On the dining table is an order of service booklet from the funeral of the late AC/DC guitarist, Malcolm Young. It was getting the better of me, and I just had to get out and run it off.” He was also only a few hundred metres, not miles, from the house. In a 2014 poll, his musical peers rated him Australia’s greatest guitarist, pipping Malcolm Young (not the popular fancy Angus) as No. You couldn’t take Alice Springs out of the boy then or, seemingly, the man now. Had Jones been based in Austin, Texas and started a little earlier, he might have been venerated and celebrated for both his songs and transgressions, in the way of other outlaw country artists such as Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. “My playing went from here to here,” he says, raising his hand to indicate improvement. The beer poured in rivers from the bar taps, too, but other stunts made them a publican’s nightmare.
He still lives, seemingly, on Alice Springs time. Doc Neeson is gone, though the Angels gamely play on without him. Ian Richard Moss (born 20 March 1955) is an Australian rock musician from Alice Springs.He is the founding mainstay guitarist and occasional singer of Cold Chisel.In that group's initial eleven year phase from 1973 to 1984, Moss was recorded on all five studio albums, three of which reached number one on the national Kent Music Report Albums Chart.
Ian Moss and Margeaux Rolleston attend the 2016 APRA Music Awards at Carriageworks on April 5, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. And then … I guess there seemed to be that real or imagined pressure – oh well, you’ve had a really successful album, what’s going to happen if the second one’s not, how are you going to cope with that?”. One day, in the middle of winter, the group went into town leaving Moss behind to practice while wearing, in Barnes’ recollection, only a towel. He sang lead on a handful of songs, including My Baby, but you only have listen to the final verse in Bow River – when Barnes swoops in and tears the song to shreds – to understand why it was easier for Moss to remain in the background. First published in The Guardian, 27 August 2015, on Spencer P Jones: Hellraiser among Australian rock greats, on How I learned to listen and love Cold Chisel, Spencer P Jones: Hellraiser among Australian rock greats, How I learned to listen and love Cold Chisel. In 2014, Hawksley called. It took years. “I’m a claustrophobe from way back, so I had no problems out there [alone in the dark],” he says. In time, we may view Jones as a songwriter of Kelly’s equal, but Jones’s snarling delivery and reputation undoubtedly scared many off. I owe him.
He was born in 1955 in Alice Springs, the third of four children to Geoffrey and Lorna, who both worked for the local council. 2, won an ARIA for Song of the Year, and the related album Matchbook went to No. Jones once told me that Kelly taught him that songs didn’t just fall out of the sky: “You’ve got to do the work,” he said.
“Mossy was always on another planet,” Barnes concludes, “but we loved him.”. But the quality control was high, and after his first solo album, Rumour Of Death in 1994, he blossomed. The cover depicts what looks like one of those muscle cars, tail-lights glowing on some lonely country road. Despite growing up in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, I stood outside of their tribe; the mullet-headed kids that liked them were the ones that gave me a hard time at school. Paraphrasing one of his best, The Day Marty Robbins Died, he’s with Mother Maybelle Carter and Hank Williams now, in that Grand Ole Opry in the sky. He’d say ‘No, no, I’m not happy with the third syllable in the fourth word in the third line of the second verse!’ That level of detail.”. Imagine, for a moment, being Ian Moss. Maybe, like most men of a certain age, my ears are getting bigger. Australian rock musician who is the guitarist and sometimes singer for the band Cold Chisel. Time to move along 1, with double platinum sales. They were ferocious live, Jones lurking in the shadows, puffing smoke from under the hat that obscured his receding hairline. In his first week there, he saw Broderick Smith’s country rock band the Dingoes, Radio Birdman at French’s Tavern in Darlinghurst and a much-bootlegged show by AC/DC at the Haymarket. The second album, Worlds Away, wasn’t as successful; it was released in 1991 as a wave of younger bands led by Nirvana swept aside the old guard. As a guitar player, he was highly rated, coming in 17th in a poll of Australian musicians that was topped by Cold Chisel’s Ian Moss. Singer Phil Jamieson tells of singing backing vocals for Flame Trees in 2011, arm in arm with his bandmates, as “a moment – I may have even fallen into a bush in my excitement”. Tim Rogers, whose band You Am I covered Cold Chisel’s Houndog on a tribute album, describes Moss as “a quiet gentleman who explodes with passion and vigour on stage [with] finesse and fire that mesmerises me … Soulful and supple of voice and a deft, romantic songwriter. He speaks slowly, and long, long pauses punctuate his conversation. But unlike most rock stars, Jones didn’t look away from the consequences of his choices. After leaving the band, Jones hit a purple patch, recording a string of terrific albums through the 2000s. At home in Sydney’s inner west, where he lives with his partner, jazz singer Margeaux Rolleston and their son Julian, 14, Moss seems perfectly earth-bound, albeit shy. I do still enjoy it when I get out there, but it’s always a little bit easier if someone [else] has got that pressure and you can just sit back and play guitar, sing the occasional song and do the backing vocals.”