Nuno Bettencourt On Touring With Rihanna: “It Feels More At Home Than I Thought It Would”
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| Nuno Bettencourt On Touring With Rihanna: "It Feels More At Home Than I Thought It Would" |
| June 8, 2010 | Posted by Rodrigo at 7:46 pm |
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During a recent interview about EXTREME's new live album, Take Us Alive, guitarist Nuno Bettencourt discussed being a part of pop star Rihanna's live band on her current world tour. An excerpt is available below: "That was one of those unexpected little things that happens. A friend of mine, Tony Bruno, called me up when Extreme was off the road and he told me that if I wasn't doing anything, Rihanna was looking for a guitarist. He told me that before I said no - and I guess he figured I would because there isn't really a lot of guitar in her songs - the idea was that she wanted to make the live show a bit heavier because she's into bands like Linkin Park and stuff like that. She wanted somebody to make things rock a little bit, which meant that I would basically get to do what I do if I took the job. I thought it was really interesting to be able to play my style of guitar over her stuff, I thought it would be fun, so I went for it. It's cool. I wouldn't have been interested if I wasn't able to be myself, and it's a challenge because the set is 24 or 25 songs that requires a different sort of guitar playing to pull it off. At one point I'm playing pop stuff and making it a bit heavier, there's some funk and R & B, some ballads, some piano stuff, even some Hispanic flamenco, so it keeps things interesting. It certainly feels more at home than I thought it would."
FYI, 2 of Nuno's band songs reached #1 and #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1991. Click here to read more about him. |