Weird Stuff I've Been Sent and Your Stories
Okay...I was watching Letterman & so decided to make a Top 10 List of my own. So here goes...
Antoinette told me about her dream:
My name: natilie imbruglia *laughs* It's a bit mean, but I still think it's funny!
You crazy kids have sure sent me some *strange* emails and stuff! From now on, the truly weird silverchair-related stuff you guys send me will be displayed on this page, along with your stories and other submissions. If you want to remain anonymous, just tell me so and I won't include your screen name and email address.
Oh, and if anyone can help me put up some hyperlinks, I'd appreciate it. I don't know what I could be doing wrong!
Silver_Llama ran into Daniel one day:
Well I live in the hometown, and suburb of the guys {Merewether,
Newcastle, N.S.W.}, but sadly I don't PERSONALLY know them. Anyway, I was at the local shopping mall, and I was in a record shop, I looked up at the rock section, and lo and behold, there was Daniel. At first, all I wanted to do was run up and get his autograph, but then I thought about his privacy. I figured that there was a way I could get an autograph, WITHOUT being
annoying to the poor guy. I casually walked up to the section he was in {by the time I got there,
I decided not to say anything to him} and picked up KoRn - Life Is Peachy. I was flicking through the CD's {as you do} when all of a sudden, a CD is practically shoved in my face. I stepped back, in shock, and I realised it was Daniel holding the CD. He said "Sorry, I was just trying to show you a really good CD, coz I
could see you were having a bit of trouble."
I was in complete shock, because, as we all know, it's VERY rare that Daniel will talk to a complete stranger, unless they start the conversation, and I said, {Knowing the answer}" Umm, excuse me, but are you who I think you are?"
He said "Depends."
"Are you Daniel Paul Johns?"
"How'd you know my middle name?"
"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to let that slip out!"
He just replied, "That's fine. And yes I am."
I said "Cool, and thanx for the recommendation!"
He said "No worries. See Ya." & left the store. I was in complete awe as he left. I proceeded to buy the CD and went straight home to tell everyone about
my experience. P.S. The CD was Minor Threat III.
alterna_freak_of_nature sent me her account of how she got into the 'chair and two dreams she had:
Well, I first got into them earlier this year (2001), right after New Year's. I was shopping with my mum and I had money and whenever I have money I have to buy something because I'm stupid like that, and
I didn't have anything I planned on buying. So I was scanning the CD section in Wal-Mart when I for some reason remembered silverchair. I had *just* found out they did the song "Tomorrow", which I had loved to
no end even though I had no damn clue who they were. So I went to the S section and I was flipping for the CD that would have "Tomorrow" on it, but instead they only had Neon Ballroom and The Best Of CD, so I checked
Best Of and it had Tomorrow on it, so I bought it (14 bucks, what the hell?) I went home and listened to it, and I absolutely loved them since then...bought all their CD's, everything. I love them to death now, go
me.
Well, I had a weird dream one night. I was in a band and we were in a festival like Lollapalooza or something like that...and I was walking around, and I ran into Courtney Love. Supposedly we were really good friends (kick ass, I love Courtney and Hole), and we started talking and being stupid and obnoxious. Suddenly Daniel walks by, and I get all flustered for some reason. I mention to her that he had just walked by, and she's like "Aww, do you like him or something?" and I mutter Yeah, and start blushing. She gets this evil look in her eye and yanks me in
the direction he's going. We follow him backstage, where he's standing watching the band that's on playing (for some reason I knew that it was Jane's Addiction - wtf they broke up...?) and he was just
standing there listening to him. There was this long curtain so me and Courtney couldn't be seen. Soon enough he started walking away in our direction, and suddenly Courtney shoves me right into him. We say our
apologies and of course it's a dream so the stupid cheesy music starts playing and we get that "I wuv you" glaze in our eyes, and we get up and walk away still looking at each other and we end up like automatically becoming boyfriend and girlfriend and it really reminded me of Courtney and Kurt...I think I've been listening to Nirvana, silverchair, and Hole way
too damn much...and watching too many romance movies....it was semi-cool but really funny. I woke up, went over it in my mind and started laughing. I had another silverchair dream though...yes I'm sorry I'm boring oh well...anyway this one was more stupid and funny and pointless...I was in a band (A-gain) and for some reason we had to move to Newcastle (dun dun dun) to record our first album. We were hanging out at the producer's house doing stupid crap. I remember that they put a mattress on the front lawn and I jumped out the window to it and I remember hearing The Ramones' "I wanna be sedated" in the background.
