Biography Timeline. member of band. "When INXS's long-lived fame fell to the wayside, as it expectedly would, my Dad did not accept it easily.". Theres some real heavy songs and some really beautiful acoustic tracks too we just had some fun making a record that we wanted to listen to really. They volunteer for animal rescue organisations, in 2020 alone fostering out 15 puppies. Normally youd have a beer on stage but not one of us did Thats how serious we were about treating it like a sports event. The bass in the pic is my custom made Maton MGB4- they were a little less rounded than the JB4. First name. He owned 2 of the L2's, one of them being serial number 1081, sent to him directly from the factory on the 14th of July 1983. Garry (given name) William (given name) Male bass guitarists from Australia; Members of INXS; Non-topical/index: Uses of Wikidata Infobox; Uses of Wikidata Infobox with defaultsort . There were the trials & tribulation that he and Clapton went through together as best mates, he stuck his head up and stuck his tail down and wrote great music and every solo he ever played you can sing. Part One dives deep into the early days when he met other future band partners . Updated: Feb 3. Based in Los Angeles for over a decade, Garry formed a tour-de-force sound, particularly with Jon Farriss. INXS (pronounced "in excess") is an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales. Murdaugh is heckled as he leaves court, Ken Bruce finishes his 30-year tenure as host of BBC Radio 2, Missing hiker buried under snow forces arm out to wave to helicopter, Hershey's Canada releases HER for SHE bars featuring a trans activist, Insane moment river of rocks falls onto Malibu Canyon in CA, Fleet-footed cop chases an offender riding a scooter, Family of a 10-month-old baby filmed vaping open up. It was a magnificent time for us, but the pessimists & cynics thought otherwise. "The Grove Studios was originally built by Garry Gary Beers from INXS," says Horscroft. I did the majority of the production, like the recording and spent endless hours making it all fit together but Toby was a very important part of the vision and so was Jimmy. It's always a pleasure to work with FRANK JOSEPH at JBL Professional and AKG, and all of the other amazing music lovers across the various divisions of HARMAN During his high school years, he played guitar in a band called Legolas Elvin Warrior. Sean: You guys must be itching to get out to play this new material on the live stage, especially to tour and eventually to get back down here to Australia once the travel restrictions lift. INXS; Absent Friends; Absent Friends; allmusic. Michael Hutchence (vocals), Kirk Pengilly (guitar/sax), Garry Gary Beers (bass), Jon Farriss (drums), Tim Farriss (guitar) & Andrew Farriss (guitar, keyboard, percussion) won Australian fans and then international acclaim, performing to millions of people including the band's historic sell out performance at Wembley Stadium to 74,000 fans, INXS I am saddened that my daughter has chosen now, as she seeks to embark on a career in journalism, to publish this story, writes Beers. Together they have girl/boy twins, Isla Katherine Beers and August James Beers born in 2011. 4,058 Followers, 42 Following, 110 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Garry Beers (@garrygarybeers) garrygarybeers. I just noticed this thread.. She claims that I slept with a backup singer while my pregnant wife was at home with a brand new Harley Davidson she had bought for me. Roll forward two years I was in Perth visiting family and was so lucky to catch you guys play at Metropolis in Fremantle Im actually looking at my ticket stub now $26.50 was the ticket price. Angry . Sean: Having spoken to Andrew (Farriss) a couple of times now he always talks fondly about Perth. NM, the first of two Lucite models manufactured for Garry Beers of INXS (comes with Letter of Authenticity from Beers), thinner body profile than standard Jazz Bass, set up with Hipshot on low E tuner, Jazz and Precision Bass style pickups, tweed Fender HC, a very unique instrument Product: BF3074 The last show that my ex-wife and the girls attended was the Stadium Australia concert in 2000 with Terrance Trent Darby., I am not perfect and I am the first to admit it, writes Beers. INXS members (from left) Tim Farriss, Garry Gary Beers, Michael Hutchence, Jon Farriss, Andrew Farriss and Kirk Pengilly. Garry: You look to the future and look to the present really. William Beers was a front-end loader operator, and Lola worked part-time in a variety of jobs. Garry Beers Bass player for INXS & my new band ASHENMOON . I think a lot of music today is purely throwing spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks, you know and it kind of bugs me. Quite often as the adrenalin flowed theyd be lost in the moment. Australian rock band INXS first formed in Sydney as The Farriss Brothers in 1977. This week 23 years ago, a NSW mum did the unthinkable. Garry lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jourdan (they married in 2007) and their 10 year old twins Isla and August. . Garry and Jourdan Beers married in September 2007. Stripped to its essence, INXS is a band of primal desires: lust