Phil Small People would never want to describe Phil Small as simply a quiet unassuming bass player. Quiet and unassuming he may be but as one fifth of the greatest Australian rock band of all time Cold Chisel his position in Australian music history is unchallenged. Then of course there is the minor details such as the fact that he is a superb musician and was part of the "engine room" of Cold Chisel. He has also written some of Chisel's finest songs. Numbers such as Notion For You off the Teenage Love album, The Game and one of the bands biggest hits My Baby off 1980s East album. For Chisel's 1998 comeback album the Last Wave Of Summer Phil Small contributed the unnamed fifteenth track titled Once Around The Sun as well as co-writing with Steve Prestwich and Don Walker the song A Better Time A Better Place which appeared as a B side to one of the singles off Last Wave. Over the years Phil has played in a number of other bands such as Pound, The Earls Of Duke and The Outsiders. In recent times he also played with the Jimmy Barnes band on his 1999 tours. In the later part of 2000 Phil was kept busy touring with the Ian Moss band through the eastern states of Australia. In 2003 Phil once again teamed up with his old mates in Cold Chisel as they performed and recorded the “Ringside” album and DVD. In 2005 he again performed with Cold Chisel at the Tsunami Benefit at the Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne. Currently Phil is song writing and performing when the mood takes him. Back to Band Members