One band who can do it all from ballads, rock, jazz, soul, reggae, you name it. I’m glad you gave credit to Phil Small on bass. He deserves some accolades ✨ The whole musicianship is fire 🔥 with the “piano man” aka Don Walker killing it, Steve’s drum work is subtle but gorgeous, Ian Moss providing the extraordinary guitar, but most of all Jimmy’s vocals on this with his vibrato and just the right amount of huskiness. It is sublime….
Love how u really connect t chisel mate, you should be aussie, well we'll claim ya haha. This song a little bit ska which I only thought for the first time now, their songwriters impeccable, can see it really transports u.
This was one of the first Cold Chisel songs I heard as a teenager at the time in Australia (the other was Choir Girl). Two points I would make: 1) being that the reggae influence never registered at the time because reggae hadn't been a thing in Australia (we didn't really know who Bob Marley was, for instance) but later when the Police did their "white reggae thing" we had some idea because Sting put on the accent. 2) You briefly mentioned the lyrics being good. For me that is the thing about Cold Chisel that unites across all the styles they sang in, which include sounding almost country in a song like Flame Trees or a blues/soulful song like "Four WallS" and the link is the main songwriter - or at least the writer of what I think are their best songs - Don Walker. This was a weird band demographically. You had the Glaswegian born son of a prize-fighter in Jimmy Barnes, you had a sort of outback working class hippy from Alice Springs (which sounds like multiple oxymorons in search of an explanation) in Mossy and a physicist from a rural background who took a break during the bands early days to do a postgrad in a regional university where he divided his time between writing lyrics to some of these times and measuring wing resistance on fighter aircraft (or something like that) in Don Walker. I have a workmate who grew up in the same AdelaIde suburb as Jimmy and she told me that she loves his music but hasn't ever seen him live because her husband has nasty meories of being beaten up by him. There is also the story of what happened one night at the Largs Pier Hotel in Adelaide in the late 1970s. Cold Chisel were playing and, during one of their songs, Jimmy noticed that a bikey gang had arrived and had started harrassing some of his friends in the crowd. Story goes that, during a long guitar solo (probably by Mossy) Jimmy leapt into the crowd and punched the bikies out one by one before returning to the stage to complete the song. All of these different stories and contradictions came together in the "Countdown Music Awards" shortly the success of "East". ruclips.net/video/YNUVe1GXXGo/видео.html&ab_channel=vbvbvb088
I fucking love this song. I always have since I first heard it as a little kid. It's wonderful. Cold Chisel lyrics are near poetry in this silly country.
Yep, where the McDonalds is now on Darlinghurst Rd. Where the hookers, strippers, dealers, all-night drinkers would grab some food as the sun came up. Don Walker lived in the Cross, and wrote several songs about life there. Plaza is a great Cross song.
Great reaction to a great song. Loved how you gave Phil Small some love on this song, his contribution to the band is really underrated. Listen to Bow River again and just hear what he's doing, it is magical. Cheers matey. PS seeing you laugh when the line dropped about Anne-Maria's miniskirt made me laugh too :)
I was listening to their whole concert in Germany about six months back when I was working a graveyard shift in the middle of the night. Now I had heard them do the cover of Wild Thing from the Last Stand concert series before, and I am sure you have seen that version on youtube. But in concert in Germany from 1982, you hear in the middle of them playing Wild Thing there, that Jimmy asks Ian Moss for some reggae in middle of song and it just crazy Mossy was able to switch it up straight away and make it fit in that song. It amazing how versatile they all are in the band.
PS Cold Chisel started in 1973…..but their first album was released in 1978….. They disbanded in 1983. They get together every now and then for new albums, and concerts.
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This waa beinbg play live by the boys only a few weeks ago - I still haven’t washed my ears
Such a simple concept performed exceptionally.
One band who can do it all from ballads, rock, jazz, soul, reggae, you name it.
I’m glad you gave credit to Phil Small on bass. He deserves some accolades ✨
The whole musicianship is fire 🔥 with the “piano man” aka Don Walker killing it, Steve’s drum work is subtle but gorgeous, Ian Moss providing the extraordinary guitar, but most of all Jimmy’s vocals on this with his vibrato and just the right amount of huskiness. It is sublime….
