Such a great song Chisel just knew how to reach the everyday people and how everyday like was. The shades of their music are so varied and just hit the right tone. So pleased their music can reach the world now because the rest of the world has missed out on one of the best bands ever.
One of Chisels best. Fun fact: i saw Keith Urban (country singer) live in 2011 and he started singing flame trees and every person in the audience sang along. Even country music fans know the words to chisel songs
Ha, just watching this, I was at this concert in Melbourne, Festival Hall i believe, You're correct with the fans, we know every bloody song and so does the younger generation from us. THis concert produced so many brilliant live songs including the very watched Bow River.
This is a fantastic reaction to Straya's greatest ever band. Their music never gets old, I'm second generation Chisel fans as my parents were first generation, I've passed it to a third generation & hopefully a forth.
You may not know this, but after Cold Chisel split up in 1983, Jimmy Barnes began a solo career that is still going. The most successful member of Cold Chisel by far, he has had more no1 albums (Cold Chisel & solo) in Australia than any other artist. Early on in his solo career he recorded an album of soul covers (just for fun) which was so successful that he did it 3 more times. Cold Chisel has reformed for a new album (and toured) 3 times since the breakup in '83 and has performed in other one-off events.
I think this is one of Jimmy's best vocal performances. He really show-cased his bag of skills how he played with his pitch,frasing,and creativity around the melody while remaining faithful to what we all know. A Master class of class!👍 Zebedee from Oz.👍 Nice one mate!👍
Such an awesome band, this one reminds of Bruce Springsteen kind of, beautiful lyrics ( real life) sentimental bullshit I like that. Awesome Aussie band!! Thank You Rory and thank you Sarge for requesting this, its awesome!! 😊💓🤘✌️🔥 I LOVE LIVE!!
If you get a chance Rory, google this “flame trees, Grafton” and look at the images. There’s even a Flame Trees cafe there 😂 Don Walker (the clean cut boy on keyboards) grew up around there and this was his inspiration for the lyrics (the man is a brilliant songwriter). Steve Prestwich, RIP, drummer, wrote the score for this song. Just brilliant, all of them.
Haha Kappy, I did just that and look amazing. As a child I loved this song(and ofc still do) but young me always thought the flame trees were the burning cane fields...I blame Gangajan 😂
Mate, you actually “get” Cold Chisel….that’s how it is, this band means so much so so many people. I tear up everything e I hear it as I have lived abroad for 23 years and miss my mates.
JIMMMAAAAY!!!!! Flame trees❤❤❤ Tears... everytime... Who needs that sentimental bullshit anyway!!?❤❤❤❤❤Do you remember....?👍🇭🇲 Now you've got to listen to When the War is Over and Khe Sahn👍👍👍 Cold Chisel...one of THE BEST Aussie pub bands EVER!!!❤❤❤🇭🇲🇭🇲
Not heard this at all before so thank you so I then took a peek and learned he was a Scottsman with an Aussie pub band from the early 70s)... his vocals zigged and zagged into and over this gentle meloday - lovely combo.
@lmt- do yourself a big favour and watch this song live from the 1983 last stand concert, you will never hear a better vocal delivery than the one from that concert= enjoy👍🏻👍🏻
The recommendation from Rob might be good, haven’t seen it, but I prefer the sober Jimmy and the Jimmy Barnes Flesh and Wood concert with an intimate setting is very fine. And he can still get away with the lyrics of this song despite his age.
It’s a great song but when I hear it it feel like it was meant for the likes of me who left a small town for a bigger one and felt all of those things when I went home to visit. I’m no expert but I imagine Rory has always lived in London, so I like that he gets it.
Jimmy moved to Australia as a 10 year old kid to Adelaide. If it wasn't for his family moving Straya & the Chisel boys he would never have made it. Like the Young brothers from ACCA DACCA. If they didn't immigrate to Straya from Scotland as kids as ten pound poms then they would never have made it either. The Aussie music industry gave them the chance to succeed. If likes of Chisel & ACCA DACCA didn't survive the brutal Aussie pub scene no music execs in Straya would've signed them. The Aussie pub scene is the pass or fail that the Aussie music industry actually listens to as the pub is the core of the Aussie lifestyle
You should see the whole concert. It was fire. I love love love Cold Chisel and always will. So versatile and they just have a huge catalogue of brilliant music.
I really like the way you react mate! My son is your age I reckon and grew up on it! Welcome to best music ever! Red Hot summer Tour is the last time will ever see these guys live again! Goes off!
Well and truly mate, much much better live. This one is from 2003 which is 20 years after the original studio recording. The band was 'disbanded' for 15 years from 1983 until the 1998 reunion. This show from 2003 was the next reunion again and sadly the last tour that Steve (the drummer and writer of this song) was a part of RIP. The fans had 15 years of listening to and discovering their catalogue (I was just a few years old by the time they broke up) but everyone was just so excited to have them back. Can see all age groups at their shows and they're all singing along from 20 year olds to 60 year olds. The shows now are musically brilliant stil,l but nowhere near as wild and unpredictable as when they were younger
Flame Trees is so full of longing for me. Another is White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin, which encapsulates how about 80% of Aussies feel about and experience Christmas. It’s way more about family, and making it to see family you haven’t seen in a long time, than it is about religion and Christianity, although a lot of us go to church that one day of the year to make other family members happy. Then there is How To Make Gravy by Paul Kelly, another Christmas song of longing, edged with more wistfulness, sadness and worry, as it is sung from the perspective of a man in prison over Christmastime.
As a Brit that's loves Cold Chisel this is a special song for me. We played it at our wedding... but who needs that sentimental bullshit anyway... Anyway looking through your reactions you have quite a bit of Chisel and Chris Cornell, you would have loved Hyde Park in 2014, both on the same bill. One of the best and unlikely lineups at a UK gig, but amazing. Keep it up , good stuff.
I was unfamiliar with Cold Chisel (had to check & saw it was an Australian pub band from the early 70s). The vocals seemed to rise above the mellow melodic instrumental - lovely contrast. Quite lovely. Editing this as I learned he was Scottish...now I make the connection to another Aussie pub band led by a different sort of Scottman, Men At Work. COLIN HAY is still standing and what music he has made since. Some gentle melancholy giants among them like WAITING IN THE RAIN, ROMEO/PRISON TIME (both e-town LIVE) and DEAR FATHER (LaundroMatinee LIVE at The Pop Machine). Terrific documentary on him - "Waiting for My Real Life."
I love this concert. All of the songs are amazing especially Bow River and When the War is Over. I wish I'd been there. Great reaction mate. You'll find that John Farnham is also best reacted to live and his connection to the audience is legendary. Check out Help with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Greatest Australian pub band ever... better than ACDC, INXS & many other great Australian bands... everyone in Australia love Jimmy Barnes he's the greatest vocalist ever
