Imagine growing up in Sydney, Australia in the mid to late 70's when bands like Ac/DC, Cold Chisel, The Angels, Skyhooks, Rose Tattoo, Sherbet, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Richard Clapton, and many many more were playing the pubs and clubs. And I loved every second of it
@@micksearle6006 You forgot Normie Rowe, Ray Brown and the Whispers, Twilites...Little River Band Masters Apprentice... What a delight growing up in those times..the fashions, freedom and unfortunately our boys going to Vietnam. My dad regretted buying me a small record player..and hearing these artist again and again. My first 2 albums I bought was Billy Thorpe and Beach Boys.. Greets from Adelaide
Had the pleasure of seeing them in pubs & clubs back in the day. Always the best Saturday night of your life. Yeah. They were part of the foundation of 'Aussie Pub Rock'
Scott Doyle, how lucky are we here in Australia. I used to follow Cold Chisel & John Farnham around the Melbourne pub circuit back in the day, can’t even express how great they were.
I've tried checking this & can't find any reference to Chris playing with Chisel, so I'd really like to know why you're so sure. I believe this is from the 2003 Ringside Tour at the Hordern Pavilion. They do look alike, but that bald head def looks like David to me@@James-wj8eq
The harmonica player isn't running the sound through anything to get that sound, that's him making all of it. It's how you breath, pushing and suck the air through the harmonica you get the sounds.
He is definitely running it through a little distortion. James Moloney of The Detonators uses an over driven 100watt Fender guitar amp to get that effect, which is micd up to the PA.
Bow River is probably Cold Chisel's greatest song. The magic is in the build of tension. It starts with Mossy's beautiful, clean voice. "Listen out to the wind, babe" As the momentum grows, we start to hear Barnsey, adding harmonies here and there. When the whole fire is blazing, Barnesy cuts loose, "One week two weeks, maybe even more, pissed all my money up against the damn wall". Spine chilling. He deserves a place at the table of rock's greatest vocalists.
Can you believe these guys struggled to get a gig outside Australia? Gives you some idea of the state of the music “industry”. It’s such sweet vindication watching reaction videos from people from all over the world have their heads explode when seeing this. This is what Australians grew up listening to in the 70s, 80s & 90s. Everyone thought we were a down under backwater!!!
@@SirSSau AC/DC were my neighbours growing up (fact) so I don't really care how honest you're being. Cold Chisel are as good as any band in the world and better than most
@@RhythmicEye wtf are you going on about? I’m just speaking my mind, on what I like or don’t, it’s no big deal. wtf does AC⚡️DC being your neighbours have to do with it? Don’t care if you live with them- I’m talking individual taste. Ya know - each to their own.
Welcome to "Aussie pub rock", the greatest music in the world . AC/DC, the Angels , Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, the Radiators, Rose Tattoo and many more. What a blessing to be a teenager growing up in Sydney in the 70's.
Same with growing up in Melbourne, a teenager in the 70’s who got to see AC/DC live with the brilliant Bon Scott at least 6 or 7 times in one year 74/75. Weekends were all about getting the Gig Guide (printed of course, no internet) to see which band was playing at which pub. Every weekend was a joy to be alive and we were spoilt for choice. For me, the best time musically to be alive and in Australia. Wish I could go back and do it all again ❤❤. Lots of people rave about the Sunset Strip in LA and that’s fine, but personally I think we had it even better here! So lucky!!
If you want to hear some more Aussie 'pure gold' harmony than check out Jimmy Barnes (the second raspy-voiced singer in this song) and John Farnham singing, 'When Something Is Wrong With My Baby', along with Diesel. The best version is from a show named. "Hey, Hey, It's Saturday" and it's LIVE. It's fantastic!
Agreed! Best male duet ever (if you wanna call it that). Not to forget Diesel was playing guitar on that song and did harmonies on studio track too......
I think we tended to take it for granted back in the day. Who will we go and see this Saturday night? Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, Rose Tattoo, Sports, Men At Work, INXS, The Angels, Hunters and Collectors, Divinyls...and the list goes on. A lot of the great pubs and live venues we had here in Melbourne back then don't even exist anymore.
I wasn’t into the pub scene back then. Loved the music but only ever saw a proper concert or radio play. I did see Rose Tattoo in some dive in the western suburbs of Melbourne. I was trying to hook up with this girl who was into them. Interesting experience as I was very shy and naive and the Rose Tattoo crowd were very interesting. Never did get to hook up with that girl, probably a good thing now I think about it.
Mossy comes in with that gorgeous voice: “I’m about to tell you a story” Harmonica guy: “Oh yeah? Well check this out!” Mossy’s guitar solo: “But wait…” Barnesy: “Hold my beer” It’s all just perfect 🤌🏼
The most incredible fact about this song is that it was a live recording. No backing track, no layered recording - just a bunch of amazing musicians who know how to perform.
Bow river in this song is a place in Australia's Kimberly region it is a tributary of the Ord river system that runs in to Lake Argyle. The singer Ian Moss is from the Northern Territory and he is singing about leaving his work at a car factory and running up north to the place he wants to be.
Ian explained he wrote the song originally using Todd River as the river and picked Bow River off a map as it sounded much better. He was back in his home town of Alice Springs and was telling his parents about it when he did so. Heard it from his lips at a gig in the Pilbara recently, which I may add was incredible.
We were the luckiest generation on the planet, no crap...I paid $2 to watch Cold Chisel play the Bondi RSL back in the day and they were backed up by The Divinyls... and I got laid that night. THE luckiest generation to have ever existed, Australia in the 1980's...spoiled for talent. X
Cold Chisel is one of the Best bands to come from anywhere! You need to hear more of the stuff that they put out over 30 + years to have an idea of what they could do.
