“We were on at 10 a.m. We start playing, and nobody’s there yet. But by the time we got to the second or third song, there were thousands of people”: Disturbed's Dan Donegan on Ozzfest, the versatility of his ginormo-rig, and his migration to Schecter

Dan Donegan kneels before the power of the riff with his signature Schecter in Teal, the scars in the finish betraying its status as one of the Disturbed guitarist's go-to .

“Ooh-wah-ah-ah-ah-ah!” shouted Disturbed singer David Draiman in the intro of his band’s signature tune, Down with the Sickness, back in 2000.

Weird though it sounded at the time, millennial headbangers embraced the song in droves, ushering in a productive quarter-century for the Chicago quartet in which they have become one of the world’s biggest rock bands.