It drives me nuts when I hear younger folks today call Tesla a hair band for exactly the reason Burch said... they fought that label their entire career. I saw them open for Def Leppard in Battle Creek MI and then at the same venue a year or so later when they played the first show of their first ever headlining tour. They've had their ups and downs... they broke up in 1996 but they reformed in 2000 and have been going strong ever since. They are touring the US right now, in fact.
I saw them in June 88 on the Hysteria tour with Def Leppard. Great show and that ticket cost a whopping $27 CAD! Can't believe that was 36 years ago this June!
Agree 💯!! They, along with Great White came onto scene the very end of the Hair Metal craze (which I am a big fan of) but even though they were both very different, they were pigeonholed as Hair Metal, but were both so much more! Jeff Keith (Tesla) & Jack Russell (Great White) both had great Rock/Bluesy voices, & the bands. Great White’s all Zeppelin tribute Album is fantastic. And all of their sleazy Bluesy Rock is great. Make sure you do Tesla’s Love Song & Little Suzi for Alexis.
I totally blame the record companies of the time. They were riding that same formula for so long and any rock or metal band that came along they said to themselves "poof the hair up." It was too bad Tesla got thrown out with the bath water when Grunge came along. They are a solid hard rock band!! Love them. I was so glad when they got back together!!
I've been a fan of Tesla since day one, met them in person, their video for the song Gettin Better was filmed in my hometown, I worked at a Hardware store across the street from where they performed the video, the tour manager came into the store for bolts, washers and nut to build the stage because the hardware for the stage got lost in travel, he needed two guys to help build the stage they performed on, me and my buddy Mike built the stage and we were invited to the video shoot and they asked us to invite all of our friends and we packed the place called The Stage in Coatesville Pennsylvania, we all drank with the band and had a great time.
I have to put this up as my favorite Tesla song. I have heard this song many times but have not seen the video in ages. A totally great song. I miss those days.
So glad to see Tesla on here! One of my absolute favorite bands of all time. Love Song, Little Suzie, Paradise, Gettin' Better, Signs, and there is so many more to choose from. It's a cornucopia of really great music from a band that was like you said, different!
Saw Tesla several times in the 80's. Met Jeff Keith.Very nice guy. He used to make a living cleaning septic systems! Very underrated band! Love Song and their cover of Signs!
Most under rated band ever. Just a bad ass, hard rock band who got stuck under the Hair Metal genre but wasn't really Hair Metal. Absolutely my favorite as I have seen them countless times over the years including just last August. They played this and still kicked ass.
Tesla were not big at all here in Australia, but i remember hearing Cumin' Actha Live and being blown away. Their albums were hard to find down here, but I did find a few.
Our #1 South Sacramento band! Tesla did something back then that other Sacramento bands couldn't do. They were able to get signed and become headliners without moving to LA. Frank and the boys were always into hard rock and heavy rock.....the classics, including huge Beatles fans. Here in Sacramento, we are NorCal and not into the hair band genre of the glam bands from LA. There were only a few clubs to play and you had to know your stuff. I grew up in the same neighborhood and watched them go from Earthshaker to City Kidd to Tesla. I will also never forget riding BMX bikes with Frank and scaring the shit out of him going through Oak Park! Good times.
If you revisit Tesla again in the future, I know "Love Song" is next, but please consider "Edison's Medicine". Would like to hear Alexis' thoughts/reaction to the history lesson enclosed in the song.
My favorite song from Tesla is Paradise. This song was played a lot in my walkman when I lost a friend from high school is a very bad car accident. It was one of the only things that got me through that devastating time. Please react to it. I think Alexis would love it.
I remember seeing/hearing this video for the first time like it was yesterday. I was at a party meeting my girlfriend-to-be. But this video came on MTV and it was like the seas parted. I saw nothing and heard nothing around me except this song! The next day I ran to the record store to get it, hurried home and proceeded to figure this album out on guitar. From beginning to end Mechanical Resonance is a class in guitar rock! Later on Shine Away became my favorite Tesla song but Cowboy is a close second.
One day I was playing the guitar and a friend came to sing with the music. His name was Dillan. So I started off the bat playing the love song by Tesla. Dillan began singing and I played the whole song leads and all and Dillan sung the whole song. We should have been on a stage. It was really awesome to have a singer sing to it. Awesome!
Saw them open for Def Leppard on the Hysteria tour when this single was out and wore out Mechanical Resonance on cassette... such a great rock record and they continued putting out great stuff into the 90s! I love The Great Radio Controversy, Psychotic Supper and Bust a Nut! That dual guitar sound of Frank and Tommy was just SO good. #NoMachines
November 12, 1989, Tesla helped kick off what was the single most fun week of my life teenage years. That night I saw them live in concert with Great White. On Wednesday I got a new, amazing girlfriend, and on Saturday we won the State football championship. Even 33 years later, there's not much of that week I don't remember vividly. You mentioned Tesla being lumped in as a glam band despite not really fitting the label. I remember the ads for the concert on the radio called Tesla "the last blue jean and t-shirt band." They were ACTIVELY trying to distance themselves from the glam label.
At first I only knew Tesla from Headbanger's Ball and liked all the songs I saw but never thought I paid attention to them that much. It wasn't until I saw them open for Lynyrd Skynyrd and I sang along with every song they played that I realized I knew a bunch of their stuff and liked it all. Next day I went out and bought their albums (cassettes).
Well Burch, you finally did it! You got Alexis Teslafied!!! I am a Tesla Freak, so I'm very biased about this great band. I've been watching your channel and waiting for a Tesla tune. I am now a follower after this tune. Burch, you nailed the right song to do first. Now Alexis is learning them the same way we did, discovering Tesla by Modern Day Cowboy. Alexis, if you have one thing to do, it's go see this band live before they stop touring. Burch speaks of them in the past tense, but these guys are "Still Kickin' Ass"!!! If you don't ever listen to an 80s band again, at least go see these guys live. They are electric...and acoustic...and they ROCK!!!
I saw them with Def Leppard and Dokken back in 87, the whole show rocked. Then I saw them many years later at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach SC, it was great.
I remember seeing them the first time in the late 80’s when they opened for Iron Maiden. I had no idea who they were and wasn’t expecting much. They came out playing “Coming at you live” and became an instant fan. It’s still one of the best songs I have ever seen performed live.
Great choice and totally the right call to pick this one first. This was my very first Tesla experience as well and it made me go out and buy Mechanical Resonance (1986). I think if I had heard their popular ballads first, I may not appreciate them as much. I got to see them open for Def Leppard on the Hysteria tour🤘
1. Tesla IS amazing. 2. White Lion is also amazing. Vito Bratta is one of the best guitarists of the 80s. 3. Frankie Hannon deserves so much more credit than he gets. Just a monster player.
Tesla for me is that band that has always been there. Seen them 6 times in concert. I love them. So many good songs. Tesla is the young man's get off my porch band. Rockin', making a statement, going to take no shit, and tell it like it is band. Made it off of hard work and talent.
My favorite Tesla moment is after I saw them on the 2014 Monsters Of Rock Cruise. I was in the Miami Airport and the section I was waiting for my plane in was almost completely deserted. All of a sudden in the section across from me, Jeff Keith with his mom and a couple other people sit down waiting for their flight. He had brought his mom on the cruise to celebrate her birthday and had brought her up on stage to sing happy birthday to her on the opening concert. I figured he had had enough of the ease access of fans on board the ship so I decided to leave him alone. His mom was kind of a boisterous lady and I could hear her side of the conversation as she was on the phone. She was hilarious. Other people that were walking by starting going up to Jeff and he was taking pictures and talking with all of them. Since they were doing it, I figured it wouldn't be that bad if I bothered him too. He was great. We took a photo, we talked, he even let me film a little hello video to a friend of mine who couldn't make the cruise. The best part was, while I was talking with him, his mother finished her phone call and came up to me and hugged me a couple times while thanking me for being her son's fan. She's an awesome lady.
You have to do the live version of Cumin’ Atcha Live. The dueling guitar solos between Frank Hannon and Dave Rude are pure fire 🔥. If that doesn’t get your heart beating, you’re dead.
Tesla literally invented the mtv "Unplugged " craze! They went on a tour called "the five man acoustical jam". And one of their big songs off of that show was a cover of "Signs" by "Five man electrical band."
Tesla were, and still are, a no frills, reliant on the music heavy rock band. I also maintain it was the success of their 5 man acoustic jam that triggered MTV’s Unplugged!
Grew up on Tesla and their heavy metallic sound in mid 80's. This album is such a piece of art. Back when you had a Sony Walkman i would blast this album ridding Marta to school.
They were the best charity/fund raising band, when it came to helping people. Doing full concerts were 2 cans of food would get you in. These guys were awesome!
Tesla is GREAT!!! I'd love to see you do Mama's Fool. Also, am I wrong in thinking they have a similar sound to Dokken? Maybe I just think that because I discovered both groups around the same time.
Great reaction. Glad she liked it. THANK YOU for doing Modern Day Cowboy and doing first. Of course she needs to hear Love Song, but feel free to keep it going with Tesla with Gettin' Better.
Tesla's guitar solos really fit the songs, great music composition and writing. I love the 5 Man Acoustic Jam album/concert. The only song they plugged in for was Love Song. One of the most underrated bands ever.
Heck Yeah! Been a Tesla fan ever since I heard this song for the first time and still listen to the other albums as well, all the time. The opening lick to Modern day cowboy is very challenging to play, even harder when it's on a Fender scale length guitar and not a Gibson(shorter). The song Gettin' better has helped me through some very rough times and one of the first songs I learned to play well on the guitar, for that very reason. Hang tough is always at the end of my playlist when I'm at the gym and need that extra motivational pump.
During my college days i had a graveyard show on a cross-town college's radio station and one night a buddy sat in with me. He hadn't heard Tesla yet. Someone had carted "Modern Day Cowboy" and i pulled it for play. Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive" was all over radio at this point. I got a huge "Ugh, not another one..." From my pal I told him to calm down, slammed the cart in and did my live sow open and introduced the track and hit play. My buddy became a Tesla fan at 12:08am.
One of my favorite bands. I don’t think of them as hair band. I put them in the group with Black Crowes more southern rock. Got to see them at the Zooamp in OKC. Great concert right up against the fence(front row) firehouse opened up for them. My favorite album was The Great Radio Controversy. Great story tellers don’t understand country singers don’t cover them for that purpose, but glad they don’t.
Tesla is a t-shirt and jeans band. They are unique in rock and amazing in their space. I was drawn to them in the beginning because I was obsessed with Nickola Tesla. They are underrated and Jeff Keith (vocals) is amazing.
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Get her to listen to the whole albim Mechanical Renasonce also have yall featured Boston?
signs by 5 man elec. band???
Tesla was a Kickass Band on that tour! They completely blew Def Leppard off the stage!
It drives me nuts when I hear younger folks today call Tesla a hair band for exactly the reason Burch said... they fought that label their entire career. I saw them open for Def Leppard in Battle Creek MI and then at the same venue a year or so later when they played the first show of their first ever headlining tour. They've had their ups and downs... they broke up in 1996 but they reformed in 2000 and have been going strong ever since. They are touring the US right now, in fact.
I saw them in June 88 on the Hysteria tour with Def Leppard. Great show and that ticket cost a whopping $27 CAD! Can't believe that was 36 years ago this June!
