As an avid Manchester City Football Club supporter, Noel Gallagher was asked by Coleen Rooney, wife of Manchester United star footballer Wayne Rooney to sign a guitar for her husbands 22nd birthday. As Noel explains n the video below,heand Oasis guitarist Gem Archer took pride in repainting the £2,000 tiger flame, cherry sunburst Gibson Les Paul Classic. They had the guitar painted in sky blue paint and wrote out the chorus of Manchester City anthem Blue Moon. Noel then wrote “Happy Birthday Spongebob” signed Noel Gallagher.
Wayne was asked about the guitar prank…
Is it true Noel Gallagher sent you a guitar for your birthday?
Wayne: Yeah, he did. Colleen asked him. I’m a big fan of Oasis, she bought the guitar and then sent it to them to sign for my birthday. I was happy with the guitar he gave me but a bit disappointed with his comments afterwards. He said I gave it away to charity but I’ve still got it in the house.
It’s the second time Noel has wound up a United player. He signed a guitar for Gary Neville with the message “Happy birthday, knobhead”.
Gary Neville on being given a guitar by Noel Gallagher said, “Yes, it is true. What he didn’t realise was that he’s given me the most valuable piece of memorabilia I have in my household for my kids to sell when I leave this earth.”
Here’s a radio clip of Noel with Russell Brand talking about the Wayne Rooney guitar and how Wayne got back at him by beating Man City with a goal and sending Noel an autographed photo of him scoring the goal. Noel then sent the photo back with a sticker of Spongebob on Wayne’s face. Classic…
Always shocked that most people do not know that the background lyrics for “Should I Stay Or Should I Go?” by The Clash are in Spanish. This youtube clip has all the lyrics subtitled in Spanish including the background lyrics…Check it out…
The Spanish backing vocals are courtesy of Joe Strummer:
“On the spur of the moment I said ‘I’m going to do the backing vocals in Spanish,’…We needed a translator so Eddie Garcia, the tape operator, called his mother in Brooklyn Heights and read her the lyrics over the phone and she translated them. But Eddie and his mum are Ecuadorian, so it’s Ecuadorian Spanish that me and Joe Ely are singing on the backing vocals.”
This video shows Kurt Cobain backstage after Nirvana’s now classic performance at the Reading Festival in 1992. Kurt is asked by a father to sign an autograph for his sick kid so Kurt takes the time to sign the autograph and meet the kid.
The Foo Fighters album “There Is Nothing Left To Lose” was re-released in 2001 in Australia as a two-CD edition. This edition has this picture of the Australian swimmer Michael Klim on the front, wearing a temporary “FF” tattoo on his arm instead of the normal version of the back of Dave Grohl’s neck with his permanent tattoo.
Dave discusses how the alternate cover came about at around the 8:00 mark in this interview from 2002. Check it out…
During Them Crooked Vultures shows John Paul Jones pulls out this Lap Steel Bass Guitar when they play “No One Loves Me & Neither Do I.” It was custom made by Hugh Manson of Manson Guitars. Manson is one of the UK’s most well-respected electric guitar makers and has also been the Led Zeppelin legend’s personal technician since the mid 1990s.
It’s called a Manson Lapaphone. Its is an 8 string instrument (4 + 4x 1+ octave) the Kaoss screen is a XY midi controller, no internal effects are in the guitar. It also has a Fernades Sustainer single coil pickup and 3 octave range on the fretboard. Check out John Paul Jones using it live…
Manson was quoted as saying “Yes I did make this instrument and in fact all that JPJ uses on the Vultures tour. It is an 8 string Bass lap steel with a midi control screen on it which will control any thing with a “midi in”. This is similar to the guitars I make for Matt Bellamy (Muse). It also has a sustainer pickup on it and a hipshot bridge tuning system that enables 3 different open tunings by moving levers.”
Feelnumb.com is really looking for a photo and location of this freeway sign that Kurt Cobain took the time to get boosted by Krist Novoselic to take this classic photo. It’s in Washington State somewhere.
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Oasis‘ Noel Gallagher always uses country western looking guitar strap made by El Dorado Guitar Straps. Here’s the info on them…
The straps are individually crafted by skilled artisans at El Dorado Guitar Straps. Noel usually uses the “Original Model” (1 1/2 inch width) in acorn & oakleaf pattern.
On the their site the straps cost $165.00, click the link above to check them out.
