Dave Starr

Dave Starr is a true Metal veteran with a career going back over 25 years, with numerous albums, MTV videos, DVD's, and concert tours to his credit. I started out like most guys, I did not know what the hell I was doing... and played in a bunch of shitty bands that I don't care to remember. I taught myself how to play for the most part, listening to records and learning songs from all my favorite bands. My mom and dad thought I was crazy for wanting to do this, and maybe they were right. After playing guitar in bands for a few years, Dave switched over to bass in 1982. "Every band I was in, nobody wanted to play bass.... so I decided to do it myself." "I don't regret the decision, it opened up a lot of doors for me, although I never really considered myself as a bass player." Not many bass players can say they have made records with such guitar greats as Brad Gillis, Vinnie Moore, Geoff Thorpe, Mark McGhee, and David Chastain. Dave Starr can. He is also one of the few bass players in Metal to use the thundering 8 string. Known most for his bass work with Vicious Rumors over that last 22 years, Dave is also a talented guitarist and song writer who is now recording his debut album (on guitar and bass) with his band "WildeStarr" along with incredible vocalist London Wilde. "It was great to play with VR again and I am very proud of WarBall and VR, but WildeStarr was something London and I had started to work on a few years earlier... and I really wanted to get back to that." "Guitar playing is really where my heart is at, and to write my own songs as well", "That is what WideStarr is all about for me, and for London". "In VR, it was always tough for me to write songs since we had 3 established writers in the band and my ideas did not always get the attention they deserved." "What we are doing with WildeStarr is simple.... we are playing the music that we want to hear, the music we always wanted to write and record. To be in control of what we do, and how we do it. To play what we want to play and not have to answer to anyone else." "I put the music we are doing up there with anything I have ever done before. It's on the same level as VR, and some are saying even better." "London and I have put a lot of work into this music, a lot of passion, and a lot of blood sweat and tears." Stay tuned.... Discography: With Vicious Rumors: Soldiers of the Night 1986 Shrapnel Records Digital Dictator 1988 Shrapnel Records Guitar Masters 1989 Roadrunner Records Vicious Rumors 1990 Atlantic Records Welcome to the Ball 1991 Atlantic Records Live in Tokyo 1992 Atlantic Records 10 Years of Power 1995 GTM Records Tribute to Carl Albert 1996 GTM Records The Last Word 2000 TygerPaw Records Crushing the World 2005 GTM Records WarBall 2006 GTM/Mascot Records With CHASTAIN: In an Outrage 2004 Leviathan Records with Others: Destillery/Behind the Mask (song writer) 2001 Iron Glory Records PRESS/PRESS (bassist) 2003 30 Days Music MTV Videos: Don't wait for Me Vicious Rumors 1990 Children Vicious Rumors 1991 Bullet from a Gun CHASTAIN 2004