Coliseum Rock Explained

Coliseum Rock
Type:	studio
Artist:	Starz
Cover:	Starz coliseum rock.jpg
Caption:	Cover painting by Todd Schorr
Released:	1978
Recorded:	1978
Studio:	Soundstage, Toronto, Canada
Genre:	Hard rock
Length:	39:42
Label:	Capitol
Producer:	Jack Richardson
Prev Title:	Attention Shoppers!
Prev Year:	1978
Next Title:	Live in Action
Next Year:	1989

Coliseum Rock is the fourth and final studio album by the American hard rock band Starz.^{[1] [2]} The album was released in 1978. Recorded in Toronto, it was produced by Jack Richardson.^[3]

Critical reception

The Daily Breeze wrote that the album "offers a mixed assortment of hard rock and harsh guitar play," and criticized the band's "lack of imagination."^[4] The Spokane Daily Chronicle panned the "power chords, strained vocals and thudding drums."^[5]

Personnel

Starz

• Michael Lee Smith - vocals
• Richie Ranno - guitar
• Bobby Messano - guitar
• Orville Davis - bass
• Joe X. Dube - drums

Production

• Jack Richardson - producer
• Cub Richardson - engineer, mixing, mastering
• Robert Hrycyna, Mike McCarty - recording technicians

Notes and References

1. News: Starz . St. Louis Post-Dispatch . 23 Sep 2004 . Get Out . 24.
2. News: Lanham . Tom . Starz: Band that should have made it makes comeback . Oakland Tribune . 16 Dec 2005 . Music . 1.
3. News: Westbrook . Bruce . New Starz album back to basics . The Daily Oklahoman . 12 Nov 1978 . 33.
4. News: Bensoua . Joseph . You can Kiss these LPs off . Daily Breeze . 1 Dec 1978 . E12.
5. News: Wetzel . Carol . Discritique . Spokane Daily Chronicle . 1 Dec 1978 . 7.