Silverchair feat Paul Mac: The Greatest View | 2002 ARIA Awards

Silverchair and Paul Mac perform The Greatest View at the 2002 ARIA Awards.
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[@DCfromBC]

What a band. What a voice. What a songwriter. No one comes close to Daniel Johns.

[@gaiagoddess5360]

FACTS!

[@chiefcrowtheflatearthworms3259]

So true!

[@ansc6472]

Paul McCartney and Kurt Cobain eclipses Daniel

[@SacredYaksha]

@@ansc6472Ben Burnley and just maybe even Jack White

[@walshelliot1]

​@@ansc6472Kurt really wasnt that good. He just captured the zeitgeist

[@johneustace5673]

Here after listening to ep 3 of Daniels podcast…. Seen this many times before but hits abit harder now. He pulls this off very well. Man I love this album 🙌🏼

[@EricVaughan]

Same. Incredible performance considering the circumstances.

[@elliewakeling3819]

Same 🙏

[@gfmgma]

The pressure on his shoulders right before coming up to stage must have been overwhelming! Daniel, if you're here, thanks for Diorama and for your passion in music!

[@japhy4529]

Same. although I had watched this video awhile ago, I didn’t know he was in pain during this performance. Diorama is one of my all-time favorite albums. Absolute masterpiece.

[@bettjeman123]

Me too

[@thejamnasium6447]

playing a riff that gnarly on a Rickenbacher is a badass move

[@thenewholistic]

I would like to hear from the people standing in the front of the audience that night… did they realize what they were witnessing? 20 years later and after all these years of listening to Diorama, then Young Modern and Dissociatives, then Dan’s solo records… this performance is fucking magical, fucking legendary. The song just gets better and better with each listen. And to know what Dan was going thru, to see his vocal performance and the heart, the passion he gives everything to the song… thank God for Silverchair.

[@gaiagoddess5360]

I would have done a lot of things to be able to be in that audience, lol Even 20 years later people still love the shit out of them. Thank God for KZbin videos so we can live in the past forever since now Daniel says he'll never play live again 😥

[@CMAKRI]

There is something very magical about this performance.

[@cyberbandcdo]

the blowing instruments made it so much greater!

[@andrewbreed3026]

I think Dan found some happiness and Ben Knew it...

[@juandgeist]

that spotlight color from "diorama"

[@GlauberCastro]

Yeah nowadays they call magic the fact that a band can play live.

[@oneawaymule]

And it turned out to be the best greatest view performance I've ever seen.

[@therealandes]

Now that I am watching this again, it gives me so much meaning now more than ever! Specially when I heard it on the episode 3 of 'Who is Daniel Johns?' podcast. Daniel mentioned that during this performance, his body could only endure performing for 3 minutes MAX (and the song is 3:40 +) and yet he finished the song like a true fighter even by the end of it he was already physically hurting due to his illness at that time. Because of this performance, the record rocketed back in the chart- WHERE IT DESERVES and not on the shelve.🤷🏻‍♀️ OMG, but seriously?! If you don't know that back story, you will never know how epic this performance was! Really fckin AMAZING! I'm literally so speechless and simply just wanna say, THANK YOU Daniel, glad you did not give up!

[@michelleboyle6422]

What the word needs now is…. Silverchair to get back together and tour the whole Diorama album with full orchestra! I’d pay any amount for a ticket to that gig 🤞

[@gaiagoddess5360]

i'd be selling my organs on the black market for that gig!! Now I won't be able to stop thinking about how amazing that would be!! ❤️

[@karolineoliveira2887]

@@gaiagoddess5360 I would also donate a kidney lol

[@Ljtheog12]

I’ve had the same thought before. They should do a Diorama tour and play the whole album front to back. Throw in some songs from other albums for the rest of the set

[@gorgen23]

Never going to happen, unfortunately

[@OU812apb]

Maybe in the next decade Daniel will just tour this album without Chris and Ben🤷‍♂️. Anyone can cover the rhythm section.

[@michaelbalaam6636]

I still listen to 'Diorama' a lot...brilliant album. This performance was magnificent..

[@kevinweathers4590]

This is some of the best sounding music I've ever heard.

