10 Musicians That Got Fired From Huge Bands

When Oasis were getting the ball rolling, they weren't really all that concerned with being the most flashy players in the history of rock and roll. Their style of music was supposed to bring rock and roll back to basics, and even producer Owen Morris ended up cutting up bits and pieces of solos like Live Forever because they sounded too much like Slash. You still had to be competent behind your instrument though, and Noel had a real bone to pick with Tony McCarroll.

In the early days of the band, McCarroll was just the right guy for the job, having a kind of ramshackle way of playing the drums that gave a punky edge to their sound whenever they played live. Once they tried to transfer that to the studio, the whole thing turned into a disaster, to the point where they stuck the hiss on the front of Cigarettes and Alcohol because the drums go out of time with the rest of the band until they lock back in.

Though there were a few bright spots like Tony's feature on Bring It On Down, the band was under the impression that he was never going to be able to make the second record. If you listen to the kind of drum fills that are going on in tracks like Don't Look Back In Anger and Champagne Supernova, Noel knew that there was no chance that Tony was going to be able to step up to that kind of challenge. By the time the seeds of What's the Story Morning Glory were being planted with singles like Some Might Say, Tony was out the door and quickly replaced by Alan White.