If you think that harmonica playing was good, look up John Farnhams concert track 'Chain Reaction' it starts with a two to three minute intro (Awesome). Also John and Jimmy Barnes have been good friends for years look up a track called 'Somethings wrong with my baby' preferably a live concert version (there is about 4 different UA-cam video's) believe me you will not be disappointed! Finally I don't know what you have all been doing for the past 30 to 40 years, but here in Australia we have been rocking it!
Wayne I was about to write the same thing. The harmonica solo from the live performance of Chain Reaction from The Chain Reaction Concert is incredible. The studio version only has a minor solo.
The maniac at the grand piano is Mr. Don Walker. He wrote most of their songs. He was also a rocket scientist at the Woomera missile range here in Oz. Catch him in Tex, Don and Charlie for more fantastic music.
There was an entire multi-decade period in which Australian audiences were more deeply enamoured with home-made Australian rock than they were with American/Brit rock. Aussie pubs were the heart and soul of the local music industry, and the best of them were packed with 'punters' every single week. There are so many bands and solo performers in the glory days of this period and I would bet you would know a lot of them: Cold Chisel, Little River Band, ACDC, The Angels, Radiators, Divinyls, and dozens of others. Being a teenagers during this period was several shades of awesome.
Jimmy Barnes (backing vocals in this song, but usually lead) and Ian Moss (guitar & vocals) are living legends in Australia. AC DC are much better known, but the Chisels are foundation era Aussie rock. I first saw a very young and raw Cold Chisel play live while attending uni in Sydney in , er 1970 something (ahem) - they blew my mind! Another great Aussie band you should check out is Midnight Oil.
Chisels are NOT foundation era, Masters Apprentices, Billy and the Aztecs, early Acca Dacca, LRB, The Strangers, Zoot, Max Merrit and the Meteors, Chain, The Loved Ones, Healing Force, these were more foundation bands. Having said that, Chisels are Legends
Welcome to Cold Chisel, love seeing people's reactions to this song. Because as an Aussie and a massive Chisel fan I've heard this song 100s of times and know what's coming, but still love to see your reactions. The harmonica player has played with the band for over 40years and is only a guest player( does tours/live shows and the occasional track on albums) he's a master at his craft, call and respond that he and Mossy(guitarist) can put into a live show is awesome(usually the intro to Bow River)
Aussie Rock brother. This is Australia's greatest ever Rock band behind only AC/DC. Oh and they've been doing it for 40yrs. Jimmy Barnes is in he 70's now. Check out Jimmy Barnes and Joe Bonamassa stone cold you won't be sorry. Davie Blight on harmonica.
You might be following an algorithm, but this is a band you will love if you follow the rabbit hole. So much see - next step ..............'Wild Thing' - Cold Chisel (live on The Last Stand). Will blow your mind..
Cold Chisel (and Barnsey) are from my hometown of Adelaide, South Australia. Thats my mate Dave Blight playing harmonica, plays the best harp solo in Oz Rock. No FX apartr from a little drive/distortion. The tremelo etc is played by him with his mouth.. Also a wonderful guy who regularly jams around Adelaide. And yeah these guys rocked with AC/DC MANY times..
Cold Chisel had some success with the album East in the USA (Top 50 I think) but producers then wanted them to alter their style to suit American taste. They of course told them to get stuffed and then made their most Australian album ever - Circus Animals. The song You got Nothing I want is about the American music industry. And Bow River is on that album.
Take the advice of others and react to ‘wild thing’, make sure it is the 1983 version not the 1982 one, cover that version for us and ya’s win my subscription 👍🏻
Great reaction! You might like to listen to their rendition of 'Wild Thing'. Also, Lead singer Jimmy Barnes does an awesome duet with John Farnham, 'When something is wrong with my baby'. The guitar on that is just insane.
NOT the one from Germany ! But the live Aussie version where Jimmy is hammered but still amazing - about like he was at the end of every live concert back then ............ the vodka and beer would do that. Glad he is straight now and caring for himself health-wise or we would have missed out on so much of his great music in later years
I think there are several places in Australia called Bow River, but I think the one referenced in this song is the Bow River cattle station in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and I also think guitarist Ian Moss's brother worked there for a while. This is, by far, one of my favourite Chisel songs, beaten into second place by "Breakfast At Sweethearts" and only because I'm a jazz fan and Cold Chisel very nearly tipped themselves into some cool jazz with that tune! 😂
Never fails, Aussie Pub Rock royalty right there. Saw them live many times, they never failed to blow my mind. Saw Mossy, together with Troy Cassar Daly live at the Red Hot Summer Festival 2 years ago, still just as good as what he was 50 years ago. We're s lucky to still have so many brilliant musicians in Australia.
