Category: Classic Rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on commercially-successful hard rock, blues rock, and arena rock popularized in the 1970s.

STARZ – Violation [Japan mini-LP SHM-CD Limited Release remastered +3 bonus] 2016


As requested, here’s the excellent, now out of print, remastered Japanese Limited Release on SHM-CD of STARZ second album “Violation“, produced by Jack Douglas of Aerosmith fame. STARZ was one of the great American hard rock arena acts from the second half of Seventies on par with Aerosmith, Ted Nugent or Kiss, which despite a lack of major commercial success 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.

Poor As Flies – Poor As Flies 2020


Cool CD! The mix makes for a simple cool package of short to the point rock tunes not too far off the path of stuff like Richie Kotzen‘s more recent solo stuff and even his own power trio, supergroup The Winery Dogs.