Daniel info

"Nobody is more slapstick, fall-down funny than Daniel Johns of silverchair. That guy is like Curly from the Three Stooges all the time, just silly, silly, silly." - Mark Hoppus (Blink 182)

Daniel Johns is the singer, guitarist, and songwriter, and he can be pretty darned hilarious, too.

Useless Info:

• <----That is what he looks like. I am really glad that's not my hair.
• His birthday is April 22, 1979, making him a Taurus.
• Has a younger brother (Heath) and a (much) younger sister (Chelsea).
• Loves his dog Sweep...a lot. Every time (and I mean *Every* *Single* *Time*) an interviewer asks him about relationships, she somehow pops up in the answer. He has been known to call her from the road, and one of his bracelets spells out "SWEEP" in those little plastic alphabet beads (the last time I watched the "Freak" performance from Rockfest I realized it's true!)
• Had braces as a kid.
• Has over 500 stuffed frogs given to him by fans, but (supposedly) sleeps with a stuffed bunny named Doola.
• Is known for doing some *interesting* things onstage, like wearing odd outfits (such as a purple sequined suit), makeup (gold glitter eyeshadow, anyone?), and babbling on and on about who knows what.
• Speaking of babbling on about who knows what, Trin has informed me that at Loserkids' Boston show: "...the first time he spoke, he said 'danke schoen'... then 'merci beau coup.' He went on to babble about how he loved talking French because he was so romantic, and enjoyed seducing people (which got the piercingest teenie screams from the crowd) by talking French to them, so then he said 'merci beau coup, and fromage.'" He's quite a character, isn't he? :)
• Loves to sleep.
• Learned violin at age 8, then trumpet, before getting into guitar.
• Used to watch Beavis and Butthead, now likes Rugrats, South Park, and Neighbours.
• According to one source (who shall remain anonymous, so don't ask me how I know this), his confirmation name was Paul, meaning his full name is Daniel Paul Paul Johns...hehheh what a name!
• At one show, Art Alexakis of Everclear came onstage for the encore and presented Daniel with a blowup doll that had a banana, um, I don't want to have to say where. After the show, Art reported that Daniel had removed the banana...with his teeth...right in front of his mother...and eaten it.
• I didn't see the episode myself, but apparently Daniel looked scared of then-VJ Jesse Camp when the band appeared on the now-defunct MTV show Rocks Off.
• Oddly enough, some people (including my friend Angharad and I) suspect that if Daniel's hair gets any worse, he's going to be mistaken for Jesse the next time he goes out in public.
• Saw his first "skin flick" at age 14, and supposedly once met porn star Ron Jeremy (I forget where I heard that, so don't ask me!)...yet *claims* he doesn't know any porn movie titles. (*Sure,* Daniel...)
• Seems to have a thing for microphones. No, I'm not joking (for once). At a 1997 festival in Europe, he dipped a mic in beer and stuck the whole thing in his mouth. Then on the last date of the Loserkids tour, he was sucking on the mic for about 10 seconds. (I don't even want to know why.) Someone told me he did it in Rio too...
• Come to think of it, if you look in the Freak Show CD inlay, there's a picture of a microphone with a piece of tape on it, and "SUCK" is written on the tape. This just keps getting weirder and weirder, doesn't it?
• Somehow managed to do an entire show in Belgium with gum in his mouth.
• Made fun of pop stars on the last tour...and added "hip gyrations" (and other "questionable behavior") to the act at the Toronto show...
• When asken what he wants on his tombstone, he replied, "See? I told you I was sick." (Interestingly, a tombstone in East Derby, New Hampshire has that very epitaph.)
• Is the only member of silverchair who has ever had any piercings (left eyebrow, both now gone) or tattoos (Animal Liberation eagle, right leg).
• Once had to be rushed to the hospital after he stage-dove and no one caught him.
• To make matters worse, the same audience that failed to catch him ripped off his pants and just let him lie there unconscious in his boxer shorts.
• When the Red Hot Chili Peppers sent 2 strippers onstage during silverchair's set, one of them got so close to Daniel that she accidentally unplugged his guitar.
• Was smacked in the forehead by a full bottle of beer during Israel's Son - right before the line "All the pain I feel, couldn't start to heal." And on the off chance that anyone cares, the day that happened was my birthday. (I wasn't at the show though...*sigh* poor me.)
• Gave everyone "Spice Girl" - esque nicknames in a few shows. According to Daniel, Chris is Sporty Chair because he works out, Ben is Scary Chair for obvious reasons, Sam is Baby Chair because he's the new guy, he's Posh Chair because he loves himself and plans to marry a soccer star, and the audience is Ginger Chair because Ginger leaves at the end.
• At one 1997 show, Daniel said, "We're Nirvana" and proceeded to play "Come As You Are."
• At another 1997 show, he sang "Dude Looks Like A Lady" by Aerosmith.
• Talk about foreshadowing! At the last show of the year, he came back for the encore wearing a silvery-gray dress, hot pink and white feather boas, tons of blue eyeshadow (in addition to his regular black eyeliner), hot pink blush (which really isn't his color - rose would have been a better bet, I think), and red lipstick (also not really his color, haha). He looked like Drag Queen Barbie with dreads! A rather intoxicated Adalita (of opening act Magic Dirt) managed to tackle him (she was supposedly doing *something* else as well, but let's leave that up to your imaginations, kids) and rip the dress off, forcing poor Danny-boy to finish the song in his blue-and-white undies...needless to say, he fled the stage at the end...
• ...Which is really pretty funny when you consider that he once said he's done 2 shows naked for a bet...
• ...And that he was rumored to have accepted a dare to go down to a club (it was in the basement of the venue where the 'chair played that night) wearing nothing but a sock ('a la the Red Hot Chili Peppers! This one's not confirmed yet, so don't quote me on it, okay?).
• If you thought Daniel's purple mirrored suit (the one from the Homebake shows, of course) was cool, you might be interested to know that Prince wore a shiny purple suit in his "1999" video, and that Live frontman Ed Kowalcyzk sometimes wore a purple sequined outfit onstage during the Secret Samadhi tour.
• Once got really bored while waiting in LAX (for those who don't know, that's Los Angeles International Airport) and used a courtesy phone to crank call car rental clerks.
• When asked if he would ever get anything else pierced (besides his eyebrow), he replied, "Maybe I already have."
• Says Ben looks like a panda, Chris looks like a puppy, and he looks like a rat (well, at least he's being honest with himself)!
• smash calls him "Dirty Dan" (for obvious reasons), and she is trying to start a fashionable new trend, so you can never call him Daniel again. He is DIRTY DAN! (Or Danny-boy, take your pick.)
• By the way, there's a poem by Shel Silverstein that starts with "Oh I'm Dirty Dan, the world's dirtiest man, I never have taken a shower" - and you can read it here!