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06/30/08
Tonawanda News Large Article on ...ME!:

PROFILE: ‘No Reservations’ for local musician

June 30, 2008 10:19 am

— KENMORE — Rock music once had a business model based on movies and sitcoms from the 1950s, one that involved neighborhood kids in a basement, constant practice leading to a gig in a bingo hall or at a school dance, and the requisite lucky break that got the band recording deals and radio airplay.

A look at Nelson Starr’s career suggests that the old paradigm for success went out with the Studebaker.
Better still, look at Starr himself, a Kenmore product who has the respect of his peers in the industry, a steady stream of appointments and no lack of ideas. At age 40, he looks like the rock and roll version of 30. A consummate musician, he has co-authored a book on electric bass technique, toured the world as a session and concert performer, scored films and television programs, taught music instruction, and has played in nearly every venue and recording studio in Western New York.

He nearly got Anthony Bourdain, the globe-trotting chef of The Travel Channel’s “No Reservations” television program, to come and sample Buffalo’s cuisine. And that’s in the past two years.

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