[@silverchaired]

After reading love and pain, it’s so amazing that Dan commited to this performance and did so well, whilst struggling with his disease

[@therealandes]

Daniel Johns deserve every credits. Looking back at this performance, he mentioned that he was sick and hurting during this time but he still managed to pull it off. That's what you call dedication. I realy admire his passion and his art in everything even up to this day. His versatility is so admirable that he literally can sing and play anything. His compositions were truly genius. He deserve to be inducted in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame! Not today but in the future.🙌🏻 Such a virtuoso!💯

[@Thediamondduck11]

No Name And given that this performance and his career was in serious jeopardy given he had battled severe reactive arthritis for most of that year and was still battling it at the time.

[@dawarnita2086]

There too many great bands are not inducted include silverchair..

[@adamm7730]

I remember as soon as the performance ended he went and sat at the edge of the stage

[@elliewakeling3819]

Just listened to ep3 of podcast and led me to this. Respect

[@TheSupermanfreak80]

Isn’t it just the best? I’m so glad Daniel has decided to talk about the journey he’s been on.

[@pghguitarist]

Same here.

[@karolineoliveira2887]

HELLO ELLIE, damn I didn't learn English I really wanted to understand this podcast... hugs

[@2gigahijau]

Diorama is masterpiece, really hoping the band reunite and making new album

[@xeco920]

next to covid cure we need a silverchair reunion.

[@sherrymorris8628]

I was a late teenager when they hit the scene. Still one of my fave bands, music & live experiences ❤🦘🐨

[@BrenMurphy1]

Indeed, utterly profound 😎

[@Chefbasilearnaud]

Love them too wish they could get back together so much talent in Daniel jhons and the rest of the band

[@nderohan]

Don’t think it’s going to happen, there’s a video where Dan explains why he left the band!

[@fka.climate]

In full context this is a triumph of a performance. Peak Joy from someone still physically ill and struggling to perform more than one song, and then he did that.

[@braith5214]

Daniel - formal attire Chris - sports coat Ben - singlet, fedora and puka shell necklace 😎

[@jules8159]

Ikr I just thought it looks like three office employees (well two no offense to Ben) just came home from work and thought noo this is how you end your day 😂😂😌

[@peterpfukwa]

This is one of the most beautiful songs ever, wow

[@tabatha321t]

Probably my favorite Silverchair era ❤

[@AVportau]

only 71k views???... and that was a world class performance that could be on the same bill as any big name artist worldwide... ??? .... unfortunately the world missed it back then coz Silverchair could have been the modern day Beatles of their time... Daniel is an entity in his own right, but just as worthy are Ben, who plays everything expected in a drum track and more, together with Chris's solid rock grooving bass bringing it all together.... yep, a best of Silverchair Tour would be great if the guys could do it... it's a big ask.

[@sesh517]

Daniel has shown willingness to do it but Ben won't let the past go and continues to belittle Daniel publicly. A reunion will never happen because of egos.

[@AVportau]

@@sesh517 Dan has played a game... a mental one at that... Ben and Chris can't deal with the megalomaniac that Dan is, and has been for some time.... Dan made sure Ben and Chris knew they were the 'hired help'... then he started hanging around gigging with the bands Yoko Ono who destroyed Dans mind with drugs. thanks Paul... and now Dan has likely lost a few million making an album that could be described as bizarre at best, and a bio-movie short he wont release... Dans mind is cooked, permanently baked... and Ben and Chris know it.

[@Narc85]

This was a brilliant performance and meant so much at the time. It was essentially the first time that Dan had been able to perform in approx. 2 years (due to his crippling arthritis). As others have indicated, it was still a challenge to perform, but he nailed it :)

[@Thorley666]

actaully I believe this was early on in the "two year battle". the album had only finished recording and been released earlier that year (Rec Jan, Release March). They had Performed as Alte as April that year. although they wouldn't star touring until March the following year. beside that tour hundred percent correct a special Performacne

[@pooclubs9655]

Yeah they performed a few big day out shows in early 2002 but I believe his battle was around then

[@DamienHortonMusic]

Daniel is an incredible singer, songwriter, Guitarist and performer. Absolutely love this live version of the Greatest View 🙌🎶❤

[@jdrulach]

What a performance considering the back story. There’s only 2 memorable Aria performances I can remember. This and their cover of Midnight Oil’s ‘Don’t wanna be the one’ in 2006. Daniel Johns is a national treasure. Amazing band, amazing man.

