Model: Rickenbacker 330 (6-string) Color: Jetglo Year: 1993
Used in... - never played live - shown at the Oasis exhibitions "Chasing The Sun: Oasis 1993 – 1997" between 2014 and 2016
Details Contrarily to what stated in the guitar description at the exhibitions, this is NOT the black Rickenbacker that can be seen laying in the floor in the Supersonic single sleeve. That one is Johnny Marr's legendary black Rickenbacker from The Smiths days, that was loaned to Noel alongside other guitars to record Definitely Maybe at Monnow Valley.1 In a picture taken at the exhibition (not posted here) we can get a view of the serial number of Noel's Rickenbacker: it seems to start with "J6...", so it dates this guitar to 1993. Marr's black Rickenbacker is from 1982, so it cannot be the same one.2 As far as I know, this guitar has never been played live. By the way, Jetglo is simply the Rickenbacker name for glossy black.
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- This fact had been speculated for years but it has been implicitly confirmed during Noel’s That Pedal Show interview in June 2023. It was later confirmed by Johnny Marr himself in his 2023 book Marr’s Guitars. ↩︎
- There are some other differences too, like the headstock shape, the truss rod cover writings and the tuning machines. They aren’t the same guitar. ↩︎
The Chief's Guitars - Noel Gallagher's guitars: a complete guide - Oasis and NGHFB 