Myrtle Beach: June 4, 1999

by Jessica (jctiz@oburg.net)
It took a few days but I finally had my parents convinced. They
would be getting tickets for me to go see Silverchair "The Best Band in
the World" in Myrtle Beach, SC. We go to the beach every year, but this
time it was just so I could see them play at the House of Blues. We left
our house, which is in central South Carolina, Thursday. It took us
about 2 1/2 hours to reach the beach. I was totally siked. When Friday
rolled around I was so happy. I got dressed and left the hotel around
7:00. It took about 30 mins to find it and we got in line. The doors
were to open at 8:45, and they did. I wasn't sure how it was gonna be
set up, so I was afraid I was gonna have bad seats.But when we went in
we were able to get seats by the bar, which gave me a great view of the
stage. I
didn't know that they had a band that was gonna open for them but they
did. The band was called Double (Vision or Wide): I'm not really sure
who they were, but they were really good.The lead singer kept trying to
get the crowd into it but he didn't do to well. Everyone was ready for
Silverchair. When they had like 1 or 2 songs left the crowd started
moving more and then the people started crowd surfing. They played from
9:30 until 10:15. The crowd started to get hyped up and we were all
ready to see Silverchair. Finally the guy announced that they would be
coming on stage soon. I guess they finally were on stage by 11:00. Their
first song was Emotion Sickness directly followed by Israel's Son. They
sounded great. Daniel didn't talk to the crowd for a while until he
addressed "what a nice, friendly place" Myrtle Beach was. During the 1st
part of the show I noticed that a girl had taken off her bra and threw
it into the crowd. It flew back and forth everywhere until it was on
stage by Chris. I'm not sure if he saw it or not but it was so funny. I
was so happy they played Madman. That song has so much energy and the
crowd really got into it. After Daniel did Tomorrow by himself
Chris and Ben came back on stage. Ben was now wearing the bra that had
been thown onto the stage and everyone loved it. Daniel finally took a
minute to talk to the crowd again. He told everyone to say YES to
everything rather tan NO. He said "if parents are asked if they tell
their children about drugs--just say YES." "If Ben was asked to wear a
bra on stage he was to say YES!" Then he asked the question I was
waiting to hear "If someone asks you if you believe in Jesus--just say
yes." He then asked the crowd and everyone yelled NO! He said "see you
tell people to say yes and they say no, you are susposed to listen to
the priest, I'm the priest." The he did the halle "f-en" luligh thing
which was really cool. They kept on playing and now and then Daniel
would start flicking people off. It looked like he kept mumbling to
himself too, I'm still not sure what that was about. The crowd loved
them and they played until around 12:30. They finished with a great
performance of Satin Sheets and No Association. Their show was great. I
was so happy I got to see them and now I'm trying to get tickets to WAVE
FEST where they are rumored to be appearing at. If they are ever in your
area I strongly urge you to go see them. They put on an excellent show
because they aren't "fake" like most bands are today.