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Starz (Starz Album)
'' Starz '' is the debut studio album by the American hard rock band Starz. The album was released on June 21, 1976 on Capitol Records and produced by Jack Douglas (best known for his work with the American hard rock band Aerosmith). The song "Pull the Plug" caused some controversy, because it is about a man disconnecting his comatose wife's life support. Reception AllMusic's Rob Theakston described ''Starz'' as "a simple, catchy, riff-driven album from start to finish", which failed in promoting the band to the level of arena rock stars like Aerosmith and Kiss; he judged the album "a mediocre debut, to be sure, and definitely not the release for casual fans to introduce themselves to the group." Canadian journalist Martin Popoff commented on the lack of success of ''Starz'', writing that it "was perceived as a happy collection of harmless, corporate-vetted, summertime rock 'n' roll, marketed heavily and unfairly as state-of-the-art American hard rock", but concluded that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starz (band)
Starz is an American hard rock and power pop band from New Jersey. Despite a lack of major commercial success, the band has a lasting cult following and has been cited as a major influence by bands such as Mötley Crüe, Poison, Bon Jovi, and Twisted Sister. History Starz was formed out of the ashes of the early 1970s pop band Looking Glass, which had the No. 1 hit single " Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" in the summer of 1972. After lead singer Elliot Lurie left Looking Glass in 1974, the three remaining members—keyboardist Larry Gonsky, bassist Pieter Sweval, and drummer Jeff Grob (who adopted the stage name Joe X. Dube)—teamed up with vocalist Michael Lee Smith and guitarist Brendan Harkin to continue the band, eventually changing the name to Fallen Angels. In September 1975, they were joined by former Stories guitarist Richie Ranno. After keyboardist Gonsky separated from the group, they decided to rebrand and pursue a more heavy metal direction. The band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Popoff
Martin Popoff (born April 28, 1963) is a Canadian music journalist, critic and author. He is mainly known for writing about the genre of heavy metal music. The senior editor and co-founder of ''Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles'', he has additionally written over twenty books that both critically evaluate heavy metal and document its history. He has been called "heavy metal's most widely recognized journalist" by his publisher. Popoff lives in Toronto, Ontario. Career Born in Castlegar, British Columbia, Popoff's interest in heavy metal began as a youth in Trail, British Columbia, in the early 1970s, when bands such as Led Zeppelin and Iron Butterfly were in the collections of the older brothers and cousins of Popoff and his friends. Black Sabbath played even heavier music, and became the group his circle of friends thought of as "our band, not the domain of our elders". Other heavy rock albums of the era, such as Nazareth's ''Razamanaz'' and Kiss' '' Hotter than Hell'', further shape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitol Records Albums
A capitol, named after the Capitoline Hill in Rome, is usually a legislative building where a legislature meets and makes laws for its respective political entity. Specific capitols include: * United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. * Numerous U.S. state and territorial capitols * Capitolio Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia * Capitolio Federal in Caracas, Venezuela * El Capitolio in Havana, Cuba * Capitol of Palau in Ngerulmud, Palau Capitol, capitols, or The Capitol may also refer to: ;Entertainment and Media * Capitol (board game), a Roman-themed board game * Capitol (The Hunger Games trilogy), a fictional city in The Hunger Games novels * ''Capitol'' (TV series), a U.S. soap opera * Capitol (collection), a book by Orson Scott Card * The Capitols, a Detroit, Michigan-based soul trio ;Business * Capitol Wrestling Corporation, a predecessor organization to World Wrestling Entertainment * Capitol Records, a U.S. record label * Capitol Air, originally known as Capitol Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Debut Albums
Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union. * January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction (the West German extreme-left militant Baader–Meinhof Group) begins in Stuttgart. * January 18 ** Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. ** The Scottish Labour Party is formed as a breakaway from the UK-wide party. ** Super Bowl X in American football: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 21–17, in Miami. * January 21 – First commercial Concorde flight, from London to Bahrain. * January 27 ** The United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jansen (record Producer)
