The Noel Gallagher Guitars & Gear Interview
The Oasis legend & High Flying Bird treats Dan & Mick to some epic sounds and stories!
Welcome to the show! Yes, It finally happened!
Noel Gallagher’s contribution to popular music cannot be understated. The multi platinum selling, endless award winning, mayhem causing, genre defining, monumental rock creating living leg-end has penned the soundtrack to literally millions of lives over the last two decades. For that we salute and thank him.
Today however, he pauses being a global superstar for about 1hr and 50 mins, to sit down and talk guitars, amps and pedals. Noel and his team kindly invited us to his studio in London where we got the chance to see some classic instruments and hear them at full-bore! We’ve never seen Noel open up like this about guitars and tones before, so please grab a beverage of your choosing and enjoy the chat.
Needless to say, we are incredibly grateful to everyone who helped make this happen, especially Mick, Noel’s tech and Callum in the control room. Big thanks too to our old mucker Simon who made sure we were on point with the visuals. It’s a day we’ll never forget, thank you!
• Noel Summer 2023 tour dates, starting in the USA: https://www.noelgallagher.com/live
• New album, Council Skies by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds is out June 2 2023. Go here: https://NoelGallagher.lnk.to/Councilskies!ps
• Subscribe to Noel’s channel: https://NGHFB.lnk.to/YTsub!ps
• Official videos playlist: https://NGHFB.lnk.to/YTofficialvideosp!ps
Enjoy the show…
Interesting bits & go-to sections
0:00 Intro playing
1:30 Hello Noel!
2:35 The guitar behind the door
4:55 Marshall & WEM, two amps & early pedals
9:10 What about volume?
11:15 The Johnny Marr Les Paul
14:45 Cigarettes. And Alcohol of course…
19:00 Live Forever – birth of a songwriter
23:25 Other guitars & a love for simplicity
27:00 The genius of Johnny Marr
33:00 Moving on to WTS Morning Glory?
38:00 The hateful note… and AI songwriting
42:25 Noel & Bonehead’s simple formula
47:25 The move to semi-hollow guitars
53:45 Epi Riviera, Vox AC50 and SIB Echo Drive
56:00 Vox AC30 – WTS Morning Glory?
59:05 Noel and a Strat?!
1:02:40 Semi-hollow guitars and volume
1:05:30 No guitar in monitors
1:08:00 The red Gibson ES-355
1:15:25 Pedalboard!
1:25:05 Amps for High Flying Birds
1:29:05 Recording to a click?
1:32:00 Discipline
1:35:15 Noel loves presets
1:41:30 Going on tour & new record
1:46:21 We play out
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This is great seeing NG being candid and talking about the process. I cant believe The Masterplan was a B side. It would have been No1 for 10 weeks if they had released it alone.
What I really like about this video is…Noel actually seems Happy ????! I’ve watched many videos of him and I have never seen him smile more!
On the AI bit: "You can sound like Liam" threw Vocalists under the bus lol
57:43 AHH YES
Makes fun of his guitar player saying his Pedal Board looks like Cape Canaveral…and he's forever fuddying with it…????
Second time watching this, still get chills and SOOOOO FUCKIN JEALOUS of you two witnessing this in person!
I really enjoyed this .
Can you guys get Gem Archer on at some point a great guitar player and sound and feel .
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I could literally watch an expanded 8-hour version of this interview and never lose interest.
i keep watching this on a daily basis
Started playing guitar cos ov u ya bastard ????????✨
Instead of the usual Noel Gallagher/Oasis interview, this one is purely about the gear and song structure. Such a nice change.
Noel does such a good job, super articulate, great storyteller, mature but still authentic. Legend. All the best songs have simple chords and melodies, but very few artists have the creativity to do it. Noel is a genius at it. Neil Young is the greatest
I would like to have the Marshall Valvestate setting please!
Love Noel. Self aware, he knows his limits , he knows he only gets a certain time and he's made the most of it. What an inspiration to the rest of us.
27:48 he’s turned down the f’n amp ????
Anyone know what shoes Noel is wearing?
Cool
The most overrated bland and derivative, make that thieving because he blatantly rips Beatles riffs, songwriter and guitar player in history.Seems to like the sound this own voice, the guy yaps and yaps and yaps.
Paul Stacey run most people underground on the guitair
58:29 I need the tabs for this chord. Thank you.
…… and we still didn’t get the amp settings ????
Absolutely amazing interview. But as a 57 year old Brit. I've always wanted to know why, the absolutely brilliant "Talk Tonight" ended up as just an album track? Somebody must be held accountable. ????
He was using a Boss CS-3 back in the day. Last pedal in the chain at Knebworth. Think used as a lead boost.
Noel may be a very basic guitar player but the man sure can write good memorable songs