Jeff Keith of Tesla talks about his Rock Scene 

This entire band epitomized “no bullsh*t”, humble, blue Jean, rock-n-roll. So many great memories listening to these guys.

I love Jeff Keith. He's so humble and real. He seems like a beautiful person.

jeffs awesome! i met him about 20 yrs ago. he was staying at a hotel i worked at as a kid....tesla was playing a venue close by that night...he could tell i was a fan when i waited on him in the hotels restaurant...and asked if id like to come to the show....if course i said yes....he set me up with tickets and backstage passes for me and 3 friends....he was the nicest dude....remembered exactly who i was bsckstage too and took alot of time to talk with my friends and i....it was a fun time!

Jeff is a great example of what musicians today really need....talent, love for your fans, a big heart, and some humility.

Most underrated band ever

Those "tomato farmers from Sacramento" wrote the soundtrack to my life. I'm grateful for the music.

This band needs to be in rock and roll hall of fame.

Never forget seeing them 1987 when they opened up for Def Leppard!! Gawd those were the days!!!

Met this guy a couple of times....kool motherfuker. Very down to earth..no rockstar attitude at all..he deserves every bit of success that has come his way...not to mention one of the last of the best frontmen in RocknRoll... keep it up Jeff!!!

With as underrated as they are and how much more recognition they deserve, it's a wonder how he remains so warm and humble. What a truly cool dude.

I have seen Tesla 27 times great everytime

Appreciate Jeff's humbleness

What a humble and genuine guy. A vocalist with a gift of storytelling... That's a star.

Great interview Keith. Love Tesla!!!!!

He's what a singer is all about... HEART \m/\m/

Jeff was part of my first Rock show. Badlands, Tesla, Great White. That night is still vivid in my mind. All 3 bands kicked ass.

This frikn rock legend! First saw them in 88 opening for Poison! 6 shows and 30 years later I’m still rockin Tesla’s Greatest Hits and 5 Man Jam ALL the way home! Got my 11 year old singing Love Song like a champ! We love ya Jeff! Keep on rockin in the free world!

That Band Rocked ur ass off .Talented Bad ass Musicians !!! Great Live Band!!!

What a cool guy. I love the band. I still listen to them all the time.

It's nice to see a rocker give credit to so many other bands. Most just talk trash about the others

He is awesome love him as frontman and writer

Jeff is the man, what a great band real musicians

Man, I’ve seen so many shows, and Tesla easily ranks among the BEST!! Thanks for the music guys! 👍🏻

I love him!!! I love Tesla since i was little. I grew up with their songs and still play them over and over. My kids love them too ❤❤❤

One of my all-time favorite bands! These guys are so underrated! True rock fans know they kick ass!

Jeff Keith from "Tesla" is the Real Deal used By God in a Magical Way!! Lov His Songs!!! Fan 4 Life!!! 6-11-23♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Tesla has been and always will be when I'm on my most favorite bands of all time... Jeff Keith had a lot to do with me singing and Frank Cannon inspired me so much to play guitar so thank you guys I'm almost 40 years into playing music LOL

10 Times I have seen Tesla, 10 Times not enough . . . . .Absolutely a great rock band !!

Growing up in the 80s, Tesla immediately grew on me. They played such great rock and roll music that just jammed. No gimmicks, no fake attitudes, very true to the music and to themselves. Loved the 5-man acoustical jam (unplugged) album… still cracks me up to hear Keith say “it’s #%&@ing hot in here… turn on the air conditioner or these people are going to kill you!” Unlike so many of the other bands of that era, Tesla doesn’t get old to me. Still sounds good today and still makes me feel so good while listening to them. Thanks guys!

What I like about Tesla is when you see them live it's like listening to the record there that good

Im 41 PARADISE has been my all time favorite since I was 13 years old

Early ZZ TOP and Foghat never gets old.

So great to hear others say they are stuck in the 70s! The BEST of times.

For a self-proclaimed bunch of tomato farmers from Sacramento, it's safe to say they did quite well for themselves!

Your voice will echo into eternity!

Great stories... You will live forever Jeff!

I Lov this Guy So Much!!! ❤

Best Damn Tomato farmers I ever saw, In concert at Irvine Meadows!!! This was on the" The Great Radio Controversy tour. KIX, TESLA and GREAT WHITE. That was such a rockin show all night long. Great memory's of that night. One of the best damn rock shows I ever saw, and I saw a lot of concerts all over the So.Cal area.

Saw Tesla at Hershey pa June 30 2018, loved it! Jeff rocks the house! 🎸😍🖤🤟🏻

I SAW TESLA IN DESMOINES, IOWA IN 1985 OR 1986 & THE CONCERT WAS GREAT.THEY ARE GREAT STILL

I was there also, best concert I ever seen and I've seen some good ones.