Well I got off the mattress, went "WOO HOO!" and I looked across the street and there was Daniel getting his mail. I waved, and he gave me a really messed up look and just gave me a small wave and hurried back
inside. I kept looking for him but he never came back out again. I must have scared him or something, lol.
silverchairbitch sent me this how-I-got-interested-in-silverchair story:
I can't remember the date exactly but I know it was when I was 8 years old and I was a teenie bopper with Hanson and such but I remember flipping through the channels and I saw Daniel's sweaty face and then came "Body and soul I'm a freak, I'm a freak" and I just thought "WOW! This is a really cool video!" so when it was over I had the song stuck in my head for days then when MTV stopped showing it I forgot about silverchair until I saw the beginning of Ana's Song (open Fire) on MTV2 and I said "HEY I REMEMBER THEM!!" and Daniel, Ben, and Chris all went through image changes and then I had forgotten them again till I turned 13 and my friend Cherie mentioned silverchair in our conversation and I said "HEY I LIKE THEM!" and she said "Really! What is your favorite CD?" and I said "I don't have any, sadly," and she said "Oh?" and then she sent me the Best Of album and then I totally freaked and bought ALL the albums and now I'm totally hooked and I thank Cherie for jarring my memory on the best band ever SILVERCHAIR!
i_am_a_lumpy_sprite (she can occasionally be found in the chairpage chat room) and her sister Sam gave me their accounts of the AY2K video shoot, which I've patched together for your reading pleasure:
Sprite was at the top of the steps, standing next to
one of the production guys, sucking up to him in hopes
of meeting the band later. Suddenly she heard a
soliary scream...like nothing she'd ever heard before,
and thought, oh great, they're here and so are all the
groupies. The extras were told to turn around and stop
looking at the band - so one girl said, "Daniel Johns
is standing right there and you expect me to turn
around?" Sprite's sister ended up going around the
back, watching the monitors. After a while Sprite went
down to where the guys were being filmed...by that
time Daniel had finished his walk in the crowd so it
was just Chris and Ben. Her sister Sam was in the back
talking to Daniel (another girl was there too). The
band had to leave, and the other girl had been yelling
stuff like "Daniel I love you," and asked him to come
over there and sign something for her. Daniel said,
"No, I can't," indicating the security guards
surrounding him, so she asked, "Well, can I come under
the barrier and shake your hand?" He replied, "Yeah,
sure," and gestured for her to come over. The other
girl got under the string, kissed Daniel on the cheek,
then got back (to avoid being pushed back by a guard I
suppose). Sprite's sis wanted to go under and get an
autograph, but Daniel just pointed to the guards and
said, "Sorry." That's about it...
Danielle sent me three stories...all of which are well worth reading:
Story 1: The Anthem Video Shoot
OK, it all started in January sometime when my mum told me early one morning *actually it wasn't really that early probably about 1pm - I too
am fond of my sleep and tend to get as much of it as possible* Anyway, mum came into my room rudely interrupting me from my slumber to inform me that extras were needed for sc's new film clip for the song
'Anthem.....' and that I should go and do it! Me being half asleep just nodded and said yea whatever rolled over and thought nothing of it. Until a few days later I heard the same thing on the radio, so I decided to ring up and see if I could do it. The woman on the other end took my name and gave me details of where to go what time etc, so that was it...I was going to be in the clip!! *Yay for me!!!* So I then told a few of my friends to do the same and come down with me...which they were more then happy to do! So on the morning of the clip we all went down to Sydney buzzing with excitement, finally got to the place of the filming and joined in the activities, it was actually a really fun day except for all the 'trendy-rejects' who ran around declaring that silverchair sucked dick (needless to say they weren't the most popular group of people that day). Now when I rang up to find out about the day, the woman I was talking to told
me that the band weren't going to be there as they had to play a gig in another state that night, but that didn't bother me one bit as this was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I really wanted to do it. But when we got there some big guy with a megaphone was walking around telling everyone that when the band got there "Don't go running up to them asking for autographs as they didn't have time for that!!" blah blah nag nag...I couldn't believe it!! I hadn't expected them to be there at all, but when I found out they were I was even happier! When they finally got
there, my friend Kate was the first to see them, and Kate being Kate screamed as loud as I've ever heard anyone scream before! (she's not a teeny or anything, but sometimes she just can't help herself) Needless to
say she got everybody's attention and I turned around and there they were standing about 5 metres away:) Initially I only saw Daniel (I didn't realise Ben and Chris were there until several minutes later) probably
because of his glittery black top he really stood out, but more so because I was completely shocked by his appearance - I couldn't take my eyes off him. As I'm sure you know sc took that big long break after Freak
Show and like many I hadn't seen the boys for what seemed like forever and my last memory of Daniel was with brilliant dreads and a healthy glow. But when I saw him I couldn't believe it was really him, I was so
stunned!! I kept thinking ohmygod what's happened to him he looks like death, he'd lost so much weight and his face was all gaunt and pale (which was more then likely accredited to make-up but nonetheless he looked so ill) I swear I could have cried it was so scary!!
