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Over 300 major rock guitar figures are examined in a strong coverage which examines both the playing styles and evolution of rock guitar. This blends a cultural and social history of rock music in general with a more in-depth survey of styles and musical genres, creating a colorful survey of rock music with more musical depth and background than competing titles offer. -- Midwest Book Review
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The band extreme is responsible for the very popular tune "More Than Words". This interesting blend of musicians came together during the late 1980s. Founded by Nuno Bettencourt and Gary Cherone, since its inception there have been a wide number of members rotate through the group over the years. Like other bands, there have also been periods of high volatility.
The early popularity experienced during the 80's and the 90's made Extreme a common household name. The band credits influences from early metal bands, such as Queen and Van Halen. Other popular names that contain similar musical qualities are the Drama Gods, Tribe of Judah, Morning Widows, Satellite Party and the infamous Twisted Sister. These bands all exhibit similarities in musical qualities.
Extreme has sole countless albums over the years. Five of these are highly notable and need credit, as well as a few EPS that had been sold exclusively in Japan. There have also been a few single releases. In the early 1990's, sales had exceeded 10 million, which is a huge accomplishment. The largest selling album was named "Porngraphitti", which was the second release. This is the album which contained the infamous song "More than Words".
Now, they're basically from Malden, Massachusetts. And in the late 80s, there had been a band that had some of the members called the Dream. Now as that band broke up, like earlier members Paul Geary and Gary Cherone were part of the Dream. And as they broke up and didn't get along anymore, they ran into Nuno Bettencourt who'd been a band called Sinful. There was another bass player, Pat Badger, who was playing with a band called In the Pink. In any case, they ran into each other and even argued about various dressing room things at concerts they were doing together and stuff like that. And, eventually, they took the name of the Dream and made it Ex Dream, because they'd all left the Dream, and now they are Extreme. One of their songs was even a big hit in the movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. So if you haven't seen that movie and you're really interested in Extreme. Probably everybody has seen that movie because it was great.
But their real claim to fame is, of course, "More Than Words" which came out on their second album, "Pornograffitti". And it had some really nice guitar playing in it. This very percussive [music demo] playing that Nuno does and is very difficult to teach but I like to have people work on that kind of stuff. You have to break it done to just really specific mechanics that are hard to get the hang of. So it's a song I really like to teach all of my students. Now when they recorded this, it became a big hit. It entered the Billboard's Top 100 in 1991 and just became a huge hit, all over YouTube. You've probably seen there are some great YouTube videos including the main video at YouTube for this, where I guess the promotional one. You see, at the very beginning, dials getting turned down from the amplifier. And then the bass player and the drummer packing up their gear and going to have seats on the couch. And pretty soon, all you do is they focus in on Gary and Nuno and they're just playing it. And the other two are sitting in couches, reading the newspaper, holding up little lighters as a show of the anthem like status they think the song deserves.
Extreme enjoyed moderate success for several years, until about 1993. Their popularity then got a little scattered. They brought new members into the band in the years of 1994-1996 to try to inject new life. Ultimately, the band split up and began their own pursuits. Since they have split up, they have put two more albums out, during 2008 and 2010. The first of these was named "Extreme", and the second "Extreme II: Pornographitti".
These guys appeared on the "Metal Mania" show on VH1, where they were praised and defied by the hosts. There have also been videos of Nuno trying to provide guitar lessons with the song "More Than Words", where he was a little recalcitrant. It obviously wasn't his cup of tea, but he did allow the cameras to get close up shots of his hands while he was playing. The video seemed to give the feeling that he didn't really want to share the information.
So that's just the way it is with some people. Some people are not very excited about sharing their knowledge or spreading the word or being cooperative even when people are trying to ... for students which I find really, really disturbing because I think there is enough information out there that you should be willing to share most of what you have especially when something creative like guitar playing. Right. Anyway, so they also have recent album, 2010, called "Take Us Alive". And information on that...Ah! It's a live album. That's what it was, I forgot about this.
Extreme is also releasing a new album during May of 2010, which was recorded in Boston. Hits on the album include "More Than Words", "Decadence Dance" and "Comfortably Dumb". There are also other songs included on this album.
There are other songs, such as "Rest in Peace", "Star", " It's a monster" and "Midnight Express". Other songs contributing to the comeback are songs taken from the Nikolai Korsakov "War and Peace" called Flight of the Bumblebee.
These guys are making a comeback. A DVD comes along with the new release that includes a lot of interesting material, but let's moves back to "More Than Words". This is your standard Howard ballad. White Snake wrote a lot of songs that resembled Extreme's "More than Words" with the powerful screaming ballad. White Snake and Extreme were a big part of the Hair band movement of the 80s.
"More Than Words" is a song addressing the person to show love through more than only words, but the appeal was universal. Even Weird Al Yankovic created a parody of this song with "you Don't Love Me Anymore". Amateur bands created spinoffs as well; the "amateur transplants" used a similar tune called "Northern Birds" from the 2006 album We Are so Bad.
This song also became a parody during an episode of "How I Met Your Mother". with Jason Seagull. This eventually became a number one hit in the US, and the second largest in the UK. This put the band back on the map, with more people who knew that genre of music.
Many bands have created their own versions of this song. In addition to the Amateur Transplants mentioned above, there have been versions by DB Mac, West Life, and David Cassidy. This is someone who has definitely experienced ups and downs in his career, but in 2003 he released the song "Touch of Blue", and now he is known for work with the Partridge Family. He had been known for struggling with his identity, trying to separate himself from the character Keith Partridge (a rock singer on TV), or the genuine David Cassidy that performs rock and roll guitar.
Well, it is tough to tell. David Cassidy really never stepped out of the shadows of Keith Partridge unfortunately. But he thinks he has. He was of course son of Jack Cassidy and stepson of Shirley McClain who was involved with him on the Partridge family. And getting back to his dad, Jack Cassidy, of course was an actor going way back into lots of character actor type thing from TV shows. He made three appearances in Columbo episodes. Peter Falk's Rachel from the early seventies. Part of the NBC mystery movie series.
Peter Falk, Colombo, Jack Cassidy and Dick Van Dyke, were all famous villains. They were also all tied to David Cassidy. He is part of the story because he covered the song "More Than Words". A last few observations on this song are the drippy sentiment this song conveys is a weak attempt to replicate great writers, such as Gershwin, or Cole Porter. The adolescent ramblings have been compared to John Meyers.
The band is still trying to stay alive. In fact, they are making quite a good living, since Nuno Bettencourt is such a prolific guitar player. He has been holding to the funky metal style, and it has been serving him well. We can keep hoping there will be more music coming from this group, since "More Than Words" and their other music is so phenomenal. It would be great to have more instructional material from this group as well.
Most of this stuff can be found throughout the internet. There is one more element - parody. One YouTube video worth checking out shows two guys and plays on what they were really thinking about or talking about during the video. This is not the actual band, but it's a great video edit.
If you have a chance, find "More Than Words"; it is well worth its price for instructional and entertainment value. Any music by Extreme, including "More Than Words" is a great thing to check into.
I am really enjoy rock and roll history and EXtreme is a very interesting band. For free guitar lessons or to learn More Than Words guitar lesson or other songs check out TotallyGuitars.com.
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