“Jimmy with the scruff” It’s often difficult for first timers to grasp the actual words, but he’s singing about that scruff. “Got my cheap wine and a three day growth”
There are iconic poets from the19th century who are household names like Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. I was listening to a documentary and one of the interviewees nailed it. Cold Chisel were those poets equals and their songs will live in Australian history forever.
I remember watching this on countdown and thinking Wow they can sing about heroin overdoses in a pop song now !! I’m amazed what a great songwriter Don Walker is to put that in and get it still played on mainstream radio.
You haven’t done Chisel for a while - great memories of this song back in the day. You still have so much more to discover Great reaction to a great song.
Especially those who weren't born in Australia, like Jimmy, John Farnham, Glenn Shorrock, Olivia Newton-John, Keith Urban, Bon Scott, the Gibb brothers, the Young brothers, Billy Thorpe etc.
@@JohnHF1957all raised in Australia though, and consider themselves to be Aussies!! It’s not where you’re born but where you get your influence that matters!
@karenglenn- I was going to write something 90% the same as you wrote before I read the two responses but seen you beat me to it= great minds think alike🤣👍🏻
@@karenglenn6707 Well, those influences came from American and British groups and some of those mentioned didn't become Australian citizens. So, how does that fit into your case? PS The Gibb brothers formed their group before they migrated to Australia, didn't get Australian citizenship or consider themselves to be Aussies, lived in Australia for less than ten years and spent most of their time after 1974 in the USA. Plus, most of those mentioned were at least ten years old when they migrated, so that isn't really "raised in Australia".
Just discovered your channel. I was ten when this song was released. It's been with me ever since. I have loved it ever since. It's almost Australian poetry.
Hi Travis and Suzie, love your reactions to Aussie artists, especially Chisel. Have just come back from seeing these legends live on their 50th Anniversary tour in Armidale where they started all those years ago!! They were amazing as usual. Jimmy sounded so so good and so much respect for the care and compassion he showed to the lady up the front that had a heartattack during show and had to be removed. Happy to say they played cheap wine and having watched your reaction earlier in the morning it was extra special reflecting back to the young Jimmy and now the 68year Jimmy. Hope you get to see some footage from the tour along the way. Take care guys 🤟 Renee
I am off to see them in Perth on 19th October 2024, on their 50th anniversary tour. I am sorry to hear about the lady having medical problems at their concert. My thoughts go out to her, and I hope her recovery is going well. ❤
As Molly Meldrum (look him up) used to say, "Do yourself a favour" and listen to the album East that this song came from. IMO the greatest Australian album ever.
Khe Sanh is Vietnamese, so it's about the Vietnam war! Soo love this tune and mood, a sing a long for sure, that I haven't heard for years! Thanks for posting this song! Jimmy started up from the hard streets with a few mates, luckily he met his wife, and then his family base has matured his music and his ability to really be himself! We love all of his amazing transformations! 💕🤗💜
Saw their Barking Spiders gig last night at Anita’s. Great set list. Jimmy said he was taped up like a tennis ball so fingers crossed he lasts the whole tour.
Ooooooo skippy royalty! Genuinely hope you delve further into the Chisel rabbit hole... won't compare em to anyone, just discover and be astounded, truly. X
An early hit for "Chisel" and one of my favourites was "Breakfast at Sweethearts", I always liked that one. In Chisel's early days, before any record contracts, the band actually fired Jimmy because they weren't happy with his singing, and they hired his brother (John Swan), Jimmy wanted it so bad that he went and got singing lessons so he could get his gig back.
Yep, lived through those days as a young guy. This was filmed in an apartment in a more salubrious area of Sydney (Elizabeth Bay). They would have "trashed" it for the video only. However many university students would recognise the student and musician style of living at that time - cheap mismatched furniture, mattress on the floor, clothes strewn everywhere, etc. Goes to the lyrics. And just keep an eye on the details, e.g. what does Jimmy's T-shirt say.
