During the early 1980s guitarist Jack Starr first earned recognition through his work with East Coast metal outfit Virgin Steele, contributing to the group’s initial pair of releases—the 1982 self-titled debut and 1983’s Guardians of the Flame—before launching a solo path. He assembled the supporting ensemble Burning Starr, whose debut album Out of the Darkness appeared in 1984. Subsequent studio efforts arrived in quick succession: Rock the American Way in 1985, No Turning Back in 1986, Blaze of Glory in 1987, and The Orange Album in 1989. Shifting focus during the following decade, Starr issued the all-instrumental A Minor Disturbance in 1990, then became a member of Strider, whose self-titled debut surfaced the next year. A cassette-only collaborative venture titled Oxgen I arrived via self-release in 1994, after which Starr devoted much of the remaining years to supporting other performers. He returned in 1999 fronting the Jack Starr Blues Band, an outlet that finally let him pursue his long-unexplored affinity for electric blues and blues-rock.