Agree 💯!! They, along with Great White came onto scene the very end of the Hair Metal craze (which I am a big fan of) but even though they were both very different, they were pigeonholed as Hair Metal, but were both so much more! Jeff Keith (Tesla) & Jack Russell (Great White) both had great Rock/Bluesy voices, & the bands. Great White’s all Zeppelin tribute Album is fantastic. And all of their sleazy Bluesy Rock is great.
Make sure you do Tesla’s Love Song & Little Suzi for Alexis.
Great band!
I totally blame the record companies of the time. They were riding that same formula for so long and any rock or metal band that came along they said to themselves "poof the hair up." It was too bad Tesla got thrown out with the bath water when Grunge came along. They are a solid hard rock band!! Love them. I was so glad when they got back together!!
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Excellent post.
Tesla is waaaaay underrated!!!
Soooooo underrated. Yet sooooooo great. Real and Raw Rock and Roll.
I've been a fan of Tesla since day one, met them in person, their video for the song Gettin Better was filmed in my hometown, I worked at a Hardware store across the street from where they performed the video, the tour manager came into the store for bolts, washers and nut to build the stage because the hardware for the stage got lost in travel, he needed two guys to help build the stage they performed on, me and my buddy Mike built the stage and we were invited to the video shoot and they asked us to invite all of our friends and we packed the place called The Stage in Coatesville Pennsylvania, we all drank with the band and had a great time.
Hey , you didn't live in Pottstown by chance at any time did ya ?? Your name sounds familiar
Frankie Hannon is an underrated guitarist.
Love his other band Moon Dog Mane, too.
@@markwilliams6394 Kaleidoscope is his killer cover band. All the hard rock and heavy classics
Hell of a nice guy too.
@brettminkin1620 Yes, met him twice. Once he came into my work before a Tesla concert and the other with Moon Dog Mane.
Great Real Rock Band. Still rocking to this day !! Just a bunch of regular guys. Great Band.
I have to put this up as my favorite Tesla song. I have heard this song many times but have not seen the video in ages. A totally great song. I miss those days.
Tesla is awsome. They started unplugged with five man acoustical jam. My favorite is song and emotion! Thank YOU!
Yes, I remember...everybody do unpligged after that...
So glad to see Tesla on here! One of my absolute favorite bands of all time. Love Song, Little Suzie, Paradise, Gettin' Better, Signs, and there is so many more to choose from. It's a cornucopia of really great music from a band that was like you said, different!
Give What You Give
One of the best debut albums by any of the 80s bands....not 1 bad song at all....still love this album, and listen to if often.
Amazing song. My second fave of theirs behind Heaven's Trail.
Great song!
Saw them live in the 80's and this was always my favorite song of theirs
THANK YOU for doing Tesla, now keep it going, like Burch said, they've got a LOT of great songs!!!!!!!!
Seen them 4 times. They are from the Sacramento CA area where I'm from. One of my favorite bands
Just saw them last night, they can still bring down the house!!!
Saw Tesla several times in the 80's. Met Jeff Keith.Very nice guy. He used to make a living cleaning septic systems! Very underrated band! Love Song and their cover of Signs!
Most under rated band ever. Just a bad ass, hard rock band who got stuck under the Hair Metal genre but wasn't really Hair Metal. Absolutely my favorite as I have seen them countless times over the years including just last August. They played this and still kicked ass.
Love Tesla! Great Sacramento band.
Tesla were not big at all here in Australia, but i remember hearing Cumin' Actha Live and being blown away. Their albums were hard to find down here, but I did find a few.
Our #1 South Sacramento band! Tesla did something back then that other Sacramento bands couldn't do. They were able to get signed and become headliners without moving to LA. Frank and the boys were always into hard rock and heavy rock.....the classics, including huge Beatles fans. Here in Sacramento, we are NorCal and not into the hair band genre of the glam bands from LA. There were only a few clubs to play and you had to know your stuff. I grew up in the same neighborhood and watched them go from Earthshaker to City Kidd to Tesla. I will also never forget riding BMX bikes with Frank and scaring the shit out of him going through Oak Park! Good times.
