Question: Matt Starr (born October 25) is an American born drummer, singer, songwriter and producer, in 2013 Starr began playing with Burning Rain which was formed by Whitesnake guitarist Doug Aldrich and a vocalist Keith St John, from which California-based hard rock band, that originally featured Ronnie Montrose on guitar?

full_context: Document 1: Bill Church: William "Bill" Church (born 9 December 1946) started out playing bass in a band called Sawbuck in 1969, with Mojo Collins, Starr Donaldson, Ronnie Montrose and Chuck Ruff. As the band was beginning to record their first album, Montrose and Church left Sawbuck to join Van Morrison on his "Tupelo Honey" album. When Montrose rejoined Ruff to record Edgar Winter Group's smash "They Only Come Out at Night", Church remained with Morrison and appeared on the "Saint Dominic's Preview" LP. When Montrose left Winter to form his own hard rock outfit, Montrose, Church was recruited along with singer Sammy Hagar and drummer Denny Carmassi. Church was replaced on the second Montrose album "Paper Money" by Alan Fitzgerald.
Document 2: Matt Nasir: Matt Nasir is a multi-instrumental musician based in London, England. He currently plays Keyboards in Frank Turner's band The Sleeping Souls and is a member of the London-based rock band 'The Pressure Room'. He has also previously played in Andy Yorke's live band and is known as the 'Archivist' for his remixing work. Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls headlined Wembley Arena in April 2012 and played at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Matt also features as the guitarist in a side-project, Möngöl Hörde, with Frank Turner and Frank's former Million Dead band mate, Ben Dawson. Matt plays a baritone guitar in Möngöl Hörde.
Document 3: Matt Starr: Matt Starr (born October 25) is an American born drummer, singer, songwriter and producer. He is currently touring with Mr. Big filling for drummer Pat Torpey on the band's "Defying Gravity" (Frontiers Records) World Tour. Starr performed on the 2017 release which was produced by Kevin Elson (Journey, Lynyrd Skynyrd). "...The Stories We Could Tell" (Frontiers Records) World Tour. In 2012 Starr joined guitarist and founding KISS member Ace Frehley. He played drums on Ace Frehley's 2014 release "Space Invader" (eOne Records). Starr was asked to play on the record after performing a few shows with Frehley in 2012. He is the only drummer other than "Late Night With David Letterman" drummer Anton Fig to play on the entirety of one of Frehley's records. The 2014 release drew comparisons to 1970's KISS and Frehley's 1978 solo album. Starr also performed on Frehley's next release "Origins Vol 1" which featured the Free cover "Fire and Water" with KISS frontman Paul Stanley on lead vocals as well as appearances by Slash, and others. While remaining with Frehley, in 2013 Starr began playing with Burning Rain which was formed by Whitesnake guitarist Doug Aldrich and Montrose vocalist Keith St John. Starr has also toured with Rainbow frontman Joe Lynn Turner Love/Hate, Quiet Riot vocalist Kevin DuBrow and others.
Document 4: Hollywood Rose: Hollywood Rose was an American hard rock group formed in 1983 and is best known as the precursor group for what would eventually become Guns N' Roses. The group was founded by Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin and Chris Weber while they were aided during live shows by Rick Mars, Johnny Kreis, Steve Darrow and Andre Troxx. Rose, Stradlin and Weber, along with Kreis, recorded a five-song demo in 1984. However, after a number of lineup changes, which includes Weber and Kreis being replaced by Slash and Steven Adler (both then of Road Crew) respectively as well the departure of Stradlin, the group disbanded the same year.
Document 5: Roadrunner United: Roadrunner United was a project organized by the heavy metal record label Roadrunner Records to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It culminated in an album released worldwide on October 11, 2005, entitled "The All-Star Sessions". Four "team captains" were chosen to lead 57 artists from 45 past and present Roadrunner bands, and produce and oversee the album's 18 tracks: then (now former) Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, Trivium frontman and guitarist Matt Heafy, Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares, and Machine Head frontman and guitarist Robb Flynn. The unprecedented project was the brainchild of Roadrunner UK General Manager Mark Palmer and Roadrunner USA VP of A&R Monte Conner. The album project was coordinated by Lora Richardson and was mixed by Colin Richardson and Andy Sneap. "The All-Star Sessions" spawned one single and music video ("The End"). The DVD included with the CD purchase is a documentary of the "Making Of" the songs. It features the sessions of the four team captains making their songs.
Document 6: Bad Motor Scooter: "'Bad Motor Scooter" was the second track from the album "Montrose" by the band of the same name. It, along with "Rock Candy", was arguably the best known song by the band, Montrose. The song was penned by frontman Sammy Hagar. Its intro, a distorted electric slide guitar sound which closely emulates that of a revving motorcycle, became the defining component of the song. When the song was conceived before this guitar sound, the band and Ted Templeman were not impressed because they thought it was missing a "hook", to make it stand out. Ronnie Montrose stumbled upon it while messing with a slide and fuzz box one day in the studio. Playing his guitar in Open D tuning, Montrose improvised what became the motorcycle sound — although Templeman and engineer Donn Landee kept him going when they failed to get the tape rolling. []
Document 7: Matt Thorr: Matt Thorne, also known as Matt Thorr, is a bassist who has played in the glam metal band Ratt, Rough Cutt, and Jailhouse. He co-wrote the song "Back For More" with Stephen Pearcy on Ratt's album "Out of the Cellar". He currently owns MT Studios for BlueThumbProductions in Burbank, California where he has produced, engineered and mixed albums for artists such as "The Eels" and "Trapt".
