'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.
'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.
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
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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