Extreme announcing their long-awaited return with new single Rise was the biggest story in guitar that week not because it had been 15 long years since their last studio album, but because it was a reintroduction to the frontier-guitar genius of Nuno Bettencourt, who had just tracked the year’s best guitar solo – and maybe a solo for the all-time list.
Maybe it’s too soon to call it on the last point, but we’d bet good money that when the year ends, nothing is going to come close to the show of electric guitar pyro that Bettencourt puts on in Rise.