Then as it was time for him to start filming it was obvious he was really uncomfortable with the crowd as he was all jittery and shaky. I couldn't help feeling for him. I just wanted to give him a big hug and a hot
water bottle, and tuck him away in bed! *My exuberant maternal nature shining through I think* Anyway the guys were only there for a short while then whisked away as quickly as they came, but it was fantastic!! They were constantly surrounded by security all day, so no-one was even able to talk to them. So then the rest of the day went on and we got to run up some stairs run DOWN some stairs, jump up and down with punching fists, wave banners, spray signs and be human targets for a huge water truck and its exaggerated water pistol!! mmm sounds like fun doesn't it?! *much sarcasm intended* That got a tad bit repetitive for my liking (except for the water part - that was hell fun!!!) so me and a few friends sat down and discussed nose picking *DON'T ASK!!! -But it was heaps funny for sure* After that we were given our "exclusive" sc cd (it was London's Burning and Spawn pre-vitro version) thanked kindly and sent on our way. Now, if you look really closely * I mean REALLY closely * you can see me way up in the background behind Chris as he walks thru the crowd, but I'm terribly insignificant so it doesn't really matter, and as Ben walks through on the left of screen you can see this really skinny arm attached to a girl with blonde hair with sun glasses on top of her head and half her face; that's my friend Jess!! But you have to run it in slow motion to see it more clearly:) Small I know but they're our little pieces of stardom lol!!!
Story 2: The Newtown Gig
In March sc were doing a small gig at the Enmore Theatre in Newtown which isn't really a big venue so the tickets sold out pretty quickly! We
left our ticket purchasing in the trusty hands of my friend Karisma the day they went on sale, but it ended up taking a few days. When she got to school later that day she informed us that her dad got the tickets
for us and that we were row H or something like that, and we were definitely going! So then we were all happily counting down the days til the concert, really excited that we were among the first few to see them
perform new songs from Neon Ballroom. So as it came nearer our excitement grew, especially Karisma's, a
converted silverchair despiser. Now I know this may sound really stupid on our behalf, but Karisma hadn't given us the actual tickets yet making up some excuse about something or other I can't quite remember, but when one of your best friends of many many years assures you that everything's fine, you tend to trust them, after all we'd known each other for most of our lives and always been close!! So, the day finally arrived of the concert but we still had to go to
school, which wasn't too bad cos at least it was taking up some time and the hours weren't just dragging on. But when we got to school, Karisma
wasn't there!!! We were quickly on the phone to her asking where she was, did she have the tickets, how and where were we getting them etc. She told us she had been throwing up all morning but she'd still be
coming to pick us up later that day. So it was all fine again, but Kate (the aforementioned screamer) wasn't convinced so she rang up again just to make sure. I was really late for class by this stage so I had to leave, but after that I came out and I found Kate crying her eyes out!! She ran up to me and blurted out that Karisma had been lying the whole time
and she'd never bought the tickets!!! I had no idea what to do, I couldn't believe what she had done, how could I?? She was so excited herself about the concert, she was the one driving down, she was taking care of everything, she had even told us which row we were in for chrissakes, I had even paid her for it and she happily took my $29.95 lol!!!! So, there we were 8hrs before a sold out concert we had every intention of going to, with no tickets!! Now imagine yourself in my situation; you had been planning for ages, and were so happy you were going to a silverchair concert, and it was happening that night! Then this happens to you!
