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Cold Chisel: The Pure ­Stuff

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Paperback, 304 pages
Published
Australia, 1 February 2001

'When there was all sorts of crap going down offstage, once we'd count the first song in, that was the pure stuff.' Don Walker

Cold Chisel were seven years in the making. Three years in the breaking and fifteen years in the remaking. They are the only Australian band to have sold more records after splitting up than before. Other bands to have done the same include The Beatles, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and The Eagles.

Cold Chisel is Jim Barnes (vocals), Ian Moss (guitar, vocals), Don Walker (keyboards), Phil Small (bass) and Steve Prestwich (drums). On stage, the band is a clash of two elemental forces - the singer urging the band to play ever faster and louder, and four musicians determined to stay locked in perfect pitch and time. On a great night - and Cold Chisel have many great nights - they fuse perfectly.

Offstage, relationships are often strained. Cold Chisel are five very different people. When, in 1998, the band announced a reunion album and tour the question was, would old conflicts resurface? From the early days in Adelaide to the recording of the number one album, The Last Wave of Summer, Cold Chisel: The Pure Stuff is the inside story of five young men who set out to be the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.


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'When there was all sorts of crap going down offstage, once we'd count the first song in, that was the pure stuff.' Don Walker

Cold Chisel were seven years in the making. Three years in the breaking and fifteen years in the remaking. They are the only Australian band to have sold more records after splitting up than before. Other bands to have done the same include The Beatles, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and The Eagles.

Cold Chisel is Jim Barnes (vocals), Ian Moss (guitar, vocals), Don Walker (keyboards), Phil Small (bass) and Steve Prestwich (drums). On stage, the band is a clash of two elemental forces - the singer urging the band to play ever faster and louder, and four musicians determined to stay locked in perfect pitch and time. On a great night - and Cold Chisel have many great nights - they fuse perfectly.

Offstage, relationships are often strained. Cold Chisel are five very different people. When, in 1998, the band announced a reunion album and tour the question was, would old conflicts resurface? From the early days in Adelaide to the recording of the number one album, The Last Wave of Summer, Cold Chisel: The Pure Stuff is the inside story of five young men who set out to be the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.

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9781865081960
ISBN
1865081965
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23 x 15.2 centimeters (0.37 kg)

Table of Contents

Part 1 What goes around

1. A deal is done

2. On the record

3. Top 40 culture

4. Khe Sanh

5. Breakfast of champions

6. East

7. Alan and Billy

8. The revolution is televised

9. The promised land

10. The godfather came

11. Circus animals

12. Chisel join the circus

13. The end

Part 2 . . . Comes around

14. The FM mindset

15. Looking for Mr Right

16. Dubbo A-go-go

17. Festival studios

18. Visitors bearing gifts

19. Fighting fit

20. Attention to detail

21. The Phil Spector trick

22. This time round

23. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

24. Electric avenue

25. Kevin takes charge

26. Interrupted strategies

27. Enter the strippers

28. Ready or not

29. On with the show

30. Exit the strippers

31. And in the end

32. Life goes on

Notes

Discography

About the Author

Anthony O'Grady started rock Australia magazine (RAM) in 1975 and witnessed first-hand the re-booming of the Sydney pub rock circuit that raised to the fore such bands as The Angels, Cold Chisel, Dragon, Icehouse, INXS, Mental as Anything, Midnight Oil, The Reels and Rose Tattoo. He has written for the Bulletin, the National Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian and the Financial Review, as well as producing/writing radio and TV documentaries and coordinating an AFI-winning film soundtrack.

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