James Moyer Franks was the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, primary songwriter of what band influenced by The Beastie Boys?
Jimmy Pop James Moyer Franks (born August 27, 1972), better known by the stage name Jimmy Pop (originally Jimmy Pop Ali), is an American musician, singer, rapper, guitarist, songwriter, and composer. He is best known as the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, primary songwriter, and co-founder of the band Bloodhound Gang.
Jack Starr Jack Starr is a heavy metal and blues guitarist and songwriter born of a French mother and American father. He learned to play guitar by ear, copying the riffs of R&B records. His first semi-professional band was Les Variations in France with future members of Trust. In the U.S. 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 Virgin Steele. The new band was selected in 1982 by Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records to appear on the label's compilation album "U.S. Metal Volume 2". The song Starr sent in for the compilation was "Children of the Storm". After only two albums, "Virgin Steele" of 1981 and "Guardians of the Flame" of 1982, Starr left Virgin Steele in 1983 because of musical differences with the band’s front man and other main songwriter David DeFeis.