Has anyone seen their cheeky photo Chisel and Jimmy put up on Facebook? Jimmy on drums, Charley Drayton on keys, Don on Guitar, Ian on bass, and Phil on lead vocals 😂.....I think they could smash it, but I still need to hear Jimmy and Ian on vocals. Can't wait to see them live 19th October 2024. Don't you love the way he puts that shirt on????? 4:10
Attended the Barking Spiders show last night. Barking Spiders is a name Cold Chisel use when doing a pre tour warm up gig. Anyone with tickets to to a tour show will be very happy with what they see. A 2 hour set covering many of their great songs and some that they haven't played live in a while. The tou proper kicks off this saturday.
I knew about it , but I'm in Radelaide and not Sydney. , rock on guys and thank you for all you reactions over the years as you have been learning about Australian music. 🤙
one of friends from High School his dad is friends with Jimmy and plays the bag pipes for his live gigs nowadays. My friend's dad is an army veteran and is a very Scottish like Jimmy Barnes is. Funnily enough both are friends with Anthony Field the Blue Wiggle from The Wiggles 😅
Interesting i met them when i was a toddler my aunty was married to the drummers brother and this house looks familiar to me . Not sure but i remember one of them doing magic tricks on the lounge with me so weord the things you remember
The missus and i will be seeing Cold chisel in 2 weeks for there big reunion tour at Sandleford winery where they will get 8k people over each of 2 nights. It will be awesome🕺👍🏼
Cold Chisel had so many great songs that were both "catchy" but also had such meaningful lyrics. I was a little disappointed that you didn't pay much attention to the lyrics of this song because they are so very meaningful.
You were probably right It was likely their own place.. They were so poor not earning much from performing in those days, . Plus they drank heavily. Vodka was a favourite.
When Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) toured Australia around 1980 she saud something like 'this is the best you can do? All he does is scream and shout. He doesn't sing.'
Recommend you check out their entire first album (1978, self-titled). I was 17 when it was released. IMHO this is their best album by far, before they moved into a more pop music style with the follow up album, East. I mean Khe Sanh was definitely a pop hit, but the rest of the Cold Chisel album has a distinctive Aussie pub-rock, blues style about it which I still love to listen to after all these years. And back then their lead guitarist, Ian Moss (who is f'n awesome in his own right) was the heart and soul of Chisel and at the time, played a much bigger role than Jimmy I reckon. Then came East, and Jimmy became 'the main man' with the rest of the guys almost relegated to session muso status it seems 😞. In saying all that, I don't mean to put crap on Jimmy, he's an absolute f'n legend
Their big breakthrough in 1980 Don walker decided to try and write a decent pop song that would get Cold Chisel on the charts. It actually took a few years but Walker finally got it right in 1980. Sadly it should have broken them in America but did nothing. The American record company didn’t know what to do with them. I suspect they thought we’ve got Bruce Springsteen why do we need Jimmy Barnes ? So the 1981 tour of America was a disaster for the group.
@@sammie8923 With the benefit of hindsight 1981 was the wrong time for Cold Chisel to go to America. The Australian band that did make it was Men at Work with “ who can it be now” that went to no one that same year. It’s clear the American music seen was only interested in safe unthreatening pop music.
@@scotttaylor7767 I never really cared for Men at work but I'll take INXS any day I love them and that's who introduced me to Jimmy Barnes and then John Farnham and Diesel 😁😁😁😁 but I'm so sad that I missed all these great performers when I was younger, of course mid-80s I was only 15 so I may not have appreciated the music as much as I do now and I really do appreciate it now!
@@sammie8923 We were blessed in Australia to have a vibrant pub rock scene for most of the 1980’s. But the downside was they could be very violent! Back in 1987 I almost had my backside kicked watching Jimmy Barnes ! Lol. The girls in the front row started fighting to get to Jimmy. And I had to dive into the scrum to get my sister out ! Fun times.
@@scotttaylor7767 I don't mean to laugh but 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can imagine that security back then was not as tough as it is now, plus I also heard that your pub scene back then was pretty rough but it still must have been an exciting time!
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To have been a young Aussie when this music was NEW were THE best years/era of my life.
