Info & About

This is a fansite: it is NOT affiliated with Noel Gallagher, his management or his record label (please read below).

The website is a personal, non-monetized project that does NOT feature advertisements, affiliate links, or sponsored content.

For informational and non-commercial use only: do NOT publish this content elsewhere.

Contact me!

You can contact me for any information, I will reply as soon as I can!

email: thechiefsguitars@gmail.com

Why this website?

If you google “noel gallagher guitars” you’ll find plenty of sites that haven’t been updated in years, conflicting information and know-it-alls who get their facts wrong*. And bedroom guitar shredders who endlessly bash one of the most successful songwriters ever.

This website has the goal of becoming the most accurate resource for verified information about the guitars that Noel Gallagher has played through the years. Hopefully…!

* Unfortunately, you’ll also find other websites drowning in ads, run by shady characters who have blatantly stolen most of the information from here without giving any credit. Don’t be one of those losers: show some respect and give credit where it’s due!

Special thanks to…

… the live4ever forum and its users: still the best source for Gallagher-related info & discussion

… the crucial Oasis Live website

… David and his brilliant website Oasis Recording Info

… oasisunited and the the fabulous Oasis Timeline

… the essential scyhodotcom

… legendary Oasis fan Sandra for her tour updates and pictures

… Larry Page and Sergey Brin for inventing Google

… Mr. NG & Ignition Management for not suing me!

Language

English isn’t my first language, so please bear with my mistakes!

What about acoustic guitars?

As you may have noticed, this website lists electric guitars only – for the time being.
I’m not really an expert of acoustics but adding an acoustic guitars section is a future project.

However, I have occasionally written about acoustics on the blog. For instance, here’s a very detailed analysis of Noel’s Epiphone EJ-200 from the early Oasis years.

What about pedalboards and other gear?

A whole section dedicated to Noel’s pedalboards, amps and effects through the years is another project for the future. As you can imagine, it’s a pretty long and intricate one, but I’ve been gathering material for it for years. It will come eventually, once most of the guitar pages are done.

For now, here’s a link to a complete analysis of Noel’s 2025 pedalboard.

Photo credits – PLEASE READ

I always do my best to credit the original photographers.

As a semi-pro photographer myself, I know how frustrating it is to see your work used without credit – it happens far too often, and it’s disheartening to say the least. That’s why many of the images on the site still have the Getty or Alamy watermarks: while not ideal visually, it’s the most reliable way to ensure the original photographers are credited.

In most cases, the author’s name is embedded in the image description. Depending on your device, especially on mobile, it might not always show when you enlarge the photo – but the credit is there.

Some images, however, have been on my hard drive for years, and I no longer know the source or photographer. I’ve tried using reverse image search, but while it occasionally helps, it often doesn’t lead anywhere.

If you are the author, if you know the author or if you want me to remove an image, please contact me. I will take care of it right away.

Please read also the “Rights, names, logos etc” section below: I’m not making money from your work.

Everyting on this website is provided without profit for educational purposes, commentary, and analysis under Fair Use guidelines. As above, if you are the rightful owner of any image posted here and object to its use, please contact me directly.

The best way to support an artist is by purchasing a print, a book, or anything directly from their shop. I wouldn’t want to leave anyone out, but these are truly are the cornerstones of Oasis-related imagery – the website simply wouldn’t exist without their decades of incredible work:

Brian Cannon at Microdot: https://www.microdotboutique.com/

Jill Furmanovsky at Rockarchive: https://www.rockarchive.com/photographers/jill-furmanovsky

Mitch Ikeda: https://mitchikeda.com/

Tom Sheehan: https://www.tomsheehan.co.uk/

Michael Spencer Jones at Spellbound: https://www.spellboundgalleries.com/

Lawrence Watson: https://lawrencewatsonphotography.com/

This website is the result of literally years of dedicated research: digging through videos, forums, interviews, magazines, books, photos, and more.

Don’t underestimate the time (and money!) that has gone into putting all of this together.

All I ask is that, if you use or reference any of the content elsewhere, you credit the site and include a proper link. There’s a disclaimer on every page of the site: PLEASE show some respect for the hard work that goes into this. It’s really not that difficult!

Rights, names, logos etc – IMPORTANT

I can’t stress enough, this website is NOT affiliated with Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Ignition, Sour Mash, Big Brother Recordings, Fender, Gibson, Rickenbacker, etc.

All brands, logos, images and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used here for descriptive and informational purposes only. In other words: it is basically free publicity. We can only imagine how many people have been inspired to buy guitars, books, prints, records and other related products simply by reading this website.

I don’t sell anything and I don’t make a single cent from this site – unlike some others out there that not only lift information from here but are also cluttered with ads.
You won’t find any ads here. In fact, I spend over €100 a year out of my own pocket just to keep the site running and maintained through hosting and WordPress management.

Here is the official legal jargon to prove that I am not making a penny off this…
This website is maintained and updated entirely on a non-profit basis. This platform is NOT monetized: it does NOT host advertising banners, contain commercial affiliate links, or receive any compensation for the published content. All maintenance and hosting costs are fully covered by the owner, and the content is provided SOLELY for personal and informational purposes.

Who am I?

In a nutshell: I’m a guitar geek with a painstaking attention to detail who spends time zooming in on obscure VHS rips from the ’90s instead of doing my work.

I vividly remember the first time I fell in love with Oasis: predictably, it was Wonderwall – and I was sitting in the car, in the passenger seat, on a winter evening after school.
Oasis (and Noel Gallagher) have been the soundtrack to my life since then.

I was fascinated by the whole singer-songwriter-guitarist thing: I slowly became a guitar geek – and at the time I had never picked up an electric guitar in my life!

Then I bought my first electric: a cheap, cherry red semi-hollow of course. And it all went downhill from that point onwards…
And so now I spend too much of my free time looking at pictures of guitar knobs.
Yeah, it is that bad.