{"id":13553,"date":"2023-07-25T12:32:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T11:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/?p=13553"},"modified":"2023-07-25T12:32:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T11:32:58","slug":"nuno-bettencourt-says-most-guitarists-could-not-in-their-lifetime-play-with-rihanna-even-slash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/nuno-bettencourt-says-most-guitarists-could-not-in-their-lifetime-play-with-rihanna-even-slash\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuno Bettencourt says most guitarists \u201ccould not in their lifetime\u201d play with Rihanna \u2013 even Slash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Playing guitar for pop icon Rihanna is by no means an easy gig, says Extreme rocker\u00a0Nuno Bettencourt, who\u2019s performed with the star\u2019s live band on every one of her world tours since 2009. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent interview with\u00a0Planet Rock, the guitarist claims that a majority of the electric guitar players he looks up to \u2013 even Slash \u2013 would not be able handle a set with RiRi given the demands of the gig. \u201cWhen somebody like Rihanna reaches out to you to perform everybody thinks \u2018oh, that\u2019s cute. It\u2019s a pop artist, whatever,\u2019\u201d Bettencourt says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet me tell you something, what I had to do night after night\u2026 put on a reggae hat [for one song] with a reggae feel, and go into R&amp;B, then go into some punk rock and pop rock that she did, and then club tracks. All sorts of [things], all those different feels.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing guitar for pop icon Rihanna is by no means an easy gig, says Extreme rocker\u00a0Nuno Bettencourt, who\u2019s performed with the star\u2019s live band on every one of her world tours since 2009. In a recent interview with\u00a0Planet Rock, the guitarist claims that a majority of the electric guitar players he looks up to \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-13553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-art","tag-rihanna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13555,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions\/13555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}