My happiness informed me that it's on a hiatus! 😕😁😆 POWDERFINGER "My Happiness" (GUITAR COVER)

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Powderfinger were an Australian rock band formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their break-up in 2010, the line-up consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bass guitarist John Collins and drummer Jon Coghill. The group's third studio album Internationalist peaked at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart in September 1998. They followed with four more number-one studio albums in a row: Odyssey Number Five (September 2000), Vulture Street (July 2003), Dream Days at the Hotel Existence (June 2007) and Golden Rule (November 2009). Their top-ten hit singles are "My Happiness" (2000), "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind" (2003) and "Lost and Running" (2007). Powderfinger earned a total of eighteen ARIA Awards, making them the second-most-awarded band, behind Silverchair. Ten Powderfinger albums and DVDs certified multiple-platinum, with Odyssey Number Five—their most successful album—achieving eightfold platinum certification for shipment of over 560,000 units.

After the release of their first DVD, These Days: Live in Concert (September 2004), and the compilation album Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger, 1994–2000 (November 2004), the group announced a hiatus in 2005. The June 2007 announcement of a two-month-long nationwide tour with Silverchair, Across the Great Divide tour, followed the release of Dream Days at the Hotel Existence. Powderfinger were also involved in various philanthropic causes. In 2005, they performed at a WaveAid concert in Sydney, to help raise funds for areas affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Another performance at the Sydney Opera House in October 2007 raised funds for breast cancer victims and their families. One aim of their Across the Great Divide Tour was to promote the efforts of Reconciliation Australia, and awareness of the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. In April 2010, Powderfinger announced that they would be breaking up after their Sunsets Farewell Tour, declaring it would be their last, as they had musically said everything they wanted to say. On 13 November 2010, they played their last concert, signifying their disbandment. In November the following year, rock music journalist Dino Scatena and Powderfinger published a biography, Footprints: the inside story of Australia's best loved band.

My first time to see and hear Powderfinger was through a television program called RAGE. It's like Australia's premier music show sort of like MTV but they actually play better music.😁 It took me quite sometime to figure out why they called the very first song I've seen from them "DAF"... Then I found out after some years later through RAGE again, that it was named after the song's chord progression. Hahaha! Very clever PowderFinger!!! I tried it on guitar and it was spot on, the progression really is DAF! After playing DAF for sometime I tried to listen to all their songs and they were all great. 'My Happiness' is obviously their biggest hit and a favourite of a lot of Powderfinger fans which I also love. But this band really has nothing bad in their discography and every single song they churn out is worthy of listening to. PowderFinger is highly recommended if you just want great Alternative Rock music to listen to. Bernard Fanning also has that distinct voice that goes very well with the band's alternative rock/ grunge kind of sound.