NUNO BETTENCOURT

With help from his 10 siblings, Extreme’s guitarist grew up to the sounds of progressive rock, with Yes and Genesis among his many inspirations.

GRM

“As a kid I had a music library that spanned 10 brothers and sisters. You’d go into one room in the house and there’d be The Beatles playing, then Genesis in another. Probably 90 per cent of the music I was listening to in those first important years of my life was prog. I was in a band called Viking with two of my brothers! We were driven by UK, Yes, Kansas and Genesis. When we talk about progressive rock, the most important part of that is the ‘rock’. Bands like those, and Rush and King Crimson, still made you feel like you were listening to rock’n’roll. It was hard and heavy enough, but they took some risks outside the box too. Steve Howe was almost an outlier in Yes.…

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