VERY early Oasis - you won't recognize these songs - from late 1991 and early 1992

[highplainsdem]

Actually, the snippet of Columbia you'll hear on the second video below was the purely instrumental start of what became that song on their first album, released more than 2 years later. From what I read, a friend of theirs - Chris Griffiths of the Liverpool band the Real People; the Real People helped Oasis record demos in their studio in early 1993 - came up with the melody and first verse. Then Liam came up with the chorus. Then Noel came up with the second verse...and later took all the credit for the song.

The first video below, audio recorded in late 1991, was recorded after Noel joined the band, basically announcing he was taking over. But the three songs on that tape were all written by Liam (words) and Paul aka Bonehead Arthurs (music). Tracklisting:
00:00 01 - Alice
03:00 02 - Reminisce
06:16 03 - Take Me

The second video is audio of the band's second gig, in mid-January 1992, with these songs:

**Columbia (excerpt) (first known performance) [cut] - 0:00
*Take Me (only known performance) - 0:50
**Must Be The Music (only known performance) - 4:37
*Life In Vain (only known performance) - 8:35
**I Will Show You (only known performance) - 11:23
***Better Let You Know (only known performance) - 15:19
Feedback - 19:48

* Written by Liam and Bonehead
** Written by Noel
*** Cover of a song by Cartouche

You'll probably hear - most Oasis fans hear - a lot of Stone Roses influence here, with Liam trying to sing like Ian Brown.

And after these videos there's an interview Noel did many years later, explaining how it didn't occur to him till a couple of nights before their first gig that he'd never played guitar standing up, and didn't even own a guitar strap...