They guy's name is David Blight, I used to work with his sister in law. David was very much part of the furniture with Cold Chisel and I've taken for granted just how good he is. Your reaction has made me pay more attention to Dave's talent, thank you. Of course the talents of Barnsey, Mossy, Don etc are also well appreciated. R.I.P. Steve Prestwich - never forgotten! (Check out 'When the War is over')
From memory this a dig at usa recording companies trying to control them and they told them to stick it and come home Why he sings about at beginning water their Aussie's and came home wrote this to stick it to the recording companies in usa By the way ledgen band here in Australia
The harmonica thing is called a Blues Harp. A small harmonica, ten blow holes. You might want to check out a guy called Charlie Musselwhite. He played the harp on the INXS song Suicide Blonde. Then move on to guys like James Cotton, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Paul Butterfield, Rick Estrin. And I can't believe you've never come across good harp before.... :-)
Aussie music in the 60 and 70s was done the hard way. Playing pubs, counry halls, clubs... gritty sweaty dirty... up close and very personal. Every dollar was hard earned and drunk even harder. Chisel was was one of many in bands from blues to country, jazz to heavy metal and all in-between. The big money from Europe and the States gave them the promotion and the nsme, but Aussie music from that era is the best because it came from the sheds, pubs and was accessible to everyone. Just look at chisel contemporaries like the oils, sunnyboys, Aussie crawl, Billy thorpe
as a guitar fan the best two videos undeniably are both australian, tommy emmanuel doing classical gas, and john butler doing ocean, both will rock your world
Cold Chisel and ACDC are The classic Aussie pub rock band and they're still massive in Australia, Chisel rocked hard, Played Hard and Indulged Hard Jimmy Barnes (the guy in the black T-Shirt singing) famously admitted he used to do 10 grams of Cocaine, six to eight ecstasy and three bottle of Vodka a day, they fortunately cleaned up their act. These guy play working man rock their songs were about the working man like Bow River a song about working all week and heading out on the weekend. They also produced one of the three great Aussie songs about war Khe Sanh a song about a man coming back from Vietnam a hard rock classic. pick just about any of their music and you will get a mind blowing mix of rock and blue. You need to check out more of their stuff
You have just been introduced to another Aussie rock secret of Cold Chisel. Lead singer Jimmy Barnes (microphone) and Ian Moss singer/ lead guitar and Dave Blight is on harmonica. There are so many great Cold Chisel songs to react to. Jimmy Barnes also sings with John Farnham that you learnt about recently.
I am 64 years young and grew up in this time and place, where these bands performed daily for a living. The Australian band scene performing nightly in pubs and clubs with bands such as this, Noiseworks, 1927, Midnight Oil, Icehouse, INXS, Air Supply, Little River Band, Uncanny Xmen, Australian Crawl, Mondo Rock, Models, ACDC, Rose Tattoo, Split Enz, Wendy and the Rockets, The Angels, Goanna, and many, many more too numerous to mention, Plus individual artists like John English, Kate Ceberano, John Paul Young and the master of them all John Farnham - What a great time to be enjoying their talents. Thank you very much to any and all that I have seen through those wonderful years. - It is a great thing to look back and appreciate the good old days, but I must resign myself to the fact that the artists of today will be the memories of the good old days of our kids and grandkids. - Such is life.
WooHoo !!! Glad you guys enjoyed one of Australia's legendary pub rock bands, Cold Chisel !!!!!! They have many many more tracks you would love 😁 As you will see from the comments all great suggestions will come your way, Thank you again for the awesome reaction guy's 👏👏👏
This is Mossy's finest work. I've seen this song worked so many ways live. The Chisel boys going flat out, Mossy doing a slow solo acoustic or Mossy and his touring band playing it. I saw the boys here in Canberra right at the end of the bushfires a couple of years back. Hot night in the Capital but the old farts rocked hard. Apart from the sad passing of Steve Prestwich, they have remained the same line up. Don Walker is the highest ranking musician within the band, he got it started, penned so many songs and melodies, legend.
I love watching you guys react to our mind bending Aussie talent. I grew up with ACDC, Cold Chisel, John Farnham and the like. Our music scene is second to none. Try some earlier Rock Gods, like Russell Morris and his Wings of an Eagle. His music in the 70s was and is still amazing, and Russ just continues to extend and reinvent himself. Thankyou for your channel ... Seeing your reactions to music we may take for granted, lets us rediscover our musical addictions for the first time all over again! ❤️🇦🇺
The very best band ever and from the hints that are being dropped, there'll be a tour announcement made VERY soon. I used the "the money I save won't buy my youth again" line in my retirement letter 4 years ago and I got to see Chisel at Glenelg a week or so later and then again at Tauranga on the day after my 65th birthday in Feb 2020. I've met Jimmy heaps of times in recent years and have met and had a chat with Mossy a few time in the last couple of years. I told him that I'd used a line from Bow River in my retirement letter. He thought that was pretty cool.
Australian rock royalty. I grew up with Chisel. These were working class guys who wrote working class anthems and we loved them. Chisel is as Australian as a kangaroo or a meat pie, they are embedded forever in Australian rock history. Legends.
You mention AC/DC, well those two bands hit the Australian rock scene in the same year, they both went on to mega sucess though AC/DC went global while Chisel toured America and didn't like being away from home so they came back. They are both huge in Australia, but they drifted into solo careers. Jimmy Barnes the second singer in this clip went on to have the ten top selling albums in Australian history. While Ian Moss the guitarist and first singer is regarded as one of the best guitarists in the world with people like Joe Walsh comparing him to Eric Clapton. they are Australian icons and have been since about 1976.
This is why Chisel were just the absolute BEST live band. I have every one of their albums and love them, but seeing them live at various gigs, from small pub shows as "The Barking SpidersS" to their huge SEC concerts was transformative.
and this is just one of the many reasons why Cold Chisel are so very muched loved in Aaustralia I realised I have become jaded to great music, having grown up in Australia during the 70's and 80's - I take this type of music for granted. I love your initial reaction and then the full reaction
You should have seen these guys in the 80’s. They were freaking incredible. Great reaction. Go down the Aussie Rock rabbit hole, you’ll never want to leave 👏👏🥳
There is a Bow River in Ireland. Another in Canada. And there are three of them in Australia. The Bow River of the song is in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. There is a diamond mine at Bow River.
