Formed 1985, U.S.A.

Albums:
1984 Dirty Looks
1986 I Want More
1987 Inyourface
1988 Cool From The Wire
1989 Turn Of The Screw
1991 Bootlegs
1992 Five Easy Pieces
1994 Chewing On The Bit
1994 One Bad Leg
1996 Rip It Out!
1996 Slave To The Machine
2007 Gasoline
2008 Superdeluxe
2008 California Free Ride

History:
If ever there was proof as to whether Bon Scott was reincarnated in another vocalist's body, one has to look no further than Henrik Ostergaard. Dirty Looks took AC/DC's brand of no-frills rock to smoke filled bars across America, and while they never reached the success of their mentors, managed to create a strong cult following.
  Danish born vocalist/guitarist Henrik Ostergaard formed Dirty Looks in Erie, Pennsylvania before heading to the bright lights of San Francisco, California. While in California, and upon their return home, the group had a revolving door membership yet managed to release three independent (and hard to find) albums before Atlantic records came calling. For their major label debut Dirty Looks consisted of Paul Lidel (guitar), Jack Pyers (bass) and Gene Barnett (drums). The resulting album, Cool From The Wire, proved to be one the greatest sleaze albums ever released and even found its way onto the Billboard charts.
  Savatage's Chris Caffery was added as a second guitarist for the follow-up album. However conflicts between producer Beau Hill and Ostergaard led to the original recordings for Turn Of The Screw to be scrapped and the band re-recorded the entire album (by which time Caffery had rejoined his former band mates). The finished album would be the group's most successful release, but with the musical climate changing in the early 90's Dirty Looks soon found themselves without a major label deal.
  In 1990 Barnett left to join Lillian Axe, and a new rhythm section of Brian Perry (bass) and Jim Harris (drums) were recruited for Five Easy Pieces. The group broke up following this release, with Ostergaard forming Rumbledog, Lidel hooking up with Dangerous Toys (and later Broken Teeth) and Perry resurfacing in Bubble. Ostergaard began recording under the Dirty Looks moniker again in 1994, but he was never able to secure a stable line-up. In fact, on some of the later releases the musician's names didn't even appear in the credits. 1996 saw the final Dirty Looks album and little was heard from Ostergaard until he resurfaced over a decade later, Lidel in tow, to resurrect the band with the new album Gasoline. Mere months later Pyers rejoined the band for 2008's Superdeluxe, but both were all but gone by the time California Free Ride surfaced later in the year.

Links:
The Official Dirty Looks Page
Dirty Looks Europe
The Official Paul Lidel Page
The Official Gene Barnett Page
The Official Brian Perry Page
The Official Broken Teeth Page

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