Third Eye Blind showed him! Also: a brief moment of appreciation for "I did not throw a can at him."Maybe LG's behaviour seems excessive, but I would like to put it into context. This is a man who, at the height of his drug use (ie: the very time period during which he crossed paths with 3EB) believed in ghosts and thought that he was being surveilled by farm animals. So a brief threat of stabbing after the fact probably felt, at the time, like an appropriate response to an insulting Coke can being thrown at the self-made king of Britpop. Today, in big 2017, there is no way Liam Gallagher remembers saying this; I imagine at this point Liam Gallagher was probably making a lot of throwaway statements at anyone who he decided had pissed him off – including his brother.For Third Eye Blind, it's kind of a shame that their big oral history got overshadowed by Liam Gallagher's ego, but really, that feels about right, doesn't it?Follow Lauren on Twitter.(Image via Wikimedia Commons)That was a really cool move to get us that opening gig in San Francisco. It was pretty ballsy. It was just incredible. I got threatened by Oasis singer Liam Gallagher that night with physical violence. I was drinking a can of Coke and had finished it and crumpled it up and was going to throw it, basketball-style, 20 yards away. The can hit someone who was in the corner – I just saw this glowing ash and the can rolled over to it. After the show he said, "You could have gotten stabbed." Literally said that. I said, "What are you talking about?" He was like, "You threw that can at me, man." I did not throw a can at him.
Noel Gallagher was studying one of my guitars, geeking out on it, and I could tell he was the serious one. Liam afterwards said, "You guys are shite, you'll never make it."