Leanne's Frogstomp Page

• In it's first week of release in Australia, Silverchair's debut album "Frogstomp" went platinum, selling over 70,000 copies.

• Frogstomp is named after an old song by a band called the Stax.

• Frogstomp was recorded in ten days for only AU$38,000- well below the standard production costs for a major release.

• Frogstomp recording: Daniel has used a lot of different stuff since the beginning of Silverchair. First of all- for the recording of Frogstomp- he used both Gibson Les Paul and Gibson Firebird for double-tracking; he sometimes played on a Gibson Explorer for concerts. His main amps were Marshall JCM900 dual reverb. During their first tours after Frogstomp-Daniel discovered Page Hamilitons guitars- helmets guitarist- one of Daniel's fave bands: Paul Reed Smith Guitars. He owns a scarlet red one (in standard tuning most of the time) and geens ones (one was owned by Page Hamiliton who traded it in at Paul Reed Smith and Daniel bought one from there-and they offered him that one; its oneuses in the video for Israel's son)- a black one- a silvery one (all in drop-D) on which he out stickers; they seem to be McCarthy models. He began using Soldano amps. While touring to promote Neon Ballroom- he uses a black Les Paul Custom tuned in open Db and his green; "People Suck"; PRS in dropped-D tuning and a red Gibson SG in standard tuning. As for the amps- he uses his his customized Marshall amps and also 4 Marshall Vintage Classics cabinets 1960.

Here are some pictures during the Frogstomp era.