As you can imagine we were extremely pissed off and hurt. Not only cos she was a friend who blatantly ripped me off, but she knew how much we loved silverchair and were looking forward to the concert! But Kate and I being the determined Freaks we are decided there was no way we weren't going. Thankfully a wonderful friend of ours told us that this guy
he knew works for some music people and that he had like thirty tickets which we could get, the only problem was he was at school all day and probably heading strait down afterwards so we would have to go and find him somehow!!! How we had no idea, but we left school early anyway to try and figure out what to do. We ended up getting his phone number and address and went in search. We knew that he would be in Penrith at about 4:30pm after school had finished to catch his bus home, and what school uniform to look for so we were fairly hopeful we would find him. After asking around for a while of this guy's whereabouts with little success, we found one of his school mates who told us he had left to go home! So me and Kate decided to go to his place and see what he could do. We got ourselves lost on the way, and to make it
worse it was one of those stinking hot days and we had to walk most of the way. When we got to his place the poor guy had no idea who we were and seemed quite scared of these two freaks who popped out of nowhere to ask a complete stranger for a favour. But he was a total gem and told us he would see what he could do, but it would take about an hour or so til he knew which would have been about 6:30, but by this time it would have been too late and we would have missed half the show as the concert started at 7:30! We decided to go down to the venue anyway unsure of what would happen, but ready to scam our way into the gig regardless! When we got there we gave him a call and...SUCCESS!! He told us he had them (they were even cheaper then the original price!) and where to meet him to pick them up!! We couldn't believe how much our luck had changed since the beginning of that awful day! When we went in I was so happy and relieved I felt like crying. I couldn't stop thanking all the security guards for letting us in, and I wanted to get down on my hands and knees and kiss the ground * but that's really gross so I decided against that one *!! Needless to say that is one of the most memorable concerts of my life and I had an absolutely fantastic time!! It was definitely worth all the trouble in the world!!
Story 3: Meeting the band
My friend Kate (yep the same one...we have unbelievable luck when
we're together) and I have been HUGE sc fans since the early days, but we actually hated each other for years! Until we found out we both liked them, then we became really good friends. So thanx to to sc I made one of my best friends for life. Anyway, we were both really bored with sitting at home every weekend doing nothing, so she suggested that a group of us go up to Newcastle for the weekend for a mini *holiday*! And of
course since it's their hometown we wanted just to have a look around, and plus I used to live there when I was little so I wanted to re-live a few childhood memories lol!! Initially there were about 4 or 5 of us going but it ended up just being me and Kate! So at about 6 o'clock we left her house (we live about 1hr & a half west of Sydney, and Newcastle is about 2 hrs north. So it took us forever to get there, and plus it was by train so it was even longer) We finally got there at about 10:30 - 11:00am and went to our hotel for a while, walked around thru the shops and mall and in all the music shops they had sc playing and big neon ballroom displays and I couldn't help thinking how weird it would be for sc living in Newcastle, going down to the shops like just to buy milk or
something and seeing your own face plastered EVERYWHERE! How weird!! Anyway, we spent most of the day just shopping and having a look around, we went down to the beach but then it started raining so we went back to our hotel and watched pulp fiction for a while! Then at about 8:30, we were really bored and sick of watching tv, so she suggested to go to
their concert and see if we could scam our way in. So we got on a bus and headed out to the venue but when we got there they were playing Anthem, which is there last song so we didn't bother and went around the
back entrance to wait for them to come out. There were about 30 people already there waiting for them, but they were having some party or something with the other bands and some other people so they were inside for ages!! Me and Kate started talking to the security
guard and a few other people waiting around who had been at the concert and stuff. I asked how Army of Prawns were and they said they were pretty good, but nothing too special! Then the stupid rain started up again, so we all got absolutely saturated, and people started to leave. Some were getting really annoyed cos they were taking so long and started yelling abuse, and telling them just to come out for five minutes and say hi, but it didn't work. So me and a newfound friend did a great rendition of 'Love Shack' by the B-52's to keep them amused. That was pretty funny and they all joined in and calmed down again. Then Daniel's mum and sister came out and left, followed by Heath and his friends. Heath was being a real asshole, and told us all to piss off and go home because we were pathetic losers with no lives! So some guy told him to **** off cos we weren't waiting for him but his brother and his band sucked! Heath didn't like that at all, but I thought it was hell funny. Then when he got in his car it wouldn't start!! That was even funnier! What an idiot. Then about half an hour later, there were only 4 other ppl of the original 30 left so we started talking to them, but they were sick of the
