1. Daniel Joseph Donegan was born on August 1,1968 and is an American musician who is the guitarist, keyboardist and one of the founding members of heavy metal band Disturbed.
13 Facts About Dan Donegan
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Dan Donegan played with some of the members of Vandal in another band that was called Loudmouth, and has pursued a side project band, Fight or Flight, in collaboration with Disturbed band member Mike Wengren.
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Dan Donegan was added to the guitar show Chop Shops list of "Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time" at number 76.
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Dan Donegan had very long hair during the early days of Brawl and Disturbed.
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Dan Donegan was required to cut his hair for it, but instead opted to wear a wig to fool his dad and keep his long hair.
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Dan Donegan uses one handed and two handed tapping in many of his solos, with hammer-ons, pull-offs, and legato, sometimes using the "flick off" technique, as used in the solo for the song "Indestructible", and in others as well.
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Dan Donegan combines arpeggios with finger tapping and many other techniques.
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Dan Donegan is known for shredding in some songs and uses finger vibrato on occasion.
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Dan Donegan uses the whammy bar in many songs to give it a certain sound effect.
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Disturbed's frontman David Draiman mentions "he [Dan Donegan] can rip with the best of them".
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Early on with his career with Disturbed, Dan Donegan played Gibson Les Paul Standards and SGs.
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For 2010, Dan Donegan built a signature guitar with Schecter guitars, that is based on the ultra classic model.
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Dan Donegan is currently signed to Schecter Guitars and uses custom leather guitar straps made by Orion Guitar Gear.