maybe none. Just the way he’s created these like, “Wow, this guy is better than all of us, this like, “Are you kidding me, I’m going to get out
moments on songs and what he brings with would be incredible!” Daniel was in high school of my senior year of high school, I’m going
his presence live. When I first started trying to at the time, and I remember saying I would love on tour with you!” Daniel goes and talks with
form a band and figure that out, for the longest to have him as a guitarist but he was about to his principal and asks if he can get out of the
time it was just me by myself and I would grab and probably go to college. You know all of last couple weeks of school and make it up
some players, but the band idea was forming. these opportunities are about to take off, and on the weekends, and the rest is history. His
For a long time I was doing this camp year after I didn’t know how it was going to work, and I principal basically said, “Yeah if this is what you
year, and Daniel’s dad was part of that camp remember his dad looked at me and said, “Ah, want to do in life we’ll support you, don’t tell
and he would come up to me and say, “Hey he doesn’t want to go to college, he just wants your friends” (laughs). We’ve been on the road
you should hear my son play!” and I would be to play guitar!” I thought it was unbelievable! ever since!
he’d say, “8th grade!” (laughs), like what was Shortly after they left to head home I got a call It’s been eighteen years. There’s no one else,
that going to do for me? But year after year he from Delirious. They were doing one of their big Daniel has pretty much stood to my right and
would just keep saying I should hear him play, tours, twenty years ago almost, and they asked my left for eighteen years, and there’s just an
so I remember finally thinking okay let’s do if I would play the U.S. leg of the tour. I thought incredible presence that he brings. He’s not
this, God keeps putting this in front of me. So that would be incredible, asked when it was, just a great guitar player, Daniel has something
I invited them down to my house, I was living and they said it would be in a few months in intangible that I don’t think I’ve ever seen in
close to Houston at the time. I had never done the spring. I’m like, “This is amazing, but I don’t another guitar player, especially on the stage.
that before, I’d never had any kind of try outs, have a guitarist because he’s in high school!” To me he’s just as much a part of the night
so I was really nervous about it thinking, “What So, I called Daniel and was like, “I know you’re as I am, I would not be able to do what I do
if he’s terrible?” and I remember that we started going to be bummed out because you’re in without what he brings. He’s an integral part of
playing in my living room and it was like a ray school and can’t do this, but I’m going on tour the music, he carries so much of the sound,
of light from heaven came down and I was with Delirious to open up for them” and he’s so much of the melody, of the band. In just
like, “Yeah that’s great, how old is he?” and
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