Kim Salmon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kim Salmon
Occupation	Australian musician
Date Of Birth	Jan 24, 1957(1957-01-24)
Age	67
Birthplace	Bunbury
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Aquarius

Kim Salmon Biography

Kim Salmon is one of the most popular and richest Australian musician who was born on January 24, 1957 in Bunbury, Australia. Kim Leith Salmon was born in 1957 in the Western Australian port city of Bunbury. He later recalled wanting to be a nuclear physicist until, at the age of 13, he heard “heavy rock stuff” on the radio. He bought his first guitar, “an acoustic steel string thing”, for A$14 and taught himself to play “Black Night” and “Tobacco Road”. By the age of 18 Salmon had started a fine arts course at a university but deferred after a year, “I didn’t really fit in with it”. At the age of 19 he was a member of Troubled Waters, a cabaret covers band playing in a Fremantle strip club.

The line up of Salmon, Baker, Byrne and Radalj recorded their debut single, “Frantic Romantic”, which appeared in June that year. It was co-written by Salmon and Baker. However Byrne and Radalj had already left in April and were replaced by Ian Sharples on bass guitar and Ben Juniper on guitar. In December 1979 and in February and March 1980, as a member of The Scientists, Salmon toured the eastern states of Australia and they appeared on TV pop music series, Countdown.

They had issued their debut extended play, The Scientists, in February: Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described the single and EP as “one of the most collectable artefacts of the Australian punk rock era”. Further line up changes occurred with Salmon, Baker and Sharples recording a studio album of the same name in January 1981. The group broke up and Salmon formed a briefly existing group, Louie Louie, with Brett Rixon on drums (ex-Screaming Fits), and Kim Williams on bass guitar. By August that year Louie Louie had disbanded and The Scientists album was released by EMI. McFarlane felt that Salmon was one of the first Australians to “embrace wholeheartedly the emergent punk phenomenon of the mid-to-late 1970s”.

In August 1983 while still a member of The Scientists, Salmon on guitar joined Beasts of Bourbon as a side project alongside old band mates Baker and Sudjovic; with Spencer P. Jones on guitar (of The Johnnys); and Tex Perkins on vocals (ex-Tex Deadly and the Dum-Dums). In October that year they recorded the group’s debut album, The Axeman’s Jazz (July 1984). In February 1984 Salmon and Perkins formed Salamander Jim with Richard Ploog on drums (also in The Church), however by the following month Salmon had returned to his commitments with The Scientists.

By early 1978 Salmon had joined The Exterminators replacing Mark Demetrius on lead vocals. Fellow members were John Dowlings on drums; Roddy Radalj on guitar and vocals; and Boris Sujdovic on bass guitar. The group were renamed The Invaders, and in May 1978 James Baker replaced Dowlings on drums (ex- Geeks, Beheaded, The Victims). They changed their name to The Scientists and in August Sujdovic left. He was eventually replaced by Dennis Byrne on bass guitar in January 1979.

Kim Salmon Net Worth

Kim Salmon is one of the richest Australian musician from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kim Salmon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kim Leith Salmon (born 24 January 1957) is an Australian indie rock musician and songwriter from Perth. He has worked in various groups including The Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Kim Salmon and the Business, and Darling Downs. Australian rock musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described Salmon as one of the first Australians to “embrace wholeheartedly the emergent punk phenomenon of the mid-to-late 1970s” with The Scientists. He declared that Beasts of Bourbon were “masters of uncompromising gutbucket blues and hard-edged rock’n’roll”. In 2004 Salmon was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Association Hall of Fame.

In August 1976 with Salmon on lead vocals and lead guitar, he formed Perth’s first punk band, The Cheap Nasties. His early influences include The Modern Lovers’ self-titled album (1976), New York Dolls, and The Stooges. Salmon recruited his high school mates: Mark Betts on drums; Dan Dare on bass guitar; Neil Fernandez on guitar; and Robert Porritt on vocals. After Salmon left in December 1977 they were renamed The Manikins.

In September 1981 Salmon and Sujdovic, with Rixon on drums and Tony Thewlis (ex-Helicopters) on guitar, reformed The Scientists and moved to Sydney. McFarlane noted that the Sydney line up had “dropped the melodic, punky power pop of old for a more malevolent, psychedelic-tinged neo-rock’n’roll”. By December 1982 they had issued another single, “This Is My Happy Hour”. In September the following year they released another EP, Blood Red River, which was an influential record of the post-punk era. In March 1984 the group toured the United Kingdom and Europe playing an amalgamation of blues, punk and noise. The Scientists remained in the UK and went through several further incarnations, with Salmon remaining as the sole constant member, before the band returned to Australia in early 1987 and broke up again late that year.

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In July 1994 Salmon issued an album, Hey Believer, with backing band STM (Sexually Transmitted Music) featuring Warren Ellis on violin and Jim White on drums (both future Dirty Three members), and Andrew Entsch on double bass. Also that year Salmon released a solo live cassette album, Hookline and Singer, available at his gigs.

Facts & Trivia

Kimberly Ranked on the list of most popular Australian musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Kim Salmon celebrates birthday on January 24 of every year.

Early in 1998 Salmon on lead vocals and guitar formed Antenna in Sydney as a collaboration with Dave Faulkner on lead vocals and guitar (ex-The Victims, The Manikins, Hoodoo Gurus); Justin Frew on guitar and Stuart McCarthy on guitar (both from Southend). In November that year Antenna issued their debut album, Installation, and single, “Come on Spring”. According to McFarlane, the single had an “electronic undertow balanced by an irresistible melody”; while the album was an “eclectic, diverse and challenging mix of electronica, breezy pop, throbbing bass, washes of guitar and keyboards, and dance floor grooves”. Antenna performed on the Big Day Out tour early in 1999 and then disbanded.