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 The Boston Herald reports that Extreme vocalist Gary Cherone
knows what he sings: “Star, you’re a star/Be careful what you’re
wishing for/All your dreams coming true.”
Cherone and his fellow Extremists - guitar whiz Nuno Bettencourt,
bassist Pat Badger and new drummer Kevin Figueiredo - are holed up in
Godsmack’s Tewksbury rehearsal space knocking the kinks out of “Star”
and a dozen other tracks off their new album, “Saudades de Rock.”
They’re also relearning the songs that made them stars when the band
began 20 years ago.
“We’re back together after 13 years because of new music, so we’ll be playing a lot of it,” said Cherone of the band’s first tour in more than a decade, which stops Thursday at Bank of America Pavilion. “But not too much new music. You gotta be smart about it. Meaning, we will be playing ‘More Than Words.’ ”
Born in the Boston suburbs in 1985, Extreme tried to strike a balance between radio-ready hard rock (think Aerosmith and Van Halen) and eccentric, artier sounds (The Who, Queen). Over 10 years, the band produced four albums too dynamic for the meat-and-mascara Poison kids and too straight-ahead for the prog crowd.
Oh, and one uncharacteristic make-out mega-ballad that ended up defining the band.
Unable to follow “More Than Words” with another hit, the band called it quits a few albums later.
Cherone was tapped for the doomed-to-fail job of becoming Van Halen’s third lead singer. Bettencourt headed to Los Angeles and cycled through a series of projects - most recently Perry Farrell’s dead-on-arrival Satellite Party.
But the band would rather talk about the present than rehash the past. For them, today is all about “Saudades de Rock.”
‘It’s our most natural-sounding record,” Badger said. “We wanted it to have that classic Zeppelin, Beatles, old Aerosmith feel.”
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