⭐️ STARZ ⭐️: "It's a Riot" - Guitar Cover: CoolZ ZLS-10/FM

"It's a Riot" is taken from the album Coliseum Rock, released in 1978 by American Rock Band Starz. This was the bands final studio album in the 1970's.

One of my favourite bands.

As per a whole lot of Starz material, there are a heap of guitar harmonies on the original studio version, but on this cover I just did one guitar track. If I was going to play this in a covers band, as a single guitar player, this is what I would be playing.

The guitar is my Fujigen made CoolZ ZLS-10/FM with the bridge humbucker replaced with a Tonerider Generator. Played through my Kemper on the MB Fux FH50 OD 2 setting.

Thanks as ever for watching,

Dunsy

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History
Starz was formed out of the ashes of the early 1970s pop music 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 was trying to decide on a new name when their manager noticed the star necklace Ranno was wearing, in addition to his guitar with stars on it. When he suggested the name "Starz", the band was not immediately on board with the idea. However, when the band returned to the studio the following day, their manager presented them with a rough sketch of the current (STARZ) logo, which he had drawn on a napkin. Upon seeing the logo sketch, the guys all agreed it was perfect, and the band was officially rebranded as Starz.

Kiss manager Bill Aucoin was introduced to STARZ via his right-hand man Sean Delaney, who had previously befriended Sweval. Aucoin began representing Starz in late 1975, helping them to get signed to Capitol Records in early 1976.

The first self-titled Starz album was released on June 21, 1976, and contained their first single, "(She's Just A) Fallen Angel". The album also contained a controversial track in the song "Pull the Plug", about a man ending his comatose wife's life support.

Their first major hit single, "Cherry Baby", in the spring of 1977 came from their second album, Violation, produced by Jack Douglas of Aerosmith fame. Douglas produced their first two studio albums: Starz and Violation.

Their third studio album, the self-produced Attention Shoppers!, was more in the vein of power pop than heavy metal and featured a Cheap Trick influence in songs such as "X-Ray Spex", and "Hold on to the Night".

Harkin and Sweval were asked to leave the band after Attention Shoppers!, reportedly since they wanted to continue in that album's musical direction, while the others favored a return to the harder sound of their first two albums.

On their fourth, and final, studio album on the Capitol label, Coliseum Rock, produced by The Guess Who producer Jack Richardson, Harkin and Sweval were replaced by Bobby Messano on guitar and Orville Davis on bass, respectively.[1] Previously, Davis was the bassist for the Southern rock band Hydra, which released multiple albums in the mid-1970s. His contributions can be heard on the first two LP's: 1974's Hydra and 1975's Land of Money. After leaving Hydra, Davis joined REX, a hard rock outfit fronted by Smith's younger brother, Rex Smith.

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