Stars Underground is an American rock band that call Hollywood, CA, and Boston, MA home. The band members are Chris Kelly on guitar, Greg ‘Bang’ on bass, Shawn Vincent on drums, and Ron John on vocals.
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The band started in Hollywood, Ca in 1993 under the name “Never On Sunday” with Roxy Saint and Sharmet sharing vocal duties. Although the roots of the band can be traced back a few years earlier and 3000 miles to the east… Boston, Ma is where Chris, Greg and Shawn would play parts in two different bands before heading west (Lost Angels and Touch Me Hooker).
After playing some show’s around Hollywood and building some Major Label interest from Hollywood Records. Internal conflict created mostly by the business side of the music industry would tear ‘Never on Sunday’ apart. Singer Roxy Saint would release the 'Orphan Child' CD in 1995[1] that used many of the bands most popular songs, including "Bimbo On The Phone", "Sunshine", "I Rule the World", and "Best Friend/ I Can't Explain."
By the late 90’s the guy's in the band had grown tired of the Hollywood lifestyle and returned to the East coast. Around 2001 bass player Greg 'Bang’ returned to Boston from New York City to join a revamped version of the band to be called ‘Stars Underground’. Long time friend Ron Arsenault would be the singer and with a couple dozen songs already written the band quickly headed into the studio with Joe Laquidara (former sideman for Boston (band)). The ‘Soundtrack to a Suicide’ CD would be the result, and the band started playing shows around Boston and the surrounding area's. Everything seemed to be going well, but as communication within the band started to dissolve Greg and Ron headed back to California where the "Soundtrack to a Suicide' CD[2] was released in an attempt to put together a new Stars Underground line-up on the West coast.
A couple years later a CD simply titled ‘Stars Underground’[3] was released, and the band played some shows around Boston with Ron, Chris and Shawn as the only original members. The song "See You Around" was released to radio, and got airplay on Boston's WBCN. The bands website and CD artwork would feature the four original members; even though bass player Greg 'Bang' was not present for any of the shows during this time period, a fill-in bass player was used.
The last re-emergence of the Stars Underground was 2006 when all four original members played Dragonfly Club in Hollywood, CA. With this came the re-release of the Soundtrack to a Suicide CD[4], sold through the bands website. A couple new songs were played at the show along with talk of a new CD getting recorded. After a couple more live shows around the Boston area, the bands website was taken down and all has been quiet since.
In 2008 former lead singer Roxy Saint would have a major acting role in the horror movie 'Zombie Strippers.' The movie would star A Nightmare on Elm Street's Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), and Jenna Jameson.