Day: January 8, 2019

Starz and their later incarnation Hellcats feature some great rare tarcks & cover songs. Hellcats – Starz – this is a combination CD of the very first Hellcats EP featuring Richie Ranno & Michael Lee Smith of Starz. 5 great, hard-rocking songs recorded and, originally released in 1982. This was basically the 5th Starz studio album but the band changed it’s name right before it’s release!

1. Hellcats It’s Allright
2. Hellcats You Make It Swell
3. Hellcats Teenage Tiger
4. Hellcats Rock & Roll Man
5. Hellcats Auto Erotica
6. Starz Reggae Plug
7. Starz P*ss Party
8. Starz That’s Allright Mama / Mountain Dew
9. Starz Devil With The Blue Dress
10. Starz Interview Cape Cod Radio 1976

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Guitarist Cliff Powell (a.k.a. Cliffy Huntington) got his start in the mid-nineties with the Ramones influences punk rock band The Huntingtons. Parting ways with The Huntingtons in 2001, “Cliffy” joined The Stivs later the same year, a Portland, Oregon based unit that merged elements of rock and roll and punk.
The Stivs went on to fall apart in early 2006 at which point Cliffy developed a vision to form his first evangelistic band. The end result was Main Line Riders. A group originating from Houston, Texas, Main Line Riders put together its initial line up in 2006 and, after writing and rehearsing over the next year, recorded its full length debut, Shot In The Dark. The album was shopped around to several labels until the band settled on Retroactive Records, which released it in the fall of 2007.