Career
He learned to play guitar by ear, copying the riffs of Rhythm & Blues records. In the United States. Starr 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. The new band was selected in 1982 by Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records to appear on the label"s compilation album United States. 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 in 1983 because of musical differences with the band’s front man and other main songwriter David DeFeis. lieutenant 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.
Starr changed the name of his band to Jack Starr"s and between 1984 and 1989 he produced albums, both solo and with the band. The music of those albums was classic American eighties heavy metal, a style between Poison and Metallica.
In 1989 the band dissolved and Starr joined short-lived bands like and Smoke Stack Lightning.
After a break, in 2003, Starr founded a new band called, which released only one album, Under a Savage Sky. In 2006, Starr founded the In the following years, Starr once again assembled a group of musicians for a new incarnation of, which performed at the Magic Circle Festival 2008 and released the album Defiance on the Manowar"s label Magic Circle Music in 2009. In 2011 they released Land of the Dead with Limb Music.
The albums includes ex-Manowar guest musicians Ross the Boss and David Shankle.
The band played at the 2013 Keep lieutenant True festival and recorded a Digital Video Disc.