Oasis: Supersonic Page #7

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that it made me withdraw into my own world

and from that

came the learning to play the guitar.

I guess, in some way,

my old fella beat the talent into me.

On Live 105, Oasis.

Supersonic, yeah?

The contrast of getting

on a plane and coming from Japan,

where the mania was like, f***ing, "Blam!"

Then getting to America,

where nobody had heard of us,

that didn't freak me out.

I was ready to start again,

you know what I mean?

But I also knew

that you won't get anywhere

on attitude in the States.

You've got be able to play.

I went over there with definitely

a f***ing chip on my shoulder,

but a good chip, you know what I mean?

It was like, "Look, we're going to f***ing

have youse and if you like us, great,

"if you don't, I don't give a sh*t."

American Customs then asked a question

that would f***ing blow Liam's mind,

you know what I mean?

Right, who've we got here then?

He's a singer.

"What's the purpose of your visit?"

"You what?" "Not a f***ing visit.

"I'm not visiting, mate,

I'm a f***ing rock star.

"I'm here to steal your soul."

"Okay, you can follow me now, sir.

You're coming this way."

There's always pressure that's on

the bands to break America as well,

you know, but breaking America

quite often breaks the f***ing band

because they're that concerned about it

and it's that vast. F*** me, man.

You have a good time and all that,

but I'll tell you what,

when you get home,

your carpet don't look the same.

And we've got the two Gallagher

brothers from the band Oasis.

And you're playing at the Whisky tonight.

Is it sold out, do you know?

Of course it's sold out.

Okay, and what have you been doing?

We've just been doing loads

of interviews, and gigs.

Working. Melissa's been

making us work dead hard.

She's on top.

I think what they said

was there were some interviews

and hanging out and doing work and stuff.

- You're right.

- I'll be the translator here.

Diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle

Anything else?

Someone had discovered

the joys of crystal meth,

which is effectively like ninja speed.

It's not even fun, you know what I mean?

It's a f***ing horrible drug.

I don't know who f***ing got it,

but it was there

and we all thought it was coke.

And we were doing big f***ing lines of it

and it just f***ing kept us up for days.

Everybody had a dig at it.

The only problem with that

is that you couldn't get to sleep.

You couldn't sleep.

Right, I don't mind having a dig

at anything as long as, you know,

about 10:
30 at night,

I have a cup of tea and go to bed.

The Whisky a Go Go

on Sunset Strip, f***ing hell,

it's the most famous club in LA.

We get to the sound check,

everybody's been up all night

and looked like it.

All right, LA, Whisky a Go Go.

This is the spot.

The best band in Britain.

I say they're the best band in the universe.

None other than Oasis!

All right, Oasis!

And there you have it.

This one's called Rock 'n Roll Star.

# I live my life in the city

and there's no easy way out...

Everyone was appalling.

Every member of the crew,

every member of the f***ing band

because of crystal meth.

Phil Smith, our roadie,

who was responsible

for putting the set lists out,

for some reason, my set list

was different to everybody else's.

# You're not concerned

about the way we are...

They were all playing different songs

at the same time.

"Whoa! What's going on here?"

# Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll star...

It was a shambles, man.

It was an absolute f***ing shambles.

# Tonight I'm a rock 'n roll... #

Do it again for you, you know?

The whole thing just fell apart.

I've never seen it with this band before.

All right, Rock 'n Roll Star.

Again.

I think there were a lot of tension on stage,

a lot of gesturing between Noel and Liam.

Well, more from Liam to Noel.

And then the tambourine came flying.

I think he said summat

and I f***ing launched the tambourine

at him or summat.

Not like the Bruce Lee throwing-star

or a f***ing lightsabre,

it was a tambourine.

But when it hit me on the shoulder

it went, "Tshhh!"

Out of time, I might add.

It was lucky I didn't f***ing launch a monitor

at him or summat, or a f***ing drummer.

What?

I could see Liam was going behind one

of the amps throughout the gig, man,

and he was just snorting lines

of crystal meth on stage.

"That's going to go tits up, isn't it?"

It was a bit of a catastrophe.

Yeah. I was in a fury.

I left a little bit of me

on that stage that night.

After that night, it was more

"me and them" as opposed to "us".

I remember going back to the hotel

and saying to Maggie, our tour manager,

I think I took the float off her.

Noel was quite upset about it.

He said, "Can you give me money?"

And I said, "Well, what do you want?"

He goes, "Well, enough money

to go back home."

So I just gave him, like, $700.

That's all I had, I said, you know.

He said, "Can I have my passport?"

So I gave him his passport.

But I remember ringing up Marcus

saying, "He's going to leave,"

and he was like,

"No, no, no, he'll be fine, be fine.

"He's going to sleep it off,

it'll be fine, be fine."

I was like, "Oh, no, I don't think so!"

I don't know what I was thinking.

Maybe I thought it was the end,

I really don't know.

He takes the money and runs.

I remember some f***ing soppy note

coming through the door, saying, like,

"How can we go on like brothers?"

It was like, "F*** right off!"

So that got rolled up

and then another line of crystal meth

went up the old f***ing tubular bells.

So, I woke up in the morning

and I found a note underneath my door

and I opened it up, and I knew it.

He said, "I'm leaving." "Bollocks!"

He's gone missing. Nobody knows where he is.

There's our songwriter gone.

"Sh*t! I think it's really over, isn't it?"

I came up with this idea.

I got his bill and then I traced

all the last numbers he rang.

And then I noticed there was

one number "415,"

and I thought, "Ah, San Francisco."

We've just been to San Francisco

and I knew that he had

some little fling over there.

Marcus said, "I'm going to ring the number."

So he gets her on the phone and he says,

"You know, we're not saying anything,

"but obviously, legally,

he's a missing person, you know.

"We're going to have to have

to get the police involved."

And the minute he hung up the phone,

I said, "He's there."

Let me see if I can get

my story straight here.

I met this girl at an Oasis gig.

I must have phoned her

and said, "It's f***ed up here."

And I got on a plane

and flew off to San Francisco.

I don't know

what the f*** I thought I was doing.

I was just going to, like,

disappear, you know.

It was quite a traumatic time.

But Talk Tonight

was written about those few days

and out of that came that great song.

So it was meant to be.

It was meant to be.

# Sleeping on a plane

# You know you can't complain

# You took your last chance once again

# I landed, stranded

# Hardly even knew your name

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