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unusual facts about Cold Chisel


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Flame Trees is a song by Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel from their 1984 album Twentieth Century.


Australian pub

Many significant Australian groups of the 1970s and 1980s – including AC/DC, Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, The Choirboys and INXS – spent their formative years playing on the pub circuit.

Innocent Bystanders

Their Monday night residences at the Herdsman Hotel drew crowds of over 250 people, many of them music industry types there to listen to this powerful Australian band heavily influenced by Cold Chisel and Bruce Springsteen.

Tex, Don and Charlie

Tex, Don and Charlie is an Australian super group formed by Tex Perkins from The Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon and others, Don Walker from Cold Chisel and widely respected guitarist Charlie Owen.

The Choir of Hard Knocks

A self-titled companion CD to the series was released containing traditional songs such as Amazing Grace and Silent Night as well as pop songs such as Flame Trees by Cold Chisel and Hallelujah written by Leonard Cohen.

You're Sixteen

A reference to "You're Sixteen" is made in the title of Cold Chisel's EP You're Thirteen, You're Beautiful, and You're Mine.


see also

Graver

Burin (French burin, "cold chisel"), a tool used in the art of engravery

Ray Arnott

Cold Chisel frontman Jim Barnes took on Arnott for his first two solo releases, the Bodyswerve album in 1984 and For the Working Class Man album in 1985.

Richard Batchens

He also produced some of the early Cold Chisel material, including the single "Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)" and their second album Breakfast at Sweethearts.

Robert Hambling

He is particularly noted for his work with Silverchair's Diorama (2002), and Cold Chisel's The Last Wave of Summer (1998) and Ringside (2003).