Turning 61 in a few weeks and Chisel still sounds as good 🇦🇺😎👍
I hear ya 🤣😂🤣😂
Yep. East played at 13 on the Pioneer stereo
Same.
Ditto 🇦🇺 ❤
We were spoilt BIG TIME!! Skyhooks! Sherbet, AC/DC, Mi Sex, Spilt Enz, Stars, Midnight Oil, Rose Tattoo, The Angels… just too much fun!!
We Aussies love Jimmy, and we love people who love Jimmy!
Anytime you want to find me, I don't have a telephone. One of the great lines on Australian music. Thanks again Don Walker.
Flame trees. You got nothing I want. Forever Now ❤
Looks like the comments have never heard of the song
Theres nothing like sitting on the beach drinking rocket fuels, Oh Yeah!. Next morning not so good.
“Jimmy with the scruff”
It’s often difficult for first timers to grasp the actual words, but he’s singing about that scruff.
“Got my cheap wine and a three day growth”
There are iconic poets from the19th century who are household names like Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. I was listening to a documentary and one of the interviewees nailed it. Cold Chisel were those poets equals and their songs will live in Australian history forever.
Jimmy does have a little of his "Cheap Wine and a 3 Day Growth" on his face
I remember watching this on countdown and thinking Wow they can sing about heroin overdoses in a pop song now !! I’m amazed what a great songwriter Don Walker is to put that in and get it still played on mainstream radio.
i often forget that alot of americans wouldn't know this ... anytime people comment on your facial hair you get this song in your head :P
Hahah, yep. Whenever I forget to shave, the missus says "you want me to run down the bottle-o and get some goon bag for ya"
Not me, for years I thought he was singing, ‘Cheap wine and a teenage girl’
@juanitabirch7048 😀😀😀 That would get him locked up for sure
Can’t wait to see the band in concert - only two weeks away.
Imagine a country that has a live music scene with ACDC, Cold Chiesel , The Angeles , Spit Endz Midnight Oil and many others🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
All just a pub crawl away 🤣😂🤣😂
And Inxs
Australian Crawl, Hunters and Collectors, Hoodoo Gurus, Rose Tattoo
Split Endz are New Zealanders dude
@@gruntabro1 you are just another state
A criminally under rated song from that album is 'standing on the outside'. One of my favourites to this day.
Somebody loves Jimmy...💕 We all love Chisel...great songs, great musicians, fantastic live gigs.
Saw Chisel last Friday night in Sydney. Unbelievable show, still rocking hard all theses years later. Cheap Wine was a highlight.
Jimmy is a great. A legend.
The working class rock star.
I don't think people realise how great a vocalist Jimmy is until they try to nail the bridge in this song.
An anthem for a generation of Aussies!
This was when he sang like a bird, before he trashed his voice. Watching Jimmy putting his t-shirt upside down at 4:37 changed my life 😆
Yea fried my brain trying to figure out how to do that haha
Entire album is a complete banger.
Cold Chisel .. Biggest Hit an best number ...
was ..FOREVER NOW ..
Susie- it was actually one of jimmy’s junior school teachers who recognised his talent for singing so the legend goes🤷♂️
'Cheap Wine & a 3 Legged Goat' was the name jokingly given to this classic song back in the day 😂😂
This is the best Jimmy, Breakfast at Sweethearts Jimmy.
This is "East" Jimmy. Breakfast at Sweethearts was the album before.
You haven’t done Chisel for a while - great memories of this song back in the day. You still have so much more to discover
Great reaction to a great song.
50th anniversary of chisel this year.
Jimmy taught me how to put an inside out t-shirt on😂
Australia may have a small population, however we always compete well with our singers and bands
Especially those who weren't born in Australia, like Jimmy, John Farnham, Glenn Shorrock, Olivia Newton-John, Keith Urban, Bon Scott, the Gibb brothers, the Young brothers, Billy Thorpe etc.
@@JohnHF1957all raised in Australia though, and consider themselves to be Aussies!! It’s not where you’re born but where you get your influence that matters!