Chisel, live at Manly, 1980, Knocking On Heaven's Door. Moss's guitar and Walker's keyboards across the Aussie night, then Jimmy blasting out the final verse. Still makes my pores raise.
Funny that you mentioned they sounded a bit like Rose Tattoo or AC/DC... Cold Chisel and both those band used to hang out together and jam... also along with Midnight Oil....... (oh to be a fly on the wall for some of those jam sessions)
The lead guitarist and lead singer in this song is Ian Moss and the other singer is Jimmy Barnes. There are so many great song's from Cold Chisel for you to drool over and then you have a huge catalog from Jimmy Barnes's solo career which started in the 80,s and is still going today. Jimmy recently released two song's just after his 66th birthday Soothe Me with Sam Moore and Do you love me with Josh Teskey. He also just toured Australia and New Zealand performing his 30th anniversary of his Soul Deap album which is his highest selling album.
On sheer musicianship these guys are world class. I'm 43 when I was a teenager my preferred genre was metal. It only took hearing their song Cheap Wine once and I was hooked. What a band.
Imagine growing up in Sydney, Australia in the mid to late 70's when bands like Ac/DC, Cold Chisel, The Angels, Skyhooks, Rose Tattoo, Sherbet, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Richard Clapton, and many many more were playing the pubs and clubs. And I loved every second of it
They were in fact "The Days", amazing memories - and don't forget Hush!
And don't forget Mental as Anything, John Paul Young, Mi-Sex, Split Enz, Jon English Sharon O'Neill
@@micksearle6006 Great call Mick! It's a Sunday afternoon and to quote The Mentals - "the nips are getting bigger"🍸🍷 hahaha
@@micksearle6006
You forgot Normie Rowe, Ray Brown and the Whispers, Twilites...Little River Band
Masters Apprentice...
What a delight growing up in those times..the fashions, freedom and unfortunately our boys going to Vietnam.
My dad regretted buying me a small record player..and hearing these artist again and again.
My first 2 albums I bought was Billy Thorpe and Beach Boys..
Greets from Adelaide
Coogee bay hotel(celinas)..was a blast..
This genre my friends, is Aussie Pub Rock!
Had the pleasure of seeing them in pubs & clubs back in the day. Always the best Saturday night of your life. Yeah. They were part of the foundation of 'Aussie Pub Rock'
Hell yes it is!!! 😎😎😎
Too bloody right, mate!!
YES - thats the best thing and exactly what it was called - Aussie Pub Rock.
Scott Doyle, how lucky are we here in Australia. I used to follow Cold Chisel & John Farnham around the Melbourne pub circuit back in the day, can’t even express how great they were.
Cold Chisel is the greatest rock and roll band in the world.
This is not open for debate.
Nope no debate.
No,that is your opinion,many people have different opinions and taste in music.So they might be in your eyes and not in others
Jesus Maxy, read the room mate!
No debate.
No debate
This is one band that actually has 2 lead singers in it. Depending which song they sing. 🎤
David Blight is a harmonica virtuoso - inducted into the South Australian Music Hall of Fame in 2015
The effect is Dave.
pur talent this guy. Funny that the reactors think hes using some extra distortion.
This is Chris Wilson on harmonica not David...
I've tried checking this & can't find any reference to Chris playing with Chisel, so I'd really like to know why you're so sure. I believe this is from the 2003 Ringside Tour at the Hordern Pavilion. They do look alike, but that bald head def looks like David to me@@James-wj8eq
Plus Ian Moss working the feedback with it.
There are no effects on the harmonica. That is just talent.
Exactly! 😊
I swore there was no electronic add one, because bands just played freely. Technology wasn’t there.
Definitely effects on it. That doesn't take away from the talent though
No effects. This is Dave Blight.
Microphone. Thats the effect.
The harmonica player isn't running the sound through anything to get that sound, that's him making all of it. It's how you breath, pushing and suck the air through the harmonica you get the sounds.
Bending the notes.
He is definitely running it through a little distortion. James Moloney of The Detonators uses an over driven 100watt Fender guitar amp to get that effect, which is micd up to the PA.
WELCOME to Australian music.
There is a lot more the world hasn't heard or seen.
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We had the best of the very best.
Aussie rock and Aussie pubs
We lived in a magic time and magic place. SYDNEY AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺
@@richardmurphy164 melbourne was better for the music scene
In my opinion one of the most underrated bands on planet earth!
People have been running harmonica’s through amps since the 50”s in Chicago.
Bow River is probably Cold Chisel's greatest song. The magic is in the build of tension. It starts with Mossy's beautiful, clean voice. "Listen out to the wind, babe" As the momentum grows, we start to hear Barnsey, adding harmonies here and there. When the whole fire is blazing, Barnesy cuts loose, "One week two weeks, maybe even more, pissed all my money up against the damn wall". Spine chilling. He deserves a place at the table of rock's greatest vocalists.
Can you believe these guys struggled to get a gig outside Australia? Gives you some idea of the state of the music “industry”. It’s such sweet vindication watching reaction videos from people from all over the world have their heads explode when seeing this. This is what Australians grew up listening to in the 70s, 80s & 90s. Everyone thought we were a down under backwater!!!
there problem was they were so much better than the band s they were supporting no one would put them on
To be honest, in 30 yrs how many great tracks have they made? 10? I only like about 5 myself.
I like more tracks on one AC⚡️DC album
@@SirSSau AC/DC were my neighbours growing up (fact) so I don't really care how honest you're being. Cold Chisel are as good as any band in the world and better than most
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wtf are you going on about?
