Silverchair: The Controversy Behind the Song "Israel's Son" From Frogstomp

Silverchair: The controversy over the song 'Israel's Son' from their debut album 1995's Frogstomp.

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Silverchair was an australian trio who shot to superstardom a few years after their formation in 1992. 2 years later by 1994, the band whose members weren’t even adults were discovered through a local radio contest in their hometown of new castle in Australia. The band’s debut album Frogstomp drew many comparisons to band’s like Nirvana and Pearl Jam and the album would go double platinum, selling in excess of 2 million copies in the States. The album’s most successful single and the band’s most well popular song song was the track “Tomorrow.”, but it would be the opening track of the record “Israel’s Son” that landed the group in some hot water. Let’s talk about the controversy behind the song.

1995 was a massive year for Silverchair who shocked many rock n’ roll fans with their debut album Frogstomp. But by January of 1996 the band was soon at the center of a murder trial that they could have never imagined. In August of 1995, a 16 year old named Brian Bassett and his 17 year old friend named Nicholaus McDonald both from McCleary Washington sat in an abandoned shed after both teens were bounced from their respective homes. Brian would transform from a shy polite athlete into a troublemaker who found solace in alternative rock. He would start fighting with his parents and soon became a familiar face to the local authorities. It wasn’t uncommon for Brian to leave his home for several days crashing with friends like Nicholaus or living in a shed about 900 feet away from his parents house. Sometimes Brian got food from his friends, he ate berries which grew on his family’s property or snuck into his families house when his parents left town. One night the pair headed to Brian’s parents house for what Nicholaus thought was a trip to get food. Brian used a ladder to enter the residence and Nicholaus watched guard outside, before hearing loud popping sounds and screaming. Brian would tell Nicholaus he had taken the lives of his parents. Shortly afterwards his younger brother would share the same fate by being drown in the bathtub.. The teens tried to clean up the scene, gather as many possessions as possible, to pawn off so they could survive while on the run.

The boys stole a family vehicle and planned on heading south to San Francisco to start over. The pair would stop just short of the northern california border when they pulled into a gas station. While Brian slept in the car, Nick went to a local police station nearby and told the cops he knew about an out of state crime. Soon enough, a cluster of cops desceneded on their vehicle with washington state plates and arrested the pair. By the spring of 1994 Brian was a good student with a GPA of 3.5 and was a star athlete on the high school basketball team, but soon enough, he started rebelling hanging out with kids who drank and did drugs, he dyed his hair and around Christmas of 1994, he almost died from a drinking binge. After returning from the hospital, he ran away. As the tensions escalated between Brian and his parents, his mother started sleeping with a baseball bat. Meanwhile, Nicholas grew up in a broken home, witnessing his father unsuccessfully taking his own life, while his mother was an addict. By the age of 9 he was already getting into trouble lighting a field on fire. And by his early teens he built a rap sheet of destroying public property, drug possession, and theft & by July of 1995 both teens were mostly homeless. Nicholas mother was on the verge of being evicted by her landlord if she didn’t give her son the boot because he always got her into trouble, while Brian was fighting with his parents.

Following their arrest Nick and Brian would both be charged separately with three counts of first degree murder and they would be tried as adults. Soon enough Silverchair would get dragged into things when the boys went to trial in january of 1996. It would turn out that Brian w

Sources:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=fsRC10LkbN0C&pg=PA100&dq=silverchair+spin+magazine+murder&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwie4IWVl831AhUXHDQIHdxZDx8Q6AF6BAgCEAI

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/jan/18/defense-blames-rock-song-attorney-asks-to-play/

https://www.wiki.en-us.nina.az/wiki/Israel's_Son

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