@karenglenn- I was going to write something 90% the same as you wrote before I read the two responses but seen you beat me to it= great minds think alike🤣👍🏻
@@karenglenn6707 Well, those influences came from American and British groups and some of those mentioned didn't become Australian citizens. So, how does that fit into your case? PS The Gibb brothers formed their group before they migrated to Australia, didn't get Australian citizenship or consider themselves to be Aussies, lived in Australia for less than ten years and spent most of their time after 1974 in the USA. Plus, most of those mentioned were at least ten years old when they migrated, so that isn't really "raised in Australia".
n sports
Fantastic song
Just discovered your channel. I was ten when this song was released. It's been with me ever since. I have loved it ever since. It's almost Australian poetry.
A voice improves by age just like a wine👍
🇭🇲Jimmy and cold chisel ARE LEGENDS here in New Zealand,🇳🇿 There music has been the soundtrack to our lives here DOWNUNDER,,, 🏝🏝🏖🏖🌏🌏
There is a documentary on Jimmy's childhood and teenage years before bands..nothing is left out in that film.
Classic Aussie rock band
At this point, Jimmy's register was absurdly high. Prime Cold Chisel but he learnt to adapt his voice over the years.
With the release of the East album in 1980 they became legends. Every song is a killer. Critics drooled over this album like the second coming.
Hi Travis and Suzie, love your reactions to Aussie artists, especially Chisel. Have just come back from seeing these legends live on their 50th Anniversary tour in Armidale where they started all those years ago!! They were amazing as usual. Jimmy sounded so so good and so much respect for the care and compassion he showed to the lady up the front that had a heartattack during show and had to be removed. Happy to say they played cheap wine and having watched your reaction earlier in the morning it was extra special reflecting back to the young Jimmy and now the 68year Jimmy. Hope you get to see some footage from the tour along the way. Take care guys 🤟 Renee
I am off to see them in Perth on 19th October 2024, on their 50th anniversary tour. I am sorry to hear about the lady having medical problems at their concert. My thoughts go out to her, and I hope her recovery is going well. ❤
Khe Sahn was the unofficial national anthem for Aussies who grew up in the pub rock era, from the 70's onwards. The best of times without a doubt 🤟
His Brother in Law Diesel is an amazing talent (quite the back catalogue). I also love this song 🎵 an absolute classic 👌
As Molly Meldrum (look him up) used to say, "Do yourself a favour" and listen to the album East that this song came from. IMO the greatest Australian album ever.
you guys are funny you crack me up. keep churning them out.
Another Aussie anthem song by Cold Chisel
Grab your beer and sing Cheapwine around the bonfire at midnight
Khe Sanh is Vietnamese, so it's about the Vietnam war! Soo love this tune and mood, a sing a long for sure, that I haven't heard for years! Thanks for posting this song! Jimmy started up from the hard streets with a few mates, luckily he met his wife, and then his family base has matured his music and his ability to really be himself! We love all of his amazing transformations! 💕🤗💜
I hadn't seen this one and God, he looks like his son David Campbell here. Always liked the song.
My favourite Chisel track ♥️
Cold chisel has reformed and will be touring Australia next month. But the album this song is off “East” is brilliant and well worth checking out.
😭 I missed out on tickets, devastated!
@@jenniferharrison8915 That’s no good but odds are the band will be doing more gigs in the future.
@@scotttaylor7767Waiting list, fingers crossed! 😥
Saw their Barking Spiders gig last night at Anita’s. Great set list. Jimmy said he was taped up like a tennis ball so fingers crossed he lasts the whole tour.
@@Kaz54650 Yes Jimmy, don't burn out too soon mate! 😥
this was my Toss in the Wife, toss in the Work,, I am pissing off around the world song! 2013
Ooooooo skippy royalty! Genuinely hope you delve further into the Chisel rabbit hole... won't compare em to anyone, just discover and be astounded, truly. X
An early hit for "Chisel" and one of my favourites was "Breakfast at Sweethearts", I always liked that one.
