My dad passed away last night, this is the song he loved the most and will be buried to. Please love and hug your people a little harder for me today because you never know when a loved one might be gone.
Very sorry for your loss. I lost mine a few years back but it still feels like yesterday. As someone who has been there I won't say it gets easier but eventually you start replacing the sad memories with the good ones. It's a process. Just a couple months ago I lost my father in law as well. He was like a 2nd dad. Just stay positive.
I know what you mean I lost my mom in my arms on 09/30/23 she passed away from her second stroke and damn she will be loved and missed forever. Take it easy and I'll be praying for you and your family take care and God bless you.
My brother is 4 years older than me he took me to all the shows back then Legend Valley September the 16th of 87 in scene Pink Floyd ac/dc roger waters.
My name is James and was just recently diagnosed with cancer. One of my biggest wishes is to meet Mr. Jeff Keith as a last request. I have been a fan since I heard their music when I was 10. Please Mr. Jeff Keith, if you read this, know your music got me through many hard time in my life, and what I am going through now, even more. You are a great vocalists as well as a beautiful soul. Thank You for your true love for life and people.
Hello James .. I pray your wish is granted. I'll keep you in my prayers. I pray God Almighty will heal you and sustain your life for many years to come. We tend to forsake the Lord yet the Lord NEVER forsakes us. Cry out his name with a sincere heart❤ God bless you!!
This has got to be one of the most underrated bands of all time. My dad showed me these guys when I was a little kid. Seen these guys live in 2012 and got to talk to all of them. The drummer gave me his drumsticks after the show and have them as a souvenir to this day. Much love 🤟
Your not kidding... Around 1988 i went to a free concert in Manchester NH called the River front.. outdoors n free... We all went to see Poison... Tesla opened for them... Think the crowd liked them more!!! It was fuckn epic!!!
I'm 46 and allot of the local teens come to my house to crank up my system because it's loader than what they have as long as it's rock I don't mind I did find out the two loud= to old is wrong at 2500+ watts RMS my system can get to loud :)
robert crocker Oh now....it can never get to loud:) I compete at rolling thunder competitions. Im pushing 5000+ Ive cracked my rear side glass windows twice. Keep on rockin brother
@@tracieday1914 U must be a 66 kiddo as well. We grew up in the best decades ever was. Im not going to go as far as to say the music now is all bad. However....it doesn't have the meaning that our classics have. Keep in ROKN. I WILL...THE LOUDER THE BETTER. ROCK ON
Totally love that lyric, "It's not what you got, it's what you give. It ain't the life you choose, it's the life you live." Wisdom comes from strange places sometimes.
how is a song a strange place to find wisdom? do you even know what music is? have you ever heard of poetry? what planet do you live on? or are you just one of those simpletons
+james vanitas "It's not what you got, it's what you give. It ain't the life you choose, it's the life you live." ahhh the world would be SUCH a better place HUH ?
This makes me tear up. Not only because it's a great ballad but because these bands and these songs are gone and they're not coming back. Oh but what a hell of a ride it was my friends.
Really I got a bit choked up too. I remember listening to this song when I was in the hospital for a bone infection in my right foot and I snuck out onto the helicopter pad to smoke a cigarette listening to Tesla on my cassette tape.
Met my only when I was 16, he'd just turned 18. Married him when I turned 18. We celebrated 34 yrs of marriage this year (2016). He's got MS, had a stroke last year. He was my only the 1st time I met him, he's still my only, he'll always be my only. The years have held sorrow, but much more happiness. We share our life and love with our 30 year old son, his wife, and 2 grandbabies. "What You Give" reminds me of what I've received. And I'm damn thankful for it all.
Jacee K sounds like me and my husband, met when I was 13 he was almost 16! Still together just celebrated our 24 yrs anniversary together. Got married in 1999 but we still celebrate both anniversaries! I love him more than life and wouldn't take NOTHING for him!!!
Nikki Davis, Thank you. My husband and I celebrate the anniversary we officially became a couple And our wedding anniversary. My mother thinks I'm nuts. But you Story is a Bit like ours. Only he was 14 and I was 21 so of course I wouldn't even think of him like that. Then when he was 22 we got together. Still together 10 years later and he is my all! Neither one of us expected it, in fact his proposal was Such a surprise because I had 2 divorces under my belt and he wasn't "the marrying kind" just goes to show, Anything is possible (btw my first marriage was when I was 17, I started Way too young!)