If you revisit Tesla again in the future, I know "Love Song" is next, but please consider "Edison's Medicine". Would like to hear Alexis' thoughts/reaction to the history lesson enclosed in the song.
The lyrics is what makes that song. The song made me dive deeper into the man Nikola Tesla, and now he’s a favorite historical figure of mine.
My favorite song from Tesla is Paradise. This song was played a lot in my walkman when I lost a friend from high school is a very bad car accident. It was one of the only things that got me through that devastating time. Please react to it. I think Alexis would love it.
I remember seeing/hearing this video for the first time like it was yesterday. I was at a party meeting my girlfriend-to-be. But this video came on MTV and it was like the seas parted. I saw nothing and heard nothing around me except this song! The next day I ran to the record store to get it, hurried home and proceeded to figure this album out on guitar. From beginning to end Mechanical Resonance is a class in guitar rock!
Later on Shine Away became my favorite Tesla song but Cowboy is a close second.
My favorite song!!
There so underrated ,ive been a fan since 1986. Ive seen them live over 10 times. And they are amazing live
I love the subjects Tesla always tackled.
Technology, culture, and how they affected the world around us.
I saw them in Kansas City in '92 at Memorial Hall with Firehouse opening up for them. Great show.
One day I was playing the guitar and a friend came to sing with the music. His name was Dillan. So I started off the bat playing the love song by Tesla. Dillan began singing and I played the whole song leads and all and Dillan sung the whole song. We should have been on a stage. It was really awesome to have a singer sing to it. Awesome!
Love Song is my favorite Tesla song. The long version.
Nothing and I mean Nothing beats the 80's music.
Saw them open for Def Leppard on the Hysteria tour when this single was out and wore out Mechanical Resonance on cassette... such a great rock record and they continued putting out great stuff into the 90s! I love The Great Radio Controversy, Psychotic Supper and Bust a Nut! That dual guitar sound of Frank and Tommy was just SO good. #NoMachines
I saw Tesla in Western NY state back in the early 90's when I lived near Rochester. Great show!
November 12, 1989, Tesla helped kick off what was the single most fun week of my life teenage years. That night I saw them live in concert with Great White. On Wednesday I got a new, amazing girlfriend, and on Saturday we won the State football championship. Even 33 years later, there's not much of that week I don't remember vividly.
You mentioned Tesla being lumped in as a glam band despite not really fitting the label. I remember the ads for the concert on the radio called Tesla "the last blue jean and t-shirt band." They were ACTIVELY trying to distance themselves from the glam label.
I always knew about them as a kid, but never really listened to them much. Now, I love their music. They are still touring too!
Love this song. I am a big TESLA fan Song and Emotion is my favorite. Edison's Medicine is great too!
At first I only knew Tesla from Headbanger's Ball and liked all the songs I saw but never thought I paid attention to them that much. It wasn't until I saw them open for Lynyrd Skynyrd and I sang along with every song they played that I realized I knew a bunch of their stuff and liked it all. Next day I went out and bought their albums (cassettes).
Well Burch, you finally did it! You got Alexis Teslafied!!! I am a Tesla Freak, so I'm very biased about this great band. I've been watching your channel and waiting for a Tesla tune. I am now a follower after this tune. Burch, you nailed the right song to do first. Now Alexis is learning them the same way we did, discovering Tesla by Modern Day Cowboy.
Alexis, if you have one thing to do, it's go see this band live before they stop touring. Burch speaks of them in the past tense, but these guys are "Still Kickin' Ass"!!! If you don't ever listen to an 80s band again, at least go see these guys live. They are electric...and acoustic...and they ROCK!!!
One of my faves from a home town band
Love these guys.....great home town band.
