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Rant: Where the F Was the Ace Frehley Cover?

Posted by admin in Friday, January 15th 2010   
Topics: Ace Frehley, Nuno Bettencourt, Rants    
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Nuno In a Similar Boat…
Since we recently ended a year and, according to some, a decade, I thought about writing a post on the year’s/decade’s best/worst whatever…but decided it would run a serious risk of being boring. Or at least redundant.
But I couldn’t let one thing pass without writing about it. And because you read [...]

Gettin’ Betta

Posted by admin in Monday, December 8th 2008   
Topics: Gibson, Marshall, Nuno Bettencourt, PRS, Pat Travers, Paul Gilbert    
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Hear a Pat Travers tune on the internet radio recently, one I hadn’t hear in a long while: Gettin’ Betta. Awesome tune (YouTube links to it below).
Reminds me a lot of Extreme, so Nuno Bettencourt obviously borrowed liberally from Pat.
Back in the day Pat used a Gibson Melody Maker with full-size Gibson humbuckers. In an [...]

X and X Live

Posted by admin in Tuesday, August 5th 2008   
Topics: Egnater, Extreme, King's X, Nuno Bettencourt, Slash, Ty Tabor, Washburn/Randall    
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I was fortunate that a friend got tix to last night’s King’s X/Extreme (in that order) show at NYC’s Fillmore Irving Plaza. Follow is my “review” — just my experience, really — but the bottom line was that both bands were very good.
King’s X opened and they were awesome as usual. What a great, musical, [...]