Nuno Bettencourt and company are the opening act on the summer Motley Crue tour (which also features Tesla). Extreme go on early every night — 6:30 at most venues — and can be expected to be completely missed by the clueless who show up late.
But at a recent gig on Extreme’s home turf, at the venue formerly known as Great Woods, in the Greater Boston Area, the home-town heroes dominated, by all accounts.
Playing to a 70-percent capacity crowd at set time, Extreme played 11 songs in an hour long performance and guitar clinic that gave notice to the headliners, “We ain’t takin’ no prisoners.”
Bettencourt was in sheer shred form as expected on hits such as “Play With Me,” “Decadence Dance,” and “Get The Funk Out,” then showed his amazing acoustic proficiency on “Whole-Hearted” and “More Than Words.” The band closed with a three-song tribute medley to Ozzy Osbourne to mark the one-year anniuversary of the legendary frontman’s passing with Ozzy classics “I Don’t Know,” “Bark At The Moon,” and “Crazy Train.”