and chasing a good time. With Toby & Jimmy we have the perfect situation where we are all there for the right reasons Toby was very excited to be in a band where he could write the lyrics he always wanted to write and say what he wanted to say. To add insult to injury, Lucy-Mae said, the script portrayed Beers as rationalising his affair with a backing singer because he was lonely and she was beautiful. " Beers wrote. What is it about the INXS song book that has allowed them to stand the test of time & sound so fresh? I got one song on there, so I was happy and kept the music for Future Kings & Queens and then Toby heard it and loved it and now its going to be the next single. Garry William Beers (born 22 June 1957), known as Garry Gary Beers, is an Australian musician and was the bass guitarist for the new wave rock group INXS. That album is called A Trick of the Tail. The 22-year-old said the recent INXS mini-series Never Tear Us Apart was full of errors and did not paint the full picture of Beerss lifestyle at the peak of the bands success and the effect it had on his then wife and two young daughters. Garry Gary Beers was born in Australia on June 22, 1957. Garry: Your welcome mate. Approaching his bass duties with the thunderous attack of one third of a power trio, but with the unassuming precision of a seasoned session player, Gary makes it all look so easy. Garry: Yeah, your right with Dustbowl. Ironically, he is one of the most underrated guitar players ever. INXS, who have sold close to 40 million records worldwide, had their story turned into a TV mini series in 2013. Queen singer Freddie Mercury watched them side-stage and came into the dressing rooms to tell them how much he enjoyed their show. [4] Generally playing bass guitar, Beers' double bass work occurs on some INXS tracks including "By My Side". Sean: Great thank you. So much to talk to you about. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. William Beers was a front-end loader operator, and Lola worked part-time in a variety of jobs. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. There was Andrew (Farriss), Michael (Hutchence), me, a hippy drummer called Neil (Sanders) and another mate of ours from high school on guitar so it was very embryonic, as it was back in the day. At the moment, Beers' beloved acoustic bass guitar, handcrafted by New South Wales luthier Gerard Gilet, is at the Breedlove shop in . Will Vladimir Putin's empress pay the ultimate price for his war on the West? Beers statement was released by a PR consultant via the Australian law firm Kennedy Partners. As far as live work goes, we just love to play live. Obviously, hes worked with different song writing partners and producers who have kind of said, nah and theyve made it more about them and not about him, whereas I just wanted him to make it all about him. INXS really nailed that one. Oscar Cainer tells all. We just look to the future because who knows whats going to happen we just want everyone to stay safe and to get through it. Garry Gary Beers (Bass, guitar, keyboards, songwriter, guitar maker) Garry Gary Beers is not only one of the best known bassplayers in the world but he uses his flair for woodwork and electronics to build his own line of bass guitars. Sometimes Michael would forget one of his own lyrics and Garry would have to mouth the upcoming lyric line to him. Probably something off Zeppelin III Tangerine probably. We played at a Channel Nine Christmas Party to some cast of a TV show back then with our long hair & flairs [laughs], Sean: You need to post those up on your social media pages one day. Generally playing bass guitar, Beers' double bass work occurs on some INXS tracks including "By My Side". She claims that I am married to the woman who used to wait for him outside of gigs while his family were inside. Thats one of the things I love about it. Bassist for one of the greatest bands of all time, INXS -plus his new band AshenMoon Garry Gary Beers I was determined not to have lessons.. I was hooked.. Based in Los Angeles for over a decade, Garry formed a tour-de-force sound, particularly with Jon Farriss. Career []. Oops, looks like you forgot something. Garry "Gary" Beers was born to Bill and Lola Beers in Sydney. Now, we all look at going to the gym but back then you just made sure you ate properly & looked after yourself you can try and do the rock n roll thing of walking out there with a bottle of Jack (Daniels) but its not going to get you through a gig every night Even just trying to get through a two hour show without needing a piss, you know. Our hours of operation are Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, 11:30am-6pm PST. Sites: But I was good at woodwork and I studied electronics for awhile so I was meant to play guitars and make guitars. We had dates in March that were cancelled unfortunately. Lucy makes a series of hurtful allegations against me, each of which is untrue. Garry William Beers , known as Garry Gary Beers, is an Australian musician and was the bass guitarist for the new wave rock group INXS. 154.26.131.122 Garry Beers photo.JPG. I remember hanging out at the WACA and Allan Border inviting me to walk across the pitch with him. It would