NO, NUNO, NO!
Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 3:30pm by Axl Rosenberg
“Make love not war sounds so absurd to me.” But not as absurd as the idea of Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt touring with Rihanna, and trying to pass it off as “a high-energy experience” that really fits “‘my’ style.” Because “Umbrella-ella-ella” really requires someone who can shred. I’d almost have more respect for him if he just said “The Extreme reunion tour didn’t pay as well as I hoped and I got rent to pay.”
The announcement follows Bettencourt’s cameo on How I Met Your Mother, which is being called “the best show on television” by people who can’t find their remote and are too lazy to change the channel manually.
Alas, Nuno isn’t the first hard rocker to make a buck playing with Chris Brown’s punching bag. As part of his ongoing campaign to piss his fans’ mouths and laugh about it, Slash will be on the new Rihanna’s new album, and on a song called “Rockstar 101″ no less – just because he wanted to make it sting that much more I suppose. And, oh yeah, Richard Fortus – who played in the Slash-less version of GN’R – was her touring guitarist on her last trek. I’m assuming he’s been replaced now by Nuno because Guns are finally going on tour fourteen months after the release of Chinese Democracy.
I asked my GN’R posse if anyone could help me find a video of Fortus playing with Rihanna, and someone sent me this. I can’t actually see if that’s Fortus playing guitar, but the guy playing guitar does stand kinda like Fortus and seems to have the same hair cut, so I’m going to guess that it is.
-AR
With songs this horrible its no wonder Chris Brown kicked her ass, I would too.
thank for the vid
made my day
and reminded me why i always check metalsucks.net
lol
:-)
Extreme is fucking terrible, actually i would rather listen to rihanna than extreme
Nothing could possibly be that terrible.
Axl, I love you muchly, but it’s kind of a dick move to try and crack a joke about a woman getting beaten unconscious by her boyfriend. Not half as dickly as Johnny First In The Comments (whom I hope gets punched in the dick), but c’mon dogg.
suck my balls lesbian
I want a meal, not a snack.
if i was your boyfriend id kick your ass for that comment. chris brown style
If you were my boyfriend, I’d want you to kill me and end the suffering.
lol!
I’d hit it.
you should really scale back the How I Met Your Mother hate. it’s just a show. a good one at that.
Agreed. Way better than According to Jim and Two and a Half Men or whatever else. I still think it’s the only show with a laugh track that’s still funny.
You might have well as said, “When I eat feces, I prefer rabbit feces, because compared to dog and horse shit, it’s really not that bad.”
I fail to see what you guys are making such a big deal about. It’s Nuno Bettencourt.
…tour with her just for the chance to look at her each day.
Can we seriously get over the “outrage” of a “metal” guy playing with a pop artist? Is this really a big deal? Christ, Slash played on a Carole King live album back in ‘93 or something, and it didn’t turn him into a shitty musician all of a sudden.
People gotta make their $, and let’s face it, Extreme is not exactly raking in the huge dollars on their reunion tours these days. Nuno is a phenomenal musician, and I’m sure he won’t get any chance to rip into a “Rest in Peace”-esque solo on this tour, but then again, he just might. A lot of larger pop artists — Madonna, Janet Jackson — have incredible lead guitar players that are often given a chance to shine while the main artist is changing wardrobes or set pieces. I see no problem with this, and I think it’s really, really petty for “true metalheads” to act outraged that a guy who’s best known for writing a POP BALLAD, is playing on a pop artist’s tour. Who… the fuck… cares?
If Kirk Hammett wanted to take some down time and tour with Christina Aguilera, I’d say, good for him. If Dave Mustaine (not that that egomaniacal fuck would ever do something where he wasn’t the center of attention, but still) wanted to make a few bones touring with Shakira, good for him. Stop acting like a 13-year-old because your washed-up guitar hero is going to play with Rihanna.
WASHED-UP being the operative words here
You have no idea of how much money I would pay to see Dave Mustaine backing up Shakira. That would be so awful it would venture close to the sublime.
Nuno has a history of having no artistic standards. I’ll assume he was legitimately into the poppy funk metal that was Extreme. He’s one of the late-eighties metal shredders. I bought his solo album (”Schizophonic”) when it came out, expecting it to be a bunch of shredding like his contribution to the “Guitars That Rule The World” CD. But no, it was like C-grade grunge. It sucked balls.
Agreed…. I thought the same and bought the cd at a flea market somewhere…
At least, I paid like 1.50 dlls for it………just about the fair price for that monumental piece of shit .
I hope yall don’t think lesser of me, but I’d chuck my metal studs to play with Rihanna too.
Ever since I heard what Chris Brown done I been thinking ‘now’s my chance’
Yeah.
No fucking way I’m clicking on play…
nuno gotta pay them bills son
It’s not like he has any credibility to lose.
Yoo Johnny suck my balls, I guess its ok,, I have never care about Extreme or its musicians