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Tag Archives: cold chisel
long forgotten dockside guarantees
I understand that Cold Chisel is playing in town tonight. Somehow in my bones I knew this before I knew this, I just felt that Don Walker was near. All through today an elegiac tone droned behind and below me. … Continue reading
Posted in things belonging to the emperor, Tracks
Tagged cold chisel, don walker, Khe Sanh
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something to talk about
Legend has it Don Walker hitchhiked the trans-Siberian highway but I think that is mostly bollocks, the general consensus is that he spent a lot of the time drinking his royalties away but this too is pretty questionable. Don Walker … Continue reading
nick of time
For Cold Chisel Don Walker was mostly the silent brooding beer drinker at the rear banging away on an electric piano (I always thought this was a moment of Ray Charles hommage) but he wrote most of the songs and … Continue reading
thinking ’bout a love letter
Don Walker was once a star. He was once screamed at by teenage girls with damp knickers and no sense. He played in sell out tours and was on the television all the time. Not that he was really a … Continue reading