Extreme: new music, new tour!

DoctorX · Post by **DoctorX** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:58 am

I found a great interview with Gary Cherone. He says he's been writing new songs with Nuno and that there might be a bigger full-blown tour if a new album is ever released! That must be one of the coolest news this year!

http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid ... spx#pastad

setlist from the first show:

Decadence Dance
When I'm President
Rest In Peace
Tell Me Something I Don't Know
It('s A Monster)
Our Father
There Is No God
Play With Me
Midnight Express
More Than Words
Tragic Comic
Cupid's Dead
Hip Today (Mike Mangini on Drums)
Am I Ever Gonna Change? (Mike Mangini on drums)
Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee
Medley:
He-man Woman Hater (Intro Only)
Kid Ego
Flesh N Blood
Teacher's Pet
Little Girls
Mutha
Get The Funk Out
-- Encore --
Hole Hearted
Rock & Roll Band (with members from Boston)
Rock and Roll (with members from Boston)

Ogg · Post by **Ogg** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:20 am

If it wasnt for your Killing Joke sig Dr X I'd have deleted this piece of filth!

I utterly loathe Extreme and all that they stand for, 'more than words' my arse

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DoctorX · Post by **DoctorX** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 2:53 pm

I think both Extreme and that song are very misunderstood.

More Than Words is not a love song. It's a very subversive song about a womanizer, who is trying to convince a gullible bird that he loves her, in order to get her in the sack. It's about as much of a love song as Every Breath You Take, or Silent Lucidity.

Extreme had loads of songs with that sort of sly angle, but most people will never give them credit for it. They have the horrible stigma of starting out as a hair band, and ascending to popularity with a pair of ballads. None of this changes the fact that Nuno and Gary are an excellent songwriting team, and they formed one of the best hard rock groups of the last twenty years. Nuno is an arrogant asshole, and Gary is a stereotypically flamboyant homosexual, but I love them anyway. The musicianship is also spectacular.

and if that doesn't have you convinced, check out their performance at the Freddie Mercury tribute show. THe Queen medley is just...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKv4haiB5xU

rushlight · Post by **rushlight** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:18 pm

Gary Cherone is gay?
Wasn't he with Van halen for a short time? Did they kick him out? I heard More than Words and some other album where I think the song was hole in my heart.

DoctorX · Post by **DoctorX** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:31 pm

Yes, yes, and yes.

More than Words and Hole Hearted were the aforementioned hit ballads. They were both on the album Pornograffitti. That was an excellent disc, though I like their third album even better. III Sides to Every Story. It's an absolute masterpiece.

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 5:30 pm

I don't mind Extreme, but Nuno annoys me a bit playing with his guitar, not playing it.

And Gary did blow with VH!

Ogg · Post by **Ogg** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:50 am

DoctorX wrote:I think both Extreme and that song are very misunderstood.

More Than Words is not a love song. It's a very subversive song about a womanizer, who is trying to convince a gullible bird that he loves her, in order to get her in the sack. It's about as much of a love song as Every Breath You Take, or Silent Lucidity.

Extreme had loads of songs with that sort of sly angle, but most people will never give them credit for it. They have the horrible stigma of starting out as a hair band, and ascending to popularity with a pair of ballads. None of this changes the fact that Nuno and Gary are an excellent songwriting team, and they formed one of the best hard rock groups of the last twenty years. Nuno is an arrogant asshole, and Gary is a stereotypically flamboyant homosexual, but I love them anyway. The musicianship is also spectacular.

and if that doesn't have you convinced, check out their performance at the Freddie Mercury tribute show. THe Queen medley is just...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKv4haiB5xU

Nope, still dont get it, never did and never will either. Extreme are shite mate and I'm certainly wise enough to know that a couple of ballads do not make a band. I watched the Queen medley and it barely raised a pulse imho. Pretentious guitarist and a cliched singer...I mean 'Get the Funk out' c'mon for Geds sake. I hated them then and I hate them now and always...and other bands of their ilk, bunch of wankers the lot of em

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schuette · Post by **schuette** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:46 pm

the world would be a boring place if we were all into the same thing....and it's not nice to call them wankers just cuz you dont like the music......go stand in the corner and hang your head in shame....

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:25 pm

Hey didn't The Knack did a song about him... wait for it....

My Cherona

Ogg · Post by **Ogg** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:06 pm

schuette wrote:the world would be a boring place if we were all into the same thing....and it's not nice to call them wankers just cuz you dont like the music......go stand in the corner and hang your head in shame....

I know, I know but you have to give me this one rant. I'm usually more tolerant and you should all know I'm normally quite polite but Extreme (it's a small mercy they didnt name themsleves Xtreme) and diverse others, namely the whole cinderella ratt poison warrant "lets partaay" thing grates on my nerves. Maybe I shouldnt pigeonhole them with these foul others but I'm going to anyway

Shite, the lot of 'em...bunch o' wankas

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awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:11 pm

Ogg, I am not sure I know what you mean to say. Next time you have an opinion on something, please don't hold back. Just let us know what you think.

*wink*

(((Ogg)))

I think we can agree that we won't all agree. I mean, after all, I like sushi.

rushlight · Post by **rushlight** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:31 pm

awip2062 wrote: I mean, after all, I like sushi.

YUCKY!

It's ok. My dad likes to eat kippers and I run from the room because of the horrible smell.

I like mushrooms and D.A. thinks it's like eating slugs.

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:48 pm

Kippers on crackers with tabasco, that's good eatin.

And no t, not with mustard on the crackers, or marshmallows.

DoctorX · Post by **DoctorX** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:46 pm

Oh, I don't begrudge Ogg his opinions. It's no secret that hair bands and all other sorts of hard rock from the '80s were full of false bravado and pretentious fawning.

*psst* the REAL secret is that prog and heavy metal have this same trait *psst*

Walkinghairball: Amusing. I actually wish Nuno would pull out his chops and play up to his potential again. When he played for Extreme, he was one of the most innovative and unique guitarists in the world. Now he creates banal AOR tunes, set in pop punk or folk rock formulas. He's trying to gain legitimacy as a singer/songwriter, but has confused "understated" for "pedestrian."

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:50 pm

DoctorX wrote:Walkinghairball: Amusing. I actually wish Nuno would pull out his chops and play up to his potential again. When he played for Extreme, he was one of the most innovative and unique guitarists in the world. Now he creates banal AOR tunes, set in pop punk or folk rock formulas. He's trying to gain legitimacy as a singer/songwriter, but has confused "understated" for "pedestrian."

He has chops and all that I agree, but like Yingwee J. Marmolade

and George Thorogood, and a few other guitarists........Vai, Satch, E. Johnson, I tire of the guitar masturbation they do. But I can name drummers that do the same. Just my buckfiddy brother.

Gene Simmons once said....................~"What's wrong with a great power chord that cracks yer ribs. What's with a billion notes that sounds like a swarm of angry bees, awh shut up."~