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good. He says, "I totally disagree. They never made good records. There was never a band worth a shit from Manchester." And plus he was really drunk. You could barely understand him and he was so negative about everything. I just thought, "Wow, that's pretty cool. I like this guy's attitude." As soon as the interview was over, I went back and listened to the record, because I was like, "Wow, that was amazing!" It was just twenty minutes of some drunken psychotic person screaming about how every band sucks and his band's the only one worth a damn. So with that in mind I listened to the record and it blew me away. For some reason, having this personal encounter with him where I really sensed he was the real thing - I noticed a lot of things. For instance, the singer's got the most impeccable timing since Frank Sinatra or Johnny Rotten. He's just an amazing singer. Liam Gallagher could sing anything and make it sound good, and Noel Gallagher writes great songs. And then the band came to town, Oasis came to town and I went backstage to meet them and they were totally rude to me. I met them at soundcheck. And then that night they did a show that just completely blew me away. It's a big swirl of sheets of guitar and all these chaotic sounds all around, and then right in the middle of that is the control of the songwriter and the singer — they bring chaos to order. On every song they bring chaos to order. To me that is what an artist does. Whether it's a writer or a painter or anybody, they take whatever chaos is in their mind and they bring it to order on a square or a three-minute pop song or on a piece of paper. That's what art is. And that's what they were doing. It was just phenomenal to me that they had all this stuff going on and they hit me on so many different levels. I think it does suck that they got so popular and now they're newsmakers every other day — they're breaking up, they're not breaking up, he's on drugs, he's off drugs, he's with this girl, he's with that girl, they've turned into this kind of ridiculous kind of Hard Copy band. But still, musically, like last night at 3 am I had my headphones on and I was listening to What's the Story, Morning Glory? anad I was remembering how when they played that song at the Austin Music Hall, it was one of the highlights of my life. It just filled me up with so much pure love for everything that was going on. It was really like a drug. It was like Ecstasy or something when they played. When they're there, when they're playing, forget about the stuff that goes on offstage. They're just gorgeous, they're beautiful. I love them. Although

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