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“Van Halen were a pale, washed up imitation of the band they once were”: Dave Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar? A forensic examination of who was Van Halen’s best singer

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"It sounds like Dream Theater doing a pastiche of Bon Jovi songs": Did Extreme over-egg the funk-rock pudding on III Sides To Every Story?

"It sounds like Dream Theater doing a pastiche of Bon Jovi songs": Did Extreme over-egg the funk-rock pudding on III Sides To Every Story?

Extreme's third album, the three-part III Sides To Every Story, was the sound of a band over-reaching themselves

"When we were recording it I thought it would get bigger with strings and drums. It was really tempting, trust me. But I think that was probably the best decision I ever made": Nuno Bettencourt on the story of Extreme's More Than Words

"When we were recording it I thought it would get bigger with strings and drums. It was really tempting, trust me. But I think that was probably the best decision I ever made": Nuno Bettencourt on the story of Extreme's More Than Words

"It’s one of those songs that people don’t get too tired of. Maybe the simplicity of it kept it tolerable"

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“All the excesses of rock’n’roll stardom – the sex, the drugs, the parties – were open to us”: Extreme’s Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt on the highs, the lows and the hedonism

Extreme’s career has taken in one huge hit, millions of album sales, a split, a reunion and a big dollop of over-indulgent rock star living. Frontman Gary Cherone and guitarist Nuno Bettencourt look back on where it all went right, and where it all went wrong.

Nuno Bettencourt on why Instagram players make his jaw drop, how Eddie Van Halen inspired Extreme's new album – and why he apologized to Brian May for one of its leads

The Extreme virtuoso talks wowing everyone from Steve Lukather to Mateus Asato with his awe-inspiring Rise solo, the state of modern guitar playing, and the gear secrets – and mistakes – behind one of the year's biggest rock guitar albums

Watch Tom Morello and Nuno Bettencourt trade solos as they cover Audioslave’s Cochise with Gary Cherone

The two Extreme members joined Morello for a version of the Chris Cornell-fronted classic – complete with an extended guitar solo section

Nuno Bettencourt says Eddie Van Halen visited him while he was recording his Rise solo

Van Halen swung by the studio as the Extreme virtuoso was piecing together Rise’s mind-bending solo – but Nuno wouldn’t let him hear it

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Inside Nuno Bettencourt's charmingly weird first meeting with Eddie Van Halen: "other than Elton John, he’s the only musician that kissed me on the lips"

Inside Nuno Bettencourt's charmingly weird first meeting with Eddie Van Halen: "other than Elton John, he’s the only musician that kissed me on the lips"

When an overawed Nuno Bettencourt finally got to meet his hero Eddie Van Halen, he could not have predicted what happened next

Listen to the new single from Aerosmith's Joe Perry with the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson

Listen to the new single from Aerosmith's Joe Perry with the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson

Fortunate One comes from upcoming Joe Perry album Sweetzerland Manifesto MKII, which features guest appearances from Robin Zander, Gary Cherone, Terry Reid and more

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