The Live Tapes Vol. 3

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The Live Tapes Vol. 3
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Live album by
Cold Chisel
Released2 December 2016
Recorded7 June 1980
StudioThe Manly Vale Hotel, Sydney
Genre Pub rock
Label Cold Chisel Music
Cold Chisel chronology
The Perfect Crime
(2015)		The Live Tapes Vol. 3
(2016)		 The Live Tapes Vol. 4
(2017)

The Live Tapes Vol. 3 is a live album by Australian rock band Cold Chisel. The album was recorded at The Manly Vale Hotel in Sydney on 7 June 1980, the same week the band's third studio album, East was released.

Cold Chisel Australian rock band

Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band, which formed in Adelaide in 1973 by mainstay members Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Steve Prestwich on drums and Don Walker on piano and keyboards. They were soon joined by Jimmy Barnes on lead vocals and, in 1975, Phil Small became their bass guitarist. The group disbanded in late 1983 but subsequently reformed several times. Musicologist Ian McFarlane wrote that they became "one of Australia's best-loved groups" as well as "one of the best live bands", fusing "a combination of rockabilly, hard rock and rough-house soul'n'blues that was defiantly Australian in outlook."

Sydney City in New South Wales, Australia

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Port Jackson and extends about 70 km (43.5 mi) on its periphery towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, 40 local government areas and 15 contiguous regions. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". As of June 2017, Sydney's estimated metropolitan population was 5,230,330 and is home to approximately 65% of the state's population.

<i>East</i> (Cold Chisel album) 1980 studio album by Cold Chisel

East is the third studio album by Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel, released in June 1980. The album peaked at No. 2 and spent 63 weeks on the national chart. It was the biggest-selling Australian album release of the year. It was the only Cold Chisel album to chart in America, reaching 171 on the Billboard 200. It also reached number 32 on the New Zealand charts.

Contents

The Live Tapes Vol. 3 released on 2 December 2016 as the third in an ongoing series of special live recordings unearthed from Cold Chisel's own archives. [1]

Cold Chisel's lead singer Jimmy Barnes said: "In 1980, we were playing 8 days a week. We were fighting fit and hungry, playing every show like it was our last – and often it almost was... We were still playing pubs, with the audience spilling onto the stage and the band spilling into the audience. It was fierce and fiery and lots of fun. Everyone in the band was writing songs and playing at the top of their game. It's all here in this raw and real recording." [2]

Jimmy Barnes Scottish-Australian songwriter, rock singer

James Dixon Barnes is a Scottish-Australian rock singer and songwriter. His career both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time. The combination of 14 Australian Top 40 albums for Cold Chisel and 13 charting solo albums, including nine No. 1s, gives Barnes the highest number of hit albums of any Australian artist.

Critical reception

Steve Bell from The Music AU gave the album 4 out of 5 saying; "This new live release returns us to a sweaty Sydney pub in mid-1980. We're privy to early airings of "Cheap Wine", "Standing On The Outside", "Choirgirl", "My Baby" and more as well as choice cuts from their early reservoir of timeless classics. The band's tough and uncompromising, and the sound pristine; documenting a band at the top of the pile during a time when being able to kill it live counted for everything. " [3]

Cheap Wine (song) 1980 song performed by Cold Chisel

"Cheap Wine" is a 1980 single from Australian rock band Cold Chisel. The second single from the album East, the single was released in May, a month before the album. It reached number 8 on the Australian charts, the band's first top-ten single, and would eventually remain the band's second highest chart performance. It has been described as, "one of Don's finest commercial songs."

Choirgirl (song) 1979 song with lyrics by Don Walker performed by Cold Chisel

"Choirgirl" is a 1979 single by Australian rock band Cold Chisel. A ballad with an R&B influenced melody, the single was released months before the album East that it featured on. It was the first time the band had recorded with producer Mark Opitz. It peaked at number 14 in Australia

"My Baby" is a 1980 single from Australian rock band Cold Chisel, the third released from the album East and the first of the band's singles not to be written by pianist Don Walker. This was the only track credited solely to bass player Phil Small on any of the band's albums apart from "Notion For You" on the 1994 rarities album Teenage Love.

Triple M called the album "simply incredible" adding "it's an intimate snapshot of a band in full-flight, doing what they do best." [4]

Rhythms Magazine said the album, "reveals a fierce, lean band; whip-smart and confident from 5 years of relentless touring but who were still hungry and risk-taking." [2]

Track listing

CD1
  1. "Standing on the Outside"
  2. "Home and Broken Hearted"
  3. "Juliet"
  4. "Shakin' All Over"
  5. "Choirgirl"
  6. "Conversations"
  7. "Never Before"
  8. "My Turn to Cry"
  9. "Best Kept Lies"
  10. "Shipping Steel"
  11. "My Baby"
CD2
  1. "Rising Sun"
  2. "Breakfast at Sweethearts"
  3. "One Long Day"
  4. "Cheap Wine"
  5. "Khe Sanh"
  6. "Star Hotel"
  7. "Merry-Go-Round"
  8. "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"
  9. "Tomorrow"
  10. "Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)"
DVD
  1. "Cheap Wine"
  2. "Rising Sun"
  3. "Best Kept Lies"
  4. "Shipping Steel"
  5. "Choirgirl"
  6. "Star Hotel"
  7. "Merry-Go-Round"
  8. "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"
  9. "Goodbye (Astrid, Goodbye)"
  10. "My Turn to Cry"

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [5] 11

Release history

RegionDateFormatEdition(s)LabelCatalogue
Australia2 December 2016 [6] [7]
Standard / DeluxeCold Chisel Music / Universal Music Australia CC016L

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References

  1. ↑ "Live Tapes Vol 3 The Live At The Manly Vale Hotel June 7, 1980 (Deluxe Edition)". JB Hi-Fi . Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Cold Chisel announce the next installment in their archival 'Live Tapes' series". Rhythms. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "Cold Chisel The Live Tapes Vol 3 Live At The Manly Vale Hotel". The Music AU. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Cold Chisel Release EPIC Live Album From The Band's Pub Rock Days". Triple M. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Australiancharts.com – Cold Chisel – The Live Tapes Vol. 3: Live at the Manly Vale Hotel, June 7, 1980". Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "The Live Tapes Vol 3". iTunes Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "Live Tapes Vol 3, The: Live At The Manly Vale Hotel, June 7, 1980 (Deluxe Edition)". JB Hi-Fi . Retrieved 12 November 2016.
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