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    <title>Extreme - Suzi (Wants Her All Day What?) - Solo</title>

    <description>My recording of the solo from Extreme's "Suzi (Wants Her All Day What?)"</description>

    <category>Music</category>

    <category>Music recording</category>

    <category>Guitar</category>

    <series order="18">2022 music project</series>

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<p>

    This song off of <em>Extreme</em>'s most successful album 

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_II:_Pornograffitti">Pornograffiti</a>

    is full of cool riffs and strange lyrics. I'm not completely sure,

    but it might be about a hooker giving a blowjob. It's certainly very suggestive.

    Also, the solo is pretty good; it's kind of got a neo-classical vibe.

</p>

<p>

    That album put <em>Extreme</em> on the map with the huge radio hit

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIiLvg58SY">More Than Words</a>, which

    still gets airplay today in grocery stores. Unfortunately for Extreme,

    that song gave them the reputation as a pretty boy acoustic ballad band, when

    really they were more like a more talented Guns N' Roses. As such, <em>Extreme</em>

    guitarist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuno_Bettencourt">Nuno

    Bettencourt</a> kind of got lost in the post-glam-metal hard rock scene, even

    though he's widely respected and incredibly talented; he just missed out on

    the fame and gratuitous fortune.

</p>

<p>

    Anyway, here's me butchering one of his solos.

</p>

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    <caption>

        <em>Suzi (Wants Her All Day What?)</em> solo from Extreme's 1990 album

        <em>Extreme II: Pornograffiti</em>, full of enharmonic spelling mistakes

        and ill-conceived tablature

    </caption>

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<h2>Recording</h2>

<p>

    I'm not sure this was the best angle, since the video seems to be 50% desk. Alas.

    Enjoy the synthesized choir at the end.

</p>

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    glacius:src="suzi-solo-480p.mp4" 

    glacius:thumbnail="suzi-solo-480p-poster.jpeg" 

    type="video">

    <caption>

        Cover of Nuno Bettencourt's solo from <em>Suzi (Wants Her All Day What?)</em>

    </caption>

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    glacius:src="suzi-solo-ardour-hydrogen.png"

    glacius:thumbnail="suzi-solo-ardour-hydrogen-thumb.jpeg" 

    type="image">

    <caption>

        Screenshot of my 

        <a href="https://ardour.org/">Ardour</a>/<a href="http://hydrogen-music.org/">Hydrogen</a> 

        setup

    </caption>

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