rain and left soon after. Then about (oh my god "abuse me" has just come on the radio...COOL!!!) two minutes later Ben and Chris FINALLY came out with their girlfriends! (Daniel had already left, I think he left
with his mum. Not sure though) So Kate grabbed Chris and started talking to him and asked for a photo and he's all like yeah sure no problem, Kate just kept babbling crap to him and I just stood there numb and deaf with a goofy looking smile on my face. Chris got Ben and said hang on these girls want a photo so he stopped and came over (with beer in hand!) & posed for us, we thanked them said bye and then we left! It was
really quick but they were in a hurry to go out and I wanted to go home. So we caught a train back to the hotel, and when we got there, there were these girls June and Sarah who were staying there, sitting around talking so we went and told them that we just met Ben and Chris and they said "yeah well guess who we literally ran into around the corner, Daniel!" So
we all jumped up and went OK, lets go! He was in one of the nightclubs around the corner, so we decided to not bother about it and the rain was really pissing me off so we went back, while another guy staying there, Craig, went inside to check it out (he later told us how proud he was cos he took a piss next to Daniel!) Within about 1min of being at the hotel, Craig came running back, tapped on the window, and pointed down the street! We all knew what he meant so we jumped up and ran out the door. Then when I tried to close it
behind me, the bloody thing wouldn't shut so I was standing there by myself in the rain at 2:30 in the morning fighting with this door, yelling at it telling it to shut!! *Blasted Door* Eventually I just said oh **** it, and left. Earlier that night I had done something to my knee, and it was really sore and hard to even stand on but everyone else was running ahead of me. So I said to myself, there is no way I can run on this knee so I'll just walk and if I meet him then cool, if I don't it doesn't matter, whatever happens is meant to happen. So I got down the end of the street in time to see Sarah and June (Kate was miles ahead) turn another corner at the top of the street,
and Craig told me where to go so I followed them up. When I got to the top of the street, I turned the corner and there he was!! Kate had a hold of his arm cos his girlfriend wanted them to go but Kate was telling him no he can't leave he has to wait for me, so she had one arm and his girlfriend had the other both pulling him in opposite directions! Kate was saying to him that I'm just shy and scared and asked him to please wait, and his girlfriend goes, 'well she better hurry up!' (she was a bit of a bitch), and I said yeah I'm here, then Daniel walked over to me
and said 'Don't be scared Danielle, I'm scared too' (he told Kate that he didn't want too many people coming up to him at the one time cos it made him nervous). Then we got a photo, the others talked to him for a while and I kinda just stood there feeling like a goof, we said thanks and his girlfriend grabbed him and we all left, and as we were walking back we passed Chris on the street talking to a few friends. We went back to our hotel, and went straight to our rooms and just sat in stunned silence til we went to sleep. When we woke up the next morning, we just
looked at each other laughed and screamed! It's something that to this day I still can't believe it happened!
Jenna's crazy-arse dream... or two:
I had these two dreams in the space of three nights, so that was pretty wild, seeing as I NEvER dream (or at least dream and REMEMBER dreaming!).
Friday Night: I was in my bedroom, and in walks Ben. So he just sits on my floor and starts humming the Sesame Street song. :) Then this big tiger comes in, and Ben starts chasing it around the room. All of a
sudden, my room aquires another door (it's blue, for some reason), and the tiger runs through it, with Ben trailing him. I'm like, where the hell did they GO?! and I'm just about to go look for them through the blue door, when they come back in from the first door. It was so weird!
Sunday Night: I was babysitting my 9 month old cousin Katie, watching the hockey game on the TV (Hey, I AM Canadian! :). During the first intermission, the boys skate onto the ice in full equipment and start
kickin' arse! Within two minutes, the only people standing are Ben, Chris & Daniel. Then they walk towards the camera, and end up in my living room. Chris comes over and picks up Katie and he's all, Oooh, looka de cute bay-bee! He starts dancing with her and singing to her and all this. TOO CUTE! The Macarena comes on (Haha!) and Ben like, YEAH!! THIS SONG ROCKS!! and he starts dancing. Daniel gives him this evil look and he grows horns and his eyes turn red and he tackles Ben to the ground while yelling, NO BEN, IT'S MYYYY ROCK-MELON!! MINE!! :) I *know* neither of them make sense, but they're DREAMS, MAN!! GET OVER IT!! :)
Azriel's two weird dreams:
1/ i was walking around with a few friends ya know just wanting to go doc shopping ...walk into the doc shop..it's not a doc shop it's just like sound of music plastic fake-o hills and flowers and s**t...daniel johns runs up to me starts chatting everythings cool..then i offend him
SOMEHOW..he goes CRAZY starts chaisng me over the hills trying to kill me ...i for no particular reason at all have mcdonalds straws in my pockets and then i proceed to stab daniels eyes out...with the straws.
