Daniel Johns

Daniel Johns bought this Gibson Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar (ebony finish) in late 1997, and it was used for some Freak Show shows in Drop-D tuning and most notably the 1997 Recovery TV show (clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPfu9IeJlvw). Now tuned in Open Db: (Db-Ab-Db-Ab-Db-Db) and used for Emotion Sickness, Without You, Paint Pastel Princess, and Spawn Again since Neon Ballroom tours. Anti Duck Hunting sticker added during Neon Ballroom. Original source: http://bit.ly/1tJMaBA

Daniel can be seen using a Jackson Roswell Rhoads guitar in this video.

I found out what kind of guitar it was a few guitars down on this page: http://www.jedistar.com/aircraft_guitar.htm

Throughout this music video, he can be seen using a customized Gibson SG. At 1:55 - 1:58 there is a better closeup.

Also noted on this website, all the way at the bottom, in the final paragraph.

http://denbourdon.free.fr/sc/guitgear.htm

in the early days of the band he used PRS custom 24's as his main guitar. he had a silver one mainly in standard tuning, a few green ones in drop d tuning, and a red one in standard tuning as well. in 1995 in a few shows he used a sunburst colored one in standard tuning. he did occasionally use his gibson firebird, gibson sg, his gibson les paul, or very rarely his 1972 fender telecaster custom. used sometimes in modern concerts.

he occasionally used his black and white gibson firebird in 1995/1996. he didn't use it very commonly though. the only photo i could find was this one.

he did occasionally use his tobacco sunburst gibson les paul standard in 1995/1996. he didn't use it very often. there is a few pictures of it on the internet. probably it's most popular use was the whole concert at the big day out in 1995.

he did occasionally use his red and black gibson sg standard with a full pickguard throughout his career. he has used it quite commonly. heres a good picture of him using it live in 1995/1996

he did occasionally use his 1972 fender telecaster in natural with a black pickguard a lot of stickers throughout his career. there is very few pictures of him using it live. here is a good picture of him using it in 1995/1996.

Daniel uses a 12 string for a lot of the guitar sounds on Diorama. Evidence of this can be seen in the live video here.

Here you can see Daniel using a Fender Telecaster Deluxe 1972, Natural.

Here you can see Daniel using a Fender Telecaster Deluxe 1972, black one!

Seen using an Ibanez Jem Floral in the original video clip of the Tomorrow EP Version.

On Silverchair's recent tour of North America, attentive fans noticed that guitarist Daniel Johns has switched guitars on the band's epic closing number Israel's Son.

The reason for the change is that the guitar Johns had previously used for Israel's Son -- a green Paul Reed Smith -- is his favorite instrument, and after it had to be returned to PRS for a complete overhaul, Daniel decided to switch to his silver PRS for the encore song.

At the end of many previous shows, Johns would throw the green guitar into Ben Gillies' drum kit, and rather than risk further damage, he decided to change to the silver PRS.

It was only studio guitar with stratocaster

Can't find any source, but on concert in Germany he had red HSS Stratocaster

At 0:28 we can see a soldano hot rod 100

At 0:28 we can see a Hiwatt cabinet

Third picture up from the bottom on this webpage, there is a picture of Johns rockin out in front of a wall of angled marshall cabs.

At the very bottom of this webpage, it states he uses these cabs, there is also a picture of him reclining against silverface marshall cabinets.

At the very beginning of the page, next to the first picture, it is stated that he uses JCM 900 amps mostly, in addition to Soldano.

At 6:45 we can see a boss dd20 on his pedalboard

At 6:45 we can see a Whammy on the pedalboard

Seen on his pedalboard in 2010

Seen on his pedalboard in 2010

Seen on his pedalboard

I've known for years that Daniel Johns used the fuzz factory, especially for across the night tours. And I believe beyond that as well. There isn't a whole lot of pics of his pedal board since they broke up. But I remember reading about him using it. It's also on Zvex FuzzFactories Wikipedia site of known users of the FuzzFactory. Which lists Daniel Johns as a known user.

We can barely see the pedal, there's 4 buttons like the Boss DS-2. I found this on a silverchair show video from 1997. I suppose that it's the Boss DS-2