Chords for Sounds: Donnie interviewing Jimmy Barnes (1984)

Long time no see, Jimmy Barnes.
Thank you very much for coming in.
No worries.
Beautiful to have you back on stage.
It must be a year and a half now.
Yeah, it's been a while since I've been out these studios.
Even when the band like Chisel were calling in a day, we missed you that night [D#] because you had the really bad throat.
Right, that's right, yeah, that's right.
Talked to the [E] boys, didn't you?
You didn't take long to get back on the road, did you?
You're sort of, are you a workaholic or what's the story?
Nah, I just like working live actually.
Right. _
_ Uh, everybody said, ah, you know, take it easy.
You're gonna, you know, you're gonna have to follow up Colchisley and that's gonna be difficult, you know. Yeah.
That's a doddle, you know.
I just, ah, basically I just wanted to get out and work.
That's the way I enjoy myself.
It's the way I [F#] learn how to sing better, so I thought I'd better [G] get out there and just keep learning, you know.
With, with working live continuously, is there a great change in your lifestyle now that Chisel have gone?
Is there a loss there somewhere?
Do you feel different?
Um, no, not really.
It's [E] fine, you know.
I've kept myself busy.
I've, um, I miss the [C#] lads, you know, every now and again.
Miss Mossy's solos and stuff, you know.
But, um, [D] _ [Dm] the new band's fantastic, so I couldn't be happier.
They've been mates of yours for a long time?
[D] Yeah, they have.
Just run through, as in, unbelievable.
Bruce [C#] Howe was a bass player in Mickey Finn.
He was also in [E] Fraternity and I used to sing with Fraternity.
Yeah.
For about, um, six months, yeah.
[F#] Uh-huh.
Uh, so I knew Bruce and he was like my favourite [E] bass player in the world, you know.
Right.
[G]
Um, _ Malcolm Eastick, who was another Adelaide guy, he's from [B] Stars and I worked with him on the [F#] Neanderthal Memorial concert thing, you know. Right.
Uh, _ so, uh, and [D] plus, you know, I'd been writing with Mal anyway [C] before Chisel broke up.
Uh-huh.
[D] He's got a Porter Studio thing at home.
Right.
Uh, [D#] Chris Stockley from the Dingos, who, [C] you know, the Cold Chisel, we're [E] all Dingos fans, you know. Right.
So, um, [A#] Robert, you're over my shoulder there.
[D]
Uh, and, [Em] um, [F#] who else?
Ray, of course.
Ray.
Well, he [G] worked with you too on the last album, didn't he?
Ray done the 20th Century [A] album and he's done quite a [D] few tours with Cold Chisel anyway.
[Bm] Great Swan Song, the [F#] album and like [D] Flameface being the last single.
Yeah.
You know, what a way to [G] go out.
They've both just done so tremendously well.
Well, it's [E] great.
I was just pleased that the album took off, you know.
I was a bit worried [D] in case people would sort of resent it because, you know, it's not Cold [F#] Chisel.
But it's, [A] uh, nice and tough, you know.
Gone like a rocket.
[Em] Now, with this band, I mean, [D] you've written most of the songs on one [G] side and then co-write and so on.
Were [D] they songs that you'd had in [Em] your little mind [D] or written down somewhere?
[F#]
Some of the stuff [E] I'd written before Cold Chisel, like Paradise, _ _ Promise [D] Me Your Call.
Before Cold Chisel?
I [E] wrote, not before, I mean during Cold Chisel.
Oh, right.
Like during the circus animal sessions at Paradise Studios.
_ Uh, but they just weren't, they were over [Bm]-arranged and badly [F#] arranged and stuff like that.
So, they didn't [E] quite get on the Cold Chisel albums.
Right.
But, uh, as it ended up, I'm glad.
So, I had a bit of a backlog of material.
Sure.
I had a lot to choose from for the album.
It was great.
Congratulations on the album, by the way.
We're number one in Adelaide this week.
Yeah.
I think, uh, two Sydney, three Melbourne, top five nationally.
Yeah.
It's a great swan song with Chisel and a great way to start.
Yeah, I'm really pleased.
I'm really [D] pleased.
Fantastic.
What about [G] the Stevie Ray Vaughan tour that's been [F#] rumoured and everything?
Is that coming out?
Yeah, that's, it's gonna be the barmstorming tour.
But unfortunately, Stevie Ray [Em] Vaughan is already committed to do [Dm] a tour.
I think [D] his old manager is a friend of Paul Dainey's and [F#] I think they're gonna do a tour with Stevie anyway in October sometime. Alright.
So, that's great.
So, we'll see him anyway.
But the barmstorming tour is gonna [Bm] be about 12 dates across Australia with Joe, who is, um, we [A] played with in cultures, we [E] played with in Austin, Texas, along with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Al Cooper.
Now, when you were in Austin, Texas, Stevie Ray Vaughan actually [F#] supported cultures, was that correct?
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Because it was [Bm] before he'd done the Bowie albums and all that.
Yeah.
And he had a three-piece band that was sort of doing very much like a Hendrix type set, you know.
Mm-hmm.
He was [E] Mad Hendrix Man, if I remember right.
But he's great.
[D] So, it won't be you in here, it'll be Joe Ely.
[G#] Joe Ely, who is also one of the actors.
[E] Joe Ely was the headliner on this show.
Right.
And he was like, cultures were just blown out, all [F#] of us, we didn't expect it.
He's one of the best live acts we've [D] seen.
Mm-hmm.
So, it'll keep us on our toes anyway.
Sure will.
No second prize, whose idea of the clip?
The clip I got, Edgley Gazelle, who's a clip-making company, _ they grabbed Chris Fraser, who's a director who's done quite [E] a lot of Coca [F#]-Cola ads and things like that.
Mm-hmm.
So, [B] _ he came up with an idea.
I said I wanted to [E] do it in viral mainly because I was lazy.
Right.
[D] I didn't want to [E] leave.
So, he came up with the concept of the horse and he wanted to get a black horse, but I thought I'd better use my own.
And you sit on [G#] her, right, don't you?
I have to be my own horse, I'd rather be on my back.
How dangerous