[@mayamaya4094]

The fact that he had his arthritis at that time, just amazed me, cause he still delivered the best performance. Love you to the bone Daniel ❤

[@julianaroederr]

whoever dislked this, what's your problem?? there's a masterpiece in front of your eyes and ears!!

[@RandomPlayIist]

The only thing I can think of to dislike are the million smash cuts. It was ridiculous lol. The performance was amazing.

[@MarceloFarias]

How many times can we like a video? Once is too little for a classic like this

[@mikecroaker3024]

Was in the audience for this one. Helluva song and a masterwork album.

[@joshuaveloria8952]

2020 anyone?

[@rolaebola26]

yooo

[@dawarnita2086]

Lisstening silverchair since 1997

[@natbarron]

Been on a nostalgic silverchair binge this past month 👍🏼

[@areliguerraalid1471]

2021 tbh

[@Williamsaje]

2022

[@Kronida]

1:53 to 1:58 I wish he used more that particular voice technique/effect in many more songs, I mean, I'm referring to that kind of raspy voice that's far from the typical raspy grunge voice we already heard of him before. Oh my gosh, he's a Master with his voice!, he can do enything he wanted to do when he feels like... I absolutely love all his great baggage of musical skills, he's awesome!!!

[@brunoportella5050]

Classics never die

[@davebell556]

After episode 3

[@johndoe2883]

Best live performance in Australian rock history imho

[@zetascorpii9519]

This one is great, but my favorite version of this song is from BDO 2008. I love how Daniel belts out the lyrics at the end!

[@user-nz5do9lt7f]

Diorama is a masterpiece❤. Its on repeat in my house🎉🎉 thank you Daniel your story is so touching to the heart. Stay strong.❤

[@criscn92]

DANIEL É UM GÊNIO, UM MONSTRO!!!

[@cleidianelessa6649]

Esse cara é de uma importância surreal, para o cenário musical.

[@TheAttardBrand]

Dude was hurting and still got up there and played. Respect Daniel🤘🏻

[@Barncore]

Amazing that Dan was able to get into a flow state here despite his body being in pain 24/7 Somebody needs to turn that tamborine player down

[@sq1boi372]

This chorus though.

[@leinhaoliver]

Daniel, que voz ❤️😍

[@cleidianelessa6649]

O amo tanto!

[@admonius9668]

Such an amazing performance

[@Music2mosh2]

Great performance all around The base guitar actually sounds great

[@mitchellmtb7202]

Please turn the tambourine up.

[@robkent1231]

Podcast brought me here. Gotta say this podcast is really enriching my love for Silverchair.

[@johndoe2883]

3:28 open up and say ahhhh

[@jamesedwards994]

Best live performance of the best song written

[@ligmaballz1]

I've always posited DIorama is one of the best albums of the last sixty years. It was so evolved beyond the shit music of that era.

[@bustsomecaps]

thats so badass with the orchestra damn

[@hildebrandosantos3325]

The best performance that I saw from this music live. Wonderful song!

[@theboofin]

Jesus, those horns add power... brilliant.

[@robymagribi3478]

best voice

[@mariehutchinson6051]

Golden Perfection.

[@carolinal8947]

Amazing! ❤

[@DRA__sobra]

Me 2 bro!

[@archivosrockchile]

Best band in the world. Period! ⚘

[@SimonRefaloGuitaristOfficial]

Respect - especially knowing the back story of Daniels illness at the time!!!

[@__cristianroque]

This performance is simply epic!

[@KahTomazzoS.E.P]

Eu amava isso.

[@daydreamer_1]

Beautiful

[@geovannalps]

Melhor banda que já existiu

[@criscn92]

❤

[@Heru_SanSiro]

Love u too💓

[@ViniciusCerqueira]

Oh my… awesome performance! Those guys were unique

[@andreleonardorufino]

Uau... what performance...

[@alessanderfloresdesouza6753]

Essa música com os instrumentos de metais ficou muito top

[@bubblegoomusika]

beastmode

[@Larry-Art179]

wow

[@sloth6247]

🖤

[@emanuelrodoviario]

Great

[@margaretharrington3170]

Eclectic

[@Reinierrr]

3:05 Sexiest mosh pit I have ever seen. Words are not enough to describe this song.

