Re: Noel Gallagher on The Who and Albert Hall

["Jeremy Craine" <jcraine@hotmail.com>]

If the guy cant "sit through" Tommy or Quadrophenia what the fuck is he 
doing on the same stage as them????
JC

p.s ive seen oasis live and have their live album.
both are non-events

>From: "Brian Cady" <cadyb@home.com>
>To: "Paul's Who List" <TheWho@igtc.com>,   "Scott's list" 
><oddsandsods@thewho.net>
>Subject: Noel Gallagher on The Who and Albert Hall
>Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:51:25 -0500
>
>From The Evening Standard
>available on line at:
>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/hottx/music/top_review.html?in_review_id=3
>37347&in_review_text_id=280772
>
>Noel knows Who's best
>by Noel Gallagher
>
>I'm playing with The Who at the Royal Albert Hall. It's a charity gig in 
>aid of
>the Teenage Cancer Trust and I'm in their band!
>
>I'm doing a week's rehearsals, and I'm f***ing mad for it, mate! The 
>musical
>director phoned up the other day and said, "You're doing 'Won't Get Fooled
>Again' - are you up for any more?" I went, "I'll do as many as you f***ing 
>want,
>I know them all anyway!"
>
>It's funny, because for me it was always the Beatles, the Stones, the Sex
>Pistols. Then last Christmas I saw The Who at Shepherd's Bush Empire and it 
>was
>absolute magic, they just blew me away. That's what I meant when I called 
>the
>last Oasis studio album Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants. We took the 
>legacy
>of these Sixties and Seventies groups and made it ours in the Nineties.
>
>"Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is" on the last album sounded a lot like The 
>Who,
>and of course we also did a cover of "My Generation" for a Radio 1 session.
>Years ago, Johnny Marr sold me a guitar which used to belong to Pete 
>Townshend
>and I wrote "Slide Away" on it. Zak Starkey, who is Ringo Starr's son and 
>is
>drumming with Johnny's band The Healers, also plays with The Who. Last year 
>I
>bought Dear Boy: The Life Of Keith Moon by Tony Fletcher and I was 
>captivated.
>
>The more it goes on, the more similarities I see between Oasis and The Who.
>Townshend and Roger Daltrey aren't related but they used to fight like me 
>and
>our kid. The singer gets a bit lippy and you end up giving him a smack and 
>not
>getting on the tour bus with him! Mind you, I don't like any of The Who's
>albums - I can't sit through Tommy or Quadrophenia. But some of their 
>singles
>and the tracks on Who's Next are fantastic. My favourite album of theirs is
>Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy, the hits collection - great sleeve too.
>
>The Who were the original band with no passengers. John Entwistle is deaf 
>as a
>post but he's an amazing bass player, and Live At Leeds is probably the 
>best
>live album of all time, miles above Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous and 
>U2's
>Under A Blood Red Sky. Familiar To Millions, our live album, is really good 
>but
>you can't compete with The Who. So I might as well join them for one night.
>
>         -Brian in Atlanta
>          The Who This Month!
>         http://members.home.net/cadyb/who.htm
>
>

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