want to go through the same scenario with a different mindset for the US market, which in terms of both mentality and time was far more difficult to crack the the UK. The U2 gigs for sure didn´t do any harm, still it must have been kind of weird to do the support act at that time for the band. But as you say they were not a big thing in america (especially compared to the UK). I watched Supersonic again today and the story about Japan and the US after in 94 is just strange and must have been hard to handle for them.
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Post by Jgrp on Dec 30, 2016 14:34:21 GMT -5
So I wanted to write the whole day down but it´s just too much and also not that interesting when you haven´t been there I guess so I put it down to the stories by Liam and whatever I think was fun/interesting. First of all he was in a very good mood as we came to the pub, he even remembered my face, just didn´t know from where which was a huge honour for me. Then the other guy did the interview with him and he fucked it up as I told already and Liam seemed to get a bit annoyed and I was afraid he will leave right after. But as they were done and he left Liam came up to me and said „So what you want from me“ with a wink. I was really nervous, I mean I already met him and chatted a little with him but this was totally different for me. Beside that I never really did anything like that it was fucking Liam Gallagher, the guy who I actually stalk for years via youtube, forums and other media and probably know more uninteresting things about his life than he does himself. The good thing was he didn´t know that but the even better thing was that he saw I was nervous so he just ordered two pints for us and started chatting about everything and nothing. After a few minutes it was all fine so we started to talk more about music/Oasis/his stuff. We started with BHN cause it was just released and I didn´t really wanna talk about Supersonic, it was known anyway already. As already told Liam wasn´t involved in any of the Chasing The Sun releases but liked the idea of it. As I love BHN and the whole era I wanted to get at least one story that I haven´t read yet. And to my surprise he had a lot to talk about. Beginning with the recording and that he was proud to be able to record at Abbey Road although it turned out to be shit, ending that he is thankful nobody died back then cause of their lifestyle back then. So BHN: He said Abbey Road was all fine but it was more of a nostalgic thing to to. He loved being there listening to Beatles tunes but the rest was shit. He also was not in the right mood to sing properly and only tried 2 or 3 songs. He prefered Ridge Farm but loved the Air Studios recordings cause it was „all family“. As for the build up he said it was all too much and everyone around the band got too coked up. I asked him if there really was a meeting about the stage set as Noel said and he said yeah, but it didn´t last longer than 30 minutes. Someone just said put up what´s on the album cover and that´s it. But yeah he hated it being in that small Phone Box every night I asked about touring and what he can remember about it. HE said he hated to do the U2 gigs cause Oasis shouldn´t have been a support band at that time, no matter if it´s america or not. But they of course had a good time even then. He said he almost broke his foot during rehearsals for it cause he jumped off the stage. He remembers the Cardiff shows were great. Worst show for him was one of the US shows before they got to Japan because he was totally drunk, couldn´t even walk and fell a few times. I showed him the Lille footage and he said that was one of his better days and everything was cool About the end of the tour as said above he is glad everyone was alive. Even he thinks now that they overdid it at some points. Drinks and cocaine everywhere. But it was all worth it... The interesting thing for me was that he knew quite a lot about back then. Don´t wanna make him sound like an idiot but we all had black-outs and if I would have been him back then it would probably been a 5 year long black-out. As I didn´t really wanna talk about the DM/MG years as it´s all know pretty well now I just asked him about any hidden versions of songs sung by him like Sad Song and there still should be a lot around. Maybe not Noel sung songs (as already said he did Step Out and DLBIA but isn´t sure if they still exist) but there are for sure tons of other versions he did back then which are not released and „should be on the next re fucking issue“. Also there are demos, better said outtakes, from Liam starting to write songs back then which he still has apparently (And I´m working to get my hands on them or at least listen to them one day). The rest I already told I think about the Real People recording and the 92 TV thing. He just didn´t know a lot about it anymore. The next obvious thing was the time after BHN and Liam really got serious about it. Talking about that it was hard for him with Bonehad and Guigsy leaving cause they were his best mates then and he couldn´t think of doing it all with someone else. But Noel brought in Andy and Gem so it got alright. Still a lot changed for him back then. Noel changed a lot, a new band more or less, Noel and Liam had a lot of fights from the start on. Noel quitting the band wasn´t that bad actually from Liams point of view. He thinks Noel just wanted to prove a point so he had to prove his point that even Noel isn´t irreplaceble. At the end it was the same as always for him „just without Hitler telling everyone to shut up“ The next interesting thing to me was the DIV sessions. He said he loved what they did and thought it would have been a nice new direction but the songs were weak and Noel didn´t wanna go that way. They did 2 sessions, each around 8 songs (which is more than we know so far