Greg Dulli
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Dulli was born and brought up in a working-class suburb of Hamilton, Ohio. He is of Greek (father) and Irish (mother) descent. 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. 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.
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. The Whigs split in 2001.
In 1994, Dulli was a lead vocalist in the Backbeat Band, an alternative-rock supergroup that recorded the soundtrack to The Beatles biopic, Backbeat. 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).
In 1997, Dulli (with Ted Demme and director Mark Pellington) bought the movie rights to a book by Ann Imbrie called Spoken in Darkness 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.
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miss_drivel Beautiful version. Dulli, the king of covers, has done it again.
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heatherosie Greg Dulli took the lead on Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas With New Friends project, and he totally knocked it out of the park. Listen to "Paper Thin Hotels" http://www.rollingstone.com/videos/new-and-hot/greg-dulli-sings-leonard-cohens-paper-thin-hotel-20120124
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kim504 Check out Greg Dulli covering Leonard Cohen's "Paper Thin Hotel" www.rollingstone.com/videos/new-and-hot/greg-dulli-sings-leonard-cohens-paper-thin-hotel-20120124
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changeofseason fast becoming one of my favorite american artists. afghan whigs, twilight singers, gutter twins. all great stuff!
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just_corn ...aint no ordinary man.
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gavinintexas Viejo wn, idolo, me siento orgulloso por haberme sacado una foto contigo en el concierto de Gutter Twins....vuelve a Chie de nuevo Greg
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Foz71 Ed Harcourt to support Greg's acoustic shows in Ireland
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coldseed I'll be seeing Dulli on the 22nd of October. Simply cannot wait! Craig Wedren as a guest?...what a great bonus.
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