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Orange OR-120 Overdrive Noel Gallagher
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They played American guitars, but the Oasis lads have always stood by British amplification. Noel Gallagher has created most of his sounds, live or studio, on the three brands from his home country: Vox, Marshall (a JCM900 in the nineties) and Orange.
This big OR-120 head is a rarity in itself, since it’s one of the very few amps made by Orange in the nineties, back when Gibson had licenced the brand. Gibson wanted to keep a British production, so they called upon Matamp, the historic builder of the very first Orange amps, infamous for their huge and very powerful sound. Faithful to that reputation, the Gibson reissues, which were only made from 1994 to 1997, are true monsters. It is virtually impossible to stand in front of the oversized 4x12 when the master volume is dimed.
This beautiful stack used to belong to Noel Gallagher. He used it on his band’s first albums, which went a long way towards putting the Orange brand back on track. Gallagher himself was consulted to help with the first new models when Cliff Cooper took back his band in the late nineties. This OR-120 can easily be spotted in the video for “Stop Crying Your Heart Out”, the second single off the 2002 album Heathen Chemistry, a proof that this good old Orange has remained among his owner’s favorites for a long time.
Noel Gallagher
(1967)
Group : Oasis
Main guitar : Epiphone Sheraton
An absolute “must-hear” track : Supersonic
It is easy to forget when an excellent band Oasis was, since their music was often overshadowed by their frequent indiscretions and the media coverage of them. And yet, the boys from Manchester wrote some of the most beautiful songs of the 1990s, truly building the soundtrack for a decade in need of idols.
From Supersonic in 1994 to Falling Down in 2009, Oasis sold 75 million albums and topped the charts with eight singles. Of course, their music is deeply inspired by the Beatles of 1966, whose visual style and production approach they replicated. But they took that sound and brought it to their decade, updating it with songs that would probably not have been out of place on Revolver, such as Wonderwall or All Around The World.
As everyone knows, the band was led by the Gallagher brothers, Liam on vocals and Noel on guitar, even if on occasion Noel sings with his very endearing sound, such as on Don’t Look Back In Anger. Like the Kinks before them, the Gallagher brothers failed to keep their family quarrels outside the professional sphere and the group eventually exploded under the weight of them.
Since then, Noel has started his band High Flying Birds with an excellent eponymous first album in 2011, proof that the guitarist still has things to say artistically. He is still touring with that band, which is now on its third album, Who Built The Moon (2017). In terms of his guitar playing, Noel has not changed and remains faithful to the instruments he loved when he played in Oasis: he was firmly associated with an Epiphone Sheraton (the Epiphone version of the ES-335), and has played extensively on several semi-hollows in the same style, including a superb Cherry Red ES-355 and Epiphone Casino. He is also a fan of Les Pauls, in sunburst or other colours, and his favourite acoustic is of course the J-200, an instrument that remains associated with him to this day.
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