Jack Starr

Jack Starr is an American rock and heavy metal guitarist and singer David next to the DeFeis a founding member of the New York heavy metal band Virgin Steele, which was founded in 1981. After two albums (1981: Virgin Steele, 1982: Guardians Of The Flame ) Starr left due to musical differences with David DeFeis 1983 the band. He strained a lawsuit against DeFeis, since he felt this was not entitled to continue using the band name Virgin Steele. The judges saw it differently and so remained the name of David DeFeis and the band.

While DeFeis Virgin Steele goal for the following years to a metal fans around the world famous band, Jack Starr had less luck and success. Between 1984 and 1989 he made ​​a solo album as well as the eponymous band Burning Starr several in the American metal scene reasonably successful but little international attention albums out on those classic Eighties Metal of the old school could be heard. Towards the end of the eighties, however, had the music of Burning Starr, compared with the output of rising bands and later superstars such as Metallica and Poison, out of date at this time. In 1989, the fan base was heavily shrunk Burning Starr dissolved. The same year, Starr had a short spell on the little sensational debut album of the metal band Strider.

In the aftermath Starr made ​​a musical break. In 2003, he formed a new band called Guardians Of The Flame, which so far only released the little-known and rather old-fashioned album Under A Savage Sky.

However, in the years 2008 and 2009 he performed with his band again under the name Jack Starr 's Burning Starr at the Magic Circle Festival.