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Nuno Bettencourt riffs on his signature S-style with his Marshall JCM900s in the background. Right, Jake E Lee holds his signature Charvel backstage at Back to the Beginning, where he performed to honour his old boss Ozzy Osbourne.
Nuno Bettencourt on why he handed Shot Of The Dark over to Jake E Lee at Ozzy's farewell show

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Bettencourt says Lee was far too humble and had to remind him that he had done the impossible by not only replacing Randy Rhoads but taking Ozzy Osbourne to “another place”

Artists
Nuno Bettencourt launches his own guitar company, and poses with his new models against a fence.
Nuno Bettencourt launches his own guitar company debuting two new S-styles – and the N4 isn’t going anywhere

By Jonathan Horsley Published

If Bettencourt can make 'em as well as he can play them then we are all in for a treat. “These are true workhorses built with the same passion I’ve put into every note I’ve ever played” he says

Artists
Nuno Bettencourt and Kylie Olsson
An emotional Nuno Bettencourt revisits the childhood home where he wrote Extreme's More Than Words

By Rob Laing Published

"This bedroom here is where everything happened guitar-wise"

Guitarists
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"When we were recording it I thought it would get bigger with strings and drums. It was really tempting, trust me. But I think that was probably the best decision I ever made": Nuno Bettencourt on the story of Extreme's More Than Words

By Ed Mitchell Published

"It’s one of those songs that people don’t get too tired of. Maybe the simplicity of it kept it tolerable"

Guitarists
Nuno Bettencourt: “I told the guys, ‘I wanna go for blood on this album’ I wanted to make it fun with the guitar. To bring joy into it, to bring passion into it”
Nuno Bettencourt: “I told the guys, ‘I wanna go for blood on this album.’ I wanted to make it fun with the guitar... to bring joy into it, to bring passion into it”

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Bettencourt takes us behind the guitar album of 2023 and admits that, 15 years ago, he might have “fixed” the Rise solo and ruined it. Now, it's all about letting it rip – about making us all excited again

Singles And Albums
Nuno Bettencourt performs the solo to Rise live for the first time as Extreme play the Monsters of Rock Cruise 2023
Nuno Bettencourt turns up the heat as he debuts his virtuosic Rise solo live on the Monsters of Rock Cruise 2023

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The best guitar solo of 2023 so far gets its first public performance as Extreme rock out on the high seas

Gigs & Festivals
Nuno Bettencourt
Nuno Bettencourt says rock songs are “nursery rhymes for adults” and explains his theory for adding depth to simple arrangements

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The Extreme guitarist says that if we want to make rock with big ideas it all comes down to what he calls “simplexity”

Guitarists
Extreme return with new single Rise, with new album Six scheduled for release on 9 June
Extreme are officially back: Watch Nuno Bettencourt conjure fretboard magic in their hard-riffing new single, Rise

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The Boston hard-rock institution announce their return with new studio album Six, out 9 June, with Bettencourt promising a spectacular display of guitar high-jinx inspired by Eddie Van Halen

Guitarists