I saw them with Def Leppard and Dokken back in 87, the whole show rocked. Then I saw them many years later at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach SC, it was great.
Pure guitar rock loved other 80's rock bands but as a musician, for me Tesla was above. Saw them live 3 times in the 80's
Love song is great but Song and emotion hits me more years later
I remember seeing them the first time in the late 80’s when they opened for Iron Maiden. I had no idea who they were and wasn’t expecting much. They came out playing “Coming at you live” and became an instant fan. It’s still one of the best songs I have ever seen performed live.
LOVE Tesla. Play her the studio version of Paradise. Great song.
They still are awesome and still going strong.
Finaly Tesla One of the best bands out there a lot of great songs a lot of people never heard of them.
Too many great songs from these guys to pick. They just got better as time went on! More Tesla please!
I love how you're bringing this great music to the future generations!
"What you give" certainly a reaction must.
So glad u finally got to TESLA every song on Mech/RES. Is ridiculously good. Great album
They were a great live band. Good memories.
What you give, Signs, Little Suzi, The Way It Is, Gettin'Better, it just goes on. Love that band
Great choice and totally the right call to pick this one first. This was my very first Tesla experience as well and it made me go out and buy Mechanical Resonance (1986). I think if I had heard their popular ballads first, I may not appreciate them as much.
I got to see them open for Def Leppard on the Hysteria tour🤘
I played softball with these guys and they are still a good band and some good guys
Modern day Cowboy is my favorite Tesla song for sure!
i seen tesla in 2017 and they still had it..sounded great live. been a tesla fan since they came out
A GREAT Tesla song! Love you guys!👍❤️
They are awesome in concert!
My favorite band of all time. Looking forward to you doing Love Song
1. Tesla IS amazing.
2. White Lion is also amazing. Vito Bratta is one of the best guitarists of the 80s.
3. Frankie Hannon deserves so much more credit than he gets. Just a monster player.
Love me some Tesla
Tesla for me is that band that has always been there. Seen them 6 times in concert. I love them. So many good songs. Tesla is the young man's get off my porch band. Rockin', making a statement, going to take no shit, and tell it like it is band. Made it off of hard work and talent.
37+ years and still going. TESLA
My favorite Tesla moment is after I saw them on the 2014 Monsters Of Rock Cruise. I was in the Miami Airport and the section I was waiting for my plane in was almost completely deserted. All of a sudden in the section across from me, Jeff Keith with his mom and a couple other people sit down waiting for their flight. He had brought his mom on the cruise to celebrate her birthday and had brought her up on stage to sing happy birthday to her on the opening concert. I figured he had had enough of the ease access of fans on board the ship so I decided to leave him alone. His mom was kind of a boisterous lady and I could hear her side of the conversation as she was on the phone. She was hilarious. Other people that were walking by starting going up to Jeff and he was taking pictures and talking with all of them. Since they were doing it, I figured it wouldn't be that bad if I bothered him too. He was great. We took a photo, we talked, he even let me film a little hello video to a friend of mine who couldn't make the cruise. The best part was, while I was talking with him, his mother finished her phone call and came up to me and hugged me a couple times while thanking me for being her son's fan. She's an awesome lady.
The guys in Tesla have always been super nice guys and very friendly to their fans. JK is at the top of the list.
Kick ass Tesla and roll
I went to see them last year and they were awesome. They are one of my favorite bands. And I am so glad I finally got to see them❤
You have to do the live version of Cumin’ Atcha Live. The dueling guitar solos between Frank Hannon and Dave Rude are pure fire 🔥. If that doesn’t get your heart beating, you’re dead.
I bought this album when it came out still love it I rocked out to it while in the army back in the 80s
Tesla is one of the best live bands you'll see. I've been to a ton of concerts but none more than Tesla.
Tesla literally invented the mtv "Unplugged " craze! They went on a tour called "the five man acoustical jam". And one of their big songs off of that show was a cover of "Signs" by "Five man electrical band."
