Classic Rock
On 5 February 2027 Extreme will release “Paris Rising”, a live album recorded at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on 7 December 2023, during the “Six” tour. It’s coming out on earMUSIC, with 22 tracks running to over 100 minutes. The lead single is “Get the Funk Out”, from “Pornograffitti” (1990).
The set runs from a medley of the 1989 debut to seven songs from “Six”, among them “Rise”, “#Rebel” and “Banshee”. In between come “Decadence Dance”, “Play With Me”, “Hole Hearted”, Nuno Bettencourt’s guitar solo “Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee” and “More Than Words”, which, the label says, the whole hall sings along to.
“Whenever a band decides to record a live album/dvd in a particular city or country, it means only one thing: that place is special,” says Bettencourt. “And when it comes to Paris, for over 40 years, it has always been a second home to us.” Singer Gary Cherone calls it “a night we will not soon forget”.
The line-up is the “Six” one: Cherone, Bettencourt, bassist Pat Badger and drummer Kevin Figueiredo. That album, from June 2023, came fifteen years after “Saudades de Rock” and was the band’s first to reach the top 10 in Germany (8), Switzerland (4) and Austria (6). Their previous live albums are “Take Us Alive” (2010) and “Pornograffitti Live 25” (2016).
Text by Enric Vilaplana