{"id":617168,"date":"2026-09-15T21:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/617168\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:48:15","slug":"the-guitar-buying-advice-johnny-marr-and-noel-gallagher-swear-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/617168\/","title":{"rendered":"The guitar-buying advice Johnny Marr and Noel Gallagher swear by"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johnny Marr is preparing to send nearly 100 guitars from his personal collection to new homes at a Christie\u2019s auction later this week, including some prized electric guitars<\/a> from his Smiths years.<\/p>\n

But before the Manchester guitarist parts with them, he\u2019s been looking back with Oasis\u2019 guitarist Noel Gallagher on their long history together \u2014 including the best guitar-buying advice Gallagher says he\u2019s ever received.<\/p>\n

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By the time Oasis entered the studio to record their debut album, Definitely Maybe, Marr was already an experienced player and collector, firmly established at the center of British guitar culture<\/a>. He even loaned Gallagher his beloved 1982 Rickenbacker 330 Jetglo for the sessions, and the guitar famously appeared on the cover for the Oasis hit single \u201cSupersonic.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to that loan, Marr gave Gallagher a piece of advice when the two went guitar shopping together. The encounter took place in Doncaster, a Yorkshire town about 60 miles from Manchester, and was only the second time the pair had hung out. Gallagher recalls trying out a Fender Stratocaster<\/a> with a mind-boggling nine pickups before Marr offered some advice over a bite to eat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the best bit of advice I\u2019ve ever been given,\u201d Gallagher says in a Christie\u2019s promotional video. \u201cHe buys a sandwich, and he says, \u2018I\u2019ve got to go and eat before I think about buying this guitar,\u2019 because you should never buy a guitar with an empty stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In Marr\u2019s case, the sandwich apparently worked. He ultimately bought the unusual Strat for \u00a3900.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s \u00a3100 for each pickup,\u201d Marr\u2019s brother quipped when he heard about the purchase.<\/p>\n

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The guitar certainly isn\u2019t your everyday Strat. Its cockpit-esque array of 18 toggle switches has left plenty of people scratching their heads, but Marr brought it out of hiding for his 2022 music video for \u201cSpirit, Power And Soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

The advice, though, is considerably more practical than the guitar itself. Buying instruments rarely comes cheap, and an impulse decision can have expensive consequences. And Marr isn\u2019t the only guitarist with a memorable philosophy on the subject.<\/p>\n

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Yvette Young, for instance, has warned players against buying a guitar while third-wheeling<\/a> on a date \u2014 a lesson she learned the hard way.<\/p>\n

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Joe Bonamassa, meanwhile, says there\u2019s only one factor<\/a> that should really matter when considering another guitar purchase, although the obsessive collector perhaps doesn\u2019t always follow his own advice.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Jason Isbell has explained why new players should pay a little extra<\/a> before leaving a store with their first guitar. He believes the right instrument can make a world of difference during those tentative first steps of a beginner\u2019s journey.<\/p>\n

Marr, however, hasn\u2019t spent his career simply handing out advice. He\u2019s been on the receiving end of some helpful words, too \u2014 most notably from Paul McCartney, who helped him grieve<\/a> the death of the Smiths.<\/p>\n

And the 62-year-old guitarist has even been dubbed \u201cguitar Batman\u201d<\/a> for helping reunite session player Ella Feingold with her vintage Gretsch after a shipping nightmare.<\/p>\n

As Marr prepares to part with some of the guitars that have accompanied him through his remarkable career, it seems there\u2019s very little the Smiths guitarist can\u2019t do \u2014 although Gallagher\u2019s sandwich lesson might be the one piece of Marr wisdom every guitarist can afford to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Marr is preparing to send nearly 100 guitars from his personal collection to new homes at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-617168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}