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He has done this at least 4 times before for various reasons, it's becoming a habit. It's some kind of issue with his ego
The word "habit" is well-chosen.I betcha he couldn't wait to go back to his loge or his hotel and get his nose stuffed so he cancelled that annoying event called "a concert".
If you read interviews by pro musicians, guys who've been pros for 2 or 3 decades you notice some of them admit that - after all these years - the gig is less important than the post-gig party.
"Liam has been diagnosed with laryngitis and has had to cancel a bunch of shows"
Laryngitis? Or too much blow?
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Big Al
I attended Oasis’ final U.K. show at Wembley Stadium: beer, cocaine and sheer madness. Utterly wasted and mad for it.
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I attended Oasis’ final U.K. show at Wembley Stadium: beer, cocaine and sheer madness. Utterly wasted and mad for it.
Second-hand embarrassment reading that. Reads like satire.
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The Worst.
Maybe Mark Lanegan is not that well known in the UK, but he’s one of the greatest singers in the business for the last 30 years. Not just counting the work with Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age. What he did with Isobel Campbell is pure brilliance. Most of his solo albums are great. A voice that sends shivers down your spine. Dark, honest, genuine.
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I worked with a guy who told me his father saw the Doors once, well sort of.
They introduced them “ Ladies and Gentlemen from Los Angeles California-The Doors!!!
The band began playing, Morrison staggered out from backstage kept walking until he went off the end of the stage and crash landed into the orchestra pit. That was it, shows over.
After a good laugh visualizing that I told him” I have to be honest,I would’ve paid $500 dollars to see that.
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The Worst.
Maybe Mark Lanegan is not that well known in the UK, but he’s one of the greatest singers in the business for the last 30 years. Not just counting the work with Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age. What he did with Isobel Campbell is pure brilliance. Most of his solo albums are great. A voice that sends shivers down your spine. Dark, honest, genuine.
Don’t take one guy’s word for it - I’d say anyone with a slightly vague interest in music will know who Mark Lanegan is.
I just finished reading ‘sing backwards and weep’ a few weeks ago, was a brilliant book.
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Big Al
I attended Oasis’ final U.K. show at Wembley Stadium: beer, cocaine and sheer madness. Utterly wasted and mad for it. Liam and Oasis weren’t too bad, either. Cheers
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quietbeatle
Liam Gallagher is the last rock star. He gave no @#$%& and never pandered to the audience or to the press. He too had a rough upbringing but didn't choose to coward it away with heroin. He has a very English/Irish sense of humor that Lanegan and Neil Young probably just didn't understand and took it as slagging them off. His voice and swagger and stage presence are unique and they made the 90's an epic time for many. Obviously many here do not know anything about him or Oasis I submit you watch the documentary SUPERSONIC I guarantee it will change your perception.
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quietbeatle
Liam Gallagher is the last rock star. He gave no @#$%& and never pandered to the audience or to the press. He too had a rough upbringing but didn't choose to coward it away with heroin. He has a very English/Irish sense of humor that Lanegan and Neil Young probably just didn't understand and took it as slagging them off. His voice and swagger and stage presence are unique and they made the 90's an epic time for many. Obviously many here do not know anything about him or Oasis I submit you watch the documentary SUPERSONIC I guarantee it will change your perception.
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quietbeatle
Liam Gallagher is the last rock star. He gave no @#$%& and never pandered to the audience or to the press. He too had a rough upbringing but didn't choose to coward it away with heroin. He has a very English/Irish sense of humor that Lanegan and Neil Young probably just didn't understand and took it as slagging them off. His voice and swagger and stage presence are unique and they made the 90's an epic time for many. Obviously many here do not know anything about him or Oasis I submit you watch the documentary SUPERSONIC I guarantee it will change your perception.
Agree completely. Liam kept rock n roll on the map simply with his voice at a time when rock n roll needed help. His solo albums have become more interesting than Noel’s now…
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quietbeatle
Liam Gallagher is the last rock star. He gave no @#$%& and never pandered to the audience or to the press. He too had a rough upbringing but didn't choose to coward it away with heroin. He has a very English/Irish sense of humor that Lanegan and Neil Young probably just didn't understand and took it as slagging them off. His voice and swagger and stage presence are unique and they made the 90's an epic time for many. Obviously many here do not know anything about him or Oasis I submit you watch the documentary SUPERSONIC I guarantee it will change your perception.
Agree completely. Liam kept rock n roll on the map simply with his voice at a time when rock n roll needed help. His solo albums have become more interesting than Noel’s now…
Kept rock on the map? When exactly was that? Sure wasn’t the early to mid 90’s. He was annihilated by numerous singers/vocalists during that time. Oasis is right there with Blur, but they aren’t on the level of Radiohead, Tool, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains…
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Depends where you are. In the UK and Europe, Oasis were huge around 1995-98 and far bigger than all of those other acts you mention.
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Big Al
I attended Oasis’ final U.K. show at Wembley Stadium: beer, cocaine and sheer madness. Utterly wasted and mad for it.
