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Jack Starr - Guitars Shmoulik Avigal - Vocals Ned Meloni - Bass Joe Hasselvander - Drums & Rhythm Guitars. 2003 CULT METAL CLASSICS.COM MP3 Download: |
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Jack Starr - Guitars Rhett Forester - Vocals Gary Bordenaro - Bass Carl Canedy & Gary Driscoll - Drums. All songs published by : MP3 Download: |
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Jack Starr - Guitars Mike Tirelli - Vocals William (Freebass) Fairchild - Bass Jim Harris - Drums. MP3 Download: 2000 METAL MAYHEM ser.no 00010. U,S.A. |
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Jack Starr - Guitars Dan Berrios - Vocals Mike Hanson - Bass Ed Mondini - Drums. 2000 Unreleased. All songs published by : MP3 Download: |
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Jack Starr - Guitars Mike Tirelli - Vocals Steve Ronsen - Bass El Gordo - Drums. 1989 SHARK RECORDS No. Shark 020 MP3 Download: |
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Jack Starr - Guitars Randy Coven & Bonnie Parker - Bass John Reilley - Drums John Armata & Felix Hanneman- Keyboards. 1990 CARIOLA RECORDS ser.no C7001-2. MP3 Download: |
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Jack Starr - Guitars Mike Tirelli - Vocals William (Freebass) Fairchild - Bass Jim Harris - Drums Edward Spahn - Keyboards. 1988 U.S. METAL RECORDS MP3 Download: |
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Jack Starr - Guitars Mike Tirelli - Vocals Dave Defeis - Keyboards Keith Collins - Bass Mark Edwards - Drums. All songs published by : MP3 Download: |
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Jack Starr - Guitars Frank Vestry - Vocals Bruno Ravel - Bass Greg D'angelo - Drums. All songs published by : MP3 Download: |
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Jack Starr - Guitars Dave Defeis - Vocals Joe Craig Macgregor - Bass Kieth Dombrowski - Drums. Unreleased MP3 Download: |
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Jack Starr - Lead Guitar and Lead Vocals Gary St.:Hillaire - Rhythm Guitar and Backing Vocals Dave the Wombat Giancone - Drums Dennis Feldman - Bass Guitar. 2001 Bad Posture Records.U.S.A.
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Jack Starr - Guitars Dave Defeis - Vocals Rob Dimartino - Bass Mike Capuano - Drums. 1997 Unreleased. All songs published by : MP3 Download: |
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Jack Starr - Guitars Dave Defeis - Vocals Joe O'Reilly - Bass Joey Ayvazian - Drums. 1983 MUSIC FOR NATIONS U.K. |
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Jack Starr - Guitars Dave Defeis - Vocals Joe O'Reilly - Bass Joey Ayvazian - Drums. All songs published by : |
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Jack Starr - Guitars Dave Defeis - Vocals Joe O'Reilly - Bass Joey Ayvazian - Drums. All songs published by : |
Continuing Jack's tradittion of comenting on his songs and albums, he offers his
thoughts on the following:
Under a Savage Sky Out of the Darkness No Turning Back Blaze of Glory Roots of A Metal Master SmokeStack Lightning Devil Child Strider The Orange Album Virgin Steele I Virgin Steele II The Guardians of the Flame A Cry in the NIght Rock the American Way Phantom Lord II Evil Never Sleeps
This is an awesome testimonial to the power and glory of heavy metal,We
all went to the studio and played our hearts out and its good to know
that in this day and age of studio chicanery and digital camouflage
,albums such as these still exist where the music is what matters ,Only
someone like Shmoulik could have sung these with the feeling and
conviction that was needed ,The Flame that Never Dies is one of the
best songs I have ever written and to me it encapsulizes the 80's metal
scene and captures the sound better than anything else I have heard from
that time period, If you love true heavy metal ,you will not be
disappointed!!
This was the first album that I did after leaving Virgin Steele , I was
hungry and had a lot to prove.Rhett Forrester sang with great conviction
and Carl Canedy showed why he is considered one of the best drummers in
rock ,I was pleased that Music for Nations released it in the U.K. and
that both Kerrang and Metal Forces picked it as one of the best of the
year
This album is considered by many to be a Power Metal Classic , it is in
the vein of Dio, Priest, Riot etc and even has diverse influences of
many different artists like the Yardbirds. as well as Classical
composers ,it is very eclectic and yet the singing of Mike Tirelli puts
it squarely in the Power Metal camp ,If you love Dio, Priest and Maiden
check it out , there is even one song produced by Steve Thompson who co
produced Appetite for Destruction for Guns and Roses
This was Burning Starr's 3rd release and the second with Mike Tirelli
on vocals, the band was tighter and heavier and Mike's vocals continued
to hit the stratosphere and push the envelope ,there is a reworking of
the song 'Go Down Fighing which I had written for Virgin Steele ,Blaze
of Glory is an overlooked album that contains one of the best anthems to
Metal and the Metal way of life and that song is called Metal Generation
with the immortal lines" We're the Metal Generation don't fuck with us
cause we're insane!"
These are demos that I made in the late seventies ,early eighties and
have been compiled into album form.This is a vinyl release from 2002 and
now it is availabe on cd, The album is raw but it has its moments .
Bobby Rondinelli of Black Sabbath fame appears on one song as does Gary
Saint of 80's band Tangiers and other names which you may
recognize.These recordings which took place over the course of 3 or 4
years taught me a lot and prepared me for the studio process which
became important in my next band Virgin Steele ,One song in particular
was choosen as a favorite by the author of the Doubleday Encyclopedia of
Rock, That song is "East Side Story" and I still feel proud when I hear it
now !
