Tag Archives: don walker

a sense of north

Posted on March 2, 2014 by rustichello

I’ve been to a couple of gigs lately, Don Walker and Bruce Springsteen. Both were supporting new albums that no-one is really that fussed about. Bruce played in front of one hundred thousand or so, and charged a couple of … Continue reading →

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Don

Posted on May 7, 2012 by rustichello

I had a particularly satisfying conversation in the car yesterday with Sputnik, after wandering up and down a local strip mall buying a new dishwasher, about Don Walker (to be known, forthwith, eponymously, as Don). She asked, quite reasonably, why … Continue reading →

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long forgotten dockside guarantees

Posted on November 10, 2011 by rustichello

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 →

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Harry was a Bad Bugger

Posted on February 17, 2011 by rustichello

Dr Sternlove has, in the past, made unkind remarks about one of my favourite washing up songs: Don Walker’s “Harry was a Bad Bugger.” As she hears it the song comes right out of the “what’s that skip? There are … Continue reading →

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something to talk about

Posted on August 13, 2010 by rustichello

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 →

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nick of time

Posted on August 13, 2010 by rustichello

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 →

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thinking ’bout a love letter

Posted on August 12, 2010 by rustichello

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 →

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