“When I first started I just played up and down the top string of the bass. Come to think of it, that’s what I still do now.”
—McGuigan
In the late 1980s, McGuigan started a band with his friends, Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs on guitar, Chris Hutton on lead vocals, later joined by Tony McCarroll on drums. They called themselves The Rain. After Hutton was fired, McGuigan invited his school friend, Liam Gallagher, to join.
Though a functional bassist onstage, McGuigan’s bass tracks were often replaced by Noel Gallagher on the band’s recordings, especially on Definitely Maybe, which features no bass tracks by McGuigan at all. McGuigan has admitted to smoking marijuana during touring.
