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США  18 дек 2023 : |
FRANK HANNON Doesn't Know If TESLA Will Release Any New Music In 2024: 'We're More In Touring Mode Right Now' |  23 ноя 2023 : |
FRANK HANNON: TESLA Wasn't 'Trying To Compete With The Glam Bands' In 1980s |  25 окт 2023 : |
When Will TESLA Release Follow-Up To 2019's 'Shock' Album? JEFF KEITH Responds |  8 окт 2023 : |
FRANK HANNON Says TESLA 'Wasn't Really Affected' By Rise Of Grunge In 1990s |  3 окт 2023 : |
TESLA's JEFF KEITH Says Tuning Down To Accommodate His Aging Voice Has 'Worked Out Well' For The Band |  26 сен 2023 : |
TESLA To Record 'A Couple Of New Songs' In February |  22 сен 2023 : |
TESLA Has No Plans To Retire: 'We're Gonna Keep It Up And Go As Long As We Can' |  9 сен 2023 : |
TESLA Releases Music Video For Cover Of AEROSMITH's 'S.O.S. (Too Bad)' |  10 авг 2023 : |
TESLA's JEFF KEITH Says New Drummer STEVE BROWN Is 'Working Out Great': 'He's A Great Guy' |  8 июл 2023 : |
JEFF KEITH Says TESLA Is Tuning Down 'A Whole Step' On Some Songs To Accommodate His Aging Voice |  20 июн 2023 : |
TESLA's JEFF KEITH: 'When We Play Live, We Don't Roll No Tape' |  9 июн 2023 : |
TESLA Releases Music Video For 'Miles Away' From 'Full Throttle Live' Album |  17 май 2023 : |
TESLA: 'Full Throttle Live' Album Details Revealed |  6 май 2023 : |
TESLA Guitarist FRANK HANNON On Possible Retirement: 'I Don't See A Deadline On This Thing' |  12 апр 2023 : |
TESLA's BRIAN WHEAT Says There Will Be 'An Official Statement Soon' Regarding TROY LUCCKETTA's Status With The Band |  2 апр 2023 : |
Watch: SEBASTIAN BACH Joins TESLA On Stage During Las Vegas Residency To Perform 'Signs' |  20 мар 2023 : |
Watch: TESLA Kicks Off Las Vegas Residency At House Of Blues |  10 мар 2023 : |
TESLA's 'Full Throttle Live!' Album Will Include 'Mostly Rocking Tracks' |  28 фев 2023 : |
TESLA To Record Cover Of AEROSMITH's 'S.O.S. (Too Bad)' |  17 фев 2023 : |
TESLA To Release New Live Album This Summer; More Tour Dates Announced |  4 окт 2022 : |
TROY LUCCKETTA Doesn't Know If He Will Ever Play With TESLA Again |  5 сен 2022 : |
FRANK HANNON On TESLA's Pandemic-Related Break From Touring: 'It Was A Very Bizarre Time' |  29 авг 2022 : |
TESLA's FRANK HANNON On Drummer TROY LUCCKETTA: 'He's Got Things That He's Dealing With' |  9 авг 2022 : |
TESLA Releases New Single 'Time To Rock!' |  28 июн 2022 : |
Watch: TESLA Performs New Song 'Time To Rock' In Des Plaines, Illinois |  14 июн 2022 : |
TESLA To Release New Single 'Time To Rock' In July |  28 мар 2022 : |
TESLA Will Concentrate On Releasing One New Song At A Time, Not A Full-Length Album |  11 мар 2022 : |
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TESLA's BRIAN WHEAT Reconnects With Ex-TESLA Guitarist TOMMY SKEOCH For First Time In More Than 15 Years |  27 окт 2021 : |
TESLA Shares Instructional Guitar Video For New Song "Cold Blue Steel" |  13 окт 2021 : |
TESLA's FRANK HANNON Doesn't Know When TROY LUCCKETTA Will Return To Band: 'He's Taking A Break' |  6 окт 2021 : |
TESLA's FRANK HANNON Admits He Was 'Wrong' About COVID-19 Vaccine: I Went Through 'A Month Of Hell' |  15 сен 2021 : |
TESLA's FRANK HANNON 'Waited Too Long' To Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19: 'This S**t Ain't No Joke' |  27 авг 2021 : |
TESLA Releases Music Video For New Single 'Cold Blue Steel' |  11 авг 2021 : |
TESLA's FRANK HANNON Confirms COVID-19 Diagnosis: 'I Have Not Been Able To Move All Week In Pain' |  10 авг 2021 : |
TESLA 'Postpones' Shows Due To Multiple COVID-19 Cases |  9 авг 2021 : |
TESLA Kicks Off Summer Tour Without Guitarist FRANK HANNON; HOWIE SIMON Steps In |  8 июл 2021 : |
Ex-TESLA Guitarist TOMMY SKEOCH Says He Doesn't Do Drugs Anymore: 'I'm So Over It' |  27 июн 2021 : |
TESLA's BRIAN WHEAT: Why I Dislike Term 'Hair Metal' |  16 фев 2021 : |
Watch TESLA's FRANK HANNON And JEFF KEITH Perform Acoustic Version Of 'Stir It Up' |  1 фев 2021 : |
BRIAN WHEAT 'Would Have Loved' To See TESLA Get JOAN JETT's Slot On MÖTLEY CRÜE/DEF LEPPARD Stadium Tour |  28 янв 2021 : |
