Nashguitars S63 “Adidas”

Photo: L. Watson
Model: Nashguitars S63
Color: Olympic White
Year: 2010s

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Used in...

- 2014-2017?

- featured in the video of Ballad of the Mighty I

- featured in some Japanese promo shots from 2015

- played live only once in 2015

- used during the recording sessions for the album Chasing Yesterday

- maybe used during the recording sessions for the album Who Built the Moon
Details

Noel's first public outing with a Strat was in the Ballad of the Mighty I video, in January 2015. It is not an original Fender Stratocaster though: it is a vintage-looking 1963 replica made by Nashguitars.

Nashguitars is a small company from Olympia, WA that builds artificially aged/relic'd guitars inspired by Fender's traditional designs (Strats, Teles, etc). They are built to order and can be heavily customized.1

Noel bought it to replace his original 1963 white Stratocaster that had been stolen sometime around 2012.2

It is quite likely that this guitar was used to record tracks from the album Chasing Yesterday, as Noel mentioned in a 2015 interview:

“On this record, all over it, is a Nash '63 Stratocaster, which is fucking outrageous, and I have a brown Nash Tele Deluxe, a '72, which is also great."3

It was played live only once - specifically for the first performance of In the Heat of the Moment (2 February 2015).

It is possibile that this S63 was also used to record tracks of the album Who Built the Moon, but it can't be confirmed - it could have been Noel's other S63:

"I’m making a different kind of music now. Who Built The Moon is all a Nash Strat and a brand-new Fender silverface Princeton."4
Stickers

An Adidas Spezial sticker is seen on the pickguard.

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  1. https://www.nashguitars.com/smodels ↩︎
  2. https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/dear-guitar-hero-noel-gallagher-discusses-chasing-yesterday-state-rock-and-possibility-oasis-reunion ↩︎
  3. https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/noel-gallagher-talks-guitars-production-songwriting-and-chasing-yesterday-618083 ↩︎
  4. https://guitar.com/features/interviews/noel-gallagher-high-flying-birds-oasis-interview/ ↩︎

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