Personal Life
Spitz was born in a small town in Rockland County, New York as the second son of a lawyer and a high school substitute teacher. His parents were interested in music, his father liked the music of Dizzy Gillespie, his mother was into classical music. In the early 1980 David Spitz, the five years older brother of Dan, played bass and guitar. Dan got his brother's guitar and started playing. When he reached seventh grade his mother bought him his first own guitar. Spitz reached twelfth grade, went to college but left it after a few weeks without graduating and started his musical career with Anthrax.
Spitz comes from a Jewish family and converted to Christianity from Messianic Judaism in 2000. and is married to Candi. Their 2007 born twins have autism and therefore the pair supports the organization Autism Speaks because they desire a cure for the twins. He also has two daughters from a previous marriage.
In June 2009, Spitz had a massive heart attack, causing him to undergo an emergency triple bypass, in which he fully recovered.
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