Tim Farriss
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Timothy William Farriss (born 16 August 1957 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia) is a member of the rock group, INXS.
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[edit] 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 Farriss and Jon Farriss, and sister Alison.
As an adolescent, Tim attended the Forest High School in Sydney. There he quickly formed a friendship with Kirk Pengilly. Tim (lead guitar) and Kirk (guitar and saxophone) soon formed the band "Guinness," the eventual base and bedrock to the future internationally successful rock band INXS.
During Tim 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 mates Garry Gary Beers (bass guitar) and Michael Hutchence (vocals).
[edit] Private Life
INXS bandmates see Tim Farriss as the "father figure," as he was the first to get married and to have children.
(Quote by Jon Farriss taken from INXS Lounge :: 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".
Tim is a very private man who enjoys deep-sea fishing (tag and release), cricket, swimming, tennis, skin diving, golf, snowboarding and working on the Kangaroo Valley family farm which he bought from brother Andrew.
On 6 February 1981, Tim Farriss married his high school sweetheart, Bethany Anne (Buffy) Reefman and subsequently had two sons, James and Jake.
Tim also has his own studio, "Montana," in which he and his engineer work with many up and coming Australian artists.
Was classically trained on the guitar from the ages of 8 to 12.
[edit] Trivia
- Tim Farriss' nicknames are "The Riff Sherriff" or "The Sexy Riff Sherriff." Both of which were given to him by his fans at rockband.com.
- Farriss' guitar of choice is the 1956 Fender Stratocaster.
- Farriss once served as president of the Manly Warringah District Cricket Club.
- Tim has made a CD, Deep Inside, which features over 1000 samples of various instruments.
- Tim has also made a fishing video Fish in Space, the name coming as a humourous reference to bandmate Michael Hutchence's film, Dogs in Space.
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