Cold Chisel - Full 1981 Countdown Awards clip with barnsey commentary.

[@donbrashsux]

COLD CHISEL...The Greatest..period

[@NoName-ds5uq]

Legendary band, legendary performance! I travelled to SA earlier this year and made a point of having a pint at the Largs Pier Hotel.

[@whites08]

A seminal moment in Australian music… a rage against the machine ..long live Cold Chisel

[@BeAGoodDoga]

Love this! Best performance of 'My Turn To Cry' ever!

[@breakneckslow705]

Jim barnes got the speed stutter

[@JoGrant-dq8ob]

Cocaine's a hell of a drug

[@dalebyers4607]

I was in the ,fan section on the balcony when this went down...unfuckingbelievable!

[@robertavaient2289]

what a display of sticking to the music industry shame it wasn't done in america and give them to think about. robert avaient

[@laurel614]

I can remember it.Awesome.

[@mak_motorsports6812]

Thongslappers brought me here. Hi Redmond. Clap Clap.

[@markrussell7804]

Cold chisel bloody Australian legends the boys sticking it to TV week always 💯 percent live

[@freeman10000]

Absolute class act 💯

[@Jsmithyy]

molly went everywhere and for this we are blessed.

[@kenwatson5562]

Love the "man spread" darling.

[@10shamus]

damn classic ! love chisel... best ever rock band.

[@kenwatson5562]

No they are not!

[@davefoord1259]

K agree. Theyre the most prolific purveyors of songs j like ever

[@chrisjames1263]

molly got me here.

[@JamieStallingsworth]

same, same

[@SmilingTiger67]

This is a perfect example of the Australia i grew up in. Respect and honour or shove it. But who are we now?

[@aus80srockradio94]

JB = Legend.

[@colinchin2726]

Anyone know what the 2nd song was?? Thanks

[@andrewsaul8215]

Fuckin’ classic!

[@nerdcollectsplaystation2522]

What football jersey is that

[@monogramadikt5971]

i loved countdown as a kid, but as an adult who knows a lot of the background information of the show and the people behind it now as a 51 year old. my perspectives are polar opposite

[@davidr4332]

TV didn't know what hit them that year .

[@pauliejay4161]

0:19 - "the only times we were on there I sang live". Naah. Here they are miming "My Baby" on Countdown: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZ-Zpnukmpiir8U

[@janreznak881]

Lol you sad now? Get a life mate.

[@Jsmithyy]

even elton spent the rod in Stkilda what a blessed history

[@stuartcox6395]

Is bassist Phil Small wearing a WW2 German army jacket in this clip?

[@mattbarbarich3295]

Stuart Cox Yep he is, looks quite intimidating, but that's the point.

[@sammy_dog]

yes from what i can see it's a Heer feldbluse m36

[@deanbritt9131]

It’s a NAZI uniform that’s why you never see him up close

[@marcspall6435]

It's a shame that they blocked out Phill Smalls Nazi uniform. I added heaps to the finger that they were raising

[@bbkingwasthegreatest711]

Countdown was really for teenage girls, occasionally some good artists.

[@Jsmithyy]

I wonder what this scottish rocker was doing when he didnt see

[@bustergoldenrod]

fuck Barnsey rambles on...

[@robertavaient7198]

lucky america didn't understand them but we aussies do. robert

[@jonesr227]

I never understood why Cold Chisel didn't make it in the US. (Pearls before swine).

[@aflsteve9139]

@@jonesr227 By their own admission they just weren't up for it. I think it's the same documentary that this clip came from where they talk about not being prepared to go back to being an opening act, not wanting to leave families to tour for long periods in the states to build an audience, hating the record company etc, etc. Don said something along the lines of "we should have done more with what we had because a lot of people did a lot more with a lot less" or something like that.

[@romantatts1864]

@@aflsteve9139 , after getting treated subpar by US record labels & them giving Chisel the run around , later emerged their amped up single " You got Nothing I Want , You Got Nothing I Need " .

[@aflsteve9139]

@@romantatts1864 That's true Roman but the band also recognise that they should have done much better in the US and a lot of that came down to them just not being prepared to do the hard yards again like they'd done here. Check out the doco if you can find it. It's well worth a look.

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

I saw it, certainly wasn't shocking or memorable to me at the time, everyone was smashing things up far more than that at the end of a gig back then.

[@aflsteve9139]

Care to name names and tell us who "everyone" was? I saw a lot of gigs back then and I don't recall anyone else smashing up their gear the way Chisel trashed the set at the Rock Awards.... unless you count the Who in their early days and that wasn't exactly 1981.

[@funkymofo]

My Dad wasn't impressed, that's for sure. My sister and I were though.

[@Bigweight66]

@@aflsteve9139 Yeah The Who, and The Yardbirds, Jimi Hendrix, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Deep Purple just to start with, all smashed up stuff on stage, all before Cold Chisel did their publicity stunt.

[@aflsteve9139]

@@Bigweight66 Take the Yardbirds, Pistols and Clash off your list. Beck smashed his ONCE for the film Blowup. SImonon smashed his bass ONCE... (at the Palladium for the photo that eventually become the cover of London Calling) and the only documented occasion the Pistols smashed anything on stage was their first gig when they destroyed the amps loaned to them by headliner Bazooka Joe... not their own instruments. But hey, even if those 6 you mentioned, plus Kiss, smashed their gear nightly, that doesn't get close to "everyone was smashing things up far more than that at the end of a gig back then" does it?

[@Bigweight66]

@@aflsteve9139 What are you rambling on about? Can you comprehend that "everyone" is a figure of speech? The ones I named (plus lots of others) smashed their gear up before Cold Chisel ever did, its that simple. The question was NOT how often like just the once or nightly?

[@johnnyslist9355]

Probably scripted

[@Bigweight66]

Just don't do the show if you don't want to... Trying to be The Who.

[@vancewilson9413]

Horrendous noise !!

[@yowodup6094]

Then piss of, go cry about it.

[@vancewilson9413]

@@yowodup6094 fuk off Loser !! 😎🖕

[@jules7469]

Vance Wilson your turn to cry

[@vancewilson9413]

@@jules7469 so awesome Jules 😁

[@veronicapathfinder4013]

I'm sorry never really liked his music. Only 1 song. Working class man.