2/on a CHICKEN farm...lots of sprinklers (un-important fact..but sprinklers?) silverchair are there (their??i dunno)and i got put in a group with dan and i ask him for a signed photo...but i don't have a photo to
give him so he pulls an overly large album from his back pocket and flips through his *ahem* "interesting" photos of him in hot pink bikinis and weird *girl* clothes..and he has breasts...so i ask him why he has
breasts in these pics and he's like "oh yeah guys all have breasts until they turn 18..thats when guys breasts fall of...why do you think ben and chris where such baggy t-shirts?" hmmmmm odd?
Albinobunny's story:
Well, it must have been in like third or fourth grade, but my brother (he's two years older than me) and I were watching mtv (before that guy Carson Daly was there) at my grandma's house. My parents wouldn't
pay for cable at the time because they thought it was trash, so we were abusing the cable system when the silverchair music video for Tomorrow came on and I remember my brother pointing to the screen and saying
"Hey, look at that guy's face!" He was pointing to the pig-guy's ugly face and we both started cracking up! It was hiliarious. So like 3 years later I was watching mtv (my parents finally agreed to getting
cable) and the music for Ana's Song came on at #1 and while I was watching it, I wrote down the band's name to look up the band. While I was checking out the band at mtv's website, Tomorrow music video clips caught
my eye. I downloaded it and I was watch that ugly pig-guy again 3 years later. I've been a faithful silverchair fan since.
Vego's weird dream type thing:
Okay...I was in English and I was so tired...anyways, I couldn't
sleep because I'd get my arse kicked by my teacher. So, I tuned out, eyes open, and started to have this weird thought...
Okay. There was this party, a really crap costume party...and I was invited, and was asked to bring some friends. Naturally, I went to the phone, and rang Dan, Ben, & Chris. We all met up at Dan's house. We brought this vid cam* to show off our crap costumes.
Chris came out dressed in what looked like Austin
Powers (Yeah...), glasses and all. Daniel was Satan, with his hair sprayed red, and turned up into these two bull horns (!?!?!?!), and this pitch fork.
I was the little monster thing on the front of the Black Sabbath reunion album (has anyone seen it??)
And Ben...he came prancing down the stairs in this little pink swimsuit and tu-tu, with matching fairy wings..."Look I'm the tooth fairy!!!" and
he started dancing round like a pansy...and began beating Danny up....and Chris and I beat Ben up...and we all went into this huge brawl, fists and beer cans flying through the air...it got ugly. Very ugly.
I dont know who stopped the fight, but it ended. We all felt so bad - all bloody, bruised, and battered. But we had to go to this party, so we did our best to clean up, got in the car (Chris' blue-grey E-H*) and went off to the party, which by the way, sucked ass and wasn't worth going to anyway. So we left after only half an hour, and had our own binge party
which didn't suck. It was good. It was good, cos Dan wasn't all freaked out. Neither was I. So it was good.(yay!)The End*
jupiter sent me her account of an interview:
Back when Freak Show came out, silverchair appeared on YTV (youth television)--a Toronto channel--for interviewing, etc. The problem was that usually the bands that are on there are like...98 degrees and s**t like that. Anyway, Exan, the girl that was interviewing them (who was also kind of an annoying person anyway), was trying to do the interview like YTV always does with pop groups--like "which of you would be the first to (insert something banal)?" and it was a bit painful. The whole time Daniel was playing with this toy rock thing-like a pet rock. Exan was trying to be cool and asked, "Hey can I have that?" and Chris tried to pass it to her and Daniel FREAKED OUT. I can barely tell this without laughing, it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen on live T.V. I can't remember the EXACT quote, but I believe I am very close--Dan freaked and said "NO! the melonrock is MINE! MINE AND NO ONE ELSE'S!!!!!" Oh God it was pretty good...he scared Exan and he scared himself worse...he looked sort of startled for the rest of the interview.
(Webmaster's note: That would be the now-legendary "rock melon" interview!)
