Great band. As mentioned below, so underrated. They usually opened for most bigger acts back in the day, but they always rocked the house. The best thing about concerts back then is the floor was general admission and people would flood the floor and fight to get up front. Unlike today where you are assigned seats, it wasn't controlled like that. Of course tickets were incredibly cheap by today's ticket prices. Concerts were so much more fun back then. Your dad has good taste!
I grew up with these guys back when they were City Kid. Frankie would beg to hang with us because he was younger and would have to find a pay phone to call his mom for permission. Skeoch came to our house for Thanksgiving because he had nowhere to go. Once, he was picking and my roommates mom who was older asked why there was no sound and Skeoch plugged it in jumped on the table and did a rendition of Woody Woodpecker's theme song. Then she asked why there wasnt any hole in his guitar. Lol. Good times
Tesla was one of my favorite bands in high school. I saw them in the summer of 1990 at Alpine Valley, WI with Motley Crue, Joe Satriani, Bonham and Johnny Crash. Even though Motley Crue was the headliner, Tesla was by far the best act. I've always loved this video because it captures the the vibe of that day in my memory.
I saw them open up for Def Leppard in 1987 {the tour for the video Pour Some Sugar on Me} when I was 17 years old, and they been in my top 5 bands ever since
This was the era where the harder rock bands worked with the formula of... release a hard single, follow by a ballade or song to bring in the chicks. Because if you got chicks to come to your shows, then the guys would follow. So you show the chicks because guys like to see them and other chicks want to be them. It is just what we did to build our audience and it worked.
Tesla drove through as blizzard to show up an hour and a half late in RI ata concert I attended and did the full show, which they had to pay overage for because the fans waited, Good band. I honestly love them.
LOL if you notice the "Sound check" part of the video is the slow building first part of the song til the bridge kicks in with the color as the tempo is now faster and frantic.
My husband is a big Tesla fan. He first saw them back in the late 80's or early 90's opening for Def Leppard and became a fan the first he heard them. We go see them every time they come to town. I wasn't a fan back in the day, but I am now!
Great reaction guys! I was 17 when this came out. Check out the full length that gave an acoustic classical style guitar that was edited for this video single. I saw them live in 1990 my Sr year in high school. The rocked the house down!! And the main lead guitarist, Frank Hannon nailed every solo. In fact, this being one of my fav melodic solos of all time, I remember Frank playing live. I remember it like it was yesterday. On a previous Tesla video, you guys asked if Tesla was a real popular band back then or just among rockers? At first (1986 Modern Day Cowboy) they were popular among us rockers, but with this power ballad, they really came into the mainstream hitting high on the charts, adding many women as fans. **** Check out "Gettin' Better" from Tesla.
Tesla was great then and are still a great band. They're still touring. I've seen them several times and try to see them when they are here local. I have family members that travel to see them often.
Tesla is absolutely awesome. Jeff Keith has probably one of the best Rock vocals. He did a lot of the singing in the Movie “Rock Star.” He’s that great.
You asked why they only focused on the women in the audience? Because back in the 1980's, beautiful women helped sell products. Now fast forward to 40 years later, that becomes frowned upon because someone or some group gets easily offended and they would get canceled. True story
Gotta hear the album cut with extended acoustic intro.... And do Modern Day Cowboy if you haven't already. Long Way To Love by Britny Fox is killer also
Man i miss that concert venue (Cal Expo). I went to my first concert there. I wasn't at this concert, but i had a lot of friends there, and knew a couple girls shown in the video. This was a concert in front of Tesla's home crowd. I was told they played this song 3 times to shoot different takes for this video, then played the concert.
All bands of the 80's wrote & recorded rock ballads. MTV rotation,radio airplay,& to bring ladies to their concerts.A band showing their sensitive side was more appealing more to the women
Not a cell phone in sight. Everyone was 100% emersed in the experience. (Not saying that people are any better or worse, I'm sure if we had the ability to record the show with something in our pocket we definitely would have) But that being said, the experience of going to a show back then is totally different than today. And for your demographic question at the end, Tesla (along with some other bands of the era) pulled a huge female crowd. It was great!
Tesla suck a great band. Need to do their tribute to the man that gave the band its name. Nikola and react to Edison's medicine. Better than anything they taught you in school boys.
