Nuno Bettencourt from Extreme plays Washburn & Randall

[@luizamarques3452]

love you Nuno from Brasil

[@mazingaball]

Thank you Jason. I could watch Nuno all day long. Short video but great content. Awesome interview where Nuno really opens up. Nuno is one of my all time inspirations......

[@JasonMcNamara]

Thanks Joe. It was a fun day. Got to have an hour long lunch with just me and the band that day. We had a great chat.

[@RunFool]

How cool is this interview? Nuno, while I love him to death, can be a bit reserved when doing interviews. I love how you managed to put him on an equal footing and do it like two friends having a talk. Loved it. Thanks.

[@JasonMcNamara]

+MrZovar : Thank you VERY much. The story behind that is that we also had Nuno doing an in-store appearance a few hours before we did this interview. Here is a link to the video of that which I also put together: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2jPdpWtlMxshrs Then after that in the van on the way from the store to the venue where we did this Nuno and I got to talking and struck up a very natural connection. After we got settled at the venue and before Soundcheck, I was lucky enough to be invited in for lunch and got to hang out with Nuno, Gary, Pat & Kevin. I was just me and the 4 of them for about an hour. We talking about a whole bunch of stuff including the time when me and my friends drove 740kms just to see Extreme playing in Australia when they didn't come to our hometown back in 1993. By the time we got to do this video after Soundcheck we had already been hanging out for 5+ hours. And here's the inside gag of that whole video... You may have caught at 0:47 seconds Nuno is talking about the 1st album and says, "Which I believe is your favourite album", he was actually giving me a crap because at lunch he asked me, "So I get that you like the band, but tell me honestly what you DON'T like about us". I answered, "The first album. Aside from Play With Me, I was just never able to get into that album", hence why he dropped that in. So there you go. Your comment got the EXCLUSIVE story behind that moment out of me some year and a half later. If you liked that please go through my channel. There are interviews on there with Alex Lifeson, Vernon Reid, Guthrie Govan, Keith Emerson, James Lomenzo, Kiko Loureiro, Jordan Rudess among others. Cheers, Jason

[@RunFool]

+Ishibashi Music English KZbin Channel Thank you for that scintillating reply. You are lucky to have hung out with the guy. Back in college I tried everything I could to look and act like Nuno, and all we had then were magazines and the oh so precious VHS tapes of interviews. My guitar playing friends called me Nuno because that's all I would play every time I picked up a guitar. Those were good days. Hopefully, one day I will get to meet this person who has been a huge part of my life. And yes I have looked through your channel and will be coming back often, and also I have clicked the subscribe button.

[@JJMUZICACID]

Thank you Nuno from Japan!

[@yohanaji8765]

Man, this guy is cool

[@amievil3697]

Quality of their guitar playing, couldn't have said it better!!!

[@DonnyOsmosis]

My "last" guitar hero (Lifeson was the first, Nuno was the final) - love that he has held onto his Boston accent.

[@JasonMcNamara]

It's funny you should say Lifeson was your first. Have you seen the video of Alex & myself in our store? If not here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIPYaWmlfJabjLs Cheers, Jason

[@roba1899]

Eddie Van Halen first, Nuno next (and STILL) and Guthrie Govan lastly and forever more ..

[@kevincarey1453]

Yeah - Guthrie is like the Jonathon Livingston Seagull of guitarists.

[@thepyromantic3468]

Pat just walking round with his camera helmet 😂😂

[@toshitoshi231]

I had gone to this gigs!

[@JasonMcNamara]

+Tosuo.Com : Me too. Haha!!! It was a great night.

[@jedsebastian]

The other thing thats great about Nuno is still freaking looks like he did in 1990, the guy is not getting old after 25 years? Theres must be something going on here lol

[@RunFool]

+jedsebastian It's the old 'bathing in the blood of the innocent' shtick

[@FIRChristian]

Proper nutrition, yoga, and weightlifting regimen does wonders for the human body.

[@foofoobear66]

It's good genes....I don't think that you would ever guess that I was 51....

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

metal vampire

[@vhcxhbvg]

He's vegetarian so that helps a ton

[@barbaracollins5605]

"To whomever" wow. Impressed.

[@ayewhaddupdoe]

What's funny is they don't show you the DSL that's mic'ed up behind the wall of unplugged Randalls lol

[@2EatTheRich]

You did a great job interviewing him

[@JasonMcNamara]

Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Cheers, Jason

[@rezzaakbar7236]

Nuno Bettencourt, Vito Bratta, and Paul Gilbert.... The best students of Eddie Van Halen guitar school 🎸

[@markmcmullan3351]

He sounds nothing like Edd .

[@Ar41e]

@@markmcmullan3351 Listen carefully to his 1989 debut album, and you probably will recognize VH inspirations for songs like Teacher's Pet - riff kinda mix of VH's House Of Pain and Light Up The Sky, Wind Me Up - Eddie's Trademark Licks especially bends, Smoke Signals - Take Your Whiskey intro rip-off, Mutha's riff kinda mix of Unchained (even a sound of flanger) and Panama, Queen's flair in the songs like Watching, Waiting and Rock A Bye-Bye, Aerosmith vibes in Little Girls.

[@dougsteeleguitar]

Jason Mac is the man!!

[@JasonMcNamara]

Thanks Doug. I never knew you cared ;-)

[@dougsteeleguitar]

Course I do! We ibanez bros for life!!

[@JasonMcNamara]

Hahaha!!! True that!!

[@dougsteeleguitar]

Ishibashi Music English KZbin Channel AND!! I'm getting UV777BK next week, awwwww yeah!!