be great. INXS bassist Garry Beers denies daughter's claims he was neglectful father 'I am not perfect and I am the first to admit it' writes musician in lengthy statement refuting recent article. Born Gary William Beers on 22nd June, 1957 in Manly, Sydney, Australia, he is famous for Bass player for the band INXS. Your IP: Garry: Thats exactly right. When we started playing with bands of the caliber of The Angels, Midnight Oil & Cold Chisel we quickly realized that they were going to blow you off stage so you had to go out there with the mentality of blowing them off stage. I also didnt realize at the time that its also based on an album that I used to listen to religiously every week. Its Phil Collins finding his drum sound, the keyboards are sublime just incredible. Its weird but when Jeff Buckley passed I was in the middle of mixing a record for a band I was in called Mudhead and I was driving into Melbourne to mix it and I took one CD with me in the car and that was The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Jeff had just passed and that week they had released his posthumous release Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk so I stopped at the record store and I bought it. Email. We started travelling overseas early in our career. I was more into Deep Purple & Zeppelin, but I really discovered them more later on. Part One dives deep into the early . If you could be credited with writing any song ever written, what song would you choose? Garry: Yes, most definitely. Couple Photos. Sean: [laughs] I will. Your purchases help youth music programs get the gear they need to make music. Whatever we wanted to do we could do and that is the beauty of having my own little studio. I think a lot of bands and artists are suffering because they are sucking all the oxygen out of the industry & the world. I feel the same way about Bono too. You can only be a stadium band for so long, so you need to reconnect with people again. Please contact us at or call us at 818-344-8300. Listen Like Thieves is the fifth studio album by INXS. "I'm lucky to get an email on my birthday. He met Andrew Farriss and they formed the band Dr Dolphin, which was followed by the Farriss Brothers in 1977. Sean: Ill add it to my playlist. ', There it was the standard question during my weekly social event. This is untrue. It is clear he is not sorry that my little sister found out about his first affair in the INXS autobiography in the school library, or that we were sent to four psychologists to understand why we were upset with him for abandoning us like stray dogs. After a decade and a [], Kicking off what is set to be a massive 2019, Jon Stevens is back on the road with his aptly named Raining Hits tour, featuring not only all the greatest hits from his extensive [], The Duke of Spook and his devilish ghouls, WEDNESDAY 13,are celebrating All Hallows Eve with the release of a wicked new cover of INXS hit song Devil Inside now available on all streaming services. Musician Garry Gary Beers and real estate agent Jourdan Conrad-Beers filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court against Robert McGuigan, alleging assault, battery, stalking and. [1] [2 . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. As a band, AshenMoon play a version of Immigrant Song and Toby is probably one of the only guys on the planet that can sing it. After the death of frontman Michael Hutchence in 1997, Beers left his two daughters and first wife, Jodie Crampton, when Lucy was 12 and happily growing up on the family's 25-acre property on the NSW Central Coast. In a first-person piece for News Corp Australia, Lucy-Mae Beer, outlined her lonely teenage years and fractured relationship with the man she said suffers from "Peter Pan syndrome". If she really does believe all of these untruths about me, I wish she had just picked up the phone. In a statement issued via his lawyers, the musician said he was deeply hurt and saddened at a first-person article in the Australian in which Lucy Mae Beers described him as a man who thrived on a diet of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. How did this band come to be? Sean: The stage was huge cardio must come into play when playing those immense stadium shows. Compare versions and buy on Discogs So, when Jimmy & Toby joined up, we decided we didnt really want to be a covers band any more as we are all frustrated song writers from our past careers so we started writing original material and spent about a year putting together ideas in my little studio that I have at my house and recorded a full album. Garry Gary Beers. Garry: Thats good to hear. Bass player for INXS . The 22-year-old media and journalism graduate, who now lives in Melbourne, said she wrote the column to get her side of the story out and denied it was a cry for attention. (en) Garry William Beers (Sdney, 22 de junio de 1957), conocido como Garry Gary Beers, es un msico australiano, popular por su trabajo como bajista de la agrupacin INXS. Couples. Mosquito has such a different vibe to it. It was a song that Toby started off by having an idea on his laptop, he brought it over and we just built it from there really. We wish you and the rest of the guys