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Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Nov 17 2009, 11:07 PM

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??


/edit typo

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Nov 17 2009, 11:11 PM

hehe interesting news Jerry - and I must confess I don't know who Rihanna is (can you recommend any YT videos?).

To be honest it doesn't really matter - as long as we get more funk metal riffs in the style of pornografitti I am happy!

Posted by: Sensible Jones Nov 17 2009, 11:19 PM

Kris, do you mean that the 'Umbrella - ella - ella - ella - ehh - ehh - ehh' song never made the chart in Sweden????




I shall be adding our Mr Bettencourt to the Wiki very shortly, I've almost finished writing it!!

Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Nov 17 2009, 11:26 PM

Do it well!!!

/many typos tonight...

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Nov 17 2009, 11:28 PM

Aha now I know who it is - and it got me excited, I love that tune!

Posted by: Sensible Jones Nov 17 2009, 11:49 PM

As always Jerry!!



Personally I love this version by the Manic Street Preachers!

It also makes quite a good Acoustic track for Open Mic Nights!!!

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Nov 18 2009, 02:25 AM

Interesting news! She has a very good voice so I'm curious to hear his new rocker music with Nuno!

Posted by: Santiago Diaz Garces Nov 18 2009, 02:53 AM

Now, Nuno joins the group of great guitarist that plays with pop stars, like Greg Howe!!. Can't wait to listen what they're doing

Posted by: skennington Nov 18 2009, 05:20 AM

I think her vocals and Nuno's playing will compliment each other quite nicely! This will make for some very cool "question (vocal) and answer (guitar)" lines..

Posted by: audiopaal Nov 18 2009, 08:29 AM

Awesome

Nuno is great! He'll funk that that show up in no time

Posted by: gibsonmatte Nov 18 2009, 08:48 AM

Here we also got a "swedish" cover. A group called Lilla Syster (little sister in English)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeOT-wzaWmo

Posted by: blindwillie Nov 18 2009, 08:51 AM

No. We don't get that kind of music in Sweden. It auto-transforms to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PeEaNzg4os




Bah! beaten by 3 minutes

Posted by: Sensible Jones Nov 18 2009, 12:28 PM

Cool!!! I wish some of the music here in England would auto-transform like that!!!!

Posted by: ruben_mcn Nov 18 2009, 01:29 PM

I think this is the best cover of umbrella =) even tho i´m not that into punk rock the vid is just awsome XD

Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Nov 18 2009, 01:50 PM

Mmm... you're great guys
This thread started talking about Nuno and now I'm gonna decide if I will be a Rihanna fan
I got some inspiration from these covers.
Still don't know if I will be a fan of her music or her look

Posted by: newguyatgmc Nov 18 2009, 01:51 PM

It is either going to be too good or it will be a complete blasphemy. There will be no in between.

Posted by: Sensible Jones Nov 18 2009, 01:54 PM

Hahaha, OK, bringing it back to the original topic....
I reckon Nuno will do a similar thing with Rihanna that he did with Janet Jackson on Black Cat!
I'm quite interested to hear the final product now as I quite enjoyed his collab with JJ!!

Posted by: newguyatgmc Nov 18 2009, 02:00 PM

Talking about nuno bettencourt, I would like to make a lesson request for his song: Paint this town red. It would be awesomtastic

Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Nov 18 2009, 03:46 PM

It's great to hear that you know this song. I have all Nuno's records, so I will do something similar in the future

Posted by: Vasilije Vukmirovic Nov 18 2009, 05:24 PM

hm... it is demanding job to bring those 2 worlds together...
Maybe it will be platinum seller.... like Santana did. You never know how those collaborations will turn...

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Nov 18 2009, 11:20 PM

The RnB production is huge, and they can pretty much do whatever they want. Great that Nuno accepted the job, it's definitely cool to do all kinds of jobs, specially high demanding high profile ones, this is where many things can be learned.

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Nov 23 2009, 05:04 PM

this is one of those kind of odd collaborations...I'd love to see those songs made heavier!