Topic: New Chords Postings
The Chilliwack song "Last Day Of December" appeared on the band's 1975 album (their fifth) Rockerbox. The album's Canadian cover is shown at right; in other countries, the front cover featured a photo of the band. The New Year's-themed tune was the only single released from Rockerbox.
In keeping with the album's title, the song rocks pretty hard, closing out the album as the final track. See the link below for some good vintage (1977) footage of Chilliwack performing the song live.
The chord chart: https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/chilliwack-lastdayofdecember.txt
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQy7g3ez18U
Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_jyA2s72sw
Posted by planet/zerofret
at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Monday, December 17, 2018 10:44 PM EST
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I guess it's about time I posted something this year, isn't it? I thought I'd start off with one of my favourite songs off of my favourite 54-40 album, "Come Here" from the band's second album Show Me (1987). Pictured at right is the cover of the cassette version of the record, because that's the version I had when I first bought it. The cassette release had a couple of extra songs on it, "Because Of You" and "Open Fire." "Because Of You" is also among my favourite 54-40 songs. I didn't realize for years that these were extra tracks. They weren't at the end of the album like bonus tracks usually are; they were in the middle of Side 2. The first time I heard a digital version of the album (see link below) I was like, "Where's 'Because Of You'??!!" It wasn't there! It was only then that I saw in very small print on the back of the cassette case that it was an "additional song."
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