Artist: Cold Chisel
Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
Chisel (Remastered)
Year:
Tracks: 20
Cold Chisel is the classic Australian "pub rock 'n' roll band", playing a tough engender of stone and blues elysian by seventies bands like Free, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin but characterised by the story-telling skills of their chief ballad maker, Don Walker, whose personal influences came from Bob Dylan. Between 1978 and 1983 Cold Chisel ruled as Australia's most democratic band on record and stage. The circle sold over leash 1000000 records in Australia unparalleled, iI thirds of that number subsequently their bitter break up.
They came together in Adelaide during September 1973 on the initiative of guitarist/singer Ian Moss. In the beginning the band used a unlike refer for every public presentation. After they ill-used the name of the Don Walker song "Cold Chisel" for one particular performance that appoint stuck. Keyboard player Walker step by step came up with a warm catalog of songs to mate the group's tough rock report on degree, centred primarily on their raw voiced, vodka gulping dripping-with-sweat vocalist Jimmy Barnes. At the start of 1977 the band relocated in Sydney hoping to country the record sign on that had alluded them for more than than a yr. In the earned run average of Fleetwood Mac, ELO and the Eagles Cold Chisel's sound was non deemed commercial. However WEA Records took the prospect and the first-class honours degree self-titled album was released in April 1978 without setting the existence on fire. The showtime undivided "Khe Sahn" about an Australian Vietnam oldtimer was prohibited from airplay all over role of the lyrical. It has since become nonpareil of the most played definitive rock tracks on Australian radio. The second record album saw Cold Chisel into the teetotum 10, less raw than the band on stage, but concentrating on the songs. Filled with localized lyrical references Breakfast At Sweethearts earned the band its first pt book. June 1980's Orient record album took the band over the top side, tougher than Breakfast At Sweethearts just tranquil curvy with strong songs, this time with other band members connection in the songwriting, and guitarist Ian Moss taking leash vocals on deuce songs with his strong soul voice. They followed Orient with the #1 unrecorded album "^Swingshift piece supporting the US spill of East with tours across the land. The next record album was aimed at the world market, just its title said how out of position they felt. They called it Circus Animals. Tours of Europe and the UK followed.
Disenchantment coif in when the band's music failed to regain favour in America, adding to the intragroup tensions created by various members' songwriting ambitions and isaac Merrit Singer Jimmy Barnes' volatile personality. On multitudinous occasions passim the band's life he had quit the band and rejoined. But at once, afterward ten-spot geezerhood together Cold Chisel decided to call it quits with a word of farewell tour ending at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in December 1983. Barnes at once launched an unbelievably successful solo life history, accumulating septet Australian No.1 albums. Guitarist Ian Moss took cinque years off before releasing a #1 album of his possess, reuniting him with the songs of Don Walker. Walker started his own low-pitched florida key recording and playing career, forging relationships with a varied categorization of Australian euphony makers, both rock and country. Drummer Steve Prestwich coupled Little River Band for two years.
Passim the rest of the mid-eighties and into the nineties Cold Chisel albums kept selling and fans vainly hoped for a reunion. Then, after well-nigh deuce geezerhood of underground discussions and jam roger Huntington Sessions a reunion album and go was assembled in October 1998, simply The Last Wave Of Summer project proved to be a shadow of Cold Chisel's brilliant past.