How Nanci discovered the 'chair:
Alright, so last year there was this advertisement on the radio
for Tower Records. I think it was one of those "get these rock CDs now" type of stuff. So anyway I was doing my homework, not really paying much attention to the radio, when I heard "silverchair, Neon Ballroom" or something like that. They played one line of Anthem - "We'll make it up to you..." and that was it. I was like, 'oh, cool song,' and when I found the money, I bought Neon Ballroom. Before that, I knew who silverchair were, but had never heard of any of their songs, so after I'd listened to Neon Ballroom silverchair became my favourite band.
Kristina and Eloise are letting me use this:
~Top Ten 'Chair Song Titles Gone Awry~
10. Israel's Son, Golda Meier
9. Leave Me Out (of the foolish games you play with my heart)
8. Madwoman at the Local 7-11
7. Love Slave
6. Blind (Ode to Helen Keller)
5. Punk Song #13 or The Devil's Advocate
4. Cemetery (acoustic w/ bells)
3. Ana's Song (Fire Up the Salsa)
2. Nordstrom Satin Sheets
1. Do You Feel Like I Feel When I Feel Like You? (rhetorical remix)
ok...and I also thought of some other ones that didn't quite make the list...but nonetheless...I'll share some of them, even though they get very corny! hehe
-Pure Manliness (instrumental)
-Shady Character
-Findaway Out
-Abuse My Diddly
-Undetermined (as of right now)
-Dances With Roses
-I Bet You Like the Smell of Petrol
-Learn to Knit
-Slab of Meat on Rye (Nicklaunasty mix)<--of course I don't think Launay is nasty!
-Big Anthem
-Dearest Abby
-Thinking About My Pastel Paint Set
-The Door To My Soul
-Motion Sickness At the Fair
-Black Tangled Hair
-Point of No Return
-Miss Your Smell
-I Feel Like a Freak In My Cardigan<---especially for Chris!
Top Ten Albums The 'Chair Did NOT Put Out
10. CrazySexyChair
9. Daniellenium
8. Abuse Me Baby One More Time...
7. Songs From An Australian Demo Competition- Vol. One: Learning How To Hate
6. Follow The Tour Bus
5. Did I Shave My Head For This?: Memoirs of Ben Gillies
4. The Notorious L.A.S.
3. No Chairs Attached
2. Llamaz In 'Da Hood
1. Oops! I Did It Again (Made Another Album With Launay)
TOP TEN 'CHAIR SONGS FEATURED ON SESAME STREET
10. Madman (Tickle-Me-Elmo Attacks Big Bird)
9. Acid Rain (Kermit Takes Unpleasant Dip In Lake)
8. Satin Sheets (Prairie Dawn's Secret Desire)
7. Steam Will Rise (Grover Sets Off Fire Alarm)
6. Findaway (Back to Sesame Street)
5. Stoned (Cookie Monster Tries "Hemp" Cookies)
4. Trash (Telly Accidentally Gets Carried Out with the Garbage)
3. Spawn (Kermit Has Nightmare Involving Miss Piggy)
2. Paint Pastel Princess (Oscar the Grouch Plays Dress-Up)
1. Freak (Gonzo Deals with Inner Fears About Nose)
We had some involving Bert & Ernie, but they were a um...a bit risque. Hehe.
TOP TEN WAYS TO BE ANNOYING AT A 'CHAIR CONCERT
10. Hand out fake backstage passes.
9. Perform dominatrix routine during Slave.
8. Throw teddy bears onstage every time a song begins.
7. Arrive on stilts, obstructing view for about fifty people.
6. Flash 10-year-old "boobies" to an unsuspecting Daniel.
5. Tell entire life story to people around you and insist Daniel is your long lost twin.
4. Scream incorrect lyrics to Ana's Song.
3. Lower hook from rafters and whisk Ben from his chair.
2. During "Hallelujah" speech, rile up a gospel.
1. Set up entire photo and video station in front row, determined to get eBay material.
Well, the 'chair is usually in all my dreams even if it's minor but this happened not too long ago, they were performing and all of a sudden I jumped on Daniel, then Ben and Chris...then I woke up, it's
cause I have this thing with jumping on people...yeah okay then heh heh.
Megan sent me this concert review and silverchair dream:
I went to a concert and it was way crowded. I waited three hours to try to be in front but all the huge silverchair fans (why can't they be small like Daniel) just shoved me back. I was so squished I couldn't breathe and had to get out of the pit. I still had tons of fun though. I think Daniel saw the bouncer pull me out because he told people to try not to squish each other because little people were getting
squished. Daniel stuck up for me! And the night before I went to the concert I had a dream about Daniel. I was sitting on the rocks (in the Ana's Song video) with him...we were hugging and he asked me if I
believed in God...I was like, "I don't know, but since we're together I think I might" (I guess me and Daniel were having a relationship in the dream). Anyways, it was so weird because at the concert the next day he
asked the crowd if they believe in Jesus.