[@cleidianelessa6649]

Se eu pudesse eu botava eles no Louvre, de tão importantes que eles são.

[@fabs321]

Siento tanta envidia de esas personas que vieron esta presentación en vivo.

[@fka.climate]

Peak good.

[@carlarathmanner3505]

G** this is GOOD!! ❤️

[@Sleepgarden]

hey camera man, think you went overboard on the bridge?

[@Junjun-yt3yp]

Felt like I was watching WWE Raw 😂😂😂

[@derrickchavez1169]

Best silverchair song I have heard live......in my life

[@natbarron]

Probably best album too

[@user-ib5zv7uu2g]

!!!!!

[@cherryearltalamor9021]

Oh Natalie 😍

[@elishifter7995]

Oh paul mac

[@nimusworks5475]

@@elishifter7995 co producer?

[@ashleybass6794]

Poor baby was hurting so much :(

[@Barbara-qw9dh]

Why was the volume of his vocals so low?????

[@quintashannel879]

Guys listen to the song of Cueshe band of Philippines their song entitled “stay” the chorus part have the same melody to this song

[@DemocracyManifest]

Silverchair released this song years before the other band released theirs

[@juniorsutereo]

What does Aria, means?

[@roberthales2579]

THIS ADD IS AGAINST THE PACKAGES BIG MAC USED IN 1970 MELBOURNE CUP

[@andrefjbernardo]

3:05

[@rotinjection]

0:40

[@metallicoustic6733]

Ben looks like Bastion from The Neverending Story lmao

[@warfees3477]

Sam 👽🧞‍♀️🎱

[@kevinweathers4590]

I've heard there next album is going in more of a blues direction.

[@gaiagoddess5360]

You must have them confused with someone else. They broke up over a decade ago.

[@Amandas2jack]

Where is paul????

[@CMAKRI]

On the grand piano to the side of the stage

[@joeledwardgunscristinoponc983]

Who us Paul Mac?

[@termintor1]

Where Paul McCartney?

[@deadroses19]

it's paul mac not mccartney lmao

[@kevinweathers4590]

It would be nice to see Silver Chair and Nirvana on the same stage. Who would play first. Nirvana is probably more well known. They have different yet similar styles. That one might be rocking roll heaven. Who knows? I would like sit down and write a song with Kurt Cobain. He could probably school me on the craft.

[@raidozon]

Silverchair is one of my favorite bands, but when Paul Mac started to get musically involved with the band, the essence of the band began to mutate into something totally different, until the Young Modern style. I am not against evolution and exploring new paths, and I believe Paul is a great musician, but sometimes collaborations may not be beneficial for a band. Neon Ballroom was a great leap to a new adventure, but we could still listen to Silverchair's spirit there. But, when a band decided to kill off their past and decided to becoming something else, it's painful for us fans, or at least for me as a fan. It's just my personal opinion, and I really enjoyed Diorama. But at this rate I could notice that the future of the band wouldn't be as cool as I expected. Young Modern is a great effort and has nice quality, but it seemed to be written and recorded by a totally different band. The soul was gone then.

[@roobend2624]

Exactly the same experience as me, although I would mark the decline beginning at Diorama itself and getting worse from there. For me, there is and always has been a huge delineation between NB and Diorama, even though on the surface of things NB was the bigger departure from the prior two. As you mention, it's about the soul of the band, and more fundamentally, Daniel Johns himself. To put it simply, NB was still in its soul a rock album despite the orchestral overtures etc, but Diorama was in its soul a pop album, and the difference is stark. Now I don't blame Daniel for trying to get away as fast as possible from he music that made him famous, due to his extremely negative experiences with that fame, but no matter how hard he tried, Diorama and everything that followed only underlined how good of a rock composer he is as compared to other styles. Every album he's released since NB has declined in quality because to be frank, he's simply not that good with that type of musical composition, and more fundamentally, perhaps deep down his own soul doesn't connect with it. After all, that wasn't the music he grew up listening to, and it's incredibly difficult, maybe impossible to forge a new musical soul when you don't have the roots of childhood and adolescence connecting you to it. You can listen to and appreciate all types of music throughout your life, but there's a big difference between that and writing/composing it.

