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ANOTHER REASON TO MAKE FUN OF DAN DONEGAN (AS IF IT WASN’T EASY ENOUGH ALREADY)

 Thursday, January 7th, 2010 at 4:00pm by

dan donegan disturbedBecause we at the MS Mansion keep no secrets about our un-ironic love of ’80s hair/glam and because we can never seem to resist a Carlos Ramirez-penned Top <insert here> list at Noisecreep, we give you The Top Ten Musicians with Hair Metal Pasts.

There are a few usual suspects whose Aqua Net pasts have been well-documented here and elsewhere (hiya Rivers Cuomo and studly stud Butch Walker) but there are a few surprises in there as well. Like Disturbed’s Dan Donegan… what I wouldn’t give to hear a Vandal recording! In fact, if someone wants to email those to us I’ll gladly post them for all of us to laugh / sneer at / enjoy.

Take a look at the list, then come back here and tell us why hair metal sucks.

-VN

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  • http://schenkeltown.blogspot.com SchenkelTown

    he’s a total taint salad, but the guy is a good guitar player

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-John-Crispen/100000169530540 Jason John Crispen

      there isn’t anything on the first 2 disturbed albums (the only ones i’ve heard anything from) that anybody just starting out couldn’t play on the guitar. they’re like a slightly more technical version of godsmack. and by slightly more technical i mean they play more than an open drop d power chord with different rhythms. GET BACK!

      • Fufkin

        Yes because being a good guitar player is a wholly technical art. I don’t even like Disturbed but Jesus Christ.

      • http://schenkeltown.blogspot.com SchenkelTown

        sometimes a good guitar player means writing catchy riffs that resonate with people.

      • joshkid

        listen to Indestructible, you dick.

  • cougar party

    holy shit. The guy from Five Finger Death Punch was in Mandy Moore’s touring band? That’s priceless.

    • http://www.themetalreporter.net iRoar

      haaaha..

  • bobovdeath

    none of those are that big of a deal

    if it was some more punk guys or something then itd be a funnier list

    • Slaughterhouse

      Or some dudes in a blackmetal band!

  • Sammy

    Not to mention, most of those listed, Donegan included, have jokingly owned up to their pasts. It’s like if you had a mullet before it was called a mullet, then it’s okay because it wasn’t laughable until 15 years later. I was very surprised that Amir Derakh made the list because I thought I was the only person in the world who actually owned a Rough Cutt album.

    • Trux

      not to mention that Rough Cutt debut album is a totally kick ass record……

      All went to shit when the released their second album Rough Cutt wants you who is a total piece of stinking crap.

      But Jesus… that debut…….wow!!

  • Coop

    Fuck, well even Pantera was a glam band back in the day. I guess that’s how most people back then got their start.

  • SonOF

    I’m not surprised at all that a dude from Five Finger Death Punch was in a hair band at some point. FFDP are the equivalent of hair metal for 2010.

  • Alex_P

    What, no James LaBrie? Why do most of these people suck?

    • Mitchell

      heh heh, good call man. Asylum cityyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Good tune, actually

      Winter Rose is the name of James Labrie’s old Canadian band for those who may care.

  • FlyingDadBomb

    Surprised no one mentioned that Dave King of Flogging Molly used to front hair-metal band Fastway. Good thing he made a change to something closer to his roots.

  • I killed a Dunky

    HairMeTal sucks because of the breaking balls pants

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Hulsey/653830783 David Hulsey

      And now they have passed the torch to about 10 different genres of “metal” who now wear breaking balls pants.

  • binkles

    Yeah big deal. The dudes a millionaire whos surely bangin tons of chicks for playing in a rock band…ha ha, what an idiot

  • Vince

    wow hair metal sucks because it focuses on irrelevant bullshit. its called hair metal for chrissakes! metal is about being yourself and not spending hours on your hair to impress someone. damn the man