Document 8: Seventh Star: Seventh Star is the twelfth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in January 1986. The release came at a difficult time as the group had just finished a highly contentious tour, experiencing conflicts within the band. With guitarist and songwriter Tony Iommi being the sole original member left, musicians Geoff Nicholls, Eric Singer, and Dave Spitz contributed to the album, playing keyboards, drums, and bass, respectively. Glenn Hughes, ex-Deep Purple bassist and vocalist, was
Document 9: Montrose (band): Montrose was a California-based hard rock band. The band originally featured Ronnie Montrose on guitar and future solo artist and Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar. Rounding out the original foursome were bassist Bill Church and drummer Denny Carmassi.
Document 10: The David Lee Roth Band: The David Lee Roth Band was an American rock and roll band, formed in Pasadena, California in 1985 by Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth. Originally featuring a supergroup line-up of guitarist Steve Vai, bassist Billy Sheehan, and drummer Gregg Bissonette, the band released numerous popular songs and albums from the mid-1980s until the late 1990s. Other well-known musicians in the David Lee Roth Band have include guitarist Jason Becker, guitarist Steve Hunter, guitarist John 5 (guitarist), bassist Matt Bissonette drummer Ray Luzier, and keyboardist Brett Tuggle. The band's well-known songs include "Yankee Rose", "Goin' Crazy!", "Shy Boy", "Just Like Paradise", "Stand Up", "Damn Good", "A Little Ain't Enough", "She's My Machine", and "Slam Dunk!"
Document 11: Yellow Matter Custard: Yellow Matter Custard is a Beatles tribute supergroup consisting of Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater, Transatlantic, OSI, Liquid Tension Experiment, Liquid Trio Experiment, Avenged Sevenfold, Flying Colors, Adrenaline Mob, The Winery Dogs, Metal Allegiance), Neal Morse ( ex-Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Flying Colors, The Neal Morse Band), Paul Gilbert (Racer X, Mr. Big) and Matt Bissonette (Mustard Seeds, Jughead, David Lee Roth, The Squirts, Joe Satriani, Electric Light Orchestra). Kasim Sulton (Utopia and various Todd Rundgren bands) played bass with the band in 2011, replacing Bissonette.
Document 12: Jack Starr: Jack Starr is a heavy metal and blues guitarist and songwriter born of a French mother and American father. He learned to play guitar by ear, copying the riffs of R&B records. His first semi-professional band was Les Variations in France with future members of Trust. In the U.S. Starr emerged on the rock and metal scene in 1981, forming, together with Joey Ayvazian, David DeFeis and Joe O’Rielly, the first incarnation of the heavy metal band Virgin Steele. The new band was selected in 1982 by Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records to appear on the label's compilation album "U.S. Metal Volume 2". The song Starr sent in for the compilation was "Children of the Storm". After only two albums, "Virgin Steele" of 1981 and "Guardians of the Flame" of 1982, Starr left Virgin Steele in 1983 because of musical differences with the band’s front man and other main songwriter David DeFeis.
Document 13: Velvet Revolver: Velvet Revolver was an American hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N' Roses members Slash (lead guitar), Duff McKagan (bass, backing vocals), and Matt Sorum (drums, backing vocals), alongside Dave Kushner (rhythm guitar) formerly of punk band Wasted Youth and Scott Weiland formerly of Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland left the band to rejoin Stone Temple Pilots in 2008.
Document 14: Dr. Mastermind: Dr. Mastermind is a band featuring current Journey drummer Deen Castronovo, Wild Dogs bandmate singer Matt McCourt (alias Dr. Mastermind), and guitarist Kurt James. this was Never a Deen "project or deal" part of my signing with Shrapnel had to do with Deen joining Tony Macalpine... Mister varney had received the evil genius demos from me a year before the offer came up. and asked if i knew any drummers.. and ask ed if i could get Deen to play on the record" with this also came an offer from Mike for Deen to exit the Wild Dogs, move to Northern California and join Tony Macalpine's band and record his upcoming album "Maximum Security" all agreed and my friends drove a truck with deen's belongings, and his drums full of dry food and cereal to Prairie Sun Studios in Cotati where matt and Mike were putting the finishing touches on the album (the basic tracks were recorded in Portland Oregon at Cascade studio with Rick Mcmillan engineering and guitarist ron chick on rhythm guitar. The LP came out to grand reviews hitting number one in Kerrang magazine's import charts for 3 months.. the band did one show with the original line up in 1987 adding bassist craig Lower(on loan from Mayhem who McCourt had also recorded the thrash lp 'burned Alive the prior year.)
Document 15: Sammy Hagar: Samuel Roy Hagar (born October 13, 1947), also known as The Red Rocker, is an American rock vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, musician and entrepreneur. Hagar came to prominence in the 1970s with the hard rock band Montrose. He afterwards launched a successful solo career, scoring an enduring hit in 1984 with "I Can't Drive 55". He enjoyed huge commercial success when he replaced David Lee Roth as the lead singer of Van Halen in 1985, but left the band in 1996. He returned to the band for a 2-year reunion from 2003 to 2005. On March 12, 2007, Hagar was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Van Halen. His musical style primarily consists of hard rock and heavy metal.
ground_truth: Montrose