This is one happy dude, it’s nice 🤟🏼 one of my favorite all time bands✌️

Saw them many times live..best live band ive ever seen

I fucking love it. Great voice. True Rock Star.

He's speaking voice sounds just like his singing voice

My favorite band ever. I got to see them at Red Rocks in 1992 and they were awesome live. I’ve always liked them because they are a jeans and a T-shirt band. It’s always been about their music not their image.

" what you give" is my all time favorite, followed by modern day cowboy, Put it on and crank it up!!

Real old school ROCKER'S AND ROCK N ROLL MUSIC. FOREVER,FOREVER!!! GOD BLESS HIM AND THE WHOLE WORLD.

Still love you guys since the beginning ✌️❤️🎼🎤🤟🤘

Jk and the boyz are amazing musicians, I've met them and seen every show when they come to my town. This band hekped me get threw alot, there music is awesome, long live tesla.... I even named my cat tesla, I've got alot of love for the boyz, so keep on rocking much love

I saw them about 5 years ago at a fairly small venue called the Casino in Hampton Beach, NH. Ive seen alot of rock shows and they were one of the best of them.

Great interview, TESLA ANOTHER GREAT ALL AMERICAN BAND. BEEN A FAN FOR YEARS.

Im stuck in the 70s and proud of it!! Staying there too!

After YEARS of going to concerts and seeing every band from the 70's, 80's and 90's... I saw Tesla at the Arizona Memorial Coliseum. At one point during the show, Jeff Keith used his vocal cords to raise the hair on everyone's back! I think it took everyone to an almost spiritual place of a unified vibration! It even gives me chills thinking about it now 20 years later. When he did what he did, you could see him smile and roll his eyes back because he knew he was in the zone.. A truly amazing thing to witness that I had never seen from ANY other singer.

My all time favorite band, my buddy Randy knows Frank, and got him to say happy birthday to me on video and sent it to me on my birthday, BEST BIRTHDAY EVER. I showed that video to everyone. TESLA RULES 🤘😎🤘

One of the few bands that keeps it raw, like the Black Crowes.

Jeff is incredible and so is the band. I LOVE TESLA SO MUCH. THEY ROCK !!!

Seen Tesla live three times.In my top 3 best concerts ever.😎

I love Tesla so much I’m so excited to see them next week

Jeff you are the Bon Scott of our generation!! Cannot wait to see ya in Cherokee next month. Show number 18 for me! Happy Birthday to you, Frank and Troy.

You’re the best, Jeff! Watched you guys a couple weeks ago...amazing show and I was sad to see it end! Can’t wait until next time!

I could look at you all day long You are beautiful! Love you and your band!!!!!

I only know of this band this year month ago 2022 This is what I’ve been looking for my whole life love You Jeff Love Tesla

Tesla is amazing. I have seen them every time they are in town. Even though I have seen them many times, I am still trying to make it to their next show on Saturday. He is too humble.

Quit talking in past tense - it's not "he was" , It's "He is still awsome and rocking because I just rocked out three days ago with TESLA in Wichita Ks. Wooo Hooo :))

These guys are the coolest rock stars ever!! Met them in 86

Damn right, they do. "Tesla ', is the ultimate, and most humble blue collar, down to earth band that you will ever see in a show live or on the TV, or what have you, after 35 years or a little bit over that, they are still out there giving it all to us devoted, Tesla fans, young and old, Rockin' all of their hits, and Rockin ' our Asses off still. This," TSLAGRL ' , from Northern Oklahoma, is very agreeable that," Tesla ", without a doubt should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They should have already been in inducted.

Funny. I'm at the Chinese restaurant in Georgetown looking across the street at the Georgetown hotel as I'm watching this 🤣🤣🤣 Georgetown, Ca. In the house ✌️😎✌️

My Boys understand the 70s bands after hearing them so much from Me but also onto the 60s & 50s.. Above all.. Since I heard U all.. U,ve become My top fav band.. P.S. I also love Steve Tyler & Mark Slaughter.. Awesome voices.. Love n Hugs TESLA😘💞🌹

Cool I love it tomato farmer's from Sacramento lol. I was born and raised in Sacramento went to school with two of the members in Earthshaker, City Kidd, Tesla. I remember Brian saying they would make it, and they did.

That's awesome! My first concert was tesla and great white 1988 Louisville Kentucky! I won't ever forget it!

