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  Tesla (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The band formed in 1984 as City Kidd and was renamed Tesla during the recording of their first album on the advice of their manager.
Tesla's music fit well with the blasting sound of the 1980s glam bands, but was more bluesy and lyrics dealt with themes other than just the usual for the day: girls, alcohol and violence.
Tesla is currently writing/recording their sixth studio album, which is due for release sometime in 2006 or 2007.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tesla_(band)   (473 words)

  
 Tesla_ Not Another Hair Band
At least one band, Tesla, was above the fray, even during the height of their success in the late 1980s.
The new moniker, a salute to Nikola Tesla, the Serbian electrical engineer and inventor, was another characteristic that separated the band from the world of Poisons and Ratts.
In 1986, Tesla’s first LP Mechanical Resonance was released and attained almost instant success thanks to the epic "Modern Day Cowboy." Recorded at the famous Bearsville studio in upstate New York, it demonstrated the band’s commercial songwriting ability and their propensity for no holds barred rock.
www.vintagerock.com /tesla.html   (1073 words)

  
 Tesla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Tesla has always been the type of band that does things their way.
If nothing else the band’s hiatus was well timed: grunge was hitting its prime and Tesla’s last studio release, Bust a Nut, despite being one of the band’s strongest works, was overlooked for the most part.
Tesla will be hitting the road with the Scorpions starting in late October with a stop at Denver’s Magness arena on Wednesday, Oct. 27.
www.marqueemag.com /10_04/Tesla.html   (675 words)

  
 No Life 'til Metal - CD Gallery - Tesla
Tesla were big during the glory days of hair metal but they never really were from that genre, despite being labeled as such.
Tesla attempted to continue as a quartet for a time, but the chemistry had been irreparably altered, and they broke up in 1996.
Unlike the hairbands that Tesla were lumped in with, this band seems to take their craft seriously and their songs are not just happy, party anthems.
www.nolifetilmetal.com /tesla.htm   (1218 words)

  
 Tesla The Band - ... - marchingband.powernewsonline.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
For the reunited local rock band Tesla, which plays the Memorial Auditorium on Friday night, aiming for center field is the best way to nail a hit.
Tesla, are a band that play from the heart and have remained true to their music over the past twenty years.
Wedding band wraps   Tesla the band   Eagles the band   Flat wedding bands finish p   Live the band  
marchingband.powernewsonline.info /.../tesla-the-band.html   (327 words)

  
 Tesla: Time's Makin' Changes: Videos & More - PopMatters Music Review
In the remaining two music videos from the first Tesla record, the hair got a bit poofier, the jeans tighter, and the high-tops with big tongues were exchanged for the more expensive and more rock and roll snakeskin boots.
First, they distanced Tesla from the rest of the '80s bands, most of whom wouldn't dare expose the flimsiness of their music by putting it on such a stripped-down display.
The video for the song shows the band playing in front of a screen that flashes diagrams for Nikola Tesla's inventions, newspaper articles on the Supreme Court case that gave him credit, and headlines proclaiming him an eccentric madman who was considered a threat to society because of his odd ideas and proclamations.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/t/tesla-timesmakin.shtml   (1424 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Tesla
Tesla's planning to release a live album recorded during this reunion tour, and there's talk of the band members heading into the studio to work on new material.
With the drum riser, a metal stair-step formation, occupying the bulk of the performing area, the band looked cramped on the amphitheater's medium-sized stage and gave the impression that it was ready to take a full arena by storm.
With time for only two more songs, Tesla broke into "Modern Day Cowboy" as audience members started whipping out their Zippos and shouting for the band's biggest hit, the ballad "Love Song." With only one song left, it couldn't, it wouldn't forsake its biggest hit.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.07.01/tesla-0123.html   (561 words)

  
 MelodicRock.com - Interactive Melodic CD Reviews
Tesla's band members all had their own solo things going, with Jeff Keith and Tommy Skeoch's Bar 7, Frank Hannon's Moon Dog Mane and Brian Wheat's Soulmotor both featuring more modern approaches than Tesla's classic hard rock sound.
Never was a huge Tesla fan but much admired their output, spirit, and no compromise attitude so sparse within the hard rock cock rock scene particularly during the onset of grunge.
I found Tesla to be a rehash of Leppard, simply an American spin on the hard pop machine of the UK lads, and although their output greatly outdid anything post Hysteria (in my opinion)it was still not enough for me to bow down the converted.
www.melodicrock.com /reviews/tesla-intothenow.p3   (4068 words)

  
 Tesla Artistfacts
The band tried to raise the profile of Tesla by giving the Smithsonian Institutute a bust of the scientist, which they rejected.
A Tesla is a unit of magnetic flux.
Also, Tesla is not a horrible band, obviously you just have absolutely no taste.
www.artistfacts.com /detail.php?id=97   (177 words)