I think). The interesting thing is that Liam did vocals for all those songs, also for Mucky Fingers. But I will have more information on that next year I also asked about the end but Liam just said it´s all said and done and shit happens. Didn´t wanna ask more as it looked like he wasn´t too happy talking about it. We didn´t talk a lot about Beady Eye. Liam said he couldn´t just stop doing what he did for 20 years and the rest also wanted to keep on doing music. He thinks it was the right thing to do and he would do it again although it was nothing like Oasis anymore. He was disappointed that the second album didn´t do better though. Liams future then... well I can´t tell a lot about it yet. I actually thought there will be some more festival announcements this week but looks like no. All I can say is that in my opinion it will be advertised more and there is a lot more thinking behind it than the Beady Eye stuff (from what I can say at least). From what I heard so far this will be a really great album. Not the repetitive stuff we know. More than Liam plus an acoustic guitar. His voice is magical (believe it or not). He is still mad fer it Live I already wrote he will do Oasis songs but not just the typical stuff (I fucking hope he sticks to that). Have a bit more patience and you all will be happy I think This is not all we talked about and and as soon as I get any footage I upload everything including some funny stories. I had a great afternoon and night with the guy talking about every shit there is. He is just a really great and funny guy. One time we got out for a cig his phone rang so I went in. As he came back he looked pissed and I asked if everything is okay (thinking he had to leave) he just said „Yeah, just never get kids. They fuck your life up more than drugs can ever do“ As for the songs he sang, I´m uploding them them minute I have them. I already told him that I have to do that cause there´s too many people loving to hear this and he is all fine with that. If everything works out I can do some online-diary for his tour but this isn´t fixed yet, I still have to figure out some private/work things. So... thanks to Liam, I´ll send him the link to this so he might check it Happy New Year and if you have questions, I won´t answer them in the next few days Thanks for this. Must be amazing meeting him. I can imagine him being proper down to earth. Shame BE didn't sell more but then if it did, we probably wouldn't be getting solo Liam, fucking bring it on! Buzzin!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 14:37:01 GMT -5
think the good thing here is that hes clearly aware of beady eyes problems in both their song quality and marketing so at least hes not walking into this thinking he can do the same thing and get some better results.
if he can learn from the failures of beady eye then he can probably make a really good go of his solo thing because beady eye had the potential to be good but they just messed too many important things up early on to give themselves any solid foundation to build off.
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Post by guigsysEstring on Dec 30, 2016 14:40:03 GMT -5
IIRC it was a (perhaps badly thought out) plan to re-establish the band somewhat in the USA after the MTV awards and unplugged problems, along with the cancelled tours, etc. TBH I don't think it did the band any favours or harm and was just a footnote in their career in retrospect. Looking back perhaps it wasn't the best way to attempt to restart their US promotion in the same way an extended tour, good interviews and other such actions would have been, but as I have said before the band were in a strange situation mentally where they were almost universally adored in the UK in 1996/97 yet either disliked or not even on the radar for many American music fans. This meant it would probably have been quite difficult to get their heads, especially coked up, around not simply rolling up into cities and towns like the UK, selling out arenas or theatres and shifting millions of records. For the whole three year period from 1994-97 the USA was almost stuck in the rising stage of still having to book long tours and small to mid sized venues whilst seeing massive results in the UK and elsewhere. I think once the millions of pounds rolled in it was simply too much hassle for the band to want to go through the same scenario with a different mindset for the US market, which in terms of both mentality and time was far more difficult to crack the the UK. just think its odd that youve got a band like oasis at that time in their career coming off WTSMG going on to support another band, I guess its a method but just seems like a step back from our side of the pond. theres a video on youtube though where they played I think acquiesce, supersonic and morning glory and the guy behind the camera says "Im not all that impressed " but by the end of the set he said "Ive changed my mind they do have some good songs", this was in 97 and I just think "how can you not know about oasis at all to the point of your only judging them now?" but I guess they really didnt break america, oasis had some odd success really, huge band but not really at the same time. I see similarities with London grunge obsessives Bush who came out at the same time, but instead had massive success in the USA whilst over here people would struggle at the time to name a song by them. Oasis definitely shifted more records in the USA than Bush did in the UK, but the similarity for me is the massive selling records but still being unknown to people in a major music market whilst having airplay and coverage in other areas at the same time. Hootie & The Blowfish were probably more similar, selling millions in their native USA but struggling to sell anywhere else between 1994-1997.
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