Nuno Bettencourt
Nuno Bettencourt
Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourtis a Portuguese-born American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the Boston rock band Extreme...
NationalityPortuguese
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth20 September 1966
CityPraia da Vitoria, Portugal
CountryPortugal
generation grew listening people stopped
I know many people who grew up in the '70s, and my generation stopped listening to anything after 1979 because they're not into it.
bands buy cool discover radio
I think it's very cool to discover new bands and find something on the radio that you think is so cool that you go out and buy it.
player guitar-music skills
If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.
records demos
I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.
fate track cheat
Great vocal track on "You can't cheat fate."
writing band population
My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.
oasis band stones
Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.
fans needs mail
Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?
album hell
I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.
business hard
When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you.
bands guarantee
Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.
hard
It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.
major trying
It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.
love touring
The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave.