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, Love/Hate,

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, and Mr. Big.

Career

In 2005, Starr co-wrote and recorded the Beautiful Creatures sophomore release, '' Deuce'', and toured with the band the same year. The song "Freedom" was used in the 2009

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film '' The Proposal''. "Anyone", also from ''Deuce'', was used in the FX series ''

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''. In late 2004, Starr formed the band Hookers & Blow with

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keyboardist

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and

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guitarist

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. They toured the U.S. in 2004. Matt Starr Detroit

In 2007, Starr stepped away from drumming and formed the Automatic Music Explosion as a singer and spent the next two years recording with producer

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. The two met after Starr showed up at the producer's home and asked him to work on the record. Due to a lack of label support, the record never saw a proper release; however, several of the tracks were licensed to various cable television shows and movies, including ''

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''. In 2012, Starr, together with Guns N' Roses guitarist

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, co-produced ''The Return to Psycho California'', the debut release by the hard rock band Hotel Diablo. The same year, Starr joined former

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guitarist

's band. He also played drums on Frehley's 2014 release, '' Space Invader'', as well as featuring on several tracks from Frehley's subsequent releases, '' Origins, Vol. 1''; '' Spaceman''; and '' Origins Vol. 2''. While remaining with Frehley, in 2013, Starr began playing with

Burning Rain Burning Rain is a band formed by guitarist Doug Aldrich (Revolution Saints, The Dead Daisies, ex-Dio (band), Dio, ex-Whitesnake) and singer Keith St John, Keith St. John (Montrose (band), Montrose) in 1998. Joining the group were drummer Alex Ma ...

, a band formed by

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guitarist

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, Montrose vocalist

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, and

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bassist

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. He performed on their 2013 album, '' Epic Obsession''. In 2014, Starr began filling in for Mr. Big drummer

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, who was diagnosed with

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. He sat in on the band's '' ...The Stories We Could Tell'' world tour and played on several tracks from their 2017 album, '' Defying Gravity''. He went on to tour with the band once more as they promoted their next release.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Starr, Matt Living people American rock drummers Year of birth missing (living people) Mr. Big (American band) members Burning Rain members