At
27 years old, Dan is the 3rd longest standing member of the Ham Band with 13
years of "Hamming" as of 2013. Yep... He was just 12 years old when
he got his first set of drums and by the age of 13 he was drumming for Rod and
Keith at local get togethers, benefits and even in a few clubs (whoops).
Keith
showed Dan everything he knew about guitar along about 2001. Two
minutes and 37seconds later Dan said " I think I got it" and what
happened from there is still listed as an unsolved mystery. Self taught (can't
really count the 2:37 instructional from Keith), Dan is one of the hottest
pickers in the state of Ohio.
Nonetheless,
us older Hamites' made Danny stay on drums until Randall came along and this set the
stage for the current Smokin' Ham Sound.
In
addition to Drums and Guitar, Dan plays Keyboards, Mandolin and about anything
else he picks up for more than two minutes and thirty seven seconds. He is
also our leading sound engineer for live shows and handles all of our
recording in his "home studio".
Dan lives with Andrea Chaffin just outside of London Ohio and no one is really sure what (if anything) Dan does for a living. We speculate that he won the lottery and just won't tell the rest of us.