  
 Jeff Keith Of Tesla!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Once Keith and his band mates overcame the initial shock and depression of the terror attacks, they were able to regroup and return to making the first Tesla studio album in years.
That is Tesla for ya… We are always an accident waiting to happen but sometimes we slip right through things that should have knocked us off of our feet.
The band approached me one day at rehearsal and said, “Tommy has got to go.” I was like, “What are you talking about Tommy has got to go?” They were like, “We just can’t deal with this guy no more.
www.classicrockrevisited.com /interviews02/jeff_keith_of_tesla.htm   (4518 words)

  
 Tesla
Indeed Tesla had a mega career and have been sadly missed since they were put on ice in 1995.
I forget where the band was off to at the time, I think headed east some where, and they didn't realize it until they were out of state that I had been left behind (laughs).
I know the band is still very excited to do another record.
www.aordreamzones.com /Tesla.htm   (1254 words)

  
 Tesla - Fve Man Video Band DVD
But when the band returned to hometown Sacramento, CA, before starting work on its third studio album, it learned that one of those Boston stations was playing “Signs” and receiving tremendous response.
Tesla continued its winning ways after that success but in 1996 the group broke up.
Recording projects have since been launched and the band is back on the road.
www.nehrecords.com /shop/TeslaFiveDVD.htm   (275 words)

  
 Tesla guitarist rejoins band for Scorpions tour - Y&T/Meniketti Forums
TESLA guitarist Tommy Skeoch will be rejoining the group for their upcoming tour with the SCORPIONS, which is scheduled to kick off October 21.
Being my wife is a huge fan of Scorpions and loves Teslas live performance.
Although it may be a tough swing with 2 concerts the same weekend.
www.meniketti.com /vforum/showthread.php?t=4962   (618 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: T: Tesla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Tesla Photo Album - Pictures of members of the band performing.
Tesla Rocks Dallas - Biography, discography, and photographs of Tesla at their Dallas show in 2001.
Tesla's Livin' the Life And Inviting Fans to Join Them - Interview with Tesla Guitarist Tommy Skeoch about touring and their new material.
dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/T/Tesla   (244 words)

  
 Culturebot.org: tesla the coil, not the band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Before Tesla was a lame hair band, there was the eccentric genius scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla.
His life was the subject of a cool play called Requiem for Tesla by the Austin, TX theater company Rude Mechanicals and now Tesla's flashiest invention, the Tesla Coil is on display in the Collective:Unconscious performance spectular, Tesla Mania.
Smell the fresh scent of ozone, as bolts of electricity burst forth form the Tesla coil.
www.culturebot.org /archives/2004/09/28/TeslaTheCoilNotTheBand.php   (326 words)

  
 Tesla Discography at CD Universe
Tesla includes: Jeff Keith (vocals); Frank Hannon (acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, background vocals); Tommy Skeoch (electric guitar, background vocals); Brian Wheat (bass, background vocals); Troy Luccketta (drums, percussion).
Tesla: Jeff Keith (vocals); Frank Hannon (acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, keyboards, background vocals); Tommy Skeoch (electric guitar, background vocals); Brian Wheat (electric bass, background vocals); Troy Luccketta (drums).
Tesla: Jeff Keith (vocals); Frank Hannon (acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, background vocals); Tommy Skeoch (acoustic & electric guitars, background vocals); Brian Wheat (keyboards, bass, background vocals); Troy Luccketta (drums, percussion).
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/artist/Tesla/a/Tesla.htm   (110 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Time's Makin' Changes - The Best of Tesla: Music: Tesla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
If you are a longtime, true, hardcore fan of the band, however, you also owe it to yourself to own each and every one of their albums--including the stellar new one that came out this year.
Tesla is a really talented band from a time when hairspray was the in thing.
I've seen them in concert and they are the only rock band, that sounds the same, like you are hearing their cd.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000OUS?v=glance   (1280 words)

  
 Mike Gorman's New Band Page: TESLA
They were a great band and I thought they got better with each album.
Jeff and Tommy are in a band called Sofa King.
With bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Day, etc. being all the rage, Tesla and other rock/metal bands (with the exception of maybe Van Halen) were pushed to the back, so this album was not as heard this album as it should have been.
www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/floyd/620/tesla.html   (596 words)

  
 Netphoria - Smashing Pumpkins Music Store: Tesla - Five Man Video Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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This 1990 acoustic performance shows that Tesla was a hair band in name only.
The ragged video quality adds to the homey, intimate atmosphere the band creates sitting on stools in a small Philadelphia club surrounded by hundreds of rabid fans.
www.netphoria.org /B000062XDH/Tesla-Five_Man_Video_Band.html   (231 words)

