For their major label debut, Dirty Looks consisted of Paul Lidel (guitar), Jack Pyers (bass) and Gene Barnett (drums).

The President of Atlantic Records and the higher-ups of their new management team Hard To Handle thought that it would benefit the band if they hired a producer who had current albums on the Billboard charts.

Their album of outtakes, Bootlegs was released in 1991,[3] then the group broke up in 1993 following the release of Five Easy Pieces with Ostergaard forming Rumbledog with Brian Perry of Dirty Looks, Robbin Crosby of Ratt and Paul Monroe of XYZ, Lidel hooking up with Dangerous Toys (and later Broken Teeth and Adrenaline Factor) and bassist Brian Perry resurfacing in Flood, Jake E. Lee's "Wicked Alliance" Prong, and Rhino Bucket.

With the personnel above, minus Ondrusek and adding singer Gabriel Scott Robison, Ostergaard took a back seat in the vocal department and formed the Burning Orange project who released an album splitting up in 1996.

With the changing climate of the music scene, the release sold moderately, prompting the current band members to branch off into different directions and pursue other projects.

[8][9][10] The group was scheduled to perform Cool From The Wire in its entirety at Ballroom Blitz Music Festival in Glen Burnie, Maryland and at a fundraiser held in the DH&L Fire Station in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.

Fronted by Jason McMaster, Dirty Looks joined the roster of bands on the 2023 Monster of Rock Cruise (MORC) and performed on Tuesday May 2, 2023, and again on Wednesday May 3, 2023.