[@Thorley666]

Taking into account this your personal. I dislike the excuse that gets chucked around about blaming Mac. Daniel was on this path long before Paul. As early as freak show. Paul task was basically transposing or playing the parts Daniel had written wasn’t proficient enough to play at that point. essentially a session Muso. Paul has no writing credits on any silverchair unlike lists say Julian Hamilton. Yet Paul gets the grief. I love the early albums but compared to the Diorama and young modern even neon ballroom. The first dont compare almost a different band. Imagine being expected to do the same you did from ages 14-18 for the rest of your life. If it wasn’t for Paul Daniel might not have gotten out of his mental health battles and continued making music. Point is Paul ain’t the scapegoat. If they kept making first two albums styles they would’ve died and become a joke.

[@raidozon]

@@Thorley666 I give you the point about Daniel being, let's say, "experimental", but he also allowed to be influenced by unhealthy musical influences that infected Silverchair music and spirit, due to Daniel specifically. By the way, Paul Mac had been working with the band since 1997, doing some remixes. Then they worked again I. "Can't believe it's not rock n roll" and again with The Dissociatives, so I can tell this musical relationship full of electronic and poppy music would negatively impact sooner or later. With this amount of crap it's obvious that Silverchair and Daniel would turn into something very different. I am not against evolution or new ideas for a band, but when the members decide to become something else and betray their roots, it's simply the end. I know some bands able to refresh their musical idea without abandon their sound and their soul, but unfortunately my beloved Silverchair wasn't one of them.

[@Williamsaje]

Hello friend, Diorama has changed a little, compared to Neon Ballroom. But there was still an essence of Silverchair in there, especially the smart compositions. The band's decline took place in "Young Modern" because Daniel Johns was already influenced by various types of thoughts, even his appearance changed radically in "Young Modern". I didn't see it as an "evolution", but as an "involution". But despite all that, I still managed to like "Young Modern", even if in fact it's like another band was there. I like Silverchair a lot, I listen to their music daily and I hope Daniel comes to his senses, and can settle his dispute with Ben, and they come back with Silverchair.

[@raidozon]

@@Williamsaje You are totally right. It wasn't evolution for me as well, but I didn't say it like that because maybe some people may get mad hahaha. Diorama is a great showcase of musicianship and talent, but as you mentioned, Silverchair essence was still there. Well, let's continúe listen yo the first four albums and enjoy as much as if the band would still be rocking out there.

[@chrismilne7069]

Paul Mac becoming involved was the beginning of the end......

[@ross7668]

Or… he made it possible

[@chrismilne7069]

@@ross7668 the end of silvechair.... yes... he made that very possible

[@bnb3394]

Explain

[@chrismilne7069]

@@bnb3394 average pianist at the best and his influence in Johns song writing (ie negative) shows on young modern

[@bnb3394]

@@chrismilne7069 a musician changes their music style

[@Don.Infinito]

Maybe Nirvana would be that music if Kurt did not pass away?

[@nderohan]

no not really, the 2 bands are completely different!!

[@2gigahijau]

Doubt it

[@dan12con]

They’d basically be Foo Fighters

[@russellcarstens7124]

Nirvana is my favorite band of all time for 25 years, but Daniel's talent surpasses Kurt's. KC could never have written Diorama, Talk, or the DREAMS record...

[@goldenDropBear]

@@russellcarstens7124 kurt was a genius who pretty much wrote most of there lyrics,organised there music videos ect,nirvana changed music forever and smells like teen spirit is a generation defining song,Daniel is talented but not on the level of cobain,He can barely make anything good now.

[@buatkitatermenung9224]

I like the heavy stuff better..... wish he cud meet Paul mac later in his 50s so that he cud do more heavier stuff....

[@karolineoliveira2887]

maybe he wasn't even alive anymore, he has said several times that he doesn't like to sing the songs of that time because they give him emotional triggers

[@buatkitatermenung9224]

@@karolineoliveira2887 so sad

[@karolineoliveira2887]

@@buatkitatermenung9224 very

[@live4christ297]

This song makes me think about Jesus! 🙏

[@christinemclatchie]

Amen!

[@xMcWeenx]

Great performance, kinda shite audio mixing.

[@endurodadclint5377]

Get Paul Mac outta here

[@karolineoliveira2887]

maybe paul was friendlier to daniel than ben and chris to daniel in such a difficult time for him