I’m just speaking my mind, on what I like or don’t, it’s no big deal.
wtf does AC⚡️DC being your neighbours have to do with it? Don’t care if you live with them- I’m talking individual taste.
Ya know - each to their own.
@@SirSSau exactly! wtf did you even mention ACDC for. I didn't ask for your opinion on AC/DC.
Welcome to "Aussie pub rock", the greatest music in the world . AC/DC, the Angels , Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, the Radiators, Rose Tattoo and many more. What a blessing to be a teenager growing up in Sydney in the 70's.
Growing up in oz mate lo,l not just Sydney 👌
And the 80's.
Ian Moss, (Mossy) and Jimmy Barnes (Barnsie) Cold Chisels, one of the great rock band in Australia.
Good of the sex pistols guitarist to acknowledge Aussie music😉😅😅
Same with growing up in Melbourne, a teenager in the 70’s who got to see AC/DC live with the brilliant Bon Scott at least 6 or 7 times in one year 74/75. Weekends were all about getting the Gig Guide (printed of course, no internet) to see which band was playing at which pub. Every weekend was a joy to be alive and we were spoilt for choice. For me, the best time musically to be alive and in Australia. Wish I could go back and do it all again ❤❤. Lots of people rave about the Sunset Strip in LA and that’s fine, but personally I think we had it even better here! So lucky!!
No distortion just one of the top harmonica players on the planet
And what Moss can't do on a guitar isn't worth doing.....when only the best.
David Blythe,Aussies best harp player,bar none!
@@bradbennett3778here it's Chris Wilson not David
If you want to hear some more Aussie 'pure gold' harmony than check out Jimmy Barnes (the second raspy-voiced singer in this song) and John Farnham singing, 'When Something Is Wrong With My Baby', along with Diesel. The best version is from a show named. "Hey, Hey, It's Saturday" and it's LIVE. It's fantastic!
Agreed! Best male duet ever (if you wanna call it that). Not to forget Diesel was playing guitar on that song and did harmonies on studio track too......
Yes the best version!
What about Johnny and Tom Jones duet singing 'My Yiddeshe Momme" on Hey Hey? That was epic!
Johnny Diesel is Jimmy Barnes brother-in-law and a legend in his own right.
Or chain ...
I think we tended to take it for granted back in the day. Who will we go and see this Saturday night? Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, Rose Tattoo, Sports, Men At Work, INXS, The Angels, Hunters and Collectors, Divinyls...and the list goes on. A lot of the great pubs and live venues we had here in Melbourne back then don't even exist anymore.
I wasn’t into the pub scene back then. Loved the music but only ever saw a proper concert or radio play. I did see Rose Tattoo in some dive in the western suburbs of Melbourne. I was trying to hook up with this girl who was into them. Interesting experience as I was very shy and naive and the Rose Tattoo crowd were very interesting. Never did get to hook up with that girl, probably a good thing now I think about it.
Mossy comes in with that gorgeous voice: “I’m about to tell you a story”
Harmonica guy: “Oh yeah? Well check this out!”
Mossy’s guitar solo: “But wait…”
Barnesy: “Hold my beer”
It’s all just perfect 🤌🏼
Exactly this! 👆🏼😂
So true 👍
Oh Megan 😂😂😂😂
Couldn't have put it better! 👏👏👏
My first conversion to Aussie music in the 80's my initiation in to Aus Rock. Still lovin it.
The most incredible fact about this song is that it was a live recording. No backing track, no layered recording - just a bunch of amazing musicians who know how to perform.
just another night at an Aussie pub
Growing up with these bands in Australia, we just think "yea that's Chisel they always sound like that" it's good honest rock & roll.
just good old reliable chisel, right? 👌🍻
Absolutely.... 100% 👍
Fuckin hey son. No truer words said.
Bow river in this song is a place in Australia's Kimberly region it is a tributary of the Ord river system that runs in to Lake Argyle. The singer Ian Moss is from the Northern Territory and he is singing about leaving his work at a car factory and running up north to the place he wants to be.
Ian explained he wrote the song originally using Todd River as the river and picked Bow River off a map as it sounded much better. He was back in his home town of Alice Springs and was telling his parents about it when he did so. Heard it from his lips at a gig in the Pilbara recently, which I may add was incredible.
We were the luckiest generation on the planet, no crap...I paid $2 to watch Cold Chisel play the Bondi RSL back in the day and they were backed up by The Divinyls... and I got laid that night. THE luckiest generation to have ever existed, Australia in the 1980's...spoiled for talent. X
Alice Springs boy!
Cold Chisel one of the greatest bands to come from Australia
NOT australia the world
Cold Chisel is one of the Best bands to come from anywhere! You need to
hear more of the stuff that they put out over 30 + years to have an idea of what they could do.
THE greatest!...
If you think that harmonica playing was good, look up John Farnhams concert track 'Chain Reaction' it starts with a two to three minute intro (Awesome). Also John and Jimmy Barnes have been good friends for years look up a track called 'Somethings wrong with my baby' preferably a live concert version (there is about 4 different UA-cam video's) believe me you will not be disappointed! Finally I don't know what you have all been doing for the past 30 to 40 years, but here in Australia we have been rocking it!
Wayne I was about to write the same thing. The harmonica solo from the live performance of Chain Reaction from The Chain Reaction Concert is incredible. The studio version only has a minor solo.
And down the Australian musical legend 🙌 rabbit hole 🕳 they go ... 🤣
Enjoy the ride. Proud Aussie smiling at these reactions.
The maniac at the grand piano is Mr. Don Walker. He wrote most of their songs. He was also a rocket scientist at the Woomera missile range here in Oz. Catch him in Tex, Don and Charlie for more fantastic music.