  
 Band Reviews :: Tesla, Godsmack, Shinedown
This is by far one of the most impressive efforts I’ve seen from a band in a while.
The lead singer sounds an awful lot like Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, but the music ranges from a ballad-like tone to hard bass with some beautiful shredding.
I’d have to say the best part about this band is the new, innovativeness that Shinedown has brought to the genre.
www.absoluteinsight.net /29   (438 words)

  
 VH1.com : Tesla : Artist Main
Although Tesla emerged during the glory days of hair metal, they never completely fit the spirit of the times.
Their music was well-produced pop-metal, to be sure, but they never indulged in the glammed-up excess that made cartoons out of many of the...
It's crude, lewd, and brewed by some of the loudest and hairiest bands of the 70's, 80's, and 90's.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/id_17563/artist.jhtml   (192 words)

  
 Tesla Rock Band
Tesla really had a job ahead of them to come back after so long apart Rating: 91.
The reunited rock band electrified the crowd at the Bone Bash II mullet-loving crowd was full of those lifelong, diehard fans that every rock band dreams of
least one band, Tesla, was above band reformed in their hometown of Sacramento in 2001 for a live concert, later released as Tesla Replugged in 2001.
www.michiganbands.com /michigan-music/tesla-rock-band.html   (790 words)

  
 Maximum Ink Music Magazine - rock music online, rock music magazine, new rock music, metal rock music, rock pop music, ...
A lot of the newer bands, I can see how kids are digging them and all that, but it is not really my thing.
Recorded during their 2005 spring tour, the double disc set captures all the timeless qualities without compromising the unpredictable nature that is at the core of a Railroad Earth concert.
The Minneapolis band is taking its acoustic version of the group on tour of California, including a show at L.A.'s Viper Room.
www.maximumink.com /articles.php?articleId=511   (3134 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tesla - Five Man Video Band: DVD: Tesla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Frank Hannon is one of the best guitarists in rock Hey this band actually play's guitar solo's something the younger generation probably doesn't know about, Jeff Keith is an excellent singer he is always dead on!!!
One of the best Rock bands ever, proving that they can rock without the aid of all the amps.
This DVD captures the band in a peak performance.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000062XDH?v=glance   (1097 words)

  
 Tesla t-shirts, band merchandise, hats, flags, stickers and patches
Tesla band merchandise, concert t-shirts, hats, flags, stickers and patches
Tesla concert t-shirts and over 1200 Music bands of rock n roll,
If there is a Tesla t-shirt or any other concert t-shirt that you cannot find,
www.star500.com /tesla.html   (181 words)

  
 Tesla - Five Man Video Band DVD prices at Smarter.com
Tesla - Five Man Video Band DVD prices at Smarter.com
California's hard rock quintet Tesla mix decidedly classic rock influences with a modern metal edge.
Their love of classic rock 'n roll and blues can be glimpsed on this filmed concert performance, at which they perform the Five Man Electrical Band's "Signs" (one of their biggest radio hits) and The Beatles "We Can Work It Out." In addition, they...
www.smarter.com /movies-4/product/tesla_-_five_man_video_band-118097   (205 words)

  
 Tesla - Five Man Video Band
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Tesla - Five Man Video Band to receive a rating.
Their love of classic rock 'n roll and blues can be glimpsed on this filmed concert performance, at which they perform the Five Man Electrical Band's "Signs" (one of their biggest radio hits) and The Beatles "We Can Work It Out." more »
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www.rottentomatoes.com /m/tesla_five_man_video_band   (387 words)

  
 KNAC.COM - News - Tesla DVD
The wildly successful “Unplugged” phenomenon just may have started with a most unlikely band, blue-collar hard rockers Tesla, and its 1990 platinum album Five Man Acoustical Jam.
Documenting that release, a live concert was filmed and 'Five Man Video Band' was issued.
The band has scheduled some acoustic shows for February 2002:
www.knac.com /article.asp?ArticleID=294&StartTime=1/1/2050   (488 words)

  
 Tesla - Five Man Video Band Cast and Crew   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Tesla - Five Man Video Band Cast and Crew
Garfield has all his heart desires when he switches places with a look-alike, an heir to a grand estate.
If he can outwit criminal masterminds and save the world from a giant asteroid, Bruce Willis can certainly -- as RJ the raccoon, in "Over the Hedge" -- lead his plucky band of suburban fauna to the good life.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/tesla_five_man_video_band/cast_crew.php   (259 words)

  
 Tesla - Five Man Video Band (DVD) - SHOP.COM
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 Tesla: Five Man Video Band (1990)
Live concert by Blues influenced heavy metal band featuring many hits, including songs from "The Great Radio Controversy" album.
Fans of late 80s, early 90s metal will enjoy, others avoid.
Less metal, more make-up from this glam rockers group.
www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=44229   (73 words)

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