~*SILVERCHAIR FREAKS*~ #23 10/30/97

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Welcome, finally, to issue #23 of ~*SILVERCHAIR FREAKS*~ It has been a hellish week for me, well week and a half actually cause my computer was broken and in the shop and that's why this issue is coming out SO late. I want to let those of you who are new members to this list know that this is almost ALWAYS on time and this was just a freak acedent because I had amazingly filled up the hard drive on the comp and that screwed everything up!! Now some of you may have heard from me in this time and that is because I was working on my dad's computer and that one of course doesn't hae any of my files on it or address books or anything, so there wasn't any posible way for me to get the list out from that computer. But now thankfully this computer is back, and has been updated (hopefully some of you can see the colours) and has all my files on it once again! So since this issue came out so late and it would be basicly imposible for you all to respond by Saturday for the 24th issue then I'm going to move that issue's due date to the Saturday after this. Which makes more sense anyway since I will be attending on Saturday Chris and Ben's online birthday party (go to either http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/lobby/7312 or http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/stage/5016 for more info and don't forget to sign Ben and Chris' online birthday card!) and probably will be haven't too much fun there to put out the 24th issue, so all in all this is (hopefully) going to work out quite well! Now, on with the list!
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~*NEWS*~ Well, the single for "The Door" So far as I have heard is doing quite well on the Australian charts, it has a little video clip which was taken from the secret Luna Park gig this summer, and so far hasn't been shown in the USA yet, or Canada (We never get anything good over here! grrr). The new issue of Hit Parader has a somewhat offencive article on silverchair and a newish picture of Daniel. It also has the results of this years readers poll, listing silverchair as one of the Top Five bands of the year, at number 4 which was pretty good. And Freak Show as one of the best tittles of the year as well. The summer freak show tour will begin earlyer then planed on November 21st. I can't wait to hear reivews of the summer freak show tour dates (hint hint send them to me). And also it was a surprise to me to find the Hi Fi Days book at Tower Records here in Chicago, so if you see it at your local Tower, or other book/music store, I highly recomend you pick it up! It's a really really great book!
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~*NEW MEMBERS*~

*Name: Sarah
*Age: 15
*Email: sarah.ward@worldnet.att.net
*Where from: Melbourne, Australia
*Favorite silverchair member: All of them
*Favorite silverchair song: No Association
*Favorite silverchair CD: Freak Show
*Why I like them: I love their music
*What other bands I like: korn, tool, grinspoon, everclear, local h, offspring, helmet, spiderbait, the mark of cain, magic dirt, nirvana, our lady peace, goo goo dolls

Name:Kristi
*Age:13
*Email:silverchair27@hotmail.com, silverchairgirl@sympatico.ca
*Where from:Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
*Favorite silverchair member: I like them all the same
*Favorite silverchair song: Punk song2,no association
*Favorite silverchair CD:Freak Show
*Why I like them:=20because Daniels voice is the most amazing for
their music, and his lyrics are so easy to relate to and they're for
everyone, because Ben's drumming is so amazing it makes me want to ply
the drums to maybe be able to compete (like I ever could...), and Chris'
bass is almost as if he's playing a rhythm guitar, instead of a bass
guitar, his riffs are so different, because of Ben and Daniels amazing
ability to write music that touches all of us, because their stage
presence is better than anyone elses, esp those who don't change a word,
because when i'm sad and i listen to them, it makes me feel better to
know that i'm not the only sad person, when it sometimes seems like
that. Whoa! That was a very skrewd reason, but I'm skrewd anyways! hehe.
*What other bands I like: too many:
Self, HEREAFTER, KoRn, Limp Bizkit, Offspring, RHCP, STP, IME, OLP,
Sugar ray, Glueleg, Headstones, Soundgarden, Moist, Veruca Salt, HOLE,
RATM, and waaaaaaayyy too many more...
(*Editors note: I thought that "why I like them" answer was VERY nice, very well writen, and it's basicly how i feel as well, I can't wait to hear more from you Kristi!)
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To:schubert@uic.edu
From:schubert@uic.edu
Subject: my brain is dead..

Hey everybody!

God it feels so good to finally be getting this out and to be online on my good computer again! Well first of all I wanted to say that I hope Ben had a really great 18th birthday and if anybody know what he did to celebrate please let me know, I'm very interested to find out what happend! Did anybody do anything interesting to celebrate his birthday? Basicly I listend to silverchair and had some nachos (Ben's favorite american food) and watched Beavis and Butthead (a favorite TV show of Ben's) Yeah I know it was stupid but oh well what can I say?!

Anyway back to the questions from last week...

About the quote: The first time I read this quote I couldn't stop laughing! What I think it means is well first of all it was from a concert and during a lot of silverchair concerts I have noticed that Daniel tends to make strange comments, a lot of them joking that him and Ben are in love *heh* anyway, I think that's cool cause he's totally not afraide of 1. showing his feminine side which is really cool cause so many guys in rock, and just guys in general tend to want to be as macho as posible and 2.What other people think of him.

And about the stupidist rumor I've ever heard about silverchair: hmm I've heard a lot but I'd have to say the two stupidist rumors I've ever heard about them would have to be 1.That Daniel got married and 2.That Daniel was stalking a prositute, I mean come on?! Those were just like totally stupid and whoever decided those would be believible was out of there minds!

Alright that's it from me this week,
Heidi

To: u64247@uicvm.uic.edu From: Silchair17@aol.com Subject: Quote

"I'm not afraid to show my feminine side ... I'm proud of it. In fact, me & Ben have an announcement to make .."To: u64247@uicvm.uic.edu

HA! When I first saw this (like, 4 months ago) I laughed my ass off. OBVIOUSLY they aren't gay, Daniel's just funny. I think it's so aweosme that Ben dresses up like a girl (he really has) and they all believe in feministism (sp?) Most dudes I know that are in bands have NO senses of humor (hey, I think that's like good grammar! I'm not a total dumbass!) so when you hear stuff like that from guys who are supposedely sposed to be assholes, you just want to hug them or something (well, maybe that's controversail, oh well). So I just think that's hilariois!!!!!! My spelling sucks right now, that's okay tho. Well, that's it for me, later alligators!
-janice

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From: "the new race"
Subject: if you live thru this with me i swear that i will die for you

hey peoples! how's everyone?

well the quote this week: <<"I'm not afraid to show my feminine side... I'm proud of it. In fact, me & Ben have an announcement to make..." - Daniel>> i'd say daniel is quite the joker, but i like how he isn't afraid to be feminine. my friend constanly calls him a girl n' other mean things, (and this is coming from a silverchair fan) just cuz danny boy is thin and wears make-up. well who gives a fuck? i mean who are we to decide what a person is by the way they look? 'never judge a book by it's cover' i think that applies to people as well.

keep up the good work heidi!

Amanda
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~*THE CLOSING*~
Welcome to the closing, yup that's it! Finally I was able to get this out to you guys, I'm really sorry for this having to be broken up into three parts but with my new email system it won't sent anything over 10 pages long, I'll try and figure out how to get around with rule by the next issue so send in lots of posts and um next week we'll talk about um.. well actually I think we already have talked about every silverchair song, no, wait we never did Acid Rain, so lets talk about what that means to us alright? Okie then that's it! Later, Heidi

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