Five Minutes Alone - Dan Donegan

Disturbed’s co-founder on building houses as well as a fanbase, and losing friends too young.

Hammer time

“For me, working outside as a carpenter building houses every Chicago winter would be miserable! It was a great trade to learn and there’s a great living from it but it’s something that I knew I didn’t want to do forever. We all had pretty good career jobs but it wasn’t what we wanted. It has always been music for us. We’ve always had that work ethic. I think there’s something that comes from that Midwest, blue-collar ethic of, ‘Get off your butt and go to work. Go do things!’”

The sound of the suburbs