There was an entire multi-decade period in which Australian audiences were more deeply enamoured with home-made Australian rock than they were with American/Brit rock.
Aussie pubs were the heart and soul of the local music industry, and the best of them were packed with 'punters' every single week. There are so many bands and solo performers in the glory days of this period and I would bet you would know a lot of them: Cold Chisel, Little River Band, ACDC, The Angels, Radiators, Divinyls, and dozens of others. Being a teenagers during this period was several shades of awesome.
Never heard of cold chisel before ! Comment of the year.... look further then people ! Adelaide bands fn rock the world ...
He'll yeh,,,, Adelaide born 58' So my teens and early 20's were just musically Amazing,
Jimmy Barnes (backing vocals in this song, but usually lead) and Ian Moss (guitar & vocals) are living legends in Australia. AC DC are much better known, but the Chisels are foundation era Aussie rock.
I first saw a very young and raw Cold Chisel play live while attending uni in Sydney in , er 1970 something (ahem) - they blew my mind!
Another great Aussie band you should check out is Midnight Oil.
We gave the world ACDC and kept the best for ourselves
Chisels are NOT foundation era, Masters Apprentices, Billy and the Aztecs, early Acca Dacca, LRB, The Strangers, Zoot, Max Merrit and the Meteors, Chain, The Loved Ones, Healing Force, these were more foundation bands. Having said that, Chisels are Legends
@@markhill9275 add The Easybeats to the top of that list
@@Timbohdia oops yes! Definitely, they and The Seekers were the trailblazers for Aussies.
Barnsey isn't backing vocals here, he's second lead
Welcome to Cold Chisel, love seeing people's reactions to this song. Because as an Aussie and a massive Chisel fan I've heard this song 100s of times and know what's coming, but still love to see your reactions. The harmonica player has played with the band for over 40years and is only a guest player( does tours/live shows and the occasional track on albums) he's a master at his craft, call and respond that he and Mossy(guitarist) can put into a live show is awesome(usually the intro to Bow River)
Hey what an era of Australian music we have been blessed with ...... Chisel, Farnham, Aussie Crawl, Diesel, ACDC, INXS, and on and on and on
Aussie Rock brother. This is Australia's greatest ever Rock band behind only AC/DC. Oh and they've been doing it for 40yrs. Jimmy Barnes is in he 70's now. Check out Jimmy Barnes and Joe Bonamassa stone cold you won't be sorry. Davie Blight on harmonica.
@@hawkwood2325 i thinj theyre far superior to acdc.
Imagine seeing Chisel back in the day at the Largs Pier Hotel where they started here in Adelaide! Epic!
@@hawkwood2325 Cold CHisel beats AC/DC. They are simply more versatile. ACDC have one song imo
Cold Chisel are the GOAT of rock bands! 🇦🇺👏👏👏👏
Check out Cold Chisel “Wild Thing” live. It will blow your mind.
YES, definitely do Wild Thing!!!
Absolutely a must!
Yep I’ve got it on a 12” vinyl EP
YES.
You might be following an algorithm, but this is a band you will love if you follow the rabbit hole.
So much see - next step ..............'Wild Thing' - Cold Chisel (live on The Last Stand).
Will blow your mind..
Cold Chisel (and Barnsey) are from my hometown of Adelaide, South Australia.
Thats my mate Dave Blight playing harmonica, plays the best harp solo in Oz Rock. No FX apartr from a little drive/distortion. The tremelo etc is played by him with his mouth..
Also a wonderful guy who regularly jams around Adelaide.
And yeah these guys rocked with AC/DC MANY times..
Would swear that's Chris Wilson on the Harmonica
@@James-wj8eq nope. Dave Blight was always Chisel's harp player. One of the best inn the world. Still gigs here in Adelaide.
Cold Chisel had some success with the album East in the USA (Top 50 I think) but producers then wanted them to alter their style to suit American taste. They of course told them to get stuffed and then made their most Australian album ever - Circus Animals. The song You got Nothing I want is about the American music industry. And Bow River is on that album.
Dave Blight is the harmonica player, an absolute legend of a bloke
Welcome to my childhood, 20's, 30's and now my 40's. Still love this song.
Subbed after THE VOICE reaction ,am falling in love with Australian bands
Just jiving ya , I am Australian lol
They split up years before this and this was on their reunion tour years later. Middle aged, killing it. They were having fun on this tour.
Now you know what good old Aussie rock is.
Take the advice of others and react to ‘wild thing’, make sure it is the 1983 version not the 1982 one, cover that version for us and ya’s win my subscription 👍🏻
I'm glad our South African cousins across the ocean are getting to see some of our amazing music.
Great reaction! You might like to listen to their rendition of 'Wild Thing'. Also, Lead singer Jimmy Barnes does an awesome duet with John Farnham, 'When something is wrong with my baby'. The guitar on that is just insane.
NOT the one from Germany ! But the live Aussie version where Jimmy is hammered but still amazing - about like he was at the end of every live concert back then ............ the vodka and beer would do that. Glad he is straight now and caring for himself health-wise or we would have missed out on so much of his great music in later years
@@bigs1546 shows just how tight the band is. They never knew what Jimmy would do
Some good old Aussie talent formed in the 1970’s and still going (with some brief interludes) ❤️🤘🎸🇦🇺
Best use of a harmonica in a rock song ever!!
The Barking Spiders live album gives an idea what Cold Chisel is really like.
