- Daniel said that he was going to leave the band at one point after Freak Show because of all the problems he was going through. Thank god he never.
- In the song Steam will Rise, Sweep (Daniels' dog) appears at exactly 3:20 into the song.
- Daniel has an animal liberation tattoo on his ankle. I heard it has an eagle on it or something.
- Here are some unreleased silverchair song names: Please Don't Leave Me, How Do You Know, I Felt Like It, Without you, Never knew your powers, Won't You Be Mine and Mosquito bite.
- At the Live 105 Show in San Francisco, Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit watched the whole silverchair show and sang along to most of the songs. That's pretty cool
- Daniels' Favorite Simpsons Quote:
"What's the point in going out - you're only going to come back
home eventually." - Homer
- At a concert in Perth, Australia, Daniel came out for the last song in a grey dress and a pink (I think) boas. Then while they were performing the song, the band that opened for silverchair, Magic Dirt, came on staged and kind of ripped Daniels' dress off and left him on the stage with his undies and the pretty pink boas....He got quite embarassed and ran of the stage right after the song was over.
- Daniel has about 24 guitars. He has used these ones:
* Gibson Firebird
* Green PRS Dragon
* Gibson SG Standard
* Silver PRS McCarthy
* Gibson Les Paul Custom Black
* Ovation Electric/Acoustic
* Black PRS McCarthy
* Red PRS McCarthy
* Jackson Roswell Rhoads
- Ben is left handed and Chris both right and left handed.
- When they were on tour with Local H, silverchair hired 2 male strippers, who danced for Local H.
- No Association is Mr. Johns' (Daniel's Dad) favorite song off of Freak Show.
- Daniel wanted to be a rugby player when he was little.
- Daniel and Ben use to have braces.
- Daniel wrote "Anthem for the Year 2000" in about 5 minutes.
- silverchair phones local music stores and invents names of guitars and ask if they have them. When the store tells them that they don't, silverchair gets one custom made and then brings it to the store and says "Yeah, they exist, can you fix it?"----I wish i could do that.
- I heard that the reason why Daniel cut his dreads before was cuz he washed them funny
- Blink 182 thanks silverchair on their cd "Dude Ranch"
- Daniel took breakdancing lessons when he was younger.
- Here are some pre-official song titles that the band used/considered:
The Closing: Cat and Mouse
The Door: The Poxy Song
Lie to Me: Punk Song #1
Punk Song #2: Better
- Daniel went out with the girl from Magic Dirt (Adalita).
- Daniel doesn't have his eyebrow rings anymore. I think one grew out (all eyebrow rings grow out) and the other one got pulled out by a fan.
- Daniels brother, Heath, is 6'2" and he looks a lot like Daniel.
- Daniel is kinda cheesed off because he's always being asked about the beach/police incident.
- The Moffatts says that silverchair is one of their influences, they went to edgefest 99 to see them, I think they suck though.
- Serial Joe also says that silverchair is one of their influences.
- Daniel played the trumpet before.
- Ben and Chris have girlfriends.
- silverchair have known each other since primary school.
- There used to be another member of the band, Tobin.
- Daniel loves his dog, Sweep Click here to see Sweep and Khan (Chris' dog)
- silverchair got their name from Nirvana's song "sliver" and You Am I's "Berlin Chair"
- The band don't capitalize the 's' in silverchair because they think it looks stupid when it's spelt "Silverchair"------by the way, I hate it when people snap if you spell it Silverchair...who gives a flying f***?!
- Some photographers once gave one of Daniels' classmates $50 to show them a way to get to Daniel's home.
- Daniel doesn't surf anymore cuz he says he sucks.
- The album that changed Daniels life is, Deep Purple's "In Rock".
- Daniels favorite album is "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" by Black Sabbath and his fave song on the record is "Killing yourself to live"
- Cemetery wasn't going to be a song on the album, until Daniels mom suggested it.
- If you press 5317716 On your calculator and turn it upside down, you'll get Gillies!! Oooh.
- Ben's opinion of a rock star is teased hair
- Ben thinks that teenyboppers are mental
- The ovens in the freak video are real
- One of Daniel's shirts (the 'nobody knows i'm a lesbian' one) was auctioned off for over $1000
- Daniel had to repair his green PRS guitar because he was throwing it at ben's drums
If any of this information is wrong, please tell me, but don't bitch....Or if you have something to add to this, please email me.