My husband sang this at our wedding reception at our remarriage .He just past away May 13 2024 we we’re together 48 yrs .I miss him so much the love of my life . Love you baby Thank you for all the years we had .
That man loved you dearly. I haven't married yet but I always imagined this song being involved by vows or just reception music. It's very powerful and unique. My condolences.
I was born in 1962 and turned 62 July 2024.ear buds in blasting that music and locked the world outside. The 80'S and 90's were the best many great memories. Back when things made sense. Still here August 2024!!!!
Just turned 46. Can't express how much this song means to me. Got to watch this music get buried and watch grunge take over. Still remember sitting with my friends chilling listening to this and more. I miss it so much kids today don't have a clue. It's all we had to do was buy cds and hang out. No smartphones, no internet, no worries just a fun concert and a weekend with great memories.
I love this song. Best of memories hearing my Mom rock out to it when I was growing up. I was born in 1987 and I recently told my Mom that 80s music has to be the best by far. So much meaning ♥️
Ive said it before and I'll say it again. If you didnt grow up in this era and listen to this music, you Have No idea what you missed. The 80's was THE best decade! Not for just the music but also just to grow up and live in. Tesla, Motley, Poison, Cinderella, Kix, and goddamn it, so many more. I would love to re-live those yrs again.
High school girls with big hair gun and roses motley crue. Went to see tesla acdc motley crue guns and roses in one year coming home from the tesla concert was pulled over with 3 passengers in my truck with the smell of beer in the air me and a friend 2 girls and the situation was looking bleak then the cop noticed the tesla t-shirt and asked is that where we were coming from I said yes he asked me to step out of truck to the back told me he wanted to go to the concert but couldn't get off from work made me promise to get back to my neck of the woods be nice to the girls stay off the roads what a night well 2 days as it turned out and 2 Nights damn it man anybody got a time machine
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This song is so honest, I am filled with love just listening to the words. When you love in this way, all things are possible. Trust in your heart. Trust in your feelings. Love heals absolutely. Not just those in love, but all those who witness it. The Power of love is simply this. All healing for all people. Thank you Tesla. I feel your music.
Saw recent live version in July 2023 and honestly, Tesla is one of the best bands I have ever seen live. Vastly underrated band and deserve to be in RRHOF. Saw them at the Odeon in Cleveland in the 90’s and one of best shows ever! Keep rockin gents!
Fuck em. Tesla is a class above all those pretentious Rolling Stone Magazine 'intellectual' ass clowns. They mean the world to those of us who can hear.
I was tearing up the other day for the same reason with a different song from the 70's . Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head. My father committed suicide at age 39 in 1979.
@@ronditchen6664 what about Steelheart- I'll never let you go.. & Skid row I remember you.. and Slaughter- fly to the angels.. So many classic ballads from the 80s/ early 90s that have stood the test of time.
I've seen them 3 times opening for Def Leppard '88,in a club in NJ in '04 and at The Chance rock club in Poughkeepsie,NY in '14.Excellent real rock 'n' roll band!
I'm 35 and this song is on my everyday playlist. It never gets old. Takes me back to much simpler times but the words also hit me to the core of my soul.
For those who don't know, this is actually about the death of Jeff's dog......................so it basically IS a love story dedicated to him. Having experienced the same thing, it takes on an even deeper meaning for me.
This song brings me back to such a wonderful time to n my life. A time of freedom, of lifelong memories and in a way a time of innocence. Our music in this era was GOLDEN and will never matched again 🙌
Yeah, downgrading materialism, status and bling in the line "it's not what you got", and simultaneously lifting up and giving credence to the notion of giving, All In a person rock song... Along with the rest...Not bad at all.
And underrated, if they stayed around for afew more yrs, or came out 3,,4 yrs Earlyer they'ld be a house hold name and Frank Hanna Dam good gutairist plus the uther guy lol kidding, I saw them n 87,,88 with def leopard right on keep rocking
My wife and I are both grew up in the 80's. We both simultaneously went through long and heavy trials and afterwards found each other. We danced to this song at our wedding reception. She's God's greatest gift to me!