. These days they’ve outgrown the nostalgia understandably felt for them (and other so-called heritage acts) by those who grew up with them: the fans who came of age with them in dangerously overcrowded pubs, back when you could go home with a tumour on your lung from smoke inhalation. But that’s a different song. The initial studio sessions were held in 2011, when Moss met Sydney songwriter Sam Hawksley, now based in Nashville and playing in the BoDeans. [Some of the] guys had met their future wives and some of the guys hadn’t … Jim had met [wife] Jane, and was obviously missing her like crazy.”, He motions to the picture of Malcolm Young on the table, and ponders whether things might have been different had they gone earlier. But that’s a different song For all my efforts to beat ’em to deaf by standing close to amplifiers for more than half my life, they’re hearing things they didn’t before. As a teenager in the 1980s, it was hard to avoid them. A sad lament punctuated by clashing guitar chords in the chorus, it was about cleaning up, and owning it: The monkey has gone “I’d go back to Alice Springs on holiday and at least feel like I could relax, like I was at home, it just seemed a little bit more real,” he says. At a minimum, you’d think finding Moss in such a state would warrant an immediate trip to hospital for hypothermia. Those three gigs and their respective influences – country, punk and hard rock – all informed his later work. We will be in Rotorua for a few days in the April School holidays. At the end of shows, the band would cut the twine holding the hay bales on stage, scattering straw throughout the venue. A white Gretsch guitar sits on a stand next to sheet music for the torch song You’ve Changed. If this paints a familiarly grim picture of the rock musician’s fate, it might be worth mentioning that Jones’s first album with the Johnnys, recorded in 1986, was called Highlights Of A Dangerous Life. At home in Sydney’s inner west, where he lives with his partner, jazz singer Margeaux Rolleston and their son Julian, 14, Moss seems perfectly earth-bound, albeit shy. Cold Chisel are Oz rock’s last great survivors. I trust him.”, Moss doesn’t need to be told he has a punctuality problem. I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t have been a massively different story.”. Early in Jimmy Barnes’ memoir Working Class Man, he tells an anecdote about Cold Chisel guitarist Ian Moss. On 2 October they will launch their eighth studio album, The Perfect Crime, at the Deni (Deniliquin) Ute Muster in the New South Wales Riverina. “That’s what Bow River was about, really. FM radio couldn’t get enough of them, and Khe Sanh was especially ubiquitous, pumped out of every muscle-car stereo at the beach like an extra pipeline of exhaust fumes. Hooper came out of hospital to perform, took the stage in a wheelchair and wearing an oxygen mask, and died days later, aged 55. A white Gretsch guitar sits on a stand next to sheet music for the torch song You've Changed. I was having some issues with what’s popularly become known now as panic attacks. “He said, ‘How you going with all those ideas lying moribund?’ I said ‘They’re still there, they’re not dead, but they’re still on the wrong side of the finishing line’.” Hawksley told him to gather them together, and in August that year Moss flew to Nashville, then returned to Cold Chisel as they prepared to record The Perfect Crime. Moss faded into the background again. At home in Sydney's inner west, where he lives with his partner, jazz singer Margeaux Rolleston, and their son Julian, 14, Moss seems perfectly earth-bound , albeit shy. He sings: “Listen now to the wind, babe / Listen now to the rain / Feel that water, licking at my feet again – just that.” He sang it one day at a rehearsal, off the cuff; the band’s drummer, the late Steve Prestwich, encouraged him to keep at it. He has a punctuality problem. 1. His album with Cold Chisel called Matchbook was #1 on the Australian music charts. The Johnnys, Jones’s first band of note, were dubbed “cowpunk”, and they played the image to the hilt, wearing Stetsons, chaps and Cuban heels. There’s another story to be told here, about the Australian music industry’s cowardice and ageism. The band undertook a disastrous tour of the US in 1981, playing mostly on the bottom of mismatched bills, an experience that prompted Barnes to write the seething single You Got Nothing I Want.
Chisel were arguably the Australian band of their generation before imploding in 1984, but it has taken far longer for their reputation to spread beyond Australia. His Stratocaster chugged and wailed, always a bit behind the beat, and he held the history of rock & roll in his right hand. First published in The Guardian, 23 August 2018. Moss slips into the third person. You’d think the success of his first solo single, Tucker’s Daughter, released in 1989, might have cured him of his anxiety. “Jim’s the frontman, he can take all that pressure. Whether I was ready for it or not, I don’t know. “The first thing that came to me was what you might call the bridge,” he says. Did he enjoy the attention after the initial flush of solo success? “I guess so, yeah. Get on with my life Looking through his body of work – with the Johnnys, Beasts of Bourbon, Hell to Pay (formed with another hellraiser, Ian Rilen) and his solo records, what stands out above all is the consistency. But strangely, I don’t hate Cold Chisel anymore. They are the crocodiles of Australian rock & roll: a dinosaur that will outlive us all. “About as naked as I would have gotten in that particular instance was a pair of boxer shorts, and I remember wearing a blue jacket with some real or fake lamb’s wool.
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