Jack Starr

Jack Starr

Jack Starr is an American rock - and Heavy Metal - guitarist and next to the singer David DeFeis a founding member of the New York heavy metal band Virgin Steele , founded 1981st Already after two albums (1981: Virgin Steele , 1982: Guardians Of The Flame ), Starr left the band in 1983 due to musical differences of opinion with David DeFeis. He filed a lawsuit against DeFeis because he was of the opinion that this was not entitled to continue to use the band name Virgin Steele. The judges saw it differently and so the name stayed with David DeFeis and the band.

While DeFeis built Virgin Steele into a band known to metal fans all over the world in the following years, Jack Starr had less luck and success. Between 1984 and 1989 he released a solo album and, with the band named after him, Burning Starr, several albums that were reasonably successful in the American metal scene but not widely recognized internationally, on which classic old-school 80s metal could be heard. Towards the end of the 1980s, however, Burning Starr's music seemed out of date compared to the output of emerging bands and later superstars such as Metallica and Poison . In 1989 the fan base had shrunk significantly and Burning Starr dissolved. In the same year Starr had a short guest appearance on the little attention-getting debut album by the metal band Strider .

In the following years Starr took a musical break. In 2003 he founded a new band called Guardians Of The Flame , which so far only released the album Under A Savage Sky .

In 2008 and 2009 he appeared again with his band under the name Jack Starr's Burning Starr at the Magic Circle Festivals . In 2009 the comeback album Defiance was released . The other musicians are Ned Meloni on bass, Todd Michael Hall on vocals and Rhino, former drummer from Manowar , as a guest drummer. In 2011, the sequel Land Of The Dead was released.

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