Extreme’s Nuno bettencourt talks Eddie Van Halen, Queen, Zeppelin , their history and the new record!

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0:00 INTRO

2:22 on brian May calling him one if the greatest guitarists

3:52 on the extended time period it took to come out with new Extreme music

6:22 on receiving praise from other rock guitar gods

9:26 on Queen

10:25 on growing up in the azors

12:00 on his start in music, growing up in a musical family

13:15 on his first concerts, Supertramp, Peter Gabriel

15:15 on early Aerosmith

17:49 on doing the superbowl w Rihanna

18:50 on getting the call to work with McCartney

20:20 on working with McCartney

23:00 on meeting your heroes, McCartney etc

23:46 on writing music with McCartney

26:25 how Extreme came to be

29:44 on Nuno and Gary’s bond over Queen that lead to Extreme

34:20 on the first gigs with Alice on chains

37:15 on hearing Extreme on the radio for the first time

39:15 being the only band to play Queen songs at the Freddie tribute

45:00 on john Deacon from Queens kind words

46:36 on performing for Jimmy page and john Paul Jones of zeppelin

55:57 the Eddie Van Halen story

57:49 on the VH reunion that never happened

1:00 top understated guitar players/ best rocknroll frontmen



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Host - @ScottLipps
Edited by toastycakes
Music by @Robby_hoff