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3 Lp Lot Jack Starr -  Out Of The Darkness, Burning Starr Rock The American Way, Rhett Forrester - Even The Score    Covers & Lps - Ex+

Jack Starr is a  and  guitarist and songwriter born of a French mother and American father. He learned to play guitar by ear, copying the riffs of  records. His first semi-professional band was Les Variations in France with future members of . Back in the U.S., he emerged on the rock and metal scene in 1981, forming, together with Joey Ayvazian,  and Joe O’Rielly, the first incarnation of the heavy metal band . The new band was selected in 1982 by  of  to appear on the label's compilation album U.S. Metal Volume 2. The song Starr sent in for the compilation was "Children of the Storm". After only two albums,  of 1981 and  of 1982, Starr left Virgin Steele in 1983 because of musical differences with the band’s front man and other main songwriter David DeFeis.

In 1984, Starr started his solo recording career with the album , featuring former  vocalist , members of and former  drummer . It was released in Europe by  and was picked as one of the best albums of the year by the music magazines  and .

Starr changed the name of his band to  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  and . 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.

In 2006, Starr founded the Jack Starr Blues Band

In the following years, Starr once again assembled a group of musicians for a new incarnation of , which performed at the  2008 and released the album  on the 's label  in 2009. In 2011 they released  with . The albums includes ex-Manowar guest musicians  and . The band will play at the 2013  festival and record a DVD.