I remember watching this and I probably taped it too. Extra special as my first Jimmy solo gig was on this tour at the Hordern Pavilion Feb 2nd 1985! I still have the ticket. I just checked, I was at this show as I found the tickets. Thursday 16th May 1985, Eurogliders supported.🤘
Thanks for loading this i was at this concert at the Ent Cent o e of the best I’ve been to Barnsey went off Swany and the Party Boys opened they were Fuckn awesome to and came out with Barnsey for the encore There with the Cloey boys spang bird reg demo pity the old Ent Cent is gone now so many good memories there cheers 👍
Wow in this vid/gig Jimmy Barnes vocals were some of the best of his entire career make no error people - this is as great as it gets - this is Barnesy at his brilliant utter BEST - as are his band - and I'm biased as I believe this crew was his best lineup. His opening track 'Boys Cry Out For War' was written after his wife Jane got Jimmy in to reading books so she got him a copy of 'Lord Of The Flies' by William Golding. From his memoir 'Working Class Man ' - p259 'The story was about society breaking down and violence taking over. I could relate to that easily enough. I'd lived it, so I devoured it, read it in a couple of days. I remember as soon as I finished it I went in to my studio - (Jimmy & Jane's first own home - wooden cottage farmhouse on an old farm, was about 100kms from Sydney in the Southern Highlands at Bowral - local hill named Mount Gibraltar was close by - the front bedroom of the cottage was too small for a real bedroom so Jimmy claimed it for his studio - p252 - it might have been part of the front porch at one time but someone decided long before I had got here that a house with three bedrooms would sell for more money than a house with two, so they put up a couple of badly constructed walls, and there it was, a third bedroom). Back to the song 'Boys Cry Out For War' - p259 - 'I was angry and wanted a guitar riff that showed how angry I was. The song was a simple grinding assault on the senses. I could hear how the band would play it live, intense and loud like a battering ram. This was the sort of music I wanted to write'. And he was spot on according to this vid in my opinion. I first saw Cold Chisel live over here in New Zealand on 24 September 1983 at The Dunedin Town Hall - I was 19. The gig went off even though the band was at the end of its career. I then saw Jimmy Barnes play live at the same venue on 11 July 1986 - and that gig also went off big time. Although I loved both gigs, I actually easily preferred Jimmy Barnes gig as I preferred the heavier more meaty sound and Barnes was on fire - at his PRIME BEST in my opinion. But hey lets not forget his band - as they backed him up utterly superbly. I was 22 and pumping as well as I was a competitive amateur senior road cyclist and ran marathons as well - I was fit as. However that all came to a shuddering halt in 1990 when I had my near-death motorcycle accident aged 25 - ultimately I lost my entire left leg, left hip, and left side of my pelvis, plus I suffered numerous other internal injuries as well. My Intensive Care nurses put my Walkman headphones on me and I pushed the play button. Guess what song came in to the headphones? Jimmy Barnes 'Working Class Man'. I wept because at the time I thought I'd never be able to work another day in my life. I had completely lost my identity due to my accident and becoming an amputee. However I did eventually return to the work force. And I also became the World's Fastest A.K.A. (above knee amputee) over the Marathon using crutches on my one good leg. My time of 5 hours 58 minutes 13 seconds set in the Christchurch NZ Marathon in 1994 remained unbeaten for 19 years. My wife and I traveled to the 2015 V8 Supercars Gold Coast 600 at Surfers Paradise - I'd never been to Surfers P. We also got tickets to see Cold Chisel play at Broadwater. Man did Chisel crank up that evening. I enjoyed the gig even better than when I first saw them in 1983! My wife and I also saw Jimmy Barnes live at the Invercargill Civic Theater NZ as part of his Working Class Man tour - as per usual he was brilliant. Thank you thank you thank you Jimmy Barnes for your awesome musical talents. I also wish you well on your new journey of healing from your horrific childhood. We have something in common - we have experienced a bit of adversity in our lives - and survived. Best wishes to you always. Leighton S. (New Zealand)
Hey leighton thanks for sharing that You’ve definitely had your challenges in life and climbed the mountain you must be proud of what you’ve achieved you sound like a very inspiring fella I was actually at this concert and can’t believe I found it on YT it was a ball tearer I was 17 to my misfortune I never saw chisel but love em I’m 54 now seems like yesterday Keep on rockin buddy 👍
@@PP-gy8gg Thank you so much for your kind words I appreciate it. Every day above ground is a bonus. Thankfully I have the best kind, loyal, supporting, and loving wife anybody could possibly have. Best wishes to you sir. Leighton.
Never should have dumped this band. I saw him a couple of years later with his US session musos and they did not have the same chemistry. Mal Eastick is a shit hot player.
This is the sort of stuff I loved Jimmy for. Not that soul shit that he ended up doing. Can't stand his evolution. I know heaps of people will disagree, but I don't care. I think Jimmy was born to rock. Not to soul.
It's not on the market unfornuately mate, my old man recorded it on vhs in 85, then was re released for a short period of time for the 20th anniversary of the for the working class man album in 2005, sorry mate.
