- Tim Farriss
Timothy William Farriss (born
16 August 1957 , Perth,Western Australia ,Australia ) is a member of the rock band,INXS .Early life and the formation of INXS
Tim Farriss was born to Dennis and Jill Farriss, and is the oldest of four children: brothers Andrew and Jon, and sister Alison. He was classically trained on the
guitar from the ages of eight to twelve.As an adolescent, Farriss attended the Forest High School in
Sydney . There he quickly formed a friendship withKirk Pengilly . Farriss (lead guitar ) and Pengilly (guitar andsaxophone ) soon formed the band "Guinness," the eventual base andbedrock to the future internationally successful group, INXS.During Farriss' painful recovery from an operation to remove abnormal bone growths in his legs, the result of a
Hereditary Multiple Exostoses (which his brother Jon also suffers from), his brother Andrew recruited school friends and "Doctor Dolphin" band matesGarry Gary Beers (bass guitar ) andMichael Hutchence (vocals).During the "Summer XS" tour in 1991 INXS played
Wembley Stadium in front of 72,000 people, at one pointMichael Hutchence told Tim to "“play the f***ing riff Timmy.”" Which lead to Farriss being nicknamed The Riff Miester, and later The Riff Sherriff. The moment was captured on film and CD for “Live Baby Live.”Tim plays various
G&L (with which INXS hold an endorsment) and Fender guitars, his favourite being a 1956Stratocaster . [ [http://www.guitarplayer.com/story.asp?storyCode=12347 Band of Brothers ] ] [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268484/ Tim Farriss ] ]During the 2006 "“Switch”" tour Tim suffered a knee injury, leading to surgery and the cancellation of several performances; After a short time recuperating Farriss decided to go back on stage wearing a knee support.
olo projects
Farriss recorded the CD, "Deep Inside" in 1996, which features over 1000 samples of various instruments.
He has also made a
fishing video "Fish in Space" in 1989, the name coming as a humorous reference to bandmateMichael Hutchence 'sfilm , "Dogs in Space ".Farriss wrote and performed the
song "Any Day But Sunday" on thesoundtrack for the 1984 film "No Small Affair ", starringDemi Moore andJon Cryer .He also has his own studio, 'Montana', in which he and his
sound engineer work with many up and coming Australian artists.Private life
On 6 February 1981, Farriss married his high school sweetheart, Bethany Anne (Buffy) Reefman and subsequently had two sons, James and Jake. INXS bandmates see Farriss as the "father figure," as he was the first to get married and to have
child ren.(Quote by
Jon Farriss taken from the "INXS Lounge" at "rockband.com")"Tim is like the ballast in the band...He's the one who gives the band a bit of leadership, a sense of unity, and he'll usually project a very practical, logical view of everything"."
Farriss is a very private man who enjoys deep-sea fishing (tag and release),
cricket ,swimming ,tennis ,skin diving ,golf ,snowboarding and working on theKangaroo Valley familyfarm which he bought from his brother Andrew. He once served as president of the [http://www.manlycricket.com Manly Warringah District Cricket Club] .References
External links
"Websites"
* [http://www.inxs.com INXS.com -- the official INXS website]
* [http://www.inxs.pl INXS.PL -- Polish INXS website]
* [http://www.rockbandlounge.com/inxs/tim-farriss.asp Tim Farriss' Bio at ROCKBANDLOUNGE.COM]"Interview"
* [http://www.themusicindex.com/rockahead/interviews/tim_farriss Interview with Tim Farriss (7 November 2003)]
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