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Greg Dulli (born May 11, 1965) is an American singer of Greek (father) and Irish (mother) descent. Image File history File links Greg_Dulli. ...
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Dulli was born and brought up in a working-class suburb of Hamilton, Ohio. He first came to public attention in Cincinnati in the late 1980s with The Afghan Whigs, when Dulli joined D.C. transplant bassist John Curley and Louisville, Kentucky, guitarist Rick McCollum. The band was comic punk rock. One indie rock critic wrote that The Afghan Whigs were "the most cartoony band in all of hairdom".[citation needed] Dulli's half-hour-long on-stage cigarette breaks, complete with running commentary on sexual politics and attempts at matchmaking at first enraged, but later fascinated the clientele. Hamilton is a city located in Butler County, Ohio. ...
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The Afghan Whigs were an American soul-influenced alternative rock band of the 1990s. ...
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Dulli's budding career in the rock and roll production business was halted as The Afghan Whigs began playing more and better gigs, drawing bigger and bigger crowds. The band was soon brought to the attention of Sub Pop Records in Seattle. Sub Pop's signing of The Afghan Whigs created quite a stir; they were the first non-Northwestern U.S. band to record for the label. Look up Gig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Gig may be: A slang term for a musical engagement A contraction for gigabyte An archaic term for a type of light carriage A type of spear A similarly designed type of fishing tackle A contraction for Captains Gig, a type...
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In 1994, Dulli was a lead vocalist in the Backbeat Band, an alternative-rock supergroup that recorded the soundtrack to The Beatles biopic, Backbeat (film). Other members of the Backbeat Band were Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Don Fleming (Gumball), Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Dave Grohl (Nirvana, later Foo Fighters), and Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum). The Beatles were a pop and rock music group from Liverpool, England, who continue to be held in the very highest regard for their artistic achievements, their huge commercial success, and their ground-breaking role in the history of popular music. ...
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Backbeat is a 1994 movie that chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. ...
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David Pirner is the lead vocalist for the band Soul Asylum. ...
Soul Asylum is an alternative rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1983, is perhaps best known for their song Runaway Train. The group was an outgrowth of a previous band, Loud Fast Rules, formed in 1981 by guitarist Dan Murphy, bassist Karl Mueller, and drummer Dave Pirner. ...
In 1997, Dulli bought the movie rights for an Ann Imbrie novel Spoken in Darkness with Ted Demme and director Mark Pellington but the film was never made. He is now the lead singer and main songwriter of the band The Twilight Singers who released their fourth album titled Powder Burns in May 2006. Ted Demme (October 26, 1963 – January 13, 2002), born in New York, New York, was an American film director and producer. ...
Mark Pellington (born March 17, 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American film director. ...
The Twilight Singers was formed as a vanity project by The Afghan Whigs leader Greg Dulli in 1997. ...
Powder Burns is the third album by Greg Dullis Twilight Singers. ...
Trivia
- Dulli's father's side of the family comes from Kalamata-Peloponnese, Greece.
- Dulli is a friend of Jerome Dillon, and performed a re-interpretation of The Afghan Whigs' song "Step into the Light" on Dillon's album nearLY: reminder.
- Dulli is a friend of the late director Ted Demme, and performed a cover of Barry White's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love Babe" live in a scene of his movie Beautiful Girls.
There is also a Kalamata in the Democratic Republic of Congo, see Kalamata, Democratic Republic of Congo Kalamata (Greek, Modern: Καλαμάτα, Ancient/Katharevousa: -ai), older forms: Kalamai is a city in southern Greece, on the Peloponnesos, by the Mediterranean. ...
Though Peloponnese is used to refer to the entire peninsula, the periphery with that name includes only part of that landmass. ...
Jerome Dillon (born Lynn Jerome Dillon) is a professional musician, best known for his tenure as drummer with industrial rock group Nine Inch Nails from 1999-2005. ...
Ted Demme (October 26, 1963 – January 13, 2002), born in New York, New York, was an American film director and producer. ...
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