DIRTY LOOKS: New Album Title Revealed

July 17, 2007

Reunited '80s hard rockers DIRTY LOOKS have set "Gasoline" as the title of their comeback release, tentatively due later in the year. The CD is expected to feature guitarist/vocalist Henrik Ostergaard along with contributions from bassist Jack Pyers and lead guitarist Paul Lidel.

According to Sleaze Roxx, Danish 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 Ostergaard, 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 chart. 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" being scrapped and the band re-recording the entire album (by which time Caffery had rejoined his former bandmates). The finished album would be the group's most successful release, but with the musical climate changing in the early '90s, 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 last DIRTY LOOKS album released, and little has been heard from Ostergaard since.

Find more on

Prev More News Next

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).