Damon's girlfriend's band also put out some seriously great music:
-Eric
Posted on 11/21/2006 1:42:53 PM PST by MizSterious
Stop crying your heart out, Oasis singer tells British troops in Iraq
Tue Nov 21, 8:22 AM ET
Noel Gallagher of the British rock band Oasis has told soldiers fighting in Iraq to stop complaining when they get wounded.
The chief songwriter and lead guitarist said Tuesday troops loved getting involved in war-zone action until they get hurt.
In a wide-ranging rant, the fired-up 39-year-old also turned his guns on British Prime Minister Tony Blair, environmentalists, Elton John, his brother Liam -- the lead singer in the band -- and predicted his own daughter would become a "mental, axe-wielding, cyber-punk lunatic".
"Blair made an almighty cock-up going to war in Iraq," Gallagher told The Sun newspaper.
"You get a million people walking through Hyde Park -- 'don't send the troops' and all that.
"The troops want to go, all they want to do is fight! They're soldiers. They're loving it, until they get shot -- then they're claiming compensation.
"If you're bothered about getting shot -- here's a thing -- don't join the army."
The seething rocker, whose hits include "Don't Look Back in Anger" and "Stop Crying Your Heart Out", blasted celebrities who "lock themselves off from humanity".
"If I run out of milk, I go to the supermarket and I queue up like everybody else. Can you imagine Elton John queuing up to buy milk?," he asked.
"These stars like Robbie Williams and Elton and all the rest of that lot -- what are they afraid of? Are they afraid somebody might actually say hello to them?"
He also slammed the growing environmentally-conscious fad sweeping Britain, insisting green campaigners were "hippies with no place in the world".
"How do you suggest we get millions of Chinese not to have a fridge? Or get millions of Americans to stop using their big, stupid cars?".
The surly Gallagher brothers are famed for their bitter sibling rivalry, and Noel put the boot into Liam once again, saying he had a "split personality".
"The problem with our relationship is that he doesn't like me. I can accept that," he said.
"I don't actively go out of my way to antagonise him. He does actively go out of his way to antagonise me.
"It's very difficult to deal with someone who thinks he's the centre of the universe one minute and and the next minute everybody's out to get him."
Oasis burst onto the music scene in 1994 with their debut album "Definitely Maybe". The follow-up, "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?", became Britain's third biggest selling album of all-time.
"Stop The Clocks", their greatest hits album containing 18 tunes, was released Monday.
I don't think this fellow deserves to have his opinions get the attention that they have.
He also slammed the growing environmentally-conscious fad sweeping Britain, insisting green campaigners were "hippies with no place in the world". "How do you suggest we get millions of Chinese not to have a fridge? Or get millions of Americans to stop using their big, stupid cars?".Good thing no one in Britain drives a Rolls Royce, rides in a limo, or owns a Land Rover, eh? ;') At least he dissed the greenie jackoffs, and Reg Dwight.
Must've run into one too many champagne super-novas to throw down crap like that.
Thank goodness I live in a free market, non-socialist country where you don't have to "queue up" to buy milk.
I've been out of the loop for a while. When did Oasis get back together? I remember them breaking up in 1996, over a silly dispute between the two brothers in the band. At the time, I compared Oasis with Lynyrd Skynyrd, which was wiped out in a 1978 plane crash, but still manages to do a concert tour every year.
LOL! Well, depending on which grocery market I'm shopping at, there can be a line. Where do you shop? I wouldn't mind finding a grocery market that had no waiting for checkout. ;)
It's like saying one cannot complain about bad service in a posh restaurant. After all, one had to make the reservation, go to the place, enter it, order from the menu, eat, etc. To gripe about the attitude and competence of the waiter would just be wrong.
This DUMAS has no clue about the servicemen. Apparently, you share his lack of understanding.
NOTE: I do not mean to insult you, and will readily apologize if I have. I just do not think you know or understand what motivates soldiers in today's volunteer armies.
"Can we not agree that Oasis is the best band of all time? Can we not agree on this?" - W. Ferrell
I think the brother quoted here (although I'm not in the loop anyway) is the lead guitarist for the band, the one shown holding an award somewhere in this thread, and therefore, the one who basically runs the band. I've seen them play on Letterman, and maybe SNL as a rerun, and on some kind of "Behind the Music" type program. And that's it. (':
Damon's girlfriend's band also put out some seriously great music:
-Eric
Yeah, I'm sure Noel Gallagher, lead singer of Oasis, is also an expert on veterans' affairs for the British Army.
You're so right to take his word for it.
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