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I have been a huge Nuno fan since I saw him at Pine Knob with his band Extreme during the Pornograffitti tour! It was the most awesome concert! I was absolutely amazed at the way Nuno played guitar! Gary Cherone is so much fun to watch live and I love hearing him sing! The band just rocked my world! I love Extreme. III Sides to Every Story is the best CD ever!

After Extreme Nuno did a solo album called Schitzophonic! I have that and it is great. I could listen to that CD all day long! While I love all of Nuno's post Extreme work Schitzophonic is my favorite. That and III Sides are my favorite 2 Nuno CD's with the rest of the Extreme CD's right up there!

Then there was The Mourning Widows & Furnished Souls for Rent!! A bit heavier than Extreme and Schiztophonic! What a great couple of CDs. You can find all of the CD's at Amazon.com and you'll find the Extreme Cd's at Extreme's MySpace page. I recommend them all!

The first Population 1 CD released was really a solo project with Nuno playing all of the instruments on the album! Nuno is multi-talented! The next CD released was an EP with 5 songs still using the name Population 1.  It rocked! After that Population 1 who's members included Nuno Bettencourt, Steve Ferlazzo, Kevin Figuiredo and Joe Pessia changed the name to DramaGods and released an awesome Cd called Love. I was lucky enough to see Population 1 just before the name change on October 23, 2004 at Recher Theater in Towson MD. Meeting Nuno was a dream come true. He was so awesome. My sisters and I drove 12 hours to see that concert and it was so worth it!

Now Nuno is back with the band that made me love him!! Extreme has recently announced that they are back together and recording a CD that will be released in 2008. The line-up consists of Gary Cherone, Nuno Bettencourt, Pat Badger and Kevin Figuiredo!  They are planning a world tour in 2008 as well! They have asked me if I'd run their Official Message Board! I agreed, of course and am thrilled!! That is another dream come true!! I am so excited to hear new music and see them live!! 2008 is gonna be an awesome year! Hopefully in 2008 I'll be able to add pictures from an Extreme show!!! Now if I could meet the whole band and get my N4 autographed I'd be so excited! From all the band I've ever seen live I think Extreme was the most fun! I just love watching them. I could watch my VHS tape (The DVD leaves parts out)of The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert all day long! I think Extreme was the best band there by far. Of course, Nuno and Gary both looked awesome. Have you ever seen Gary move? I LOVE to watch him!

To visit the official Extreme Message Board go to  http://www.extreme-band.com

To visit Extreme's MySpace page go to http://www.myspace.com/extreme

Extreme's new CD Saudades de Rock will be available in stores on August 12, 2008!

EXTREME ANNOUNCE FIRST NEW ALBUM IN THIRTEEN YEARS

Saudades de Rock available August 12th on Open E Records

“TAKE US ALIVE' World Tour Launches In Poughkeepsie, New York on July 29


(June 9, 2008) New York, NY – This summer, EXTREME will release Saudades de Rock (pronounced “sow-dodge”), their first studio album in thirteen years which will coincide with their first world tour in over twelve years. Saudades de Rock will be released on August 12th on Open E Records and distributed by Fontana.

The iconic rock foursome - vocalist Gary Cherone, guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, bassist Pat Badger and new drummer Kevin Figueiredo – recorded their fifth studio offering at NRG Studios in Los Angeles with Bettencourt at the helm as producer and mixer. Saudades de Rock boasts 13 tracks, including the infectious roar of "Star," the groove-laden, swagger of "King", a raw funk rock anthem called "Learn To Love", and the expressive ballad "Ghost.”

“’Saudades’ was always a beautiful word to me,” Bettencourt explains about the Portuguese album moniker. “It expresses a longing; an underlying sadness for something or someone that’s been missing in your life, and never quite sure if it will ever return. In this case, for us, it’s Rock and Roll. Saudades de Rock.”

Gary Cherone adds, “I like how it expresses that longing we’ve been feeling to play for our fans and be together again.”

The multi-platinum, Boston-bred band's 2008 'TAKE US ALIVE' world tour gets underway on July 29th at The Chance in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and will be anchored by a hometown gig two days later at the Bank of America Pavilion. In advance of the tour, Extreme will be a co-headliner on July 11th at the five day Rocklahoma Festival in Pryor, OK.

www.extreme-band.com
www.myspace.com/extreme


Saudades de Rock track listing:

1. Star
2. Comfortably Dumb
3. Learn To Love
4. Take Us Alive
5. Run
6. Last Hour
7. Flower Man
8. King Of The Ladies
9. Ghost
10. Slide
11. Interface
12. Sunrise
13. Peace (Saudade)


OPEN E RECORDS is a new label that is distributed by Fontana. A portion of Open E Records profits will be donated to Music Drives Us, a foundation created as a way to support music in New England. The Foundation also gives scholarship money for individuals who desire to continue their musical education. www.musicdrivesus.com.

Seeing Extreme live the weekend of 08-08-08 was awesome. I also saw them in Chicago on 08-09-08 but was unable to get pictures because of The House of Blues security.  It was so cool to see my name in the liner notes (Thank You's) They gave me an autographed drum head and they posed for pictures with me. Nuno signed my N4 for me too! I got to watch sound check!They showed me around backstage and even gave me a tour of the bus. I had the most amazing weekend. Saturday (08-09-08) after the show I got to go backstage and I made sure I thanked all of them including their awesome manager for the best weekend ever! Here are some pictures.. I hope you enjoy what I got before my battery died. I did not use flash because I didn't want to blind the band so some didn't turn out great! The first few pics are of the sound check!

And fot this last picture of Nuno shirtless with the Heiniken I want to thank April Bodendorfer. She took this one at the show and I borrowed it from her MySpace. I couldn't help but drool! 

I always love new pictures so if anyone has any pictures of Nuno or Extreme that they would like to share and don't mind if I add them to my site feel free to email me at bamellis@gmail.com 

The making of the video More Than Words!

I gotta admit I am a bit jealous of Suze but she is beautiful! She's so lucky!

Who is this lucky girl and why is she hugging Nuno??