The album “Hi, How Are You” became an underground sensation. Its cover featured a frog-like creature Daniel called Jeremiah the Innocent. That simple drawing would become one of the most recognizable images in music history.
Daniel won Songwriter of the Year at the Austin Music Awards. Major record labels came calling. His future looked limitless.
Then the darkness arrived.
Daniel had always struggled, but success amplified everything. He began having delusions about Satan pursuing him. After taking LSD at a concert, he attacked his friend and manager with a lead pipe. He was hospitalized for the first time, but it wouldn’t be the last.
The diagnosis was bipolar disorder with schizophrenia. For the rest of his life, Daniel would cycle between periods of stability and episodes of terrifying delusion. He heard voices. He broke into homes. He attacked people he loved.
The medications that controlled his symptoms caused dramatic weight gain, transforming the impossibly skinny young man who’d arrived in Austin into someone his old friends barely recognized.
But he never stopped creating.
His parents moved to a small town outside Houston, and Daniel came with them. He spent the next three decades in that house, drawing his characters, recording his songs, emerging occasionally for performances that fans traveled across the world to witness.
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