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international tour, the band was the powerful Krebs on their side,
ready to get back in the studio the band went back into the
and start recording their follow studio with Max Norman and
up. The President of Atlantic recorded Five Easy Pieces in
Records and the higher-ups of 1992, which was their first
their new management team release on their new label,
Hard To Handle (AC/DC, Thin Sony/Columbia. The album sold
Lizzy, Emerson Lake and well and warranted a fourth
Palmer) thought that it would major label release, Chewing
With the band having been relatively dormant for years, really since the benefit the band if they hired a On The Bit, which Max
late 90’s, suddenly singer/guitarist Henrik Ostergaard and producer who had current Norman also had his hands on.
various ex and new members of the band have been putting out a slew albums on the Billboard charts. The album dropped in 1994 and
Beau Hill (Ratt, Warrant,
the band found themselves back
of new material. Already, Dirty Looks has released three discs of new Winger) was hired to record out on the road. During that
material “Gasoline”, “Superdeluxe” and “California Free Ride”. the album but the band felt that same year, they released One
“Slave To The Machine” is a re-issue only previously released in he wasn’t capturing the street Bad Leg, their third release on
Germany. “Slave To The Machine” features two unreleased live tracks sound that they were looking for. the Sony/Columbia label. With
were recently recorded at Warner Theatre in Erie, PA. Bonus Tracks The Hill sessions were scrapped grunge rock taking over the
include “Everythings Gonna Be Alright” and “Let There Be Rock”. and John Jansen market, Dirty Looks went back to
(Britny Fox, Faster Pussycat, the indie label, Mirror Records,
Cinderella) was brought in to to release Rip It Out in 1996.
Dirty Looks was formed in 1985 airplay from Z-ROCK (a massive produce Turn Of The Screw, Later that year the band
in the San Francisco bay area. rock station in Dallas, TX) and which was released in 1989. released Slave To The Machine.
After independently releasing an its affiliates. Requests poured After the album dropped, the With the changing climate of the
EP on Sticky Records and open- in for the song and major labels band hit the road on another music scene, the release sold
ing shows for several national such as EMI, Electra, vigorous tour. In 1991, while the moderately...prompting the
acts, they found themselves with Chrysalis, and Atlantic came y were out supporting Turn Of current band members to branch
a management/production deal. calling. In 1987 the band signed The Screw, the band released off into different directions and
The band hit the studio and to Atlantic Records and EMI an album of b-sides, Bootlegs, pursue other projects. Dirty
recorded their first full length, Publishing and released their on Roadrunner Records. It was Looks regrouped with new CD
self-titled album which was first major label album, Cool also around this time that the “Gasoline” released in 2007 and
released on the French label, From The Wire in 1988. band hooked up with the are now currently promoting
Axe Killer Records. Although Produced by Max Norman infamous David Krebs “Superdeluxe”, released in
they were getting nominal (Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, (Aerosmith, Scorpions, Def early 2008 as well as the just-
airplay on San Francisco’s Lynch Mob), it is still regarded Lepperd) who offered them a released “California Free Ride”,
largest radio stations, the band by many as one of the best hard lucrative production deal. With available through Perris Records
broke up and reformed in rock albums of its time. Twenty
Harrisburg, PA. In 1986, they years later, Cool From The Wire
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