I think there are several places in Australia called Bow River, but I think the one referenced in this song is the Bow River cattle station in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and I also think guitarist Ian Moss's brother worked there for a while. This is, by far, one of my favourite Chisel songs, beaten into second place by "Breakfast At Sweethearts" and only because I'm a jazz fan and Cold Chisel very nearly tipped themselves into some cool jazz with that tune! 😂
Classic Australian Pub rock, our musicians have no option if they aren't fabulous live they don't survive lol.
This!
Never fails, Aussie Pub Rock royalty right there.
Saw them live many times, they never failed to blow my mind.
Saw Mossy, together with Troy Cassar Daly live at the Red Hot Summer Festival 2 years ago, still just as good as what he was 50 years ago.
We're s lucky to still have so many brilliant musicians in Australia.
So glad you have tried this. Jimmy Barnes, the lead singer also has an amazing repertoire of his own songs. Well worth checking out.
Welcome to the magic that is Cold Chisel and Jimmy Barnes!! 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮👍👍👍
Best line-" piss all my money up against the damm wall "
my favourite line as well, how true though back in the day! 😎🍺
No effects back then, just circular breathing and extreme talent. Aussie Rock of the 80s at its finest - love it!
Cold Chisel...just Epic! And no effect, its how he played the harmonica. And have you listened to Flame Trees. Great song!
''Pissing all my money up against the wall''...classic
You also need to keep in mind they are all in their 50's in this performance. Wind the clock back 25 years and have a listen.
Welcome to 'Chisel' guys - we're gifted with these guys here in 'Aus'... Guest 'harp' player on this track is Davie Blight - the best !!
They guy's name is David Blight, I used to work with his sister in law. David was very much part of the furniture with Cold Chisel and I've taken for granted just how good he is. Your reaction has made me pay more attention to Dave's talent, thank you.
Of course the talents of Barnsey, Mossy, Don etc are also well appreciated.
R.I.P. Steve Prestwich - never forgotten!
(Check out 'When the War is over')
harmonica, that was normal with the pub bands of the 1970's in Australia.
From memory this a dig at usa recording companies trying to control them and they told them to stick it and come home
Why he sings about at beginning water their Aussie's and came home wrote this to stick it to the recording companies in usa
By the way ledgen band here in Australia
Music is music... The only thing that limits it, is the desire to push boundaries...
Really, never heard of Cold chisel? they are Legends.
You blokes sound to be Sth African, and us Aussies love our cousins!
The harmonica thing is called a Blues Harp. A small harmonica, ten blow holes. You might want to check out a guy called Charlie Musselwhite. He played the harp on the INXS song Suicide Blonde.
Then move on to guys like James Cotton, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Paul Butterfield, Rick Estrin.
And I can't believe you've never come across good harp before.... :-)
Aussie music in the 60 and 70s was done the hard way. Playing pubs, counry halls, clubs... gritty sweaty dirty... up close and very personal. Every dollar was hard earned and drunk even harder. Chisel was was one of many in bands from blues to country, jazz to heavy metal and all in-between. The big money from Europe and the States gave them the promotion and the nsme, but Aussie music from that era is the best because it came from the sheds, pubs and was accessible to everyone. Just look at chisel contemporaries like the oils, sunnyboys, Aussie crawl, Billy thorpe
Love seeing all my fellow Aussies in the comment section!
@6:20 ish LOL Mossy wasn't even the lead singer of the band. Barnsey, who's doing the harmonies was.
Fantastic reaction! Cold chisel are the best! The best!! Wild thing you need to see! Need. To. See.
Check out ian moss aswell he did a solo album called tuckers daughter, im sure youll be impressed, imo ian moss was Cold chisel ...
You can see how spoilt we Australians have been for great music over the years!! Have seen Cold Chisel twice, brilliant!!
as a guitar fan the best two videos undeniably are both australian, tommy emmanuel doing classical gas, and john butler doing ocean, both will rock your world
Yes....glad you mentioned Tommy. Doesn't get enough credit. Cheers 👍
Cold Chisel and ACDC are The classic Aussie pub rock band and they're still massive in Australia, Chisel rocked hard, Played Hard and Indulged Hard Jimmy Barnes (the guy in the black T-Shirt singing) famously admitted he used to do 10 grams of Cocaine, six to eight ecstasy and three bottle of Vodka a day, they fortunately cleaned up their act. These guy play working man rock their songs were about the working man like Bow River a song about working all week and heading out on the weekend. They also produced one of the three great Aussie songs about war Khe Sanh a song about a man coming back from Vietnam a hard rock classic. pick just about any of their music and you will get a mind blowing mix of rock and blue. You need to check out more of their stuff
You have just been introduced to another Aussie rock secret of Cold Chisel. Lead singer Jimmy Barnes (microphone) and Ian Moss singer/ lead guitar and Dave Blight is on harmonica. There are so many great Cold Chisel songs to react to. Jimmy Barnes also sings with John Farnham that you learnt about recently.
I am 64 years young and grew up in this time and place, where these bands performed daily for a living. The Australian band scene performing nightly in pubs and clubs with bands such as this, Noiseworks, 1927, Midnight Oil, Icehouse, INXS, Air Supply, Little River Band, Uncanny Xmen, Australian Crawl, Mondo Rock, Models, ACDC, Rose Tattoo, Split Enz, Wendy and the Rockets, The Angels, Goanna, and many, many more too numerous to mention, Plus individual artists like John English, Kate Ceberano, John Paul Young and the master of them all John Farnham - What a great time to be enjoying their talents. Thank you very much to any and all that I have seen through those wonderful years. - It is a great thing to look back and appreciate the good old days, but I must resign myself to the fact that the artists of today will be the memories of the good old days of our kids and grandkids. - Such is life.
