Matt Starr

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Matt Starr , real name Matt Franklin, (born October 25 ) is an American musician. He primarily plays the drums , but also sings . Starr is a founding member of the hard rock band Black Swan, which was founded in 2019 .

Career

The drummer at a performance

Starr's first commercially released recordings are on the 2005 album Deuce by the American band Beautiful Creatures . In 2007 he founded his own project Automatic Music Explosion with guitarist Chris Price, bassist Jeff Covey, drummer The Max and Jodie Schell , in which he worked as a singer. The band produced with Mike Chapman . Since she did not get a record deal, the songs remained unpublished.

Starr has also worked with Love / Hate , Burning Rain and Ace Frehley . With Frehley he recorded his albums Space Invader , Origins Vol. 1 and Spaceman . In 2013 he was hired by Mr. Big to support their Parkinson's disease drummer Pat Torpey on the tour for the album … The Stories We Could Tell . As a result, he was involved in the recording of Defying Gravity and also played on the subsequent tour, during which he finally replaced Torpey after his death on February 7, 2018.

In 2019, on the recommendation of Mr. Big guitarist Paul Gilbert, he became a member of Black Swan, a hard rock band put together by Jeff Pilson and signed to Frontiers Records . With her he released the album Shake the World in February 2020 .

Discography

  • Beautiful Creatures: Deuce, 2005
  • Love / Hate: Crucified ( EP ), 2013
  • Burning Rain: Epic Obsession, 2013
  • Ace Frehley: Space Invader, 2013
  • Ace Frehley: Origins Vol. 1, 2016
  • All 4 1: The World's Best Hope, 2017
  • Mr. Big: Defying Gravity, 2017
  • Ace Frehley: Spaceman, 2018
  • Mr. Big: Live From Milan, 2019
  • Michael Des Barres : Crackles and Hiss ( Single ), 2019
  • Black Swan: Shake the World, 2020

Web links

Commons : Matt Starr  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matt Starr at discogs.com , accessed February 17, 2020
  2. ↑ Section Modern Times: Mike Chapman Today at soundonsound.com (English) , accessed on February 17, 2020
  3. ↑ a b Six-day race against gravity in: Rocks - Das Magazin für Classic Rock, issue 04.2017, p. 62
  4. ↑ The band of misunderstood geniuses in: Rocks - Das Magazin für Classic Rock, issue 02/2020, pp. 34–37
personal data
SURNAME Rigid, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franklin, Matt (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century