TESLA...Live again...

[IRON BALLS]

California rockers TESLA will release a new live album, appropriately titled "Alive In Europe!", in Europe on April 23 via Frontiers Records.

The track listing for the effort is as follows:




SAMPLES HERE: Warning, songs are out of order for some reason...
www.amazon.co.uk/Alive-In-Europe/dp/B003B92V5E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1268457892&sr=8-1

01. Forever More
02. I Wanna Live
03. Modern Day Cowboy
04. Heaven's Trail
05. What A Shame
06. Shine Away
07. Love Song
08. What You Give
09. The Way It Is
10. Breakin' Fee
11. Hang Tough
12. So What!
13. Signs
14. Lil' Suzie
15. Into The Now

In a recent interview with The Breakdown Room's Brian Heaton, TESLA bassist Brian Wheat that the band was working on two separate live albums — the first consisting of live recordings solely from TESLA's shows overseas, and the second featuring songs performed and recorded in the United States.

"I could have just done one big live record, but I wanted the European fans to have their own piece of TESLA," Wheat said. "We completely ignored them from 1991 to 2006, although we go there a lot now. I just wanted to say, 'Hey, look, this one is for you.'"

According to Wheat, "Alive In Europe!" was to be a more "hits-oriented" collection of songs, whereas its U.S. counterpart would likely focus on some of TESLA's more obscure cuts.

"There will be some overlap, but not much," Wheat said. "Americans got the DVD, 'Comin' Atacha Live 2008', and that had a lot of hits. So the American [live album] will have stuff we haven't played in a long time or played ever."

[snakesandladders]

Hi PH....I hope today finds you well and ROCKIN'!!! . I've been meaning to reply to this post, but for some reason, I skipped it....oh well, better late than never, right?!. I've been very interested in this Cali band over the years, but with time as a tyrant (work, etc.!), I just couldn't me hands and earsd around a single Tesla tune:(. I've read a lot about this band....both in good and bad....but one commeon denominator I've noticed in nearly all the reads is that Tesla is a TRULY UNDERRATED band, but I don't get why??! Is is something artistic or is it "political"....very strange though!! Could you help? Thanx

[Pete]

Picklehead probably could answer better than me but I think they got lumped in with all the hair bands and pop metal when they were really more of a modern (at that time) 70s style blues based hard rock band. I've always liked Tesla and they are great live.

I also really liked a lot their 2004 release "Into The Now" which was largely ignored.

...and this one that just came out in October is really starting to grow on me.

[Frank]

Forever more is a killer album if you havent checked it out!!

[snakesandladders]

Thanx for the replies. I once heard someone saying that the band took sides with the discoveries and ideas of the scientist called Tesla and for some twisted reason, they were ...like 'ignored'...by the media!!.....go figure !