25 years ago Oasis released their debut album 'Definitely Maybe.' To be exact on the 29th of August, 1994. Prior to this they had released three singles, all in 1994, Supersonic, Shakermaker and Live Forever, which was the first to break into the top ten of the UK singles chart.
With the music press on board from the beginning, significantly the NME, who had interviewed them in April, just a week before the release of debut single, Supersonic. The band along with rivals Suede and Blur re-ignited a revival of interest in British guitar-based groups, after the dominance of US bands in the early 90's.
This show highlights a blistering performance taken from their first US tour, just before Tony McCarroll left the band. As was usual for Oasis it was a tour that would not run smoothly, Noel stormed off the tour in California forcing the cancellation of dates in Austin, Kansas, Dallas and Missouri. He finally re-joined the band in Las Vegas and after the show in Los Angeles, Ringo Starr declared that he was "Well impressed".
This is a perfect live complement of how the band sounded on their ascent to world-wide fame. The complete debut album track-list is performed live, less than two months after its release.
Some classic brotherly rivalry is evident as Liam says “This one’s called Up In The Sky!” and Noel retorts “No it’s not, it’s called Bring It On Down!”
‘Definitely Maybe' frequently appears in high placings, on the many listings of greatest ever debut releases, which music magazines and web sites are fond of publishing.
The band:
Noel Gallagher - Guitar, Vocals
Liam Gallagher - Vocals, Tambourine
Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs - Guitar
Paul 'Guigsy' McGuigan - Bass
Tony McCarroll - Drums
Original notes
Oasis
The Cabaret Metro
Chicago, Illinois, USA
October 15, 1994
SBD / Audio courtesy of JBTV / ESK 6805
Source: Label Promo > EAC v0.95 beta04 > WAV > mkwACT v0.97b1 > shn > River Past Audio Converter Pro 7.7.1 > FLAC
01 Rock 'n' Roll Star
02 Columbia
03 Fade Away
04 Digsy's Dinner
05 Shakermaker
06 Live Forever
07 Bring it on Down
08 Up in the Sky
09 Slide Away
10 Cigarettes & Alcohol
11 Married with Children
12 Supersonic
13 I Am the Walrus
Notes:
This is from an 'Oasis Live' promo disc that we received here at the radio station in probably late '94 or '95, show is also on boots called 'Ode to the Walrus' , 'Supersonic' and 'Climbing The Sky'. It's excellent sound from a promo sent from Sony. Included are scans of the CD itself. By all accounts it's a complete show
alternative artwork
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Thanks a lot!!!
ReplyDeleteNick
If it isn't included in the archive and right click is disabled how do people obtain the artwork?
ReplyDeleteIf you're using Chrome, you can click and drag the artwork into a new tab, then you can save it from there.
DeleteThe artwork wasn't originally included when I first acquired this. I located it and added a track list and provided some alternate work. But yes you are correct, because someone copied the blog and passed it off as their own I protected the art from being lifted off the blog something I had forgotten about.
ReplyDeleteIf you type Oasis 100 greatest bootlegs in the Google search engine and select images, you will see the artwork just click on it, choosing image and save as
I'd forgotten you had had that problem! Here's what I found after asking the question...
DeleteIt's actually easier to obtain the artwork by right clicking and hitting OK on the 'Function Disabled' dialogue. Right click again, check the 'prevent this page from creating additional dialogues' and hit OK. The page will then behave as normal. (I'm using Firefox 29b).
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ReplyDeleteIf right click is disabled, just turn off the java script...
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