Despite their collaborative history, the Super Bowl show marked the first time Bettencourt and Rihanna had played together in almost a decade – and Bettencourt further celebrated their rekindled musical partnership by wielding a curiously eye-catching version of his Washburn N4 signature guitar. Rihanna’s band can first be seen at around Super Bowl experience aside, all eyes were on Bettencourt when, earlier this week (May 1), Extreme took the stage for the first time since Rise's release on the Monsters of Rock cruise. Debuting the song live , Bettencourt absolutely nailed its opening tremolo-picked section, wailing bends, light-speed alternate picking and massive whammy dives EXTREME guitarist Nuno Bettencourt shared the stage with Rihanna when the Grammy Award-winning R&B artist took the stage in Phoenix Sunday (February 12) for her 2023 Super Bowl halftime performance. Rock fans watching this year’s Super Bowl likely experienced a jolt of unexpected delight when they caught a glimpse of one of their own – Nuno Bettencourt, ever-present Washburn N4 in hand – performing alongside Rihanna during her halftime-show extravaganza. But while his screen time was exceedingly brief – “about 1.5 milliseconds A well-known Portuguese-American guitarist, singer-songwriter shared the stage with Grammy award-winning R&B artist Rihanna for her halftime performance at the 2023 Super Bowl LVII in Phoenix Bettencourt goes on to recall his experience of playing with Rihanna at this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. “Look, it was a trip for many reasons,” he says. “One was [that] the halftime show is iconic, and to be a part of it and rehearse at the stadium and be a part of that history. And all these years later, Nuno is still with Rihanna and has also gotten the chance to play the Super Bowl as her backing musician. Looking back at the past decade or so, he said: “But those things lead Everything leads to something. And in some moments, like, obviously, the Rihanna stuff has been amazing. During Rihanna's 15-minute Super Bowl performance, Bettencourt was most visibly noticeable among her live band for a performance of "Run This Town," a 2009 Jay-Z single that features Rihanna with Nuno Bettencourt said that playing with Rihanna on this year's Super Bowl was a "bucket-list moment", but noted that the pop star's backing band got a "pathetic" amount of screen time. Nuno Bettencourt reflected on touring with Rihanna in the late '00s/early 2010s and explained why this year's Super Bowl performance felt interesting despite receiving a minuscule amount of screen "Slash is one of the greatest rock guitar players of all time but I guarantee \u2013 and he\u2019d be the first to tell you \u2013 that if he jumps up and he\u2019s got to play a clean intro to Rude Boy by Rihanna, it ain\u2019t happening,\u201d the Extreme virtuoso says All the latest rihanna super bowl news, videos, and more. See the latest rihanna super bowl trends and reviews on PremierGuitar.com, the world's foremost authority on all things guitar and bass. Adrian Vandenberg Rig Rundown Nuno Bettencourt: Being Rihanna's Guitarist Was Amazing. She's Super-Talented, I Learned a Lot "I did four tours with her. I didn't do the last one because I needed to get back to Extreme," the Dre added during a different pre-Super Bowl interview: "We’re going to open more doors for hip-hop artists in the future and making sure that the NFL understands that this is what it should have been long time ago." That much has been accomplished, as Kendrick Lamar is set to perform at the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show this coming February. Indeed, in a 2020 interview with Guitar World, Gueringer spoke of the tremendous influence classic jazz had on his playing, describing himself as a “super-old soul“ whose playing was shaped by some of jazz guitar's most prominent names. “My grandfather was my best friend, so I had a natural ear for jazz and soul,“ Gueringer explained [Part. I: "Bitch Better Have My Money"] [Intro] N.C. Yayo, yayo Mula-la Yayo [Verse] Em Bitch better have my money Bm Y'all should know me well enough Bitch better have my money Please, don' Rihanna performing at the 2023 Super Bowl (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) The Barbadian artist reigned over the 2023 Super Bowl with a first-class medley of pop showstoppers featuring “We Found Rihanna's performance took place during the Half-Time show of the 57th Super Bowl - which was held on 12th February 2023. The game took place at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, and saw the Kansas City Chiefs play the Philadelphia Eagles. About a decade ago I left a Canadian winter to go play every night in a 7 piece band near Dubai where it was not deathly cold. The band was playing top 40, so whatever was on the charts and in the Rihanna brought down the Super Bowl 57 halftime show in Glendale, Ariz. last year, where she revealed her second pregnancy. When asked if she had any advice for Usher, Rihanna emphatically
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