FREAK sent me this how-I-got-into-silverchair story:
Okay, I was about 9 years old. At that age I was really into Offspring and Greenday and it was 1994-5. I listened to an alt. rock radio station with my mom. I was listening once and they were talking about the Voodoo Glow Skulls and their song called "Fat Randy" Later when they played Tomorrow on the radio I thought it was the Voodoo Glow Skulls. For a long time I thought that silverchair was the Voodoo Glow Skulls. Until about when I was 11 and I heard Abuse Me then it all clicked together. I thought I was so stupid and kept telling my friends that I was into the Voodoo Glow Skulls. I had to go out and buy the new album (at
the time) by this band silverchair. I bought Freak Show and have loved them ever since.
Jan sent me this story about how she got into silverchair:
It starts off with our pal Jan-o in the middle of the
electronics section a K-mart. since it's really busy in their my sister tries to keep us entertained by telling me to press some of the buttons on the little video monitor. I jaunt over there and press the one with the little frog on it like my sister told me. It turned out to be a silverchair video (I had heard them before on the radio and liked their music but wasn't about to go buy their CD). I step out of the way
because I see this woman and her kid coming with their shopping cart. She stops in front of the monitor, gives it a dirty look, then presses a button. Thirty seconds later Barney the purple dinosaur shows up on the screen dancing and singing away. Since I was 12-years-old and going through a wacky point in my sad little life this affected me in a weird way. Now here I am, five years later, a complete nutty ass for the
silverchair lads. (Webmaster's note: Aren't we all? :)
Angela got to talk to the band on the radio (lucky girl!):
this is an i talked to the band on the radio story
experience = In '97, when silverchair was on modern rock live, I actually got through after an entire hour of hitting the redial button...thank god i did not give up hope before then. When the woman came on to ask me what my address was (to send me my freak show cd) I was sooooooo nervous, i could barely say it. I know i stuttered hehe. But I was the first person after the commercial (which literally felt like a 30 minute commercial) and so I had time to calm down and get myself together. The conversation went like this:
me: Hi, first of all, Daniel, I wanted to say we have the same birthday.
Daniel: Yeah! (which i'm not sure if he was humoring me or if he really thought it was cool...hmmmmm)
Ben: Are you a Taurus?
me: yeah
Daniel: No, i'm not!
Ben: oh, well i wasn't exactly sure what star sign it was.
Daniel: Oh.
me: I was wondering, why weren't you going to put cemetery on the album? (because like you, this was also my favorite song on the album at the time)
and because i don't feel like running up the stairs to find out exactly what he said to me, i'll just sum it up... he gave a really long answer about how they didn't think they could "incorporate other instruments into the song" but they found a way and "made it a silverchair song...thanks very much."
and that there, is the best day of my life, thank you very much :)
You all know I welcome submissions to my page. I recently received this I-met-silverchair story in my email. Since I use Bravenet forms, I have no way of knowing who *really* sent it to me, although I must say, whoever made this up has a delightfully twisted sense of humor! This is directly copied from my email - I didn't even fix the spelling mistakes.
My email:
What type of story this is: just talkin' about how much i love the 'chair and how they've helped me and all that s**t
Experience: i first saw silverchair on an interview on MTV, it was so coincedental that i swear i was meant to be obsesed with them, see what happened was i was really board one day (i think it was spring break or
something) so i turned on MTV and they just happened to be interviewing them on MTV news just as i turned it on, the interview was mainly daniel talking about neon ballroom and stuff like that, so anyways may first impresion of them was daniel was a f**king HOT australian dude who, (from what it sounded like) was a pretty good musisian too. little did i know then that he is the best musician to ever walk the earth, but as i was saying i haddent even heard a song yet and i was allredy wow'ed at how cool they seemed. about too monthes or so later i hered ana's song (open fire) wich was really awsom but i didn't know then what it was about i just figured it was about his girlfriend or something but then in the november issue of teen people i saw that there was an article on daniel in it so i imiedietly opend it and read it and as soon as i was finished i just started balling my eyes out it was so moving and so incredible. ever since then i have worshiped daniel as if he were a god and i have more respect for him as a musician and as a person than i think i ever have or ever will have for anyone eles. i love him.
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