At Home And Social With Nuno Bettencourt

I was watching a Pink Floyd documentary on AXS TV last night and noticed a promo for a special event that looks really cool. Nuno Bettencourt will host a socially distant concert tomorrow night - and Brian May, among many others, will participate! The show airs at 8pm ET tomorrow night. Click the video below for a preview.

NEW CONCERT ALERT - @NancyWilson, @DrBrianMay, @stevevai, @JulianLennon and many more join @nunobettencourt for #AtHomeandSocial. August 3rd on AXS TV! https://t.co/I6g3EPKLET

— AXS TV (@AXSTV) July 20, 2020

Comments

[Metalboy!]

Saw EXTREME point blank at The Cat Club in NYC in 1990 with Alice In Chains opening and blowing them off the stage ...

It was obvious to me then he should have bailed on ‘em immediately after that show realizing what a goofball lead singer Gary Cherone is and formed a new band ...

I’ll give ‘em “Kid Ego” but that’s the only real song they had unless you’re a sucker for that sh*te like “More Than Words” ...

No doubt the dude’s a KILLER, just wish he would have amounted to more than Cherone’s sidekick and Rihanna’s touring guitarist.

If anything, he would easily win the “Good Genes or Good Docs?” in TMZ if it were a contest.

[Him]

Tsk, tsk, Metalboy! I have said it before, Extreme were talented and extremely hard to figure out in terms of where they should land in the metal/rock landscape. You can bash them all you want (and I have bashed Cherone for his odd stage mannerisms).

But they produced some solid songs: "Get the Funk Out"; "Stop the World"; "Rest in Peace"; etc. Bringing up the limp towel ballad is a red-herring. Yeah, they did that. And how many other bands did that, whether because they wanted to do it or because they corps. wanted them to do that? Doesn't really matter. That is just a distraction . . . and, if you are going to distract, their ballad isn't that band when you compare it to what others were doing at the same time. I was going to say it was better than "Every Rose . . ." . . . nah, no need to go there when you are dealing with the sweet soup that is metal balladry. You know, I took the last train out of that discussion.

I consider them akin to King's X. What do you do with a talented band that doesn't quite fit into the grooves that the corps. have created? I also think a band like Living Colour fits the same bill. In so far as . . . don't fit? So be it. That's rock n' roll!