This is a live recording of a band I started in the early nineties and
it featured the bassist from Foghat as well as Virgin Steele singer Dave
Defeis and yours truly on guitar .This is exactly what one would expect
,it is the blues meets metal and the closest comparison I can think of
that wonderful band from the early seventies Cactus, Check it out
This is a horrible record,its so bad that I love it!
The lyrics make no sense, the cover art is amateurish and the sound
quality is atrocious.Yet despite all that it is powerful and hard hitting and a sought after
collectors item, on my last trip to Germany I autograhed quite a few of
those to collectors who knew that I had played on it. This is one of the
earliest examples of 80's thrash and seems to have a life of its own, One
of the highlights is the song 'Reign of Terror" with its reference to
Matthew Hopkins from the cult horror movie Witchfinder General, this was
way before Cathedral.
This is a great album flawed by weak production and where the lame name
Strider came from God only knows, it was not my idea. I can only assume
that the label in Europe thought it was a cool sounding monicker for a
band, Wrong!! The songs on the other hand were good and many of them were
reused on Smokestack Lightning, songs like "Cherry Red" and "Prove Your
Love" also the Strider album contains one excellent 24 track analog
masterpeice called "Under the Influence" and that song alone is worth the
price of admission and as usual Mike Tirelli sings his ass off.
Well played, well written and nicely produced in 24 track analog, In a
perfect world this should have done great but it was a little too late
when this came out it was almost 1990 and the poison of Nirvana and all
the little whiny bastards that they spawned were already taking over. We
were not in style so the irony is this, the dish that we prepared and
took so long to cook was never eaten even though it was a wonderful
meal, no one wanted to taste it, La nouvelle cuisine had taken over and
its name was Grunge!(how fitting) Songs like "Fool for Love" will never
be out of style and now more than 10 years later the Orange Album sounds
very current while bands like Pearl Jam sound dated like yesterdays
fad. This album was only relealsed in Japan and Germany and is extremely
rare and will be available only thru this site !!
What can I say, For starters this album is considered by many to be a
groundbreaking classic of power metal ,(a style of music that didn't
even have a name when this album came out in 1982) The album had a
profound influence on today's generation of Power Metal band,s This is
an album that fuses heavy guitars with classically oriented keyboards
and heroic lyrics and has a Dragon on the cover as well as a sword, the
imagery on the front cover has now become so overused by metal bands
that it has become a cliche but in 1982 this was considered very
innovative, also the long intros leading to the heavy passages and the
constant balance between light and dark, Virgin Steele I can be
considered a template for modern power metal. and it is a classic that
has and should by accorded a special place in the parthenon of Heavy
Metal.
This is the follow up to Virgin Steele and the progress between the two
albums was staggering ,the album features several long epics like The
Redeemer and The title track as well as some very heavy tracks like Burn
the Sun, in a nutshell this album kicks butt!! When I came up with the
tile I was looking for a phrase which would capture the essence of who
we were and what our role was in the world of modern music, a world that
at the time seemed to have been taken over by garbage like "Flock of
Seagulls and songs with insipid lyrics like "lets hear for the boys, lets
give the boys a hand' it was this kind of crap that was being force fed
to us in the early eighties and I started to see my band as a force for
real music and true metal hence the name Guardians of the Flame,I wanted
us to be pure and unaffected by the noise pollution and commercial
drive and on Virgin Steele II we made an album that was a glorification
of the music that we loved and grew up with, It is real, it is pure and
it is not dictated by a record label's commercial agenda, Virgin Steele
II was released all over the world on many different labels and
continues to be discovered by new fans everyday
An ep released by Music for Nations as a teaser to starve off hungry fans
waiting for Virgin Steele III the album that never came .This ep is
similar to the Americain version which was entitled "Wait for the NIght"
The main difference is the song "Wait for the Night" which only appears
on the U.S. version .Both eps contain the wonderfully defiant song "Go
Down Fighting" I know of no other song in rock or metal which adresses
the issue of resistance so firmly, Go Down FIghting has been a recurring
theme in my lyrics, though never as primal or basic as in that song.The
underlying theme is the universal struggle of man to maintain his
dignity and self in a world that attemps to impose conformity and
subjugate original thought. The struggle continues!
This is a big loud commercial,West Coast sounding album, Is it good? Yes
but more importantly is it Jack Starr, No! This album was me trying to
be Ratt, Motley, Poison etc and at the time I though this might be a good
way of breaking thru the door and attaining sucess, I was being pushed by
my U.S. label Passport (which was the biggest indepentent in the U.S. to
deliver a commercial album to compete with the metal that was on the U.S
charts, but as Shakespeare said" to thine own self be true" and that
should have been heeded, Rock the American Way "was me trying to be
someone else, I wil never do that again, The album features
performances by musicians who would later be known for their
participation in bands like White Lion, Danger Danger and Tran Siberian
Orchestra.
A great Thrash album which deserves a wider audience , many of the songs
like "Path of Destruction, Road Warrior and Evil Never Sleeps would
later appear on "No Turning Back" Joe Hasselvander and Ned Meloni
contribute wonderful bass and drums as they do today in my new band,
John Leone of cult metal legends 'Attacker" sings up a storm and there
are some guest solos by Steve Price from Thor ,the production is not bad
either, A Headbanging delight.