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Use British English|date=May 2012for|the musician who recorded in 1960s and whose recordings have been released by Norton Records|Jack Starr (Texas guitarist)Use dmy dates|date=May 2012Infobox musical artist|name = Jack Starr|image =Jack Starr (blues guitarist).jpg|caption =|image_size =|background = non_vocal_instrumentalist|birth_name =|Born = Paris, France|death_date =|occupation = Musician, songwriter, producer|genre = Rock music|Rock , hard rock , Heavy metal music|heavy metal , blues |instrument = guitar|years_active = 1981–present|label = Music for Nations , Passport Records, Magic Circle Music , Limb Music |associated_acts = Virgin Steele , Jack Starr's Burning Starr|Burning Starr , Devil Childe, Phantom Lord, Thrasher, Strider, Spinatras, Smoke Stack Lightning, Guardians of the Flame, Jack Starr Blues Band|website =URL|www.jackstarr.com Jack Starr is a Heavy metal music|heavy metal and blues guitarist and songwriter born of a French mother and American father.cite book | last1 = Putterford | first1 = Mark | title = Mega Metal Kerrang& #33; | chapter = Starrgazer | volume = 1 | editors = | publisher = Morgan Grampian | year = 1986 | pages = 46–47 | accessdate =28 June 2010 He learned to play guitar by ear, copying the riffs of R& B records. His first semi-professional band was Les Variations in France with future members of Trust (band)|Trust . Back in the U.S., he 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 .cite web|url= http://www.virgin-steele.com/bio.html |title=Virgin Steele Biography |accessdate=10 April 2010 |last=DeFeis |first=David |publisher=Virgin-Steele.com The song Starr sent in for the compilation was "Children of the Storm". After only two albums, Virgin Steele (album)|Virgin Steele of 1981 and Guardians of the Flame (album)|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.cite web|url= http://www.jackstarr.com/jackbio.html |title=Jack Starr Biography |accessdate=10 April 2010 |publisher=Jackstarr.com
In 1984, Starr started his solo recording career with the album Out of the Darkness (album)|Out of the Darkness , featuring former Riot (band)|Riot vocalist Rhett Forrester , members of The Rods and former Rainbow (band)|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 .cite web|url= http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php? id=14398 |title=Jack Starr |accessdate=10 April 2010 |date=10 December 2009 |publisher= Encyclopaedia Metallum cite web |url= http://www.jackstarr.com/jackdisc.html |title=Jack Starr albums |accessdate=27 December 2011 |author=Starr, Jack |work=jackstarr.com
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 is classic American eighties heavy metal, a style between Poison (band)|Poison and Metallica . In 1989 the band dissolved and Starr joined short-lived bands like Strider and Smoke Stack Lightning.
After a break, in 2003, Starr founded a new band called Guardians of the Flame, which released only one album, Under a Savage Sky .cite web|url= http://glorydazemusic.com/articles.php? article_id=162 |title=Jack Starr's Guardians Of The Flame – 2003 Under A Savage A Sky |accessdate=10 April 2010 |date=2 December 2003 |publisher=GloryDazeMusic.com |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20110711101819/ http://glorydazemusic.com/articles.php? article_id=162 |archivedate=11 July 2011
In 2006, Starr founded the Jack Starr Blues Bandcite web |url= http://www.jackstarrblues.com |title=Jack Starr Blues Band |accessdate=26 December 2011 |work=jackstarrblues.com
In the following years, Starr once again assembled a group of musicians for a new incarnation of Jack Starr's Burning Starr|Burning Starr , which performed at the Magic Circle Festival 2008 and released the album Defiance (Burning Starr album)|Defiance on the Manowar 's label Magic Circle Music in 2009.cite web |url= http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx? mode=Article& newsitemID=20708 |title=Former VIRGIN STEELE Guitarist JACK STARR Signs With MAGIC CIRCLE MUSIC |date=24 March 2004 |accessdate=27 December 2011 |publisher= Roadrunner Records |work= Blabbermouth.net cite web|url= http://www.burningstarr.com/ |title=Burning Starr Biography |accessdate=10 April 2010 |year=2009 |publisher=Burningstarr.com In 2011 they released Land of the Dead (album)|Land of the Dead with Limb Music . The albums includes ex-Manowar guest musicians Ross the Boss and David Shankle .cite web |url= http://www.limb-music.de/ |title=Limb Music |date=11 November 2011 |accessdate=26 December 2011 |archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/64FgEvCpA |archivedate=26 December 2011 The band will play at the 2013 Keep It True festival and record a DVD.cite web |url= http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/Blabbermouth.net/news.aspx? mode=Article& newsitemID=167036 |title=JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR: 'Keep It True' Performance To Be Filmed For DVD Release |publisher=Roadrunner Records |work=Blabbermouth.net |date=8 December 2011 |accessdate=27 December 2011
Discography
Solo albums
Out of the Darkness (album)|Out of the Darkness (1984)
Before the Steele: Roots of a Metal Master (2001) (compilation)
Swimming in Dirty Water (2011)cite web |url= http://jackstarr.com/jackhome.html |title=Jack Starr's home page |accessdate=27 December 2011 |archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/64Fut5JIK |archivedate=27 December 2011 |work=jackstarr.com
http://www.burningstarr.com/ Burning Starr official site
Virgin Steele Persondata | NAME =Starr, Jack | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION =Rock-blues guitarist | DATE OF BIRTH = | PLACE OF BIRTH =Paris, France | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Starr, Jack Category:American heavy metal guitarists Category:American rock guitarists Category:Lead guitarists Category:People from Paris Category:Musicians from New York Category:Living people
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