In Chisel's early days, before any record contracts, the band actually fired Jimmy because they weren't happy with his singing, and they hired his brother (John Swan), Jimmy wanted it so bad that he went and got singing lessons so he could get his gig back.
Yep, lived through those days as a young guy. This was filmed in an apartment in a more salubrious area of Sydney (Elizabeth Bay). They would have "trashed" it for the video only. However many university students would recognise the student and musician style of living at that time - cheap mismatched furniture, mattress on the floor, clothes strewn everywhere, etc. Goes to the lyrics. And just keep an eye on the details, e.g. what does Jimmy's T-shirt say.
Also check out his brother, John Swan from Swanee - you'll hear the family resemblance.
“Sittin on the beach drinking rocket fuels oh yea “ rocket fuel is basically a mixture of every spirit you can get 😅
This was filmed without a lot of editing. It is almost non stop filming for the whole song with one camera. Imagine bands today doing that!
Cheap wine and a three legged goat 😂
Has anyone seen their cheeky photo Chisel and Jimmy put up on Facebook? Jimmy on drums, Charley Drayton on keys, Don on Guitar, Ian on bass, and Phil on lead vocals 😂.....I think they could smash it, but I still need to hear Jimmy and Ian on vocals.
Can't wait to see them live 19th October 2024.
Don't you love the way he puts that shirt on????? 4:10
that wasn't cold chisel that was a cover band called the barking spiders . on their day as good if not better then the original band. just saying.
@@stephensmith4831 I saw that show last night. I think they stole Chisel's set list.
yes good band i saw them at the enmore theatre the last time they got together they rocked
Attended the Barking Spiders show last night. Barking Spiders is a name Cold Chisel use when doing a pre tour warm up gig. Anyone with tickets to to a tour show will be very happy with what they see. A 2 hour set covering many of their great songs and some that they haven't played live in a while. The tou proper kicks off this saturday.
I was there too.
I knew about it , but I'm in Radelaide and not Sydney. , rock on guys and thank you for all you reactions over the years as you have been learning about Australian music. 🤙
You sir, are an extremely fortunate bastard.
one of friends from High School his dad is friends with Jimmy and plays the bag pipes for his live gigs nowadays. My friend's dad is an army veteran and is a very Scottish like Jimmy Barnes is. Funnily enough both are friends with Anthony Field the Blue Wiggle from The Wiggles 😅
Check out Jimmy's older brother John Swan aka "Swanee"
Low budget film clip but one great Aussie Anthem, the man can sing!
Same house in Icehouse (Flowers) video of song Walls. Is in Sydney.
Another great song
Cold chisel 50th anniversary tour is underway and ticket sellers can not keep up.
45-50 years ago, but still sounds freshh today
Jimmy can just basically sing anything
Interesting i met them when i was a toddler my aunty was married to the drummers brother and this house looks familiar to me . Not sure but i remember one of them doing magic tricks on the lounge with me so weord the things you remember
Going to cold chisel concert in 2 weeks cant wait
Rising sun another cold chisel song
I had a friend id heard she’d died on a needle she was crucified! Thats an awesome line describing a terrible meaningless death
The missus and i will be seeing Cold chisel in 2 weeks for there big reunion tour at Sandleford winery where they will get 8k people over each of 2 nights. It will be awesome🕺👍🏼
I will be there too cant wait
Cold Chisel had so many great songs that were both "catchy" but also had such meaningful lyrics.
I was a little disappointed that you didn't pay much attention to the lyrics of this song because they are so very meaningful.
I heard the question asked… the story goes that this was actually Jimmy’s place at the time…
cheap wine and a free bag of dope.
That house would be a fortune now
👏
Jimmy was 23 or 24 in this
You guys are pretty much honourary Aussies by now.....🇦🇺
But PLEASE give You by The Radiators a listen....most underrated Aussie band.
Cheap wine and a pound of dope🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Some people mistaken the lyrics as "Cheap wine and a three legged goat!" 🤣
Have you guys reacted to Cold Chisel's Choir Girl yet? That's another impressive one.
