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August 2002, Pompano Beach Amphitheater, <\/strong>Pompano Beach, Fla.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a famous, or infamous, show \u2014 depending on who you ask \u2014 but fitting for Oasis. This is a band used to selling out 80,000-seat arenas \u2014 had back-to-back gigs in front of 500,000 people \u2014 and here they were in Pompano Beach, playing to less than 3,000 (and seats were available). It didn\u2019t help the friction between the Gallagher brothers was never worse.<\/p>\n

I expected something crazy to happen. Something crazy did.<\/p>\n

I was with my wife and my sister (who I think brought a date), and we had great seats. Actually anywhere you sat at the amphitheater was good seating, and there was no monitoring of who was sitting where, so people moved on up. With no opening act, the boys strolled on stage as the sun was still up and Liam broke into \u201cHello\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHello\u201d then broke Liam\u2019s voice, a tiny bit, at first. I had a friend from England who was there that night and taped the performance (which I have), and you can hear his voice fraying from the start. I looked over at Kristen with a concerned look: Is this a one-song show? Liam worked through it, and was fine through \u201cThe Hindu Times\u201d and \u201cHung in a Bad Place\u201d.<\/p>\n

But \u201cGo Let It Out\u201d was the end. Liam\u2019s voice made a terrible crack early in the song, he yelled \u201cfuck it\u201d into the mic, tossed it up in the air and walked off stage right. Noel was pissed, the band stopped. Noel walked off stage, came back, and for the first time in his career, sang lead vocals for \u201cMorning Glory\u201d and \u201cStop Crying Your Heart Out\u201d. After \u201cLittle By Little,\u201d the band put down their instruments and walked off.<\/p>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thinking that\u2019s it, and as pissed as I was that I waited years to see Oasis only to have them play six songs, I also found the whole thing quite epic. Our lives are stories, and this was a good one.<\/p>\n

But then Noel walked out, apologized, and proceeded through an eight-song acoustic set which floored the audience. If there is ever a choice between who is the better Gallagher brother, it will always, ALWAYS be Noel. He played songs from The Masterplan<\/em>, including \u201cThe Masterplan,\u201d \u201cHalf the World Away\u201d and \u201cTalk Tonight\u201d. He sang \u201cLive Forever,\u201d and in a grand gesture, did \u201cWonderwall\u201d. \u201cI don\u2019t ever play this song,\u201d he said before strumming the familiar refrain.<\/p>\n

He walked off and returned with the full band, which no doubt adjusted the set as if there was no Liam. The band rumbled through \u201cShe\u2019s Electric,\u201d \u201cAcquiesce,\u201d \u201cForce of Nature\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Look Back in Anger\u201d (of which I\u2019m sure Noel was) before covering Neil Young\u2019s \u201cHey Hey, My My\u201d to end the show. People wanted an encore, but what they got was a piece of Oasis lore.<\/p>\n

In the days following I read through the Oasis fan walls, and people were pissed they weren\u2019t there. Some of the people that were there were pissed Liam didn\u2019t perform. In the one to 10 scale of Oasis outrage, it was a 10.<\/p>\n

Turns out two nights later Liam was back on stage, leading the band in Orlando for a full set.<\/p>\n

What a dick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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