Bushwackers Band : Lachlan Tigers (1977)

[TayEmification]

I heard this song in music earlier this year , i had to look it up , & love it :)

[looselatigo]

I love this performance and keep coming back to it.

[forneysp]

Yes! I am learning this folk song to teach to my 6th grade students. Love this!!!

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[jan3355b]

So glad I found this - what a great clip, what a great band.. I shared a flat in Wellington, NZ with Dave Kidd before he joined the band, and met some of the other members too. Glad to know some of the originals are still going strong.

[elerownat]

I'd forgotten about this song - absolutely loved it in the 80s - I was looking for Bushwacker's Waltzing Matilda and came upon it! So the singer is Mick Slocum? He's faaaantaastic!!

[4adgray2]

I so miss these guys! (Hi from the girls of the Green Man! ☼Ü☼)

My youth was highlighted by Bushwhackers & Parradiddle Bush Dances at the town halls - Reels that had you travelling the full length of the ballroom floor meeting hundreds of people just wanting to have a bloody good time! AWESOME! ♥☼Ü☼♥

Kids today are so DULL!!

Their music is mind numbing and their dances are boring!

BRING BACK BUSH DANCES!!! ♥☼Ü☼♥

[crashpanic]

And Uncle Dobe Newton on Lagerphone....

[PogoMorgan]

Anyone know the name of the second fiddler in this clip.

[kenfiddle]

@PogoMorgan I think the other fiddler is Davie Kid .Who also played with Moving cloud

[triumph66500]

Yes i remember sneaking off from Homebush at the ripe age of 14 with my best friend, alibi' at the ready should we needed it, off to the bexley Nth hotelby two trains to go and see the Bushwackers a journey frought with anticipation of the notion of just getting through the doors, let alone dancing up a storm with plenty of laughter,fun,thrills n spills of the best night of young lives. my cassette of 78/79 still works ! and other loudly cries! yeehaa! 30 yrs ago first live band.

[Gleeangel1]

OMG WE ARE SINGING THIS SONG IN CHOIR!!!! LOL THIS ONE SOUNGS SOOOO COOL

[percyfurler]

This was the song that got me into folk music. Mick Slocum you beauty!

[carollizc]

This is bloody impressive! The lads at their very best.

[Orkgirl]

great music^^

[Orkgirl]

spock???

[sonnybill2]

love it

[estud7]

Pete Farndon Live forever!

[MSPARKS]

@estud7 amen

[ruderkonge1976]

Pete Farndon was the best!!!

[MSPARKS]

@ruderkonge1976 yes. he sure was

[UMIBL]

And those little sausage rolls at the Polaris for the supper, which had to be provided by law to enable a pub to stay open past 10pm to 11.30!! And we thought we were stating out late.........

[1analogue]

@UMIBL

Hi. Ifd you recall the Polaris maybe we know each other?????

[1analogue]

Ah the Polaris. I remember it so well, when not only the Bushwackers, but also what became Mulga Bill's Bicycle Band were embryos. A green kid just out form Ireland, I sang a few songs there myself. I went with Peter McDonald (ex Mulga Bill) to look at the site in 2007; sadly the Polaris is no more.

Gerry

[UMIBL]

They were the days. Dan OConnells pub and the dances at the pavillion at the showgrounds. And the Polaris Inn before that in the very early 70s

[1analogue]

Ah the Polaris. I remember it so well, when not only the Bushwackers, but also what became Mulga Bill's Bicycle Band were embryos. A green kid just out form Ireland, I sang a few songs there myself. I went with Peter McDonald (ex Mulga Bill) to look at the site in 2007; sadly the Polaris is no more.

Gerry

[WTT1978]

Great video, Ive often wonder whos face was beh that voice...this has ansewerd so many questions

[wonsworld]

@WTT1978 ..the singer is Mick Slocum. After he left the band he went back to uni to do his medical degree. I met him at a party in 1979 and while he didnt do this song people knew who he was and after a bit of cajoling, he did do tell a few bush yarns and was bloody entertaining. While I have always liked the Bushwackers and Dobe Newton did well to carry the band as long as he did, they were never the same as they were in this formation.

[cathyticehurst]

in the early 80s we spent our weekends following this band around - pubs, bush dances in crooked old halls, I had the greatest youth ever. xxxxxxxx

[4adgray2]

@cathyticehurst Oh yeah! I did too - along with another 4,995 others!

[MON383]

ozi ozi ozi oi oi oi !!!!!

[bigbadnewman]

Ain't it farkin' GREAT!!!!!!

Pure Oz!!

[gerretl]

Fantastic. This is what music is all about.

[moptop127]

So underrated...awesome players, stunning live...essential listening...

[Missstilly]

Love these guys!