Just saw these guys in concert on Friday . I was absolutely blown away how great they sounded. They said it was 37 years since they been to that venue. It was like traveling back in time to the 80s. Great song, great band.
hi m 22. i enjoy reading comments here..people growing old with these songs.. thats awesome and this is such an amazing song. i get goosebumps just listening to his voice
Klyn Bhuyn I love hearing about the younger generation who their parents raise them right . I don't mean to be judgemental but people who appreciate older music generally are more respectful, and I'm sorry just decent human beings. God bless you, glad you have great musical taste. By the way I've seen Tesla live numerous times and they absolutely freaking Rock, cool guys, great human beings, and put on one hell of a show
Klyn Bhuyn dude, you ROCK, I've seen your comments on some of these other videos that I love man I love seeing younger people who appreciate real music you're awesome dude, your parents raised you the right way
im still here and the 80s are still the best and everybody that commented on my post you are still my friends and we will be friends forever .80s forever .
Yep, me too. And here I am at age 34, and while I've felt that special kinda love toward 2, maybe 3 gals in my life, I've literally never had a woman tell me she loves me that way. Of course I am grateful for and genuinely appreciate my mother's love as well as the love of other female family and, well, I don't know that I have any lady friends that even love me as a friend, but anyways, as great as that love is, when you don't have that special kind of love, and when you have gone years without ANY sort of intimacy with a woman, not even cuddling, and yiu go completely without that magical feeling of excitement and burning arousal within your heart and soul and body as a whole which only the physical touch and affection of a woman can bring to a man, well, as I said, you realize how important that special kind of love is....
"Love song" is awesome tune too! Im a 70's baby so when Tesla came out I was in my teens n I love all kinds of rock but I cant believe this shit they put on the radio...i dont even listen to the radio nevermind todays music. Unless its something new from a band I like...im not interested! Thx for reading. Keep real great music alive. Im just so happy I grew up in an era when music was great. Now...the shit they put out is sad.
some of them did. Tesla is one of them. Even if someone doesn't like genre; they have to recognize the talent in the bands who had it. I've noticed they have stuck around. (recently hearing this on a classic rock station brought me here)
I'm from the 60's & 70's but because of MTV I got to see these 80's rock bands and yea they ain't the Beatles or Pink Floyd but I can jam to this music, in fact I'm going to see Tesla, Def Leppard, & CCR in a couple weeks rock on!!!!
+Kevin: I'm not gonna argue with you on this one because Tesla Rocks!! But, I like many others wouldn't consider Tesla a hair band. Just a great band!! :)))
I remember getting this cassette for Christmas one year. 'Santa clause' always wrapped our gifts like he was in a huge hurry & I remember this tape being wrapped with one piece of wrapping paper going around it long ways so all I had to do was pick it up & I could clearly see the side 'label' (that wasn't even a little bit covered) & I knew what that gift was 😅 Bless my Mom for trying. Now those "dingbat" moments are some of my favorite memories to look back on and laugh at cause not only can I relate, but because my Mom was always the one laughing the hardest at herself 🥰😅 Good times.
One of my late husband and my favorite songs. So many memories, hearing you play this on your guitar and me singing, to riding the country side on the Fatboy jammin as we are thunder on the highway. Hope you hear me playing and singing this song. This song speaks the truth, we gave it our all and was blessed with 26 years of marriage. No one can feel this void. Cant wait to be with you my Love. Forever and Always
+Natachia Williams I know I can never understand your pain so I hope this helps. A very wise person, my Mom, said to me one time "no one ever dies as long as someone remembers them, they just aren't as close as we would like them just now". My loss was a friend, more like a brother, to an OD, who I still miss to this day. Whenever you hear this cut you will remember him and he will be right next to you. Then, when we all go to the other side we can be with them again and complete. Peace to you and yours my sister.
Love this band. My husband passed December 23rd he’d listen to me singing it all the time. I’m going to Pens Peak for the concert it’s the day after my 50th birthday. Thanks for the great music
I'm here at 9:00pm on March 28, 2020. The month of the corona virus and I'm in lock down here in Michigan until April 13th and I'm here because I love Tesla.
Tesla wasn't a hair band. They were a great continuation of the Spirit of the Seventies which was the best music in History. I just saw them for the second time in Nashville on February 19. Most of their songs are uplifting and speak to what's really important in a life. God bless Tesla. They are still giving joy to the World and that's a great thing.
