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• With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

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• When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent’s record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

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• We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.

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• We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

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•  We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

   

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• We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.

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• Touring doesn’t kill me and I can handle it.

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• Though, since the first record, I’ve dramatically changed my expectations for our records.

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•  There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.

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•  There’s an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I’ll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

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• There are no big groupie fans or anything.

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• The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we’ve done.

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• So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

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• Reactive arthritis is something I’ve been dealing with for nearly a year.

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• None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We’re in the middle.

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• Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.

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• It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

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• It just makes everything more pleasurable when you’ve got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.

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•  I’m lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

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• I’m always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I’m probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

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Daniel Johns (34)

Birth:	22nd April, 1979
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer

About

Daniel Paul Johns was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He is an Australian guitarist, lyricist and singer.  Best known as the former front man of the rock band Silverchair, Johns is also one half of The Dissociatives with Paul Mac and, in 2007, was ranked at number 18 on Rolling Stone‍ '​s list of The 25 Most Under-rated Guitarists.

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