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Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You by Dirty Looks

Artist Biography For Dirty Looks

There Is More Than One Artist Named Dirty Looks 1. 80s / Present Hard Rock/Metal Band
2. A Late 70s/early 80s New Wave/power Pop Trio From Staten Island
3. A Punk Pop Band From New York With Ex-Members Of Bent Outta Shape 1 From The Ashes Of Erie Pennsylvania Cover-Band Crossfire Danish-Born Vocalist/guitarist Henrik Ostergaard And Fellow Crossfire Band-Mate And Bassist Jimmy Chartley Traveled To San Francisco To Form Dirty Looks In 1984. Fellow Crossfire Bandmate Boyd Baker Would Join Them A Year Later. While In California And Upon Their Return Home To PA The Group Had A Revolving Door Membership Yet Managed To Release An EP And Three Independent And Hard To Find Albums Before Atlantic Records Came Calling. For Their Major Label Debut Dirty Looks Consisted Of Paul Lidel Guitar Former Harpo-Bassist Jack Pyers Bass And Gene Barnett Drums . The Resulting Album Cool From The Wire Found Its Way Onto The Billboard Charts While Getting Substantial Air-Time On MTV For The Video 'Oh Ruby' For The Follow-Up Album There Were Conflicts With Original Producer Beau Hill And The Original Recordings For Turn Of The Screw Were Scrapped But The Re-Worked Album Would Be The Group's Most Successful Release Reaching Even Higher On The Billboard Charts. The Album Of Outtakes Bootlegs Was Released In 1991 Then The Group Broke Up In 1993 Following The Release Of Five Easy Pieces With Ostergaard Forming Rumbledog Lidel Hooking Up With Dangerous Toys And Later Broken Teeth And Adrenaline Factor His Current Project And Bassist Brian Perry Resurfacing In Jake E. Lee's Wicked Alliance And Most Notable The 2002 Resurrection Of Industrial Thrash Legends Prong. Ostergaard Began Recording Under The Dirty Looks Moniker Again In 1994 To Record Chewing On The Bit Album. Then He Worked With Rumbledog Again Releasing An Album In 1995 With Bassist Jassen Wilber Drummer Ron Sutton Guitarist Mike Ondrusek And Guitarist Mike Smith. Ostergaard Put Out Two Releases As Dirty Looks In 1996. With The Personnel Above Minus Ondrusek And Adding Singer Gabriel Scott Robison Ostergaard Took A Back Seat In The Vocal Department And Formed The Burning Orange Project Who Released An Album Before Calling It A Day In 1996. Since Then Ostergaard Has Been Retired From The Music Business To Focus On Family Life. Dirty Looks Have Reformed And Have Released A New Album "Gasoline" In 2007. Two More Studio Albums Have Been Released Since Including "Superdeluxe" And "California Free Ride". Both Albums Were Released In 2008. At The End Of 2009 Dirty Looks Signed With Nashville Tennessee Label FNA Records. In 2010 They Re-Released Three Albums. On February 5 2010 Bassist Greg Pianka Was Stabbed To Death In A Bar Brawl At Hi & Dri Pub Along West Lake Road In Erie. Henrik Ostergaard Died At The Age Of 47 On January 27 2011. 5 The Erie County Pennsylvania Coroner Stated That He Had Died Of Liver Failure While Under Hospice Care. In December 2019 It Was Announced That Members From The Band's Cool From The Wire Album Paul Lidel Jack Pyers And Gene Barnett Along With Former Broken Teeth Vocalist Jason McMaster Whom Lidel Plays With In Dangerous Toys And Broken Teeth Guitarist David Beeson 6 Would Be Performing Two Shows In 2020 With The Tagline Dirty Looks - As Close As It Gets. The Group Was Scheduled To Perform Cool From The Wire In Its Entirety At Ballroom Blitz Music Festival In Glen Burnie Maryland And At A Fundraiser Held In The DH&L Fire Station In Selinsgrove Pennsylvania. These Shows Were Canceled Due To The COVID-19 Pandemic With The Pennsylvania Show Later Rescheduled To Saturday September 18th 2021 At The Selinsgrove Racetrack. Discography Dirty Looks EP 1984 Dirty Looks 1984 In Your Face 1986 I Want More 1987 Cool From The Wire 1988 Turn Of The Screw 1989 Bootlegs 1991 Five Easy Pieces 1992 Chewing On The Bit 1994 One Bad Leg 1994 Rip It Out! 1996 Slave To The Machine 1996 Gasoline 2007 Superdeluxe 2008 California Free Ride 2008 Slave To The Machine Re-Issue Remastered 2009 The Worst Of Dirty Looks 2009 Dirty Looks EP Re-Issue Remastered 2010 In Your Face Re-Issue Remastered 2010 I Want More Re-Issue Remastered 2010 I.C.U. 2010 2 Dirty Looks Were Formed In The Late '70s In Staten Island NY. Composed Of Patrick Barnes Guitar/vocals Peter Parker Drums/vocals And Marco Sin Bass/vocals The Trio Began Playing Their Hard-Rocking Power Pop At Max's Kansas City And CBGB Where They Were Discovered By Stiff Records' Dave Robinson. Robinson Signed Them Anticipating They Were "the Next Big Thing." After Releasing One Brilliant Single "Let Go" A Good But Unfortunately Overlooked Debut LP For Stiff And A Mediocre Follow-Up The Band Faded Into Obscurity. 3 Dirty Looks Were A Punk Pop Band From New York With Ex Members From Bent Outta Shape. They Put Out A Split With Bossy - Also Containing Ex-Members From Bent Outta Shape - On Salinas Records And A 7" Ep On Iron Pier.

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