all the best with AshenMoon and look forward to hearing more from the band. Back in Rock N Roll! Garry William Beers (born 22 June 1957, Sydney ), known as Garry Gary Beers, is an Australian musician and was the bass guitarist for the new wave rock group INXS. He grew up in the Sydney suburb of Manly and attended The Forest High School. I did not meet my current wife, Jourdan, until five years after my first wife and I were divorced., REBUTTAL: Read more about Garry Gary Beers statement here. Published Catalog Ratings: 94 Cataloged: 106 Track rating sets: 4 Rating distribution Sean: Hi Garry. I did have two recording studios back in Australia and INXS owned a studio. Oh yeah! As I said before, we are kind of being selfish in the respect that we are kind of making music that we want to hear. Thanks to my mother I have a very fortunate life and am working hard to follow my dreams. Apart from the bass guitar he also plays the guitar, keyboards, ukulele, and is adept at computer programming for song writing and music production. Garry William Beers was born to Lola (died 2011) and William Beers. Theres a vibe & feel to them thats very much from yesteryear that will help make these timeless. View contact information: phones, addresses, emails and networks. He has another son, Benjamin, the product of a short-term relationship. Our fourth member is Sebastian Gregory, who played with The Veronicas and he was a mate of Tobys and was playing with Toby when I met him. Garry: I know but I just havent heard anything since Jeff Buckleys Grace which was the first thing I heard that blew my dress up and it really inspired me but its all based on influences I know like Zeppelin. Birth Name: Garry Gary Beers Occupation: Bassist Born In: Australia Birthdate: June 22, 1957 Age: 65 years old (as of 2023) Ethnicity: Unknown Nationality: Australian Sexuality: N/A Garry Gary Beers was born on the 22nd of June, 1957. I did not meet my current wife, Jourdan, until five years after my first wife and I were divorced. #thefreemanagency #digitalmarketing #websitedevelopment #INXS #garrygarybeers When INXS's longlived fame fell to the wayside, as it expectedly did, my dad did not accept it easily. The rugby league team too we went and saw the Kangaroos when they were playing all over England and they would come to our gigs it was all pretty amazing. Sean: Well, lets finish on the easiest of the lot. Lucy-Mae Beers, 22, has revealed how the only contact she has with her father is via email Garry 'Gary' Beers, 57, now lives in the US with a new wife and children Lucy says the recent. Garry Gary Beers is an Australian musician and was the bass guitarist for the rock group INXS and many more. The series seemed to conveniently leave out the fact that Garry has five children in three different countries and is now married to the woman who used to wait for him outside of gigs while his family were inside. Equipboard breaks down the gear, tools, and products used by artists, pros, and influencers in their craft. Sean: Andrews recollection was of the Australian cricket team staying at the same hotel as you guys were that same weekend and sharing breakfast with them. Sean: Not only did you write & perform the tracks, but you also produced them, with Toby co-producing. [6], He co-wrote the song "Tangle With Your Mind" with Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots for Weiland's solo CD Happy in Galoshes (2008). As a songwriter for INXS yourself did you ever have any music you felt you couldnt approach the band with? Their No. I dont move on. The job of any bass player is to be the one that everyone can rely on. That memory for guitar parts and lyrics helped the others in concert. Garry Gary Beers (bass, vocals) Jon Farriss (drums) Jimmy Barnes (vocals, 1998) Terence Trent D'arby (vocals, 1999) . For sale on consignment is a Garry Gary Beers (G.G.B.) Mini Bio (1) Bassist for the iconic rock band band INXS. Sean: Ill have to put them on for a listen now. Why Covid's 'lab leak' theory isn't all that crazy: Fascinating interactive map logs EVERY single PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Yes, Madonna toyboys are fun but not if you value your dignity. Garry is the only member in his family to get into music. Sean: I have to ask who came up with the name Doctor Dolphin [laughs]? Gary Beers bass guitars . With Beers very much hands on with the writing, recording & production of AshenMoons material, he is excitedly looking forward to seeing the reaction from the army of fans who eagerly await to hear what one of Australias beloved musicians has to offer after a few years away from writing & recording original compositions. Gary's been building these amazing basses, and here he is with Norm and Nick talking about them at #NormansRareGuitars! But Garry had another role onstage. Bono is magnificently professional when you meet him. Band started in 1977 as the Farris Brothers; briefly called the Vegetables; became INXS (pronounced " in excess ") in 1979; consists of Michael Hutchence (born c. 1960, in Sidney, Australia; father ' s occupation: an importer; mother ' s occupation: a make-up artist; unmarried; home Hong Kong) lead vocals, also group ' s lyricist, appeared in