[@JasonMcNamara]

I've got a 1999 built one that I got used in Osaka in 2003. It's a killer Guitar. Enjoy yours!!

[@lindalvaartesa9595]

Nuno colírio para meus olhos maravilhoso lindo demais ❤️💕💕 amo muito

[@foofoobear66]

Doesn't matter what popular "name brand" guitar you play...I still love my Limited Edition Epiphone AJ200S (Gibson) acoustic guitar...It has great sound, and I have been playing it for years...Wouldn't give it up, even for a more expensive guitar.

[@JasonMcNamara]

The main thing there is that you have a guitar you love. Nothing wrong with that if it inspires you to play 😉

[@schlagdog]

Did he have a Marshall backstage? I've heard and seen that those amps usually aren't used and he has a Marshall right behind them actually for his sound.

[@JasonMcNamara]

I wasn't where ever and when ever you are referring to so I can't comment because I don't know. However, I can tell you first hand from being there doing this interview that he was really using those Randall amps at this show and they sounded mighty indeed!!

[@wuwei5150]

he mentioned that there was a time that he was not a washburn endorser. Anybody know when that was?

[@JasonMcNamara]

That's something I never thought to ask Nuno at the time we filmed this, but I would say that it would have been around the early 2000's somewhere because if you check out the Guitar Wars video (I was lucky enough to be at the Osaka show in 2003) Nuno was also playing a Gibson Explorer.

[@evalex71]

I do know that on Extreme's first album Nuno played a guitar that he had built from a Schecter body, a Warmoth neck, and Bill Lawrence pickups

[@JasonMcNamara]

Momo Bobo That is correct. He talks about that very openly.

[@wuwei5150]

Ishibashi Music English KZbin Channel i have that DVD of guitar wars. He played the Explorer on just one song towards the end. But most of the time he was still playing the n4 albeit with a different sticker on it as opposed to the usual n4 reflector. Anyway, thanks again for uploading this. Thumbs up!

[@JasonMcNamara]

I hate to break your heart, but I was at the Guitar Wars show. Well I was at the Osaka one, not the Tokyo one from the DVD. None the less, I was there ;-)

[@internetvide0]

he takes real good care of himself he has to be in his mid 40s and doesnt show it

[@JasonMcNamara]

Hey Tony. Unless I'm mistaken he's around 47 now. On stage you wouldn't know it's been 25 years since the first Extreme album. The man is doing VERY well. Cheers, Jason

[@adampetten5349]

One of the new three b's with Beck and Blackmore.

[@alfonsovai]

Why he has a Floyd Rose bridge? I never heard a song where he actually uses it.

[@JasonMcNamara]

Alfonso Barrios : Hahaha!!! I have thought the same thing. I can only guess he uses it for the tuning stability. If I get to speak with Nuno again some time in the future that's something I want to ask him too.

[@cmikesmith664]

Alfonso Barrios, he doesn't have a whammy bar when he plays live. Great question.

[@shultz-o-matic1244]

Mike Smith he uses the whammy bar on so many songs, play with me, Rest In Peace, mutha, he man woman hater...etc

[@vhcxhbvg]

@@JasonMcNamara tuning stability can't be the answer because that's floating bridges are the worst for that. He uses it in some songs

[@mauriciouneweb]

on which minute / second he "plays"? (i didn't see the entire video)

[@hawkwind8468]

nunos like "dude why are you filming me from like 3 ft above my head oh Snap your like 8 ft tall or I'm 4 ft and your 7';)

[@JasonMcNamara]

+hawkwind Nice one smart ass!! HAHA!!! He's actually not that short. Sure, I'm around 6'3", but Nuno would be around 5'11" at a guess. Plus who cares, he's an awesome Guitarist and a top dude too. Cheers, Jason

[@hawkwind8468]

+Ishibashi Music English KZbin Channel Cheers Jason excuse my insane look at things:)

[@JasonMcNamara]

Haha!! All good.

[@dougsteeleguitar]

He high or tired?

[@JasonMcNamara]

I spent hours with Nuno that day and I saw nothing of the sort and saw no change in his behavior or attitude to say anything of the sort. Seriously Doug, he was sooooo kind and giving to hang out with. I had lunch with the whole band and they were all warm and generous like I can't even tell you. It was fantastic. We talked about music, touring, our families and everything. It was like I'd known them for years. I would say Nuno was simply exhausted. As it was he got up early from a show the night before just to come to our store and do this hours before we filmed the Washburn/Randall spot.... Nuno Bettencourt in store Q&A at Ishibashi Music Shibuya June 9th 2014 kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2jPdpWtlMxshrs

[@dougsteeleguitar]

It's probably the best Nuno interview I've ever seen. You smashed that shit real good. Universe arrives on Tuesday.

[@JasonMcNamara]

Thanks Doug. A couple of people have said that and I thank you very much for adding to that. It means a lot to me. I guess we just got along really well on the day and he was very generous with me so I simply got lucky. You should go through this channel and watch some of the other interviews I've done. You'll find Marty Friedman, James LoMenzo, Kiko Loureiro, Alex Lifeson, Paul Reed Smith, Guthrie Govan & more. As soon as we get the subtitles done I'll be posting my Michael Wilton from Queensrÿche that I got at the NAMM show 2 weeks ago as well as lots of others from NAMM still waiting for me to edit.

[@dougsteeleguitar]

Rockin.

[@digiscream]

Pato-cam!!!

[@JasonMcNamara]

Yep!! Pat went one step beyond the good old Photo-bomb and hit us with a Video-bomb. They are all characters. Once of the coolest bunch of guys to hang out with in the business.