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...It was a "deal" closed in no time... I remember this summer with the usual scorching heat, trips to the countryside with my peers, beers drunk in the mild and pleasant evenings... then the classic tuna and mayonnaise sandwich around 1:30 in the morning, with the bar owner who would always look at us sideways for our unusual hours... who knows what he thought, "ah... today's youth"... Not to be nostalgic, but now I recall those rare moments with sadness... and if I do, it's also and above all thanks to a record, an Oasis record, a band I never loved madly, but nevertheless, I like very much...
Well... I remember that during one of these evening hangouts, a guy I had never seen before (a classic metalhead averse to anything other than metal), a friend of a friend of mine (pardon the wordplay), was at our table and while talking about girls, sex, and experiences (most of them obviously BS, but he thought we didn't realize it), he also started talking about music... So among the usual "macho music" like Manowar, Metallica, and others, he said words that were music to my ears (I was in my full brit pop period): "... damn... someone gave me a shitty CD... it's by Oasis... bah! I don't know who would ever like such trash..." Between one beer and another, I managed to get a bit of acquaintance with him and the next evening he brought me a burned CD in a plastic bag... saying with a disgusted air, "Here... I'd feel like a con artist selling it to you... it's so bad..."
The next morning I woke up and put "Live In Glastonbury" on my player... I immediately recognized the scratchy guitars of "Rock and Roll Star", my legs started moving, and I found myself singing the lyrics and doing a sort of air guitar in the middle of the room, which suddenly became a stage... the songs follow one another, all with more or less the same feel... Oasis concert-like, let's say, Liam's voice even more nonchalant and worse than usual, classic guitar inaccuracies from brother Noel... and yet... and yet it is impossible to resist all this, you can't help but scream out of tune "Wonderwall", "Champagne Supernova", "Live Forever" or the very out-of-tune, yet at the same time poignant "Stop Crying your Heart". Tell me if you can avoid pretending to pick up a guitar and strum the strings on the loud "Bring it on Down", "Columbia", "Cigarettes and Alcohol", in addition to the already mentioned "Rock and Roll Star"... It's impossible to stay still while listening to this bootleg...
And who cares if at times Liam is almost hoarse, or if sometimes you think that good old Noel Gallagher forgot to tune the guitar before the concert, or if the much-loved psychedelic improvisation parts are missing...
In cases like these, the important thing is that there is music... And there's plenty of it...
TRACKLIST
- Rock and Roll Star
- Bring it on Down
- Supersonic
- Morning Glory
- Columbia
- Stop Crying your Heart
- Little by Little
- Cigarettes and Alcohol
- Live Forever
- Acquiescence
- Champagne Supernova
- Songbird
- Wonderwall
- Don't Look Back in Anger
- My Generation (cover of The Who)
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