Dan Spitz

Dan Spitz ( born January 28, 1963 Rockland County ) is an American guitarist. He was from 1983 to 1995 and from 2005 to 2007 a ​​member of the thrash metal band Anthrax.

Musical training and career

Spitz is the second son of a lawyer and a substitute teacher. His older brother David was five years 1985-1987 the bassist for the hard rock band Black Sabbath. David Spitz had reoriented from the guitar to the bass, so Dan Spitz the games began on the old guitar of his brother. His influences included Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith. Spitz began to neglect school and practiced instead of four to five hours a day on the guitar. The college he dropped out after a few weeks.

The first band that played in the 1981 Spitz was overkill, but he took with them no songs. In 1983 he moved briefly to Thrasher, on their 1985 album erschienenem Burning at the Speed ​​of Light, he can be heard on some of the pieces. From Thrasher Spitz moved the same year to anthrax. , 1995, Spitz, turning his back on the music business and left anthrax.

In 2003, he teamed up with Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden) and the rapper Vanilla Ice, the music project Seven X Serenity. The project did not last. In 2005, Anthrax united in the classic line-up again and pointed played with the band on tour, on completion of which he left the band. In 2009 he founded the project DeuxMonkeys to life, to its subsequent occupation bassist Peter Baltes (Accept ), drummer Patrick Johansson ( Yngwie Malmsteen ) and singer Wade Black ( Crimson Glory ) belong. The band is presently recording her debut album.

In early 2010, Dan Spitz went as a member of the ensemble with the book written by Robert Schenkkan rock musical The 12 on tour.

Extramusical activities

After leaving Anthrax Spitz began studying at the Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking in New York City, which he completed in the record time of one and a half years instead of three years. The head of the school gave Spitz a scholarship to the Swiss watchmaking school WOSTEP, where he was trained as a watchmaker. Then Spitz opened two watch shops and was appointed by the Swiss watchmaker Chopard for single Watchmaker of Complications Specialist ( "Specialist for complicated watches " ) in North America. He also trained other watchmaker Chopard watches. Since 2007 he has Watchmaker of Complications Specialist for the brand Leviev. In 2009, he also founded a web design agency under the name DeuxMonkeys style.

Private

Dan Spitz comes from a Jewish family. In 2000 he converted to the Messianic Jews. He is married to Candi. In 2007, the identical twin sons Brendan and Jaden to the world that suffer from autism came. Dan and Candi Spitz support and promote the organization Autism Speaks.

Discography

  • Red Lamb ( 2012)
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