When I was 11 years old I rode to the bank with my brother to get his check cashed. He parked and went in, leaving the car running so that I could listen to the radio. The radio DJ came on and said "Here's the brand new song from the British band Oasis" I thought to myself ...oasis...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm sounds familiar...hope this is good....when the opening chords started and Liam's voice filled the car....I sat in amazement! I felt like someone had hit me and I knew that these guys were going to be big. My brother got back in the car and said "what's wrong with you dummy?" I looked at him and then back at the radio....he said, "yeah that's those british guys who sang that song "Supersonic"...the one you used to hum around the house." I said "Cool!" Remember I was 11 so my favorite word was "cool!" ..........................
A week later I turned 12 and my brother got me "What's the Story" and the "Goldmine" magazine with Liam and Noel on it...that's where it all started folks...I became a fan of the greatest band in the world!
Now my colletion has grown and keeps growing....even though it probably shouldn't be growing cuz I'm on a college budget...I'm 18 now and everyone I know knows me as the "oasisgirl".
In '96 I went to see Oasis in Charlotte, NC...it was September, 11th and my mum's birthday...but she knew how much it meant to me and she was nice enough to drop me off there...but much to my disappointment we were told only about and hour before the show that Oasis was not coming...the next day in the paper it read "British band, Oasis cancels in Charlotte...breaks up"....it scared the shit out of me at first but as we all know now it was one of the many so called "break ups" that were to come....I feel special that I was there b/c it is mentioned in every Oasis book as the time Oasis canceled their US tour b/c Liam went back to Europe to buy a house......so I waited patiently unitl this past summer 2001 when Oasis came back to the states for the "brotherly love tour" and my wish finally became reality...I would have to say that that week was the best week of my life because on Saturday June 2 my high school softball team won the 2a state regional softball tournament and then Sunday we won the state championship...then I woke up early Monday morning jumped in the car with my dad and cousin and headed to Baltimore, Maryland to see OASIS! It was an unbelieveable show that took my breath away and the best part about it was that my friend new the guys driving the tour bus for the band during the tour and he was able to get me Liam's tambourine from the show, 5 of Alan's drum tops...w/ one autographed by everyone, Noel's guitar pic, shirts, left over vip passes, and a few more great things! I had waited patiently for 7 years and it finally paid off!
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Here's A Great Story from Curtis! Thanx Mate!-Lee

First of all let me say I'm glad you started this web site. It seems as though there aren't enough Oasis fans here in America anymore.Go Tarheels and if you get a chance, say hi to Katie Holmes for me down in N.C. Alright, where do I begin? I first saw Oasis on the cover of a magazine during my sophomore year of high school. My first reaction (being a big Guns N' Roses fan) was "Oh shit, I hope they don't become big over here. I don't want any Brits taken over GNR's place as biggest and best band in the world.Then I saw "Wonderwall" on MTV for the first time and I thought,"They look like the Beatles." To be honest, I wasn't really crazy about the song when I first heard it.A friend who I was hanging out with at the time drove a mustang, wore all the "in" clothes, had a good-lookin' girlfriend, and listened to mainly rap music was like,"Yo, have you heard that "Wonderwall" song? That song's phat dude!" I was like,"Yeah, it's cool." Just to go along with him (cause I wanted to be cool) I bought the single and I ended up loving it! Then I saw "Champagne Supernova" on MTV. This song knocked me on my ass. I immediately went out and bought the album. "Don't Look Back In Anger" came on the radio next and at the end of the first time hearing that song, I literally got chills. It was the most beautiful song I'd ever heard. So then one night on MTV there was a Rockumentary on Oasis and I figured I check it out since CS and DLBIA were two of the best songs I ever heard. That's when I saw the Gallaghers talk for the first time. Witty,smart,funny as hell,sarcastic,simply put: the coolest guys I had ever seen! I had been a fan of Guns N' Roses, Green Day, I even got into the rap scene (of course cause I thought it was cool) but these guys not only had the musical talent they had the personalities. I always thought to be a musician you had to be a little wacky. I had always been an athlete and into sports and I thought musicians were freaks.Anyways, I heard some of the songs in the MTV Special, so I started listening to the rest of the album. "Some Might Say" as Liam said is "killer" "Cast No Shadow, Hello, Roll With It, She's Electric" were all great songs! Very rarely had I bought an album and liked every song. Sadly, during my senior year of high school, I lost touch a little bit and started to listen to Dave Matthews(I know I can't believe it either) to be like the other kids at my high school even though I still secretly thought Oasis was better. Then, during the summer going into my freshman year there was another Documentary on Oasis just before Be Here Now came out on MTV. I watched it and remembered the reason why I loved them so much in the first place. From here I never looked back. I bought posters,books,magazines,import singles,bootlegs,T-shirts, anything that had to do with Oasis. I loved Be Here Now. Still think it's their second best album. (Oh I forgot to mention, after listening to Morning Glory the album, for the first time I ran right out and got "Definitely Maybe." Loved it.) I heard "All Around The World" for the first time on a local radio station and was blown away. I was like,"These guys are awesome!" Then I saw the "D'You Know What I Mean?" video.It was good but the guys looked like such geeks.(I was being sarcastic.It was the best they looked and ever will look.I would pay half my income to look as cool as they did in that video.)Anyway to make a long story short, I have pretty much dedicated myself to being an Oasis fan.I wear Adidas sneakers, have a Burberry shirt like Liam's in "Wonderwall", and always try to convert my friends into Oasis. I loved GNR and Green Day. But no band, sports team, supermodel,movie,tv show, has ever consumed so much of my time as Oasis specifically the Gallagher Brothers. I have a twin brother and we fight about a lot of things. One thing we both have in common and agree on? Oasis are the best band in the world.To me they're tougher than any rap group, cooler than any movie star, funnier and wittier than any comedian, and most of the time dress better than most models. Nobody touches them. Arrogance, ignorance, genius, sarcasm, melodies, stage presence, everything. They've got it all. America better smarten up soon, because once they're gone, there will never be another band like them.

