Everything about Greg Dulli totally explained
Greg Dulli (born
May 11 1965) is a
singer and
instrumentalist.
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. The band was comic
punk rock. One indie rock critic wrote that The Afghan Whigs were "the most cartoony band in all of hairdom". 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.
Dulli is working with
Mark Lanegan (
Screaming Trees,
Queens of the Stone Age,
Mark Lanegan Band) in the project,
The Gutter Twins. Lanegan also appears on
The Twilight Singers new EP,
A Stitch In Time.
Solo Album
Trivia
Dulli's father's side of the family comes from Kalamata-Peloponnese, Greece.
Dulli's mother's side of the family comes from West Cork. Eire
Dulli always marks the booklets to his records with sentences in nicely-clumsy Italian.
Dulli was the only musician that appeared on the Foo Fighters first record aside from Dave Grohl. He added a guitar part to the song "X-Static"
The Afghan Whigs are rumored to have been formed when Greg Dulli met Rick McCollum in an Athens, Ohio jail cell over Halloween weekend in the 1980s, where they were being held for public urination and/or public intoxication. Ohio University, located in the town of Athens, is known in part for its annual Halloween celebration.
Dulli provides vocals for the song "Somebody Needs You" off of The Lo-Fidelity Allstars 2002 album "Don't Be Afraid of Love"Further Information
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