Dan Whitesides
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Daniel Whitesides (b. July 7, 1980) is the drummer of American rock band The Used. He replaced former drummer and founder of the band Branden Steineckert who left the band in the summer of 2006 because of personal and musical differences. Whitesides had previously played with New Transit Direction for about seven years.
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Early Life & Career
Whitesides began playing drums when he was 14. “I remember my dad bought me a drum set one year for Christmas,” he says. From there, his passion for the drums took off. Whitesides takes his inspiration from the greats like John Bonham, Keith Moon, Eddie Shore and Mitch Mitchell, but he also has a big place in his heart for drummers like Peter Moffett (Wool, Government Issue, Burning Airlines) and Darren Zentek (Kerosene 454). He often signs things "Dan Rules" as opposed to "Dan Whitesides."
"I play a little guitar, but that’s just because my whole family plays guitar, and I picked it up from being around them. [I didn’t play it] in any bands or anything like that though. Mainly just drums." Whitesides was involved with school music briefly. "I took snare drum lessons in seventh grade. I learned how to hold my sticks, learned stick technique. I still do the same warm-ups that the teacher had us do. I still do those to this day. It helped me out and really opened the door to new ideas."
In an online interview with Venom09'Productions. a myspace site which interviews and photographs bands, Dan says that if he was not in The Used, he would be laying bricks: a job that he used to do for money until he was 17 and which his family has done for many years.
He was also a big fan of The Used before he joined, and says he is "the luckiest man alive" to be playing with them. His favourite songs to play live are "Take It Away", "The Taste of Ink", "Paralyzed" and "Liar Liar (Burn In Hell)", but he finds them all fun in different ways. Asked by many fans, the answer always given for his favorite Used song is "Hard To Say".
Discography
New Transit Direction
- New Transit Direction (EP)
- 2004: Wonderful Defense Mechanisims
The Used
- 2008 - 4th studio album
Previous bands
Before joining The Used, Whitesides was the drummer for numerous Salt Lake City, Utah bands including The New Transit Direction, Mich!gan, Sandkicker, Fale, Adherence, Fahrenheit 451, The Federation, Sprinklerhead, The Kill, The Wolfs, Form of Rocket and Young Blood.
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