John Jansen (born October 3, 1947) is an American recording engineer and music producer. He worked with a wide variety of artists over the years, mostly in the rock genre: Joe Cocker, The Who, Spencer Davis Group, Cat Mother, Paul Winter Consort, Roger Daltrey, Supertramp, Henry McCullough, Pavlov's Dog, Procol Harum, Blue Öyster Cult, The Dictators, Alice Cooper, Frankie Miller, Meatloaf, Yipes, The Motors, Television, Barry Manilow, Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, The Bongos, Billy Squier, Britny Fox, Eric Clapton, Warrant, Tom Verlaine, Faster Pussycat, Bang Tango, Love/Hate, Cinderella, Alias, Judge Mercy, Jimi Hendrix, The Producers and Orchestra Jimi Hendrix recordings Jansen was a studio assistant at Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios. He worked with Eddie Kramer on a 1972 Hendrix single that contained live versions of " Johnny B. Goode" and "Little Wing". The two tracks were later re-released on '' The Singles Album'' (1983). He later worked with Kramer and Mitch Mitchel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percussion Instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Excluding zoomusicological instruments and the human voice, the percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments.''The Oxford Companion to Music'', 10th edition, p.775, In spite of being a very common term to designate instruments, and to relate them to their players, the percussionists, percussion is not a systematic classificatory category of instruments, as described by the scientific field of organology. It is shown below that percussion instruments may belong to the organological classes of ideophone, membranophone, aerophone and cordophone. The percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as the timpani, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, belonging to the membranophones, and cym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Delaney (musician)
Prentice John Delaney Jr. (January 8, 1945 – April 13, 2003), better known as Sean Delaney, was an American musician, producer, road manager and songwriter, best known for his work with the rock band KISS from the early 1970s until the early 1980s. He is largely credited with developing their choreography onstage, and co-wrote many songs with Paul Stanley, including "Mr. Speed", "Makin' Love", and "Take Me" from the 1976 album ''Rock and Roll Over'', and "All American Man" from the studio side of the 1977 album ''Alive II''. He also co-wrote the song "Rocket Ride" with Ace Frehley for the same album, a song that remained a staple of Frehley's live set throughout his solo career and was used as the title of his 2008 tour. He simultaneously produced and co-wrote songs for Gene Simmons' and Peter Criss' 1978 self-titled solo albums. He's co-written songs with each original member of KISS. He is often referred to by fans and those close to the band as "the fifth member of KISS." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie Ranno
Richie Ranno (born January 21, 1950 in Bronx, New York) is an American musician, most famous as a member of Starz. Early life Ranno was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he moved with his family as a child. Career After high school Ranno moved to Wisconsin and put together a rock trio, Bungi, consisting of Jon Parrot (of Washington, DC) on bass and Steve Mundt (Appleton, Wisconsin) on drums. The band recorded the single "Six Days on the Road" on the Target label. The record received some airplay in Madison, Wisconsin, and other areas. The band opened for such Midwest locals as Bob Seger, Fuse (later Cheap Trick), REO Speedwagon, Styx and many more. In 1973 Ranno moved back to Teaneck and shortly after joined the band Stories in September. Stories' " Brother Louie" had just reached #1, and guitarist Steve Love quit to join Jobriath. Ranno was among about 20 guitarists who auditioned for the position. Stories in September continued to tour as a headliner and as an opener for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burlington, Ontario
Burlington is a city in the Regional Municipality of Halton at the northwestern end of Lake Ontario in Ontario, Canada. Along with Milton to the north, it forms the western end of the Greater Toronto Area and is also part of the Hamilton metropolitan census area. History Before the 19th century, the area between the provincial capital of York and the township of West Flamborough was home to the Mississauga nation. In 1792, John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, named the western end of Lake Ontario "Burlington Bay" after the town of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The British purchased the land on which Burlington now stands from the Mississaugas in Upper Canada Treaties 3 (1792), 8 (1797), 14 (1806), and 19 (1818). Treaty 8 concerned the purchase of the Brant Tract, on Burlington Bay which the British granted to Mohawk chief Joseph Brant for his service in the American Revolutionary War. Joseph Brant and his household se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collector's Guide Publishing
{{Infobox publisher , image = , parent = , status = , founded = 1984 , founder = Robert Godwin , successor = , country = Canada , headquarters = Burlington, Ontario , distribution = , keypeople = , publications = Books , topics = , genre = , imprints = Apogee , revenue = , numemployees = , nasdaq = , url = {{URL, http://www.cgpublishing.com Collector's Guide Publishing (CGP) is a Canadian publisher based in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. The company's first publication was Robert Godwin's Illustrated Collector's Guide to Led Zeppelin released in 1987. Owner Godwin also founded the independent record label Griffin Music in 1989. CGP would supply books for music collectors to the Griffin label for inclusion in box sets with accompanying compact discs. CD/Book packages included sets by Hawkwind, Motörhead, Wishbone Ash and Olivia Newton-John. In 1998 Godwin started an imprint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
