The best award speech I've ever heard. Absolute gentleman the Don.
@donherley18116 жыл бұрын
I've been around this planet for over sixty years and this is the best, the very best acceptance speech I've ever heard. Brilliant, Don Walker. Thanks Cold Chisel for providing the best music in my life as an Aussie.
@donbrashsux2 жыл бұрын
I feel privileged to have been a young lad that has had this incredible band constantly touring and providing the most memorable concerts of my life I’ll take these memories to the grave Thanks Cold Chisel
@carsbikesandbeer49256 жыл бұрын
I have just come across this video. You would not believe how much this made me cry! As an adult man , I have grown up with cold chisel , got drunk, got bloody, got unconscious. This speech and the dignity that Don spoke with , made me cry. We all have people that help us. whether we acknowledge them or not is up to us. We all have demons that haunt us from our past , but with determination we can be successful. You people as individuals make a difference, whether you know or not.
@deanbritt91315 жыл бұрын
cars,bikes and beer he’s the reason I started piano 🎹 at 45 love it
@peterhead7408 жыл бұрын
Perfect speech, Don . It all needed to be said . You did it beautifully .
@adriang62598 жыл бұрын
Just love this band. What an empty landscape the Australian music industry would have been without them.
@roommatecabinsnz57226 жыл бұрын
the whole speech was about everyone who got them where they are/where even though the award was about the band!
@sierracharlie72937 жыл бұрын
A 15 minute insight into a great Man.
@TheMDGMobile8 жыл бұрын
These guys are the real deal. LOVE the Opera Australia dig!
@AndrewBanker15 жыл бұрын
What a classy speech.
@scottmollan89046 жыл бұрын
Don Walker is all class.
@guyholland92765 жыл бұрын
A great songwriter, but also a hypnotically good speaker!
@DavidSmith-qs4je3 күн бұрын
There are no words to describe how good this band are I was lucky to see them two nights in a row in Cooma NSW before they had an album out I knew then I had witnessed something very special thanks boys 🍺💜
@paulshmaul32848 жыл бұрын
What a class act.
@shanekleindienst25175 жыл бұрын
I can only say 'thanks boys because your music helped me through my darkest hours, pulled me from the depths of dis-pare & filled my heart with music, you inspired me & gave me hope when non seemed to be within grasp....you kept me alive, so thank you Cold Chisel I'm ever so grateful that I've listened to your records, seen you live & absorbed that wild energy, you have made a big difference to the life I was living in, to the life I now truly enjoy, & thanks to everyone who made it all happen, this country will always be forever grateful for you all.
@roostersbays954 жыл бұрын
YepYahh!!..
@Sacr0w8888 жыл бұрын
as a friend of John Bromell...Thank you very much for recognising him in your speech...
@dutchy5062 жыл бұрын
I could listen to Don talk about anything.
@sjaanstoove13855 жыл бұрын
Just hearing Don talk brings me so much joy - what a super star x
@mattharris50675 жыл бұрын
Don, what a legend, I can't believe you remember all those people.
@ratnoinamaew78225 жыл бұрын
My fav Aussie band. Why? Because they sing with emotion, love, and growing up, life in Australia, the world, memories.
@paulrichardson65008 жыл бұрын
this man is an absolute knight. Sir Don, live on.
@andymcdonell27152 жыл бұрын
bit bloody teary now, thanks Don and all for the music and just being them...
@carrolcoulter8 жыл бұрын
well done all of you for performing and writing some of the best music ever, Rosaline, One Long Day, etc so many good times in South Australia and many who aren't with us today!
@lornastrachan92345 жыл бұрын
You are a lovely person... may rhe Memory of Chisel and people who where envolved live on xx
@Tone.E.RockON4 жыл бұрын
One of the GR8est acceptance speaches of All Time.,Onya Don!! and thanx to Chizz for the Soundtracks to our lives,and for the times I got to work with you guys, fukkin Classic!!!
@earlgrey57727 жыл бұрын
wonderful. Bought Circus Animals in 1982. Fan ever since. What a songwriter Don Walker is, and what a band CC was..
@michaelgunning42235 жыл бұрын
The circus animals album is truly a great Australian piece of artwork.
@kiwizeppelin8 жыл бұрын
Australias best band by a long shot
@357HFC5 жыл бұрын
Absa fuckin lutely!!!
@TisTheDamnStickSeason5 жыл бұрын
Don has a way with words, hence why He's the primary songwriter. He can say "thank you" and "fuck you" to the same person in the same breath and sincerely mean both. The man who wrote the beautiful and classy poetry that is I'm Gonna Roll Ya, 🤣
@jonesr2277 жыл бұрын
Don and the rest of the lads, thanks for your service to Australian music. :) I grew up with your music in Australia (now I'm in the US). Great band.
@nickprohoroff37207 ай бұрын
Enough said. Seriously the most Righteous acceptence speach EVER.
@alanwalker3595 жыл бұрын
Every day somebody must say to Mr Walker ,how did ya do it? what inspired you? how did you know? blah blah!! As a music lover especially Australian music Mr walker will go down in history as oz best songsmith... & to all those hundreds of others out their who help with the band &( impossible to get a mention) I FUCKEN THANK YOU....
@357HFC5 жыл бұрын
His Lyrics are legendary. As this oration should be.
@357HFC6 жыл бұрын
There is about 5 or six songs in that delivery from One of The Greatest Songwriters of all time. Get to work Don. :)
@TwelveDeck5 жыл бұрын
Jimmy gets way too much credit for my liking. This is Mr Chisel, Don Walker.
@monogramadikt59712 жыл бұрын
fucken love chisel, remind me of my childhood spending time around my old man, before things went to shit
@donbrashsux2 жыл бұрын
Dons one of the best song writer Musician ever
@MYEVILTWIN10008 жыл бұрын
beautiful deliverance Don, from your kiwi mate
@vamqpaplaysroblox4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for mentioning Michael Porter . I hung out with his younger brother Ross and bands was all ways at his parents house . Jimmy was often there. I thought a mention to Mr Mrs Porter Elizabeth Fields in his books would be appreciated by all the Lads that hung out there.
@andrewfrancis72724 жыл бұрын
Don Walker sounds so Aussie! ... a lot like Sandy Stone (Barry Humphries' creation). He's a Queenslander of course so it makes sense. Great speech.
@benos4x4adventures492 жыл бұрын
RIP Brother Stevo ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@corinne69145 жыл бұрын
Wow Don what a legend... 15 + minutes and entertaining to fans, probably not so much to a 7 yo 😂So I will make him watch this speech when he plays up on me lol.
@TheMDGMobile4 жыл бұрын
love it
@paulrichardson65008 жыл бұрын
come to Madelaide Don!
@ajo30854 жыл бұрын
What does he say at 13:51? "........ could say the same thing?"
@Extrikit3 жыл бұрын
“It would be great if Opera Australia could say the same thing.”
@ajo30852 жыл бұрын
@@Extrikit Thanks for that!
@rmoz2729 Жыл бұрын
I love the dig at government subsidies for one art form but not another which is nothing more than cultural elitism.
@forddriver8827 Жыл бұрын
Don would be a great politician, but he'd be wasted amongst the mediocrity. RIP Allan Darlow & Billy Rowe.