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Revered '90s Rocker, 58, Is a 'Living Legend' in Mind-Blowing Performance originally appeared on Parade. While Extreme shot to No. 1 with their 1991 acoustic hit "More Than Words," the mega ...
Nuno Bettencourt has looked back on Extreme’s heartfelt act of rebellion during 1992’s Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at London’s Wembley Stadium – and he has no regrets. For the event ...
Video footage has surfaced of Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt guesting at the 2025 Monsters of Rock Cruise with Nerd Halen, a tribute band who look like what might have become of Weezer if the ...
Now, he's adding another endorser to this fast growing list, as Nuno Bettencourt has recently bestowed upon him the title of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eddie Van Halen reincarnated. The Extreme ...
Teenage blues-rock virtuoso Taj Farrant will have been on the radar of a lot of players ever since his appearance on Australia’s Got Talent, aged nine, but it might not be long before he is a ...
Reposting footage of Farrant performing the solo to Mumma Raised A Man, taken from his debut album, Chapter One, Bettencourt said he had “chills” watching it, and said he had rewatched it “a dozen ...
Also along for the ride were some friends, including Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton, Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson, and one Nuno Bettencourt. We need a “missing” poster, though!
While the widely reported Aerosmith reunion failed to materialise, bassist Tom Hamilton did join Tyler onstage, while Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt filled in for the absent Joe Perry.
Following appearances from Linda Perry, Marcus King, Billy Idol, Steve Stevens, and Joan Jett, Tyler opened his set with Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt joining on each song. They performed “More ...
Billy Idol, Tom Hamilton, Linda Perry, Matt Sorum, and Nuno Bettencourt are also among the night's performers. UPDATE (Jan. 27): Country star Lainey Wilson has been added to the line-up for Steven ...
Today’s guitarists are blessed with about 26,844 distortion pedals to choose from, give or take two. But back in the late ’70s the selection was much more limited, with stompboxes like the ...
NEW BEDFORD – Nuno Bettencourt, who rose to fame as the lead guitarist for the world-renowned hard rock Boston-area band Extreme, was spotted in New Bedford on Sunday, Dec. 8. “It was the ...