Sometimes it's tempting to take some of what Noel Gallagher has said in the past with a pinch (or bucket) of salt. Take late last year for example, when the Oasis mastermind said guitar chords were "completely meaningless" to his songwriting. But what he was trying to express was it's really about the melodies over those chords. Nevertheless, Noel is still a master of them according to The Black Keys' Patrick Carney anyway.
“We were referring to him [Noel] as ‘The Chord Lord’ because he’s just a perfectionist with it,” Carney told the NME following his and fellow Keys' member Dan Auerbach's new collaboration for their forthcoming album.
