The best stories are the ones you couldn’t make up. Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher rising from poverty to become rock and roll gods is just too good. The Mancunian duo along with their childhood friends grew up to form arguably the most overrated or underrated British band since the Rolling Stones.

Oasis owned the nineties in Europe, they moved into the villa that Kurt Colbain left behind after he passed. Their 1994 album, “Definitely Maybe”, often considered the best rock debut ever, is a testament to all that is great about rock guitar, and the follow up, “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory” tells you how great a songwriter Noel Gallagher is.

All of that being ancient history, let’s fast-forward. Paris. 2009. Minutes before thousands of people were waiting for the band to headline a major festival, Liam is swinging a fifty-thousand-dollar guitar at Noel, Paul Bunyan style. Certainly not the first time such an obsurdity happened between the brothers, but Noel quit the band that night.

As an Oasis fan who saw them on that final tour, you can look at this in two ways, I chose the high road: Now they get to compete with solo careers. Liam Gallagher’s new band, Beady Eye, released an album last year and toured worldwide with much appeal, and staying within his role of, “European-Frontman” he also launched a clothing line.

Noel, the constant songwriter, stayed out of the press as much as he could until he formed Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, a mangy group of touring musicians with talent to lose. They rolled into the LC Thursday to deliver a set of unimaginable happiness to all the Oasis fans in Columbus, how nice of them.

There is a notion that he may have intentionally been trying to outshine his brother on the world stage musically, and he did, for better or worse. Avid Oasis fans that stalk him on youtube may have been dissapointed that his setlist tonight was not radically different from that of his European tour, but this is a very difficult point to complain about.

Upon attending a Noel Gallagher show, you really get the sense of Oasis’ worldwide appeal. Accents from far reaching parts of the world fill the space of the normal pre-show buzz, and if you are looking for an intimate concert experience from a big-name act, there isn’t a better place to see a show than the LC.

In addition to the great atmosphere, the sing-along nature of his music is electric. There is a sense of community created when the sound of the crowd singing is loud enough to overpower the million-dollar sound system of the venue, a feeling exemplified by Noel neglecting to sing the last chorus of, “Don’t Look Back in Anger” as he often does.

Everything that is Rock’n’Roll is Noel Gallagher. This guy is as old-school as they come, he knows he could play louder, but he also knows his age. He’s still not afraid of using, how do you say? The Fuck Word. He dropped it a dozen times during the show, making reference to some of the members of the audience who had imbibed a few ales. There is no doubt he would have lived a perfectly lucrative life in stand up comedy.

I’m sorry for you if you missed it, because it was a special night. Noel Gallagher holding what might as well of been a dorm room in the palm of his hand, the crowd really responded to the acoustic version of, “Supersonic” from the fist album. That boyfriend you had in college that played guitar and made your heart.beat.fast… he was channeling Noel Gallagher.

If you’re still in school, I have drunken experiment for you to try: pick a 3-song Oasis playlist after midnight, and no matter what drug people are on, they will be singing sloppily and swinging arm over shoulder. We used to do, “Wonderwall” -> “Live Forever” -> “Champagne Supernova.”

Noel is responsible for many young people picking up an instrument and learning it as an amateur, myself included. His simplistic musical style brings everyone to the table, and nobody leaves hungry. He rises to another level in his ability to tell a universal story that anyone can relate to. I’ll be seeing him again in Detroit in a few hours, looking forward to the music and banter.