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Cold Chisel is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Free, Deep Purple, Chip Taylor, Australian Crawl and INXS. Those roots explain a lot about how Cold Chisel arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Australian Crawl, The Angels, Noiseworks, Powderfinger and The Screaming Jets, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into U2, Ted Nugent, Cheap Trick, Joe Walsh and Heart, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 30 connections around Cold Chisel, reaching back through Free and forward to U2. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
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, Les Kaczmarek on bass 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 re-formed 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."
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Cold Chisel connections
Cold Chisel grew out of Free, Deep Purple, Chip Taylor and Australian Crawl, shares an orbit with Australian Crawl, The Angels, Noiseworks and Powderfinger, went on to shape U2, Ted Nugent, Cheap Trick and Joe Walsh. 30 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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