[2] Regan Hagar became involved with music in Commodore Junior High School on Bainbridge Island, Washington, where he played the snare drum.
Hagar created his first album cover design at fifteen for World Full of Hate from The Fartz, a punk Seattle band whose lineup included Duff McKagan on drums prior to McKagan being in the LA glam rock band Guns N' Roses.
[4] Malfunkshun dissolved in 1988 to become Lords of the Wasteland, which featured Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament in their lineup, with Andrew Wood and Regan Hagar.
Hagar was replaced by Greg Gilmore on drums as the band transitioned into Mother Love Bone.
[1] In 2006 Regan Hagar recorded an album as From The North with Shawn Smith, Kevin Wood, and Cory Kane.
Regan Hagar was the drummer for the band Brad, which was active between 1992 until Shawn Smith's death in 2019.
[5] Although Stone Gossard and Shawn Smith usually wrote the songs, Hagar made contributions such as "Tea Bag", which was released on their 2012 album United We Stand.