If you will pardon the continued aside (slight diversion from the main thread, but possibly interesting anyway), John Meredith's initial "Bushwhackers" group, which Hood joined a couple of years in, was initially (so far as I can gather) just a bit of fun: Meredith plus 2 mates dressed up as three "old bushwhackers" and sang a few Australian songs at parties, in fact learned from the repertoire of Burl Ives (!), who had earlier been supplied with them by an Australian contact... the initial name for the group was the "Heathcote Bushwhackers", Heathcote being the rapidly gentrifying (although originally bush) distant suburb of Sydney where they were all resident at the time, although the "Heathcote" was dropped fairly rapidly - so presumably used in irony - shades of the Beverley Hillbillies there, in the name at least!

- Tony