The lead singer in this particular song (Ian Moss) does an acoustic version of Bow River, check it out…another different level again.
I couldn’t be more proud to be an Aussie than I am at this moment. Bow River by Cold Chisel is the best ever live band song played.
Ironically Bow River is a dry creekbed in the middle of Australia near where the lead guitarist/singer Ian Moss grew up.
WooHoo !!! Glad you guys enjoyed one of Australia's legendary pub rock bands, Cold Chisel !!!!!! They have many many more tracks you would love 😁 As you will see from the comments all great suggestions will come your way, Thank you again for the awesome reaction guy's 👏👏👏
Cold Chisel, the world's greatest pub band.
This is Mossy's finest work. I've seen this song worked so many ways live. The Chisel boys going flat out, Mossy doing a slow solo acoustic or Mossy and his touring band playing it.
I saw the boys here in Canberra right at the end of the bushfires a couple of years back. Hot night in the Capital but the old farts rocked hard.
Apart from the sad passing of Steve Prestwich, they have remained the same line up.
Don Walker is the highest ranking musician within the band, he got it started, penned so many songs and melodies, legend.
Brilliant. Appreciate the info. They are Phenomenal. Love them.
I can,t believe you have not heard more harmonica playing . Aussie music has always been some of the best in the world .
I have been loving this band since I was 12. I’m now nearly 55. They will never grow old. Music for my lifetime.
I used to see them live in small clubs in the early 80s. that was an epic time for pub rock.
Unless your standing in front of the speakers like I did couldn’t sleep that night.
💥BOOM💥 you’re welcome .. Aussie music at its finest👌
I love watching you guys react to our mind bending Aussie talent. I grew up with ACDC, Cold Chisel, John Farnham and the like. Our music scene is second to none. Try some earlier Rock Gods, like Russell Morris and his Wings of an Eagle. His music in the 70s was and is still amazing, and Russ just continues to extend and reinvent himself. Thankyou for your channel ... Seeing your reactions to music we may take for granted, lets us rediscover our musical addictions for the first time all over again! ❤️🇦🇺
Just another Saturday night in the era of the best pub scene anywhere in the world in Australia in the 80's/90's.
The very best band ever and from the hints that are being dropped, there'll be a tour announcement made VERY soon. I used the "the money I save won't buy my youth again" line in my retirement letter 4 years ago and I got to see Chisel at Glenelg a week or so later and then again at Tauranga on the day after my 65th birthday in Feb 2020. I've met Jimmy heaps of times in recent years and have met and had a chat with Mossy a few time in the last couple of years. I told him that I'd used a line from Bow River in my retirement letter. He thought that was pretty cool.
Australian rock royalty. I grew up with Chisel. These were working class guys who wrote working class anthems and we loved them. Chisel is as Australian as a kangaroo or a meat pie, they are embedded forever in Australian rock history. Legends.
You mention AC/DC, well those two bands hit the Australian rock scene in the same year, they both went on to mega sucess though AC/DC went global while Chisel toured America and didn't like being away from home so they came back. They are both huge in Australia, but they drifted into solo careers. Jimmy Barnes the second singer in this clip went on to have the ten top selling albums in Australian history. While Ian Moss the guitarist and first singer is regarded as one of the best guitarists in the world with people like Joe Walsh comparing him to Eric Clapton. they are Australian icons and have been since about 1976.
This is why Chisel were just the absolute BEST live band. I have every one of their albums and love them, but seeing them live at various gigs, from small pub shows as "The Barking SpidersS" to their huge SEC concerts was transformative.
and this is just one of the many reasons why Cold Chisel are so very muched loved in Aaustralia
I realised I have become jaded to great music, having grown up in Australia during the 70's and 80's - I take this type of music for granted. I love your initial reaction and then the full reaction
You should have seen these guys in the 80’s. They were freaking incredible. Great reaction. Go down the Aussie Rock rabbit hole, you’ll never want to leave 👏👏🥳
Can't go wrong with Chisel!
This song could be our national anthem. This band, eternal aussie legends. Their songs - always for the working class.
Some of the best concerts i seen are by our Aussie bands.
There is a Bow River in Ireland. Another in Canada. And there are three of them in Australia. The Bow River of the song is in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. There is a diamond mine at Bow River.
Chisel, live at Manly, 1980, Knocking On Heaven's Door.
Moss's guitar and Walker's keyboards across the Aussie night, then Jimmy blasting out the final verse. Still makes my pores raise.
Funny that you mentioned they sounded a bit like Rose Tattoo or AC/DC... Cold Chisel and both those band used to hang out together and jam... also along with Midnight Oil....... (oh to be a fly on the wall for some of those jam sessions)
Classic Aussie rock, perfected in dirty, sweaty pubs for years and years.
The lead guitarist and lead singer in this song is Ian Moss and the other singer is Jimmy Barnes. There are so many great song's from Cold Chisel for you to drool over and then you have a huge catalog from Jimmy Barnes's solo career which started in the 80,s and is still going today. Jimmy recently released two song's just after his 66th birthday Soothe Me with Sam Moore and Do you love me with Josh Teskey. He also just toured Australia and New Zealand performing his 30th anniversary of his Soul Deap album which is his highest selling album.
One of my all time favourite Aussie bands I have been to numerous gigs over the years I love Jimmy Barnes and saw him last year and he still has it
On sheer musicianship these guys are world class. I'm 43 when I was a teenager my preferred genre was metal. It only took hearing their song Cheap Wine once and I was hooked. What a band.
That is why they are God's in Australia and New Zealand.