From JennyLH,

HOw I got into Oasis and what they mean to me:
Yea ever notice that sometimes God gives you things
that ask for? well oasis was one of them. it was back
in 1996 I was 15 years old, I was very sick with mono,
I didn't go out of the house, I was extremely
depressed. I remember one day hearing about a girl who
love nirvana to bits, that got me thinking "hey why
don't I have a band? One to really love and follow".
So I remember standing at my window on a Febuary
afternoon wishing for a band and cat (I wanted a cat
too). That May my mother had to go into New York City
for some reason and she begging me to come with her, I
wasn't really sure, cos I was scared, weak and
depresed, but for some reason I went. It was really a
great day, as we were going back to the train we
passed a HMV for some reason I asked my mother if we
could go in, which was werid cos I never really went
into those shops. My mother said I could buy ONE cd,
so I stood at this huge wall that read "Big Hits" over
it on one side was hootie and the blowfish and on the
other side was Oasis's morning glory, so I stood there
for a couple mintutes complelaing what I wanted, I had
finally decided, I picked Oasis. Its really funny that
one little decsion like picking out a cd can change
the rest of you life. I took it home I played it 15
times the first day. I remember laying in my bed
feeling like utter utter shite and listening to Roll
with it and like having a total epfinty (spelling?) I
said to myself "Why the hell am I laying here for?"
and it was truly the beginning of my happy life. Oasis
has helped me threw everything in my life, they have
taught me to stand up for myself, how to believe in my
self, told me that I was just as good as everyone
else, they gave me a place to belong, all my life I
had felt sort of lefted out, Oasis made me feel good,
I was an Oasis fan, like I was apart of something. To
this day they made me feel better, there the reason I
get up in the morning, they help me be myself. Oasis
saved me, after all the concerts and all the stuff and
all the happiness, I will be forever grateful to Oasis
for being my sunshine, when it refused to stop raining
:) PS. I got a cat named Oliver June 1996 :)

From Justin:

Well, the first time I heard Oasis was in my best friends room back in 1996. He pulled out a tape that he made and asked me if I ever heard of the band. At first, I was like, "What kind of a band is Oasis??" After all, I had been hardcore into the grunge scene and thought that the hard core music was the best. But as soon as he played Dont Look Back in Anger, that all changed! I bought "Whats the Story", with my next allowance as soon as the cash hit my hand and was simply spell bound. with my next allowance, I promptly bought definitely maybe and it grew to become my favorite album to date. I then bought Be Here Now as soon as it came out and watched people criticize it when I thought all along it was a pretty damn good record. My first concert came in 98, and I was completely flu ridden, but still had to go to the show to see if they were as good live as they had been on the records. THEY WERE BETTER. I dont think I've been able to say that ever about any other group. When the Oasis fan scene died out in the US during the latter part of the 90's, I waited seemingly forever for them to come back. When Go let it Out first came on MTV, it was honestly the most excited I've been since I was a little kid on christmas eve. I drug one of my friends to the record store and bought it the day it was released. He kept telling me, "Man, I don't think they'll be anywhere near as good as you say they are." Eventually, I got him and a group of others hooked to them and they all went out and started listening to the greatest band in the world again. We all subsequently put mad amounts of Oasis on a RoadTrip anthology as we toured Europe for our schools culture club, and we also went as a group to see them in the brotherly love tour which was the day before our highschool graduation. We even made an Oasis music video for my friends film class, and they inspired me to pick up a guitar. What else can I say about the best god damn band ever? I dont think I can except that I cant wait for the next record!

Oasis with Tony!