Dan Donegan Quotes

United States, Musician
August 1, 1968

Daniel Joseph Donegan (born August 1, 1968) is an American musician, who currently serves as the guitarist/keyboardist for heavy metal band Disturbed. Donegan began playing guitar as a teenager and eventually formed a band called Vandal, which was a 1980s-style hair band. He also played with some of the members of Vandal in another band that was called Loudmouth. Donegan was added to the guitar show "Chop Shop's" list of "Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time" at number 76. Donegan is currently pursuing a side project band, Fight or Flight in collaboration with Disturbed band member Mike Wengren.

Also known as Guitarist, Keyboardist

This is the payoff for us, to be on the road. To be on stage and see the kids hungry for the music, to see them excited. That's why we do this.

Dan Donegan Disturbed
- Kids
- Stage
- Hungry
We figured that since we've been gone from the road for a while, let's make it a little more intimate, do multiple nights (in some cities) and get the connection back with the fans.

Dan Donegan Disturbed

I think part of it is a tribute to Dimebag.

Dan Donegan Disturbed
- Part
- Tribute
I just think the whole message within the song fits with today's themes. It fits with the majority of stuff that David writes about.

Dan Donegan Disturbed
- Song
- Stuff
- Message
Probably. When we got together and started throwing around the ideas, I just started bringing out some old riffs I used to play. 'Guarded' and 'Decadence' are pretty much straight-up, aggressive tracks on the album. Those were the first two ideas I had come up with. That set the tone right off the bat of it being a little bit more aggressive at times. Out of 19 songs that we tracked 14 going on the album that's a lot of material. We try to give every song its own identity. We don't want to fall in the rut of being a repetitious-sounding band. We don't want every song to sound like 'Down with the Sickness' or 'Prayer' . It's got to be a creative mood. It's got to be its own thing.

Dan Donegan Disturbed
We definitely aren't going to put anything out unless we feel like we're growing. And I think because of the respect that we all have for each other, we kind of build up each other's confidence.

Dan Donegan Disturbed
- Respect
- Build
- Definitely
When we started writing, we went back to the basics of just kind of jamming out riffs, ... That brought us back to some of our influences. It made the songs seem like some of them could use guitar solos. We just thought we would expand on that. We're trying to contribute in our way bringing this element back to rock music.

Dan Donegan Disturbed
Since they go stayed together by two more years, for when a return to Portugal for another Disturbed mega concert ?

Dan Donegan Disturbed
- Concert

Our fan base is considerably wide-ranged. It's different walks of life and that's what we encourage.

Dan Donegan Disturbed
When it comes down to vocals, I want to hear something that's going to be melodic. David's always had those animalistic instincts of making those gut sounds, or whatever you want to call it. But he's developed a really strong singing voice.

Dan Donegan Disturbed
- Voice
- Sounds
- Vocals
At this point, we were together for just over two years.

Dan Donegan Disturbed
- Together
Whatever kind of vibe, whatever kind of mood I'm in in the day, if I overthink it then I don't get anything good out of it

Dan Donegan Disturbed
- Good
- Kindness
- Mood