Stones with squishy heart.

In Massachussets, USA, Gary Cherone and the drumer Paul Geary were in a band, The Dream, while the guitarrist Nuno Bettencourt and the bassist Pat Badger were in another, Sinful.  These two band met one day, and Gary asked Nuno, without even listening to him, to join them. He accepted and Gary, Nuno, Paul and Pat formed Extreme.

Gary and Nuno started to write lots of songs and when they had  aproximately 55, the director of the label A&R contracted them and produced their first album Extreme in 1989. Their first single was Kid Ego.

Their success was enough to produce their second CD, Extreme II: Pornografitti in 1990. There was when they reached the top with songs like Get the funk out, Hole Hearted and of course the balad More than words.

When they released their third CD, III Sides To Every Story, people expected another balad like More than words, but the band denied to because they were searching for a new sound. The sells weren't good despite that album was their best.

In 1994, Paul Geary left the band and Mike Mangini replaced him and released their forth CD, Waiting for the Punchline. The sells were bad as ever due to the aparition of a new genre, grunge, leaded for Kurt Cobain's Nirvana. The new album sounded a little like them, so fans turn their back upon them and this brought to their friendly break up.
However, in 2004, their re-joined again and released one more album, Saudades del Rock.


God bless music.