Guitarist Nuno Bettencourt was recently by Tiago Ribeiro, where he talked about Extreme’s new album ”Six”. Here’s what the guitarist said:
“I would put our album up against anybody’s album. I feel that confident. And I think the album itself, never mind me or Extreme if I heard that album and it wasn’t us, I would think the same way I think about the album now.
”I think it belongs there. I think it’s a well-made album. I think the songs are there. I think that the musicianship, the chemistry, and the guitar playing. But I think, more importantly, what’s really there and what people are connecting with is the mythology of rock and roll. I think that’s really what’s missing a lot in guitar-driven music, is that…”
He added:
“I think when people saw a guitar player that’s in a band with songs and arrangements and the videos and everything, it was almost like seeing something that… People are saying it’s so fresh, but for us, it’s, like, this is like going back for us.
”This is more of a reminder than it is anything else that you can still be passionate and have fire and do all those things. And the people are letting us know that they’re starved, they’re starved for rock and roll like this, I think.”