Birthdate: April 22, 1979
Part in the Band: Guitarist/Singer
Privious Bands: Short Elvis
Family:Has one younger brother,Heath,and one younger sister,Chelsea.
Here's the answer Daniel gave to Metal Edge's really cool monthly round-up questions: ME:What are the best and worst movies you've seen?
DJ: Best:Pulp Fiction .I have no worst.
ME:What musicians, living or dead, would you put together in a supergroup?
DJ:Ritchie Blackmore,Ozzy Osbourne, John Bonham, Steve Albini, John Paul Jones.
ME:What cartoon, comic book, or fantasy character would you most like to be and why?
DJ:Superman. He's got X-ray vision.
ME:What's your favorite item of clothing?
DJ:Shoes because they protect my feet.
ME:What's your all-time favorite TV show?
DJ:Seinfeld
Behind the first album's title:"I was at a guy from our record company's house one night and I was looking through his CD's because he's got a really good collection. I found this 60's pop collection record and I was just going (laughs)'Why do you have this?' I looked back and there was this song that some guy did called "Frogstomp" and I said 'that's a pretty good name'"
The difference in approaches to recording both albums:"When we went into to record Frogstomp, we had an idea but we really didn't know how to get it. So we just went in there and turned everything up to 10 and just played. With Freak Show, we had ideas how we wanted each song to sound and how we wanted the guitars, the drums, the bass to sound."
Did the band ever dream it would amount to this?"We just wanted to be a garage band. We started playing Black Sabbath and Zepplin covers because we had nothing to do. We never expected to do anything."
"Just give me the bare essentials. I'm not intersested in all the superhigh-tech stuff--I just need a turntable, receiver, CD player and speakers, and I'm ready." Johns' bedroom system is a Sony. "It has to be Sony," he says,"otherwise I can't get the discounts." (Silverchair record for the Sony-owned Epic Records) and Johns loves to spin the black circle."CDs are all right, but all of my favorite records, like Slint and Shellac, I listen to on vinyl."he says"It's a much warmer sound."
---From Rolling Stone, June 12, 1997