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?
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.
opposed record touring
As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.