Cheap wine 🍷 & a 3 date goat 🐐 😅😅
GO JIMMY BARNES. BLOODY MASTER
Hey Guys, great reaction as always. You should check out Jimmy Barnes singing Sia’s Chandelier live - he absolutely owns it.
You were probably right It was likely their own place.. They were so poor not earning much from performing in those days, . Plus they drank heavily. Vodka was a favourite.
Need to play Breakfast at Sweethearts, Shipping steel
Nailed the pronunciation of Khe Sanh 1st try.
This part 03:34 reminds me of "What A Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke.
The stubble is for the song, Cheap Wine and a 3 day growth.
Great song but I think Choirgirl put them on the map, go and have a listen
Chick's, wine and a three legged goat. How drunk were we to miss hear that lyric. Rocket fuel for sure.
Yes you said khe Sahn right…. Kay sarn
cheap wine and a teenage goat
When Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) toured Australia around 1980 she saud something like 'this is the best you can do? All he does is scream and shout. He doesn't sing.'
Her loss and our gain 👅
Recommend you check out their entire first album (1978, self-titled). I was 17 when it was released. IMHO this is their best album by far, before they moved into a more pop music style with the follow up album, East. I mean Khe Sanh was definitely a pop hit, but the rest of the Cold Chisel album has a distinctive Aussie pub-rock, blues style about it which I still love to listen to after all these years. And back then their lead guitarist, Ian Moss (who is f'n awesome in his own right) was the heart and soul of Chisel and at the time, played a much bigger role than Jimmy I reckon. Then came East, and Jimmy became 'the main man' with the rest of the guys almost relegated to session muso status it seems 😞. In saying all that, I don't mean to put crap on Jimmy, he's an absolute f'n legend
Their big breakthrough in 1980 Don walker decided to try and write a decent pop song that would get Cold Chisel on the charts. It actually took a few years but Walker finally got it right in 1980. Sadly it should have broken them in America but did nothing. The American record company didn’t know what to do with them. I suspect they thought we’ve got Bruce Springsteen why do we need Jimmy Barnes ? So the 1981 tour of America was a disaster for the group.
And USA music scene suck today, I should know I live here 😆
@@sammie8923 With the benefit of hindsight 1981 was the wrong time for Cold Chisel to go to America. The Australian band that did make it was Men at Work with “ who can it be now” that went to no one that same year. It’s clear the American music seen was only interested in safe unthreatening pop music.
@@scotttaylor7767 I never really cared for Men at work but I'll take INXS any day I love them and that's who introduced me to Jimmy Barnes and then John Farnham and Diesel 😁😁😁😁 but I'm so sad that I missed all these great performers when I was younger, of course mid-80s I was only 15 so I may not have appreciated the music as much as I do now and I really do appreciate it now!
@@sammie8923 We were blessed in Australia to have a vibrant pub rock scene for most of the 1980’s. But the downside was they could be very violent! Back in 1987 I almost had my backside kicked watching Jimmy Barnes ! Lol. The girls in the front row started fighting to get to Jimmy. And I had to dive into the scrum to get my sister out ! Fun times.
@@scotttaylor7767 I don't mean to laugh but 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can imagine that security back then was not as tough as it is now, plus I also heard that your pub scene back then was pretty rough but it still must have been an exciting time!
My parents understood that I was good at motor-racing. The budget wasn't there at the time
motivator.
innovator.
Is that what you named them? 🙂
Cheap wine and three day growth.........
Cheap wine and a 3 legged goat.
"Cheatin' swine and a three legged goat" anyone? anyone?
"Cheap wine and a female goat"
Cheap wine and a three day goat ?!?
3 date goat 🐐 😮
@@Pomdownuder indeed, indeed
You need to do jimmy and Joe bonamassa deep purple cover LAZY
If you loved stone cold you'll love this Jimmy cherry on top of some amazing musicians
Plz plz plz review Jimmy Barnes /Tina Turner.."Simply the Best"
Lost it when ‘muricans couldn’t pronounce Khe Sanh FFS it was your bloody battle