![]() I’ve taken the guitar on four or five world tours and beat the living daylights out of it, but it still sounds and plays incredible. I got the 355 a while back for 4,000 pounds, and it’s the best 4,000 pounds I’ve ever spent. Johnny Marr no less picked it up in the studio, then looked like a startled wizard because of how great the guitar is. It can do anything, and it’s become a part of me. My 1960 ES-355 is the greatest guitar I’ve ever played. ![]() I’ve got two or three, and some ES-345s, too. "Talk about your affinity for the Gibson ES-355. Later in the interview he confirms it is a 1960s model, saying, "Usually, I just pick my 1960's Gibson 355 – that's the basis for everything."Īccording to Premier Guitar interview, he talks about this guitar a little bit more. In an interview from November 2011, when asked what he brings on the road when touring for High Flying Birds, he says, ".the guitars I bring on tour are either 355s or 345s. His 355 is fitted with a Bigsby, and appears to have a six-position Varitone switch near the tone and volume knobs (this could indicate the model is the ES-355TD-SV, which was released in 1959). In this photo, Noel Gallagher is pictured with his Gibson ES-355 Electric Guitar while performing live. (Main image by Jason Rhodes, Noel in Monnow Valley Studios recording Definitely Maybe, 1994.) ![]() In 1994 Noel gifted this guitar to a very close friend of his. There is a great photo of Noel demoing Shaker Maker and you can clearly see him using this Epiphone Les Paul. Michael Spencer Jones took some stunning photo’s of Noel in the studio recording Definitely Maybe back in 1993 in Out of The Blue studios. This guitar can also be seen on the cover of the Supersonic single, in front of the piano Noel is sitting on. This was pretty much the last time Noel used this Epiphone, Johnny Marr is quoted as saying that after seeing Noel playing live and spending so long retuning the guitar after each song he felt he had to help Noel out and decided to loan Noel one of his Gibson Les Paul’s, one of many guitar’s Johnny loaned Noel. It used a few different guitars to record this album. Noel also used this Epiphone Les Paul to record Oasis’ first album Definitely Maybe. Noel’s Epiphone Les Paul can also be seen in Oasis’ first official music video Supersonic. ![]() I looked around the cramped space and Noel proudly showed me his two most valuable possessions an Epiphone guitar and a large fish tank.” Link to book: I knocked on his door and when he let me in I was introduced to a young kid sitting on a couch with an amazing haircut - super short at the front and long at the sides - and who was flanked by two pretty young girls who were enthralled by him and his hair that they did not seem to notice anyone entering the tiny flat. Johnny Marr mentions one of Noel’s Epiphone guitar’s (possibly this Epiphone Les Paul) in his autobiography Set The Boy Free “Noel, as well as most of Manchester’s bohemian aspirants, was living in an apartment black called India House. Noel used this in most of Oasis’s live gigs up to mid 1994, after that he started using the guitars Johnny Marr loaned him. Epiphone guitars where all he could afford at that time. He can ben seen using this guitar in pretty much all the footage and images from 92 to 94. This was Noel’s main electric guitar from 1992 to 1994. It can be seen being used by Noel during the Oasis rehearsels in the Boardwalk, 1992. Noel Gallagher’s Epiphone Les Paul was used in the early days of Oasis.
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