Jack Starr
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| Background information | |
| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". Paris, France |
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| Genres | Rock, hard rock, heavy metal, blues |
| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Musician, songwriter, record producer |
| InstrumentTemplate:Pluralize from text | Guitar |
| Years active | Late 1960s–present |
| Member of | Jack Starr's Burning Starr, Jack Starr Blues Band |
| Formerly of | Virgin Steele, Devil Childe, Phantom Lord, Thrasher, Strider, Smokestack Lightning, Guardians of the Flame |
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Jack Starr (born 1951) is an American heavy metal and blues guitarist.
Biography
Starr was born to a French mother and American father.[1] He learned to play guitar by ear, copying the riffs of R&B records.[1] His first semi-professional band was California, which featured members of Les Variations, and was based in France. Starr also wrote a song for Les Variations called "Silver Girl," for which he agreed to be paid a flat fee.[1] In the U.S. Starr emerged on the rock and metal scene in 1981, forming, together with Joey Ayvazian, David DeFeis and Joe O'Rielly, the first incarnation of the heavy metal band Virgin Steele. The new band was selected in 1982 by Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records to appear on the label's compilation album U.S. Metal Volume 2.[2] The song Starr sent in for the compilation was "Children of the Storm". After only two albums, Virgin Steele of 1981 and Guardians of the Flame of 1982, Starr left Virgin Steele in 1983 because of musical differences with the band's front man and other main songwriter David DeFeis.[2][3]
In 1984, Starr started his solo recording career with the album Out of the Darkness, featuring former Riot vocalist Rhett Forrester, members of The Rods, and former Rainbow drummer Gary Driscoll. It was released in Europe by Music for Nations and was picked as one of the best albums of the year by the music magazines Kerrang! and Metal Forces.[4][5]
Starr changed the name of his band to Jack Starr's Burning Starr and between 1984 and 1989 he produced albums, both solo and with the band. The music of those albums was classic American eighties heavy metal, a style between Poison and Metallica.[3] In 1989, the band dissolved and Starr joined short-lived bands like Strider and Smoke Stack Lightning.[4]
After a break, in 2003, Starr founded a new band called Guardians of the Flame, which released only one album, Under a Savage Sky.[5][6]
In 2006, Starr founded the Jack Starr Blues Band.[7]
In the following years, Starr once again assembled a group of musicians for a new incarnation of Burning Starr, which performed at the Magic Circle Festival 2008 and released the album Defiance on the Manowar's label Magic Circle Music in 2009.[8][9] In 2011, they released Land of the Dead with Limb Music. The albums includes ex-Manowar guest musicians Ross the Boss and David Shankle.[10] The band played at the 2013 Keep It True festival and recorded a DVD.[11]
Discography
Solo albums
- Out of the Darkness (1984)
- A Minor Disturbance (1990)
- Soon Day Will Come (2000)
- Before the Steele: Roots of a Metal Master (2001) (compilation)[5]
- Swimming in Dirty Water (2011)[12]
- Out of the Darkness Part 2 (2025)
Virgin Steele
- Demo (1982)
- Virgin Steele (1982)
- Guardians of the Flame (1983)
- Wait for the Night EP (1983)
Devil Childe
- Devil Childe (1984)
Burning Starr
- Rock the American Way (1985)
- No Turning Back (1986)
- Blaze of Glory (1987)
- Jack Starr's Burning Starr (1989)
- Burning Starr (compilation) (1998)
- Defiance (2009)
- Land of the Dead (2011)
- Stand Your Ground (2017)
- Souls of the Innocent (2022)
Phantom Lord
- Phantom Lord (1985)
- PHANTOM LORD -"Evil Never Sleeps "(1986)
Thrasher
- Burning at the Speed of Light (1985)
Strider
- Strider (1991)
Guardians of the Flame
- Under a Savage Sky (2003)
Jack Starr Blues Band
- Take It to the Bank (2008)
References
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- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Putterford, Mark (1986). "Starrgazer". Mega Metal Kerrang!. Vol. 1. Morgan Grampian. pp. 46–47.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.DeFeis, David. "Virgin Steele Biography". Virgin-Steele.com. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jack Starr Biography". Jackstarr.com. Archived from the original on 25 March 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jack Starr". Encyclopaedia Metallum. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Starr, Jack. "Jack Starr albums". jackstarr.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jack Starr's Guardians Of The Flame – 2003 Under A Savage A Sky". GloryDazeMusic.com. Archived from the original on 29 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jack Starr Blues Band". jackstarrblues.com. Archived from the original on 16 December 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Former VIRGIN STEELE Guitarist JACK STARR Signs With MAGIC CIRCLE MUSIC". Blabbermouth.net. Roadrunner Records. 24 March 2004. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Burning Starr Biography". Burningstarr.com. 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Limb Music". 11 November 2011. Archived from the original on 26 December 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR: 'Keep It True' Performance To Be Filmed For DVD Release". Blabbermouth.net. Roadrunner Records. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jack Starr's home page". jackstarr.com. Archived from the original on 17 December 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
External links
- Jack Starr's Burning Starr official site (archived)
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