Phil Small…. Bass, fantastic playing…. Just all class.
I love music from all over the world, but Australian music just has that uniqueness about it. It's raw, and you just can't get any better than that.
Had quite a few brekkys at Sweethearts back in the 70s
Love how u really connect t chisel mate, you should be aussie, well we'll claim ya haha. This song a little bit ska which I only thought for the first time now, their songwriters impeccable, can see it really transports u.
Wow Yeah Beautiful performance !! LOVE IT !! Thanks RORY 👍🎼🎸✨
Chisel smokin with Sweethearts. Great reaction
This was one of the first Cold Chisel songs I heard as a teenager at the time in Australia (the other was Choir Girl). Two points I would make: 1) being that the reggae influence never registered at the time because reggae hadn't been a thing in Australia (we didn't really know who Bob Marley was, for instance) but later when the Police did their "white reggae thing" we had some idea because Sting put on the accent. 2) You briefly mentioned the lyrics being good. For me that is the thing about Cold Chisel that unites across all the styles they sang in, which include sounding almost country in a song like Flame Trees or a blues/soulful song like "Four WallS" and the link is the main songwriter - or at least the writer of what I think are their best songs - Don Walker. This was a weird band demographically. You had the Glaswegian born son of a prize-fighter in Jimmy Barnes, you had a sort of outback working class hippy from Alice Springs (which sounds like multiple oxymorons in search of an explanation) in Mossy and a physicist from a rural background who took a break during the bands early days to do a postgrad in a regional university where he divided his time between writing lyrics to some of these times and measuring wing resistance on fighter aircraft (or something like that) in Don Walker. I have a workmate who grew up in the same AdelaIde suburb as Jimmy and she told me that she loves his music but hasn't ever seen him live because her husband has nasty meories of being beaten up by him. There is also the story of what happened one night at the Largs Pier Hotel in Adelaide in the late 1970s. Cold Chisel were playing and, during one of their songs, Jimmy noticed that a bikey gang had arrived and had started harrassing some of his friends in the crowd. Story goes that, during a long guitar solo (probably by Mossy) Jimmy leapt into the crowd and punched the bikies out one by one before returning to the stage to complete the song. All of these different stories and contradictions came together in the "Countdown Music Awards" shortly the success of "East". ruclips.net/video/YNUVe1GXXGo/видео.html&ab_channel=vbvbvb088
We love Chisel because every song sounds different and i swear they haven't written a bad one yet!
I fucking love this song. I always have since I first heard it as a little kid. It's wonderful. Cold Chisel lyrics are near poetry in this silly country.
Sweethearts was a dinner in Sydney Red light district Kings Cross i had a few early morning there in my youth, this was released in 1979 Febuary
Yep, where the McDonalds is now on Darlinghurst Rd. Where the hookers, strippers, dealers, all-night drinkers would grab some food as the sun came up. Don Walker lived in the Cross, and wrote several songs about life there. Plaza is a great Cross song.
Same great nights in the 80's at the cross after night out going into dawn. Saturday night also is absolute must
Great reaction to a great song. Loved how you gave Phil Small some love on this song, his contribution to the band is really underrated. Listen to Bow River again and just hear what he's doing, it is magical. Cheers matey. PS seeing you laugh when the line dropped about Anne-Maria's miniskirt made me laugh too :)
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I was listening to their whole concert in Germany about six months back when I was working a graveyard shift in the middle of the night. Now I had heard them do the cover of Wild Thing from the Last Stand concert series before, and I am sure you have seen that version on youtube. But in concert in Germany from 1982, you hear in the middle of them playing Wild Thing there, that Jimmy asks Ian Moss for some reggae in middle of song and it just crazy Mossy was able to switch it up straight away and make it fit in that song. It amazing how versatile they all are in the band.
PS Cold Chisel started in 1973…..but their first album was released in 1978….. They disbanded in 1983. They get together every now and then for new albums, and concerts.
Subbed for more Aussie music please 🇦🇺
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Same album - Dresden Blues, please. You will love it. Cheers, Mate.