WTMusic: Dino Jelusic of Dirty Shirley – 120%
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We Talk Music is getting dirty! This time Brett welcomes Dirty Shirley singer Dino Jelusic to We Talk Music. Dino has worked with Trans-Siberian Orchestra as well as having his own band Animal Drive, but this time he’s teaming up with George Lynch.
Serafino Perugino of Frontiers Records wanted to put together a band with Dino and a top notch guitarist. Doug Aldrich was too busy, so enter George Lynch and Dirty Shirley was born. On January 24th, 2020 their killer self-titled album is being released via Frontiers records. We talk that as well as a bunch of other topics including:
- How Grand Master is his favorite song on the album
- The songwriting process for the album
- Working with Paul O’Neill and Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- Not compromising with his vocals
- What he was trying to get from his voice on the album
- Working with George Lynch as a producer
- Breaking down the Animal Drive Back to the Roots album
- The reason Dino didn’t want to put a Winger cover on that album
- When Dino realized he could sing, and how well he could sing
- Potential Dirty Shirley touring plans
- What George Lynch is like as a guitarist
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