Nuno on Extreme

[Seraphial]

Re: Nuno on Extreme

The best Nuno guitar is the one called The Princess ... it's killer!!

Check out my sig - Princess model (the cheapy version, but oh well) modded to the max sith SD's, tonepros bridge and Earvana nut.

Sir, you have good taste

[moog1000]

Re: Nuno on Extreme

I have both a customised N4 and P2!!

I don't what it is about them, but Washburn and Nuno got something seriously right about their necks!

Yep, Nuno is definitely near the top of the list of guitar players, especially his playing in a 'band context'. As stated, very similar to VH and Nuno often says that VH wrote the book on guitar playing.

He mainly used ADA preamps in the studio and for early tours, he moved over to Mesa for his mid 90's stuff (probably a tremoverb or something similar) and now uses H&K triamps!

[boze]

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Nuno is a must-listen for any guitar player! Great player to say the least.

About his amps though, "Porno-" and "3-Sides" were both recorded with a Soldano head and a Marshall 4x12 cab. Don't know what spkrs though. The ADA pre-amp & ADA pwr-amps came in when he had to get a live sound together. I remember there being a photo of Nuno featured in the "Load-Out" page in Gtr for The Pract. Music. or Gtr World, and you could see his live rig there.

For the "Punchline" recordings and tour, Nuno used a vintage Fender-Vibro amp. He took the line from the head part and went into a separate cab for more volume and warmth. He did this for the tour as well. I remember seeing the amp facing the back wall of the stage and 2 4x12 cab up front.

He started using those H&G amps & cabs when he put out his first solo cd. He had them on stage with him, but I wasn't as impressed with his sound as I was with the ADA or the Fender. There was a lack of character is the best way I can discribe it.

But the so-so sound didn't kill the show at all. He & his band were on and they played great. For an encore, they pull off the Talking Heads "Once in A Lifetime" with no keybrds! Pretty cool.

Boze.

[Hot _Grits]

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You know Grits, one day when I meet you, I'm gonna shake your hand, play some rhythm while you solo and then afterwards strangle you with a Washburn brochure. NZ$800 or so for an N4!??

I think I checked at the tail-end of that sale - I remember seeing a Mesa F50 going for %50 off or something. Stupid me, passed on that...

The N4's originally came out with an original floyd (or was that Kahler?), alder body, ebony fingerboard and BL/59 pickups. The next version was padauk which made it fairly rare, then the swamp ash model. I recall them discontinuing the padauk because of a allergic outbreak among a few people. Or else it was just getting too expensive for them

Anyway, more recent models featured the padauk colouring on the swampy model. However, you can basically get the same model in the NX series.

Haha, I can feel the air draining from my lungs as I type...

It had a Schaller cast floyd with Washburn branding. Same bridge that appeared on Hamers and other guitars around that time. To be honest, I thought really hard about getting it, but it didn't speak to me. too much maple in the recipe or something. I would have jumped all over a half-price F50, though. Shame we weren't in contact at the time. From now on, all bargains I don't grab will be passed on. Tip of the week: fender aerodyne tele brand new for 1399 at the rockshop. The one I played is already sold, but it's not a limited edition...

[metal101]

Re: Nuno on Extreme

NUNO is still an awsome guitarist. extreame was a band at the tail end of that era and really didnt get a whole lot of praise. pornographiti [misspelled it ] was a great record and i think shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that his playing is up there with the greatest that ever played. there is alot of dispute because of genera and the who hendrix was god / van halen is the best / rhoads was the best ever guys. But in all honesty nuno was just as articulate and pound for pound as good as the forementioned this is my opinion but listen to some population 1 stuff if you can find it as well as some solo stuff. he is amazing and deserves the recognition. I know he got alot of heat for that vh1 reunite the bands thing he declined to play and some people thought that was all ego but i think it was more so looking like a where are they now type thing.

[Gearjoneser]

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I remember that brief period around 1990, when every rock guitarist got confused about whether they were Ed or the Chili Peppers. FUNKROCK! Ha ha.
Looking back.....the fashion sense was terrible!

Hot Grits...remember those bands like King of the Hill, Bang Tango, and Living Colour?
That stuff got killed quick by alternative, grunge, bluesrock, and the beginnings of Nu Metal and Ska.

Extreme's career hit a nosedive the day Teen Spirit hit the radio.

[Seraphial]

Re: Nuno on Extreme

Hot Grits...remember those bands like King of the Hill, Bang Tango, and Living Colour? That stuff got killed quick by alternative, grunge, bluesrock, and the beginnings of Nu Metal and Ska.

Extreme's career hit a nosedive the day Teen Spirit hit the radio.

But thank god you can sniff the risings of glam rock coming back. On come the Darkness, then Living Colour release an album, out comes Velvet Revolver, Skid Row minus Bach reunite, then VH goes on tour...

Good times...

Coincidently, weren't mullets fashionable again 2 years ago?

Grits - did you here about the MaiFM guy about 12 months ago? Sold lotsa his collection including a 67 ES135 for $2500. My friend got his 70's ES335 mint for the same price.

[Hot _Grits]

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Joneser, I remember the funk-rock thing very well. The Chilis got it. Extreme didn't. Some VERY bad clone bands around that time. We had a local one called Rumblefish. they did a fairly awful cover of Grace Jones' 'pull up to the bumper', and had a t-shirt with 'funk off' on it. Oh, the 'funk' -related songtitle hilarity...

Don't be talking trash about Living Colour, though, I thought they were great. Vernon Reid was like a big middle finger to all us anal shred types. Awful clothes, though.

Seraphial, that guy is Dave Bridgeman, an old friend from way back. I saw him about a year ago, and he had a 60s es 345(I think), and a 64 or 65 strat he was looking to get rid of for about 7000 the pair. I don't know what he sold them for. He also got rid of a hacked up root beer Jem. That price you quote sonds a bit low, might be a case of Chinese whispers.

Dave is a killer guitar player and a great bloke. He work as the high-tech guy at Atwaters for years, and before that was at Musical Sounds Greenlane. Nowadays he's production manager at Mai. Does jingles all day. He's always selling stuff on trademe.