Noel Gallagher thinks there are benefits to him not being a guitar virtuoso.
In a new video for Gibson, taken from the Oasis guitarist’s Icons interview last year, he considers the impact of widely-available YouTube guitar tutorials and the rise of internet virtuosos. He acknowledges the fact that he wouldn’t have had access to anything of that as he got into making music, but if he had gone down that route, Oasis wouldn’t have been what they were.
“There’s tons out there for people to be great. But I think what’s more prevalent now is you fucking see really great guitarists – there are shows on YouTube with guys signed from rooms like they were born in Nashville, do you know what I mean? All that stuff,” Gallagher says.
“And my lad will say ‘You can’t play guitar like that,’ and I’m like ‘Thank …