![]() ![]() On the third day the band went to Jabiru, Northern Territory, to play at the Sports and Social Club. On the first day of an April 1998 outdoor gig, Wild Water opened for Coloured Stone and Regurgitator at Brown's Mart Community Arts Centre. The current members of Coloured Stone are: Lawrie (vocals, rhythm guitar, didgeridoo, gong stone), Selwyn Burns (lead guitar, vocals), Peter Hood (drums), Cee Cee Honeybee (backing vocals) and guest musicians (bass guitarist, didgeridoo player, keyboard player. With his band Desert Sea, Scott released an album in 2002 titled From the Desert to the Sea. Scott has also performed at the Sydney Opera House and he toured the US in 1994 with the Wirrangu Band as part of a cultural exchange program. His first major gig was "Rock Against Racism" in Adelaide. Lawrie's son, Jason Scott, played guitar, bass, drums and didgeridoo for Coloured Stone from the age of 13 years. The lyrics included the line "Black boy, black boy, the colour of your skin is your pride and joy", which was a somewhat revolutionary sentiment for Aboriginal people in the 1980s. It became the number one song in Fiji, and sold 120,000 copies. The band's single, "Black Boy" was a success when first released in 1984. He is Coloured Stone's founding member and chief songwriter. He is known as a whale-dreamer, songman, medicine man and storyteller. Lawrie is a member and respected elder of the Mirning people coastal Nullarbor region in South Australia. All are from the community of Koonibba, South Australia. ![]() The original Coloured Stone band members were three brothers, Bunna Lawrie (drums, lead vocals, songwriter), and Neil Coaby ( rhythm guitar and backing vocals) and Mackie Coaby ( bass guitar and backing vocals), and their nephew, Bruce (aka Bunny) Mundy ( lead guitar and backing vocals).
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