Second-hand embarrassment reading that. Reads like satire.
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quietbeatle
Liam Gallagher is the last rock star. He gave no @#$%& and never pandered to the audience or to the press. He too had a rough upbringing but didn't choose to coward it away with heroin. He has a very English/Irish sense of humor that Lanegan and Neil Young probably just didn't understand and took it as slagging them off. His voice and swagger and stage presence are unique and they made the 90's an epic time for many. Obviously many here do not know anything about him or Oasis I submit you watch the documentary SUPERSONIC I guarantee it will change your perception.
Nah. Some people just suck as human beings, and Liam is one of them. Many despicable people have talents, that doesn’t make them any less disgusting. He has coward written all over him. These 90’s singers impacted me (Liam is nowhere near these guys, for me): Cornell, Staley, Vedder, Cobain, Keenan, Farrell, Yorke, Corgan, Kiedis, Hoon…
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"The tour was fraught with tension, mainly between myself and Oasis’s ignorant, loud-mouthed, and obnoxious lead singer, Liam Gallagher. This clown had accidentally stumbled into the high life, courtesy of his talented older brother, Noel Gallagher. The limelight of popularity Liam basked in had evidently uncaged a monster, one without teeth or claws, but a small, irritating monster nonetheless. Success looked to have unleashed his inherent narcissism, his look-at-me-ism, his transparent deep-rooted insecurity. I couldn’t believe someone hadn’t beaten, knifed, or shot him to death by now, such was the reckless, witless, and despotic nature of his insufferable facade. Where I was from, a person wouldn’t last a week behaving as he did. I had never encountered anyone with a larger head or tinier balls. Liam Gallagher was an obvious poser, a would-be playground bully. Like all bullies, he was also a total pussy. Always with the big @#$%& mouth as long as he was safely wrapped in the wet-nurse security blanket of the company of the two tall, rotund dudes paid to protect him, and, I assumed, suffer his endless stream of bullshit. This arrogant, spoiled, wounded baby Gallagher was so full of himself that I could not put anything past him. He was so rude to Neil (Young) I wanted to punch him out. It was one thing to be a prick to me, but how dare that son of a bitch be rude to Neil? This made my hatred grow to epic proportions and gave me all the more reason and resolve to kick Liam’s @#$%& ass."
A little excerpt from the whole chapter devoted to Liam Gallagher in Mark Lanegan's memoirs.
Mark Lanegan? I’m aware of him, but he’s somewhat unknown in the U.K. Liam and Oasis were household names in the U.K. during the 90’s. Their personality and music are part of my childhood. Great memories. I attended Oasis’ final U.K. show at Wembley Stadium: beer, cocaine and sheer madness. Utterly wasted and mad for it. Liam and Oasis weren’t too bad, either. Cheers
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quietbeatle
Liam Gallagher is the last rock star. He gave no @#$%& and never pandered to the audience or to the press. He too had a rough upbringing but didn't choose to coward it away with heroin. He has a very English/Irish sense of humor that Lanegan and Neil Young probably just didn't understand and took it as slagging them off. His voice and swagger and stage presence are unique and they made the 90's an epic time for many. Obviously many here do not know anything about him or Oasis I submit you watch the documentary SUPERSONIC I guarantee it will change your perception.
Agree completely. Liam kept rock n roll on the map simply with his voice at a time when rock n roll needed help. His solo albums have become more interesting than Noel’s now…
Kept rock on the map? When exactly was that? Sure wasn’t the early to mid 90’s. He was annihilated by numerous singers/vocalists during that time. Oasis is right there with Blur, but they aren’t on the level of Radiohead, Tool, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains…
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Last saw Liam in late 2019 when he opened for The Who in Vancouver. Decent performance, was complimentary to the crowd. Obviously he's mellowed over the years and is now married.
A great,funny interview on Youtube from 2 years ago is from Vogue magazine 73 questions.
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RisingStone
As depicted in the Supersonic documentary, Oasis’ popularity in Japan was huge. They toured there eleven times 1994-2009, including headlining appearances at the Fuji Rock Festival 2001 and 2009 (the latter their last ever show in Japan) as well as the Summer Sonic festival 2005.
I enjoyed the shows, admittedly — saw them nine times between 1994 and 2009, including their first and last Osaka shows, the former at the Club Quattro (capacity: 650) and the latter the INTEX Osaka (capacity: 13,000).
On the other hand, I can’t get over the idea that they became popular because they filled the void that there was, the megastars that didn’t exist then and the general public wanted, rather than solely by their musical talent or performance prowess. In terms of these points, claiming that they rival a string of the great British musicians who preceded them, namely The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Jimi was American but the Experience was an English group formed in London), Led Zeppelin, Queen et al, is absurd to me.
Liam Gallagher — and to some degree, Axl Rose — is a rock star who came late, when debaucheries and excesses attached to them have long become clichés and self-parodies.