Man he still sounds awesome. Never seen them in concert but a great freakin band

One off the greatest Rock Bands ever

love tesla, great band, and awesome records. love seeing jeff again. we need a HEAVY METAL REVIVAL. desperately, love the 80's and all of its debauchery and decadence. we need another 20-year party and have a good time without \the drugs and alcohol, we did that. sex everywhere.

2 things I love about this channel- 1) The only person talking is the subject. 2)Most of these take place on a tour bus.

Just like the other comments below, I met these guys on Bust A Nut tour. It was at a Best Buy a few hours before the show. I really wanted to BS with Frank about guitars, but he was a little busy although he was nice and said hi. Jeff jumped right in with me and we talked about how much we loved Zeppelin and other bands and just had a fun talk. He had NO ego and was just a lot of fun. Tesla were the nicest band I have ever met

Tesla has some amazing songs! love their music. Their songs were all over the place, Kshe 95 used to play their songs and still does.

great interview and also , such a great attitude !!! and the Band is still rocking !!!

Wow, there is someone else like me out there. Foghat was great!!! Much love to you dude.

The Day on the Green he spoke of was one of the few I did not go to. I wanted to go, and had tickets waiting at home in the East Bay, but we were stuck up at Donner Lake when my buddy's 68 Camaro died right as we were pulling away from the cabin the evening before the concert. We were ticked! That would have been a great show. The tickets were freebies anyway, so no money wasted. Glad to hear Jeff likes Foghat. I still listen to them from time to time. We used to play Fool For The City and Terraplane Blues at parties and the the few times we played clubs. The slide player we had was really good and could nail the parts, but he moved back east, and our bass player went off to college. I hope I can see Tesla play somewhere in NORCAL sometime in the not too distant future. Its been years since I've seen them!

I LOVE TESLA!!!

February in Memphis will be my first live TESLA concert!!! I’m so excited!!!! Love you guys Jeff

Saw them play in Lincoln City Or last May.... great show!!! Brought back memories of the day. Totally worth seeing them live!🤟🏼

Ive always been a fan since i was very young child never had an opportunity to meet or to see them in concert , when i came across the videos on RU-vid 😱, I'll tell you what i cried like that was the best thing that ever happen to me, because i come from the desert so once a month was our trip to town no money but had to load up on cassette tape at the flea market for a cheap price TESLA was always one of my favorite band....YEAH!!! still Rockin Rock On......😘

I got to play softball with him when he and the boys was in town in St Louis it was cool

I love him. He has a way of naturally turning a negative into a positive and going with his flow .

The first concert I went to was Tesla and opening was Firehouse. WOW the best time ever! Thanks for that great experience!! you might be older now but you're still awesome! You will always be awesome!!!

Took my then 18 year old daughter to her first rock concert 4 years ago - Tesla at the Florida Theater in Jacksonville, Florida. Saw them open for - & blow away - Poison around 1990.

You had me @ FOGHAT!! Fool for the City baby !!

The best voice Texarkana ever produced.

wow, to think there would be no little susie had those girls not been there, that song hit me like a ton of bricks when I was a kid, I'm listening to it right now in another tab; also, saw them in 2013, they killed it

I’m still stuck in ‘Modern Day Cowboy’ 😎👊

Can't wait for new album

Just saw them 3 weeks ago. 38th time. Still kick ass!

Absolutely love Tesla! Always be my #1

It was great seeing you grow in our hometown, Georgetown , from City Kidd to Tesla! We all knew you were going to make it big! You're awesome Jeff Keith. Love ya, Cheri White

This dude is cool as hell....Love him.

I've met JK several times either before or after shows. He/they are so accessible: so down-to-earth--nothing pretentious or fake about them. They are 'genuinely' great guys. #RESPECT

Jeff Keith and the whole band is great so underated i would love to sing with him awsome voice and music 1 of the best bands

Jeff Keith and the rest of the Tesla guys are the real deal. Wayyyyy back in the day, when they were still City Kidd, they played at my jr high school's Day on the Green; I was already in high school but my friends who were a year behind me got to see them. Later on, I got tix to their 'The Way It Is' video shoot at the Sacramento Convention Center, and I cried when they did the 'Love Song' video shoot at the Cal Expo Amphitheater because I had to work that night. I saw them live in Reno when they opened up for Lynyrd Skynyrd, and then in Sac when they headlined Arco Arena (I think it was the 2nd Arco Arena, not the 1st one). Tesla is one of the best bands I've seen live, and they've always been proud to be a Sacramento band (as you could tell from this interview with Jeff). They're just a great blues-y, rock'n'roll band, no bullshit group of guys. All I can say is "Thank you!!" to everyone who's been part of the band, original members and later additions. It doesn't get better than this!