First concert I went to was Def Leppard hysteria with Tesla opening. Great show
Big Tesla fan, they are from the Sacramento area as am I. A couple of them went to my high school
AMAZING LIVE BAND!!! Underrated 4sure
You said i perfect. Great hard rock band in that hair metal era. I've seen them twice. Acoustic and full electric. Great band.
Tesla!!! At some point, if you do Song and Emotion. Please do the live MTV version. So good!
Tesla were, and still are, a no frills, reliant on the music heavy rock band. I also maintain it was the success of their 5 man acoustic jam that triggered MTV’s Unplugged!
Grew up on Tesla and their heavy metallic sound in mid 80's. This album is such a piece of art. Back when you had a Sony Walkman i would blast this album ridding Marta to school.
One of the best bands of all time
I remember hauling butt to the record store to get this the day it was released
Seen them in concert awesome show 👌😎👍🎸🎸🥁🎤🔥🔥
First song I learned on the Drums. Love Tesla
They were the best charity/fund raising band, when it came to helping people. Doing full concerts were 2 cans of food would get you in. These guys were awesome!
Yeah, “this one goes to 11” …my fav Tesla song. On my treadmill playlist; gets cranked.
2 of the best guitar players in Rock.
Tesla is GREAT!!! I'd love to see you do Mama's Fool. Also, am I wrong in thinking they have a similar sound to Dokken? Maybe I just think that because I discovered both groups around the same time.
Tesla is still one of my favorite bands. Jeff can still sing live today, unlike other 80's bands on tour today) and Frankie is a guitar great.
Great reaction. Glad she liked it. THANK YOU for doing Modern Day Cowboy and doing first. Of course she needs to hear Love Song, but feel free to keep it going with Tesla with Gettin' Better.
Saw them open for Def Leppard in 88. That was one of the best shows ever.
One of the best concerts I've been to.
Try Paradise
Changes
Flight to Nowhere
Freedom Slaves
And The Father of the Year Award goes to this man!
Tesla is such an underrated group
Tesla's guitar solos really fit the songs, great music composition and writing. I love the 5 Man Acoustic Jam album/concert. The only song they plugged in for was Love Song. One of the most underrated bands ever.
To this day Mechanical Resonance is one of a handful of albums where i felt like every song was a top notch banger
The bangs are killin me😂
Heck Yeah! Been a Tesla fan ever since I heard this song for the first time and still listen to the other albums as well, all the time. The opening lick to Modern day cowboy is very challenging to play, even harder when it's on a Fender scale length guitar and not a Gibson(shorter).
The song Gettin' better has helped me through some very rough times and one of the first songs I learned to play well on the guitar, for that very reason.
Hang tough is always at the end of my playlist when I'm at the gym and need that extra motivational pump.
During my college days i had a graveyard show on a cross-town college's radio station and one night a buddy sat in with me. He hadn't heard Tesla yet. Someone had carted "Modern Day Cowboy" and i pulled it for play. Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive" was all over radio at this point.
I got a huge "Ugh, not another one..." From my pal
I told him to calm down, slammed the cart in and did my live sow open and introduced the track and hit play.
My buddy became a Tesla fan at 12:08am.
Another great one is "cumin atcha live". The intro is awesome. They used to open every show with it.
One of my favorite Tesla songs is "What you give" she should here that
One of my favorite bands. I don’t think of them as hair band. I put them in the group with Black Crowes more southern rock. Got to see them at the Zooamp in OKC. Great concert right up against the fence(front row) firehouse opened up for them. My favorite album was The Great Radio Controversy. Great story tellers don’t understand country singers don’t cover them for that purpose, but glad they don’t.
Tesla is a t-shirt and jeans band. They are unique in rock and amazing in their space. I was drawn to them in the beginning because I was obsessed with Nickola Tesla. They are underrated and Jeff Keith (vocals) is amazing.