Garry Beers
Garry Beers
Known best for his work with the new wave rock band INXS, this Australian bassist also contributed to the 1990 Absent Friends album Here's Looking Up Your Address.
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth22 June 1957
edited plane side singers worse york
It was filmed at 7 o'clock in the morning. It had to be edited and on a plane to New York by 5 p.m.. It was worse for the singers - they'd have to get up at 4 o'clock. That whole side of it was very non-rock 'n' roll.
felt tried work
We tried different singers, it didn't work out. It never felt like a band.
beginning michael
We said at the beginning we didn't want a Michael Hutchence look-alike or sound-alike.
low pants prospect pull television trusted
It was unanimous and foot-dragging. It's a pretty sobering prospect to go on international television and pull your pants down as low as we did. We trusted our instincts, we trusted ourselves.
album finished photo time video
Press, photo shoots, video shoots. By the time we finished the album he was a seasoned veteran.
chemistry family five high playing since soul together
There's a chemistry that evolves in a band. It's not in our soul to not go on. The five of us have been a family playing together since high school.
andrew forever
Andrew had been writing forever and I'd been writing forever, too.