Now I am on a conference call to LA waiting for the man with the world's most famous mandible.

Moss comes onto the line with those familiar dulcet tones that have made him beloved of generations of women across the globe.

The heart of a one-time teenaged soap addict revives in my chest - perhaps things turn out for the best career-wise after all.

It has been two years since a contractual dispute saw Moss leave the show after 25 years playing playboy Ridge Forrester and engaging in enough plot twists, deaths, miracle revivals, marriages, affairs and identity swaps to befuddle even the most dogged viewer.

A "new" Ridge was brought in briefly, but soon dispatched in a final scene which involved him falling out of a helicopter into the Persian Gulf en route to stop his on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again wife Brooke Logan from marrying another man.

Moss hasn't watched a single episode since he left.

"I haven't watched the show in over two years. I do not miss the show at all," he says resolutely.

But do not take this for Moss arrogantly moving past the series that made him and his chaotic romantic life the collective fixation of entire nations – it has an estimated daily audience of more than 350 million viewers.

He acknowledges that the followers who have hung on every word (or long, wordless stare as is so often the case in the Forrester mansion) are likely to provide a large partof the audiences he hopes to draw during a one-month tour of his band, Player, across Australia next month.

Player ricocheted onto the airwaves back in 1977 when its first single Baby Come Back made it to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 – and to Number 9 in Australia.

While most would consider it a one-hit wonder, Player has had a jolly good crack at commercial success – with another American top-10 hit This Time I'm in it For Love and three top 100 songs before 1981.

Moss sings and plays bass - the musical style of the band clearly drawing from the long-haired, silk-shirted melodious stadium rockers so common during the late '70s and early '80s. Think Boz Scaggs, Eric Clapton, Heart and Kenny Loggins - all of whom were supported by Player in their heyday.

Moss left the band in 1980 to pursue a full-time acting career and notes that the demands of a 50-week a year, 12-hour a day shooting schedule playing the brooding Ridge left him with little time for family, much less music.

But he has always kept his hand in – continuing to sporadically record and play with Player founding member Peter Beckett, who spent most of the 1990s with Little River Band.

Moss says the latest line up – of him, Beckett, Robb Math, Jawn Star and Jimmy Carnelli - is "the best we've ever been".

And for him, it is academic whether the Canberrans who attend his November 8 show at the Vikings Club are there for Player or for Ridge.

"I don't really distinguish (the fans) I think either one is fine. It people coming to see me based on either one of those it is AOK with me."

But he does promise some excitement for those unabashed Bold addicts who turn up. The first half of the show will be just Ridge, sorry, Moss, with a guitar doing an acoustic set interspersed with never-before seen personal footage of his time on set.

"There will be a big screen behind me with a presentation of clips, film that I have taken myself over 25 years behind the scenes of the Bold and the Beautiful. This is stuff nobody has ever seen and I'm previewing it in Australia for the very first time."

Moss has developed a reputation for having a healthy sense of self-deprecation – honed, no doubt over years of having to take preposterous plots lines and deliver them without actually laughing.

"The only way to get through it was to have a sense of humour. How do you think I survived for 25 years? I had to make fun in my own way, we would make fun on the set because we had to get that out of the way before we could do it for real. So we take the piss out of it and make some jokes just to get it out of our system before we did it for the cameras. You can't take that stuff too seriously."

He says he loves visiting Australia for the same reason – that Aussie sense of fun and taking the piss.

"Honestly, visiting Australia is and has always been fantastic for a number of reasons, and I am not just blowing smoke up everybody's arse. Australians are really down to earth, no bullshit people and I love that about them. They've always understood my sense of humour and me theirs. We get along intimately."

"I'm from Hollywood, you meet all kinds of people here, most of them not very honest, not very straight forward and there's a lot of bullshit, I never find that in Australia."

Meanwhile, those who are going purely to dose up on '70s rock, will be well-catered for, says Moss.

He promises the best of Player's repertoire and some familiar songs songs created by the band'smembers which made their way into movies and TV shows in the 80s and 90s.

"I think the audience may be quite surprised at how rock 'n' roll and melodic we are. Plus it is a chance to see me in a different light."

Player featuring Ronn Moss will play Canberra on November 8 at the Vikings Club, Erindale. Bookings: 6121 2100. Tickets: show only - $53 members, $57 non-members. Dinner and show - $85 members, $89 non-members.