Jebus.

... and porridge?

I know he did a duet with INXS, but I remember him more from this song ("I'd Die To Be With You Tonight"). Kinda Mellencampish.

Amateur.

/On my 4th bottle of Vodak
//not really.
///vodak?!

He told us that he was hardcore..

Cut him some slack, he was workin' hard to make a living, / bringing shelter from the rain / a fathers son left to carry on / blue denim in his veins.

Who?

Looked him up on Wiki and even looked up "Cold Chisel" at which I say :

Who?

/Is he famous for something?

See, just when you thought rock had totally lost all balls....

Wake me up in 20 years if he still alive and falling out of coconut trees while snorting his father's ashes.

Then we can talk.

Chisel is/was second only to AC/DC in Australia for Rock and Roll depending on your opinion and/or preferences. Many don't like him because he sings like he's screaming. His alcohol consumption was 'legendary' in Au (long before 1998); assuming you think drinking a litre of vodka during a live concert is legendary.

no. i don't think so. he would have died.and don't anyone chime in with the "you can take that many drugs and live" comment. if thats true then do it...and die.

jesuspants: no. i don't think so. he would have died.and don't anyone chime in with the "you can take that many drugs and live" comment. if thats true then do it...and die.

This. 10 Grams alone would kill most people. 8 tabs of X would incapacitate you. And three bottles of vodka would probably kill you. Total BS. But then again, I've never used Aussie drugs.

Could fark please take a collective jump off of Keith Richards nutsack? I'm tired of hearing about how awesome that old man is.

He recorded a rocking remake of the Eaybeats' "Good Times" with INXS for the Lost Boys soundtrack thats one of my all time favorites. You can see a great live version of it here (pops).

He sounds like alot like Brian Johnson of AC/DC, another Aussie.

PYROY: jesuspants: no. i don't think so. he would have died.and don't anyone chime in with the "you can take that many drugs and live" comment. if thats true then do it...and die.

This. 10 Grams alone would kill most people. 8 tabs of X would incapacitate you. And three bottles of vodka would probably kill you. Total BS. But then again, I've never used Aussie drugs.

I see you've never mixed booze and coke. Plus, that much ecstasy that often will have the same effect as plain ol' amphetamine. The tolerance this guy must've had is mind-boggling.

/blow-induced nosebleeds don' go away after you quit doing blow, btw.

no way. not every day

I actually own a copy of Freight Train Heart. It's kinda like a cross between Mellencamp and Bad Company.

/Driving Wheels is great for getting speeding tickets
//Disagreements to follow below

your tolerance to ectasy skyrockets after just two or three days of consectutive use. theres no way that you would get anything out of that. plus three fifths or vodak? i mean, really. dont believe it.

Does it not strike anybody as obvious that he would say these things when he's trying to sell his new biography?

Claiming daily use of large amounts of MDMA is like saying you ran from sniper fire in Bosnia. One doesn't even really need witnesses to say that's a load of crap.
Tolerance increases pretty fast to the point where it wouldn't do much for you; chronic use like that claimed would destroy the seratonin receptors in the brain - leave you drooling and muttering on good days; no one even wants to take it the second day, and if they do, they sure as hell don't want it the third.
Cocaine. Well...there's no such thing as enough cocaine.
The amount of booze claimed is prodigious, but not without precedent. Still sounds like horseshiat to me, though.

It's a vodak moment?

ToxicAvenger: He sounds like alot like Brian Johnson of AC/DC, another Aussie.

Wrong. Johnson is English, the rest of AC/DC are Aussies.

No way do I believe its possible to do that without dying. Call my naieve, but around my 2nd bottle of vodka, 4th g of coke, and 5th tab of E, I'm pretty much vomitting and convulsing on the floor while I have a heart attack. God I love Friday nights.

siva: No way do I believe its possible to do that without dying. Call my naieve, but around my 2nd bottle of vodka, 4th g of coke, and 5th tab of E, I'm pretty much vomitting and convulsing on the floor while I have a heart attack. God I love Friday nights.

Don't forget posting on FARK. That has to say something for your tolerance.

Aussie rocker Jimmy Barnes consumed 10 grams of cocaine, six or eight tabs of ecstasy and three bottles of vodak

The only thing that worried him was the ether...

I bet he had to pee a lot.

If this is accurate, all I can say is Wow.

3 liters x 22ish shots per liter = 66 shots or oz of alcohol into the bloodstream every day.

if i remember my middle school health correctly, the body gets rid of approx 1 oz worth of alcohol per hour.

after one day he would still have 44 shots in his system, or a BAC of .88, which would increase by another .88 for each consecutive day he continued to drink like that. In less than 4 months, let alone 4 years, he'd be nearing 100%.

/knows theres also kinda of problems with that math, but seriously.
//SERIOUSLY.

I'd trade it all for cheap wine and a three day growth.

/the only cold chisel song I remember.

tabs of ecstasy?

Reading that headline gave me a shiver. I dont know if you could do that an survive but ill give him the benefit of the doubt.

Know who else took large daily doses of speed?
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tried it again

Is there anything that porridge can't do?

I'm getting kick out of these replies as I'm eating porridge

The Notorious HIV: Link (new window)
tried it again

I'm glad you guys have mentioned the vodak. I came in here to see if anybody else liked the alcoholic cameras as much as I do.

THAT is BULLSHIIIT

the MDMA would have no power whatsoever after a few days

and if the coke was any good he certainly wouldn't be doing ten grams a day


he's just another dickhead who thinks it's cool
to brag about such shiiit.



TRUTH IS, IF HE DIDN'T DO ALL THOSE DRUGS
HE MIGHT HAVE BECOME SOMEBODY I'VE HEARD OF

BUT nope

Shenanigans. There is just no way the human body can handle that much for so long. He would either have been dead or insane.

Uzzah: Aussie rocker Jimmy Barnes consumed 10 grams of cocaine, six or eight tabs of ecstasy and three bottles of vodak

The only thing that worried him was the ether...

No point in mentioning these bats. The poor bastard'll see 'em soon enough.

PYROY: jesuspants: no. i don't think so. he would have died.and don't anyone chime in with the "you can take that many drugs and live" comment. if thats true then do it...and die.

This. 10 Grams alone would kill most people. 8 tabs of X would incapacitate you. And three bottles of vodka would probably kill you. Total BS. But then again, I've never used Aussie drugs.

Its not like he is doing it in one shot. Coke only stays in your system for about half an hour. Assuming hes up 14 hours during the day thats less than a gram an hour, which is definitely manageable. As for the E, it can vary allot in quality. Ive had some pills that have made me high as fark off a single one, but others that I am almost certain I could handle 8 of and still be functional. The only thing that seems really unrealistic is the vodka part, but then again I know a guy who has regularly downed well over a bottle in the course of a night (9pm to 4amish) so if you were to assume he hit the bottle the moment he woke up a feat like that could definitely be pulled off. Of course my friend was never into coke so he didn't have the cocaethylene to take into account. But the real question that boggles my mind is how somebody in a band thats not really that famous can afford such a ridiculous drug habit.

beerrun: ToxicAvenger: He sounds like alot like Brian Johnson of AC/DC, another Aussie.

Wrong. Johnson is English, the rest of AC/DC are Aussies.

Well, he's a Geordie, which means that while technically still English, his speech is just a bunch of incomprehensible crap distorted with a thick accent (which makes him Aussie in spirit).

So you're both right.