Oasis is, without a doubt, one of the biggest and certainly the best bands in the known world. However, it wasn't always that way. No no no. Come back with me to a time when the word "oasis" meant a bunch of palm trees and a pond in the middle of a desert(read: this is where i'm going to write down a bunch of tidbits i've heard about oasis in some semblance of a story. It's probably not 100% true, but it's what i've pieced together. Mostly from sugar packets. Enjoy!).

Well, a long time ago, a 16 year old lad from Manchester, England, was walking through the halls of his school. He was on his way to a certain classroom in which he knew a certain person was studying. This was his last day of school because he was dropping out, or something. Anyway, when he got to the classroom, he saw the person he had been searching for. It was some lout student that had been giving him some major stress recently. In his hand was a homemade flour bomb. He had been intending on throwing it at the guy who he was going to throw it at. In fact, that's just what he did. Except, the target ducked, and the "bomb" hit the teacher standing behind him instead. The adolecent Noel Gallagher was rushed to the principles office where he was informed that his permanant record would show that he had been expelled, quite dishonorably.

Now, let's jump ahead a couple of years to see a slightly older Noel at a concert. He was talking to some guy that was standing next to him. It turned out that this guy was one of the members(or hangers-on. i don't know for sure)of a group called the Inspiral Carpets. Since Noel and the gent had gotten along with each other quite well(and the fact that Noel knew how to play a guitar)Noel was assigned as a roadie of the group. As such, he went wherever they did. Tuning a guitar here, buying a replacement drumstick there, until he decided that he had had enough with them and wanted his own band. So......he went back home.

Back home, his younger brother Liam had a band of his own. It was called Oasis. The rest of the band was: Tony McCarrol on drums, Paul McGuigan on bass, and Paul Arthurs(a.k.a. Bonehead) on guitar. Noel wanted to listen to their band to see if it was any good. Well....it wasn't. In fact, it was bloody awful! Noel said that if he wrote some songs for them and if they backed him 100%, they would be on top of the heap in one year. Well, Liam and Co. weren't too sure about that so they had Noel play a song for them to prove that he was worth something. He obliged by playing a song he had just written called "Live Forever". Well, they loved it, and Noel joined(and took over) the band.

In case you're wondering about where they were a year from then, let me appease you by saying that they were on top of......nothing. Sure, they had played some gigs, to no avail. Then one day, their luck changed. They had just arrived at a club called King Tut's Wah-Wah Hut when they heard that a big shot in the music biz named Alan McGee was there listening to some music because a train he was supposed to take was delayed. They knew that they couldn't miss an opportunity like this so they asked the manager of the "Hut" if they could play some songs. The manager said "No." So, they re-phrased the question. They said something to the effect of," O.k. how 'bout this? If you don't let us play here and now, we'll trash your place and then burn it down." Well, apparently it was a convincing argument because the manager then let them play. Mr. McGee heard their tunes and really, really liked it. He signed them there and then(that is, after they finished playing).

Well, the rest is Oasis history. To summarize(or Reader's Digest-ize) they put out their fisrt album, Definitely Maybe, it sold very well(over 2 million copies); fired their drummer Tony, and replaced him with Alan White; put out another album a year later, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, and it sold extrememly well(over 15 million copies) and that's about it. They put on a concert shortly after the release of Morning Glory(The concert known as Knebworth) and it had a record-breaking 250,000 people in attendance. Their next album is due at the end of the Summer of '97 and is tentatively titled "Be Here Now". Will it be their last one? I don't know! Why are you asking me? Will it be great? Definitely(no maybes)!

And that's it. See ya tommorrow.