Colonel Bagshot
Colonel Bagshot were an English rock band formed in the late 1960s in Liverpool, England. Originally called "Colonel Bagshot's Incredible Bucket Band", they began as a six-piece, eventually becoming a four-piece. Their final line-up included Brian Farrell (vocals, guitar, stylophone), Ken Parry (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Dave Dover (vocals, bass, keyboard), and Terry McCusker (vocals, drums). The band released several singles and one studio album (Oh What a Lovely War) in 1971, which included their best-known song, "Six Day War", later remixed in 2002 by DJ Shadow and titled "Six Days" and by Mahmut Orhan in 2018 retitled "6 Days". The song was also sampled by Pusha T in “Just So You Remember,” from 2022’s “It's Almost Dry" album. This album hit No. 1 of the album charts in the USA in the year it was released.
Nearly six years after his debut production album, DJ Shadow second album, The Private Press, was released in June 2002. A video for his track "Six Days" was also released in 2002, directed by Wong Kar-wai.
A remix of "Six Days" was also produced and released on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift soundtrack, featuring Mos Def.
The song "Six Day War" has been sampled and used in the computer game DJ Hero in 2009, which is a Rhythm game developed by Freestylegames and published by Activision. It is the first spin off of the guitar hero series. It has been released on PS2, PS3, Wii and Xbox360. Consequently it has been used in the Marakovs Reveal Trailer for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III computer game/PS, which Kanye West was involved in sampling in 2003. The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III was a first person shooter game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision. It is the 20th main installment of the Call of Duty series and is the 3rd entry in the rebooted Modern Warfare sub series. It has been released on PS4, PS5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
An alternate recording of "Six Day War", featuring Ollie Halsall, was released in 2022. This was along with a copy of the original "Oh What a Lovely War!" Vinyl, as a re-release by Seelie Court Records, since it was 50 years since it's first release.
This album of " Oh What a Lovely War!" has a version of "6 Day War", with Ollie Halsall, and was re released in 2026, by Seelie Court/ Goodtimes Records, due to recording errors on the original vinyl made in 2022.
In 2026 "Six Day War" the CD was released by Brian Farrell, all songs were written by Brian Farrell and some of the songs have the members of Colonel Bagshots, but he is also joined by many of the members of Grimms, those being Viv Stanshall, Andy Roberts, Zoot Money, Gerry Conway and Peter John "Ollie" Halsall. Other artists on the CD include; Brian Jones (The Undertakers), Judd Lander (The Hideaways), Big Jim Sullivan, Chas Hodges, Dave Peacock, Steve Wright(Brookside theme tune), Tony Green, Bob Galvin, Mike Gregory and "Sue" Yvonne Wheatman as backing singer.
Terry McCusker has played drums over the last 69 years,for a number of bands. Originally he was in The 4 Dymonds band 1962 -1963, with Geoff Brown, Jim Percival and John Holford. This band then became Gus Travis and the 4 Dymonds for several months in 1963, when they were joined by Gus Travis. Geoff Brown and Terry McCusker then went and formed Rip Van Winkle and the Rip it Ups with Howard Morris, Keith Nikon and Jimmy Geary from 1962 to 1964. Terry left this band to form The Valkyries from Apr 65- May 65 with Ian Hunter, Alan Burton and Tony Conway, prior to joining The Roadrunners July 65-Spring 66.
The Roadrunners was where Terry met Mike Byrne and Mike Kontzle, who ended up in a Colonel Bagshot line up. The two other members of The Roadrunners were Pete Mackey and John Peacock In later years he also joined with Alex Cain to write 4 books about Ringo Starr and his drumming techniques.
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