Nuno Bettencourt Joins Rihanna

From Nuno's myspace:

Hey all.......Nuno.. here. I wanted to share some news with you... A friend and Music Director, Tony Bruno, reached out to me and asked if I would be interested in playing guitar with Rihanna. Rihanna is a regular in the Bettencourt-house playlist... And as much as I dig her as an artist... my first thought was that there isn't a whole lot of guitar in her music and therefore probably not the greatest fit for what I do.

But before I had a chance to verbalize that thought… Tony said, "before you say anything let me play you the direction she wants to go live." And when I heard it... I said wow, this rocks… it's heavy and funky... and it hit me that this is MY sh*t... this is my style... how I love to play... I got very excited at the possibility of playing some of her great songs with a heavier treatment. When I asked Tony Bruno why?... he told me that Rihanna loves bands like Paramore and Linkin Park and loves to push it up a notch or two live in the rock department. Hmmm... let me think? Touring and sharing the stage with a cool and talented artist like Rihanna... and being able to bring what I do passionately to the table as a musician and performer...? IM IN! And having finished the first round of rehearsals... it did not disappoint. Even better than what I expected because she also has the most incredible band, and I get the privilege to add to their wall of sound. It's gonna be fun. Come see and hear it for yourself!

Nuno

And BTW... No... this is NOT the end of Extreme. We have a live DVD and CD coming out in early 2010 and we will be writing new material throughout the year. We had a great run across the globe on Saudades do Rock....and we'll be back.


I'm not the best person to talk from an indipendent point of view about Nuno.
So... the only question is: what will I decide to see from under the stage? Nuno's playing or Rihanna??


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Rocktron's Customer Service

I own a good-old Roctron Intellifex unit. I purchased it used many years ago, without the original manual.
Even I learnt how to use this unit easily by myself and reading other manuals of similar versions of the Intellifex, yesterday I was wondering about having the original manual, to fully understand the specifics, signal paths, configurations, etc.
Browsing the Rocktron website I still found manuals for the other versions. I guessed that they can't create the PDF file for my version, maybe because the original text file is not more available.
Anyway, yesterday I sent an email to their technical support asking for this original manual.

Then... I received the answer from Jim Chowning after 7 minutes!
He sent to me two PDF files for the LTD version (one in Italian language). He explained also the little difference between the LTD version and my unit.
He promised also a scan of the original manual. I received this PDF file some minutes ago.

This is what I call a good customer support.

The Eye Of The Tiger

In the next weeks I will play this song with a band. It remembered me some great training moments when I was a child






I just discovered the original videoclip, never seen before!




I like very much the singer. Great clothes from the early 80' too

Bush (the Band!) - Some Fan?

Hi guys,
I just saw this clip on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sYPGLnGDfU

The band was considered something like "post-grunge".

Guitar playing is nothing special, as you can hear.
But I like very much the singer. What do you think?
Maybe it's a little nostalgia since I've played and sung this song many years ago

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