TESLA Bassist BRIAN WHEAT Credits TRUMP For PFIZER Vaccine Development: 'Hats Off To The Man' |  21 янв 2021 : |
TESLA Hasn't Had Any Drugs Or Alcohol On A Tour Since 2004 |  18 янв 2021 : |
TESLA's BRIAN WHEAT Doesn't Think Rock Is Dead, But Admits 'It's Become More Of A Selective Thing' |  3 янв 2021 : |
TESLA's BRIAN WHEAT Looks Back On Early 1990s Rise Of Grunge: Our Manager Said To Me 'It's Over For You' |  30 дек 2020 : |
BRIAN WHEAT: TESLA's Six-Year Break 'Taught Us To Appreciate The Band Again' |  24 дек 2020 : |
TESLA Hasn't Used Coronavirus Downtime To Work On New Music, Says BRIAN WHEAT |  10 дек 2020 : |
TESLA Has 'Tons' Of Unreleased Material For Potential Box Set: 'I Want It To Come Out One Day,' Says BRIAN WHEAT |  5 дек 2020 : |
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BRIAN WHEAT: How TESLA Managed To Keep Its Hardcore Partying Out Of The Press |  6 окт 2020 : |
FRANK HANNON: I Don't Think That TESLA Will Work With TOMMY SKEOCH Ever Again |  3 июл 2020 : |
See TESLA Perform 'Breakin' Free' While In Quarantine |  26 май 2020 : |
See TESLA Perform 'Lazy Days' While In Quarantine |  15 май 2020 : |
JEFF CARLSON BAND Covers FOREIGNER Classic “Juke Box Hero” Featuring TESLA’s FRANK HANNON |  12 май 2020 : |
TESLA Bassist BRIAN WHEAT To Release 'Son Of A Milkman' Autobiography In November |  16 апр 2020 : |
TESLA's JEFF KEITH: 'The World Will Learn To Work Together' As A Result Of Coronavirus Pandemic |  23 мар 2020 : |
TESLA Postpone Spring Headline Tour |  20 мар 2020 : |
Watch TESLA Cover THE BEATLES' 'We Can Work It Out' From 'Five Man London Jam' |  10 мар 2020 : |
TESLA Releases Music Video For 'Signs' From 'Five Man London Jam' |  16 фев 2020 : |
TESLA Releases Music Video For 'What You Give' From 'Five Man London Jam' |  11 фев 2020 : |
TESLA To Release 'Five Man London Jam' CD And Blu-Ray In March |  13 авг 2019 : |
TESLA Release "California Summer Song" Video |  21 май 2019 : |
TESLA Releases Music Video For 'Taste Like' |  12 мар 2019 : |
Video Premiere: TESLA's 'Shock' |  1 мар 2019 : |
Listen To New TESLA Track 'California Summer Song' |  19 фев 2019 : |
TESLA - Pennsylvania Shock Tour Video |  8 фев 2019 : |
Listen To New TESLA Song 'Taste Like' |  19 янв 2019 : |
TESLA To Release 'Shock' Album In March; Cover Artwork, Track Listing Revealed |  19 фев 2018 : |
DEF LEPPARD Drummer Joins TESLA On Stage During 'Monsters Of Rock' Cruise (Video) |  14 фев 2018 : |
TESLA To Release 'Shock' Album In The Fall |  19 янв 2018 : |
TESLA's New PHIL COLLEN-Produced Album Tentatively Due In June |  31 дек 2017 : |
TESLA: 2017 Recap Video |  19 дек 2017 : |
TESLA’s FRANK HANNON To Release From One Place…To Another Vol. 1; Cover Of ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND’s “Blue Sky” Streaming |  2 окт 2016 : |
Video: DEF LEPPARD's PHIL COLLEN Performs With TESLA In Eugene, Oregon |  25 авг 2016 : |
TESLA Releases Video For New Song 'Save That Goodness' Featuring DEF LEPPARD's PHIL COLLEN |  23 июл 2016 : |
Listen To TESLA's New Song 'Save That Goodness' Written By DEF LEPPARD's PHIL COLLEN |  15 июл 2016 : |
TESLA Guitarist FRANK HANNON Issues "Never Slowin' Down" Video |  23 июн 2016 : |
TESLA To Release Mechanical Resonance, Live! Album In August; Includes “Save That Goodness” Single Written / Produced By DEF LEPPARD's Phil Collen |  22 июн 2016 : |
TESLA – 25th Anniversary 2LP Release Of Psychotic Supper Due In July |  24 апр 2016 : |
Video: PAPA ROACH, TESLA, Y&T Members Perform At 'Rock For Reason' Benefit Concert |  13 окт 2015 : |
DEF LEPPARD's PHIL COLLEN Pens New Song 'Save That Goodness' For TESLA |  15 апр 2015 : |
TESLA's FRANK HANNON Releases 'New York City' Video |  31 мар 2015 : |
TESLA's JEFF KEITH Recovering From Hip Replacement Surgery |  2 янв 2015 : |
TESLA's FRANK HANNON Releases 'Electric Chair' Video |  17 дек 2014 : |
TESLA's FRANK HANNON Releases 'Born Free' Video |  19 ноя 2014 : |
TESLA's FRANK HANNON To Release 'World Peace' Solo Album |  24 сен 2014 : |
TESLA's FRANK HANNON Shows You How To Play New Song 'MP3' (Video) |  20 июн 2014 : |
TESLA: Quality Fan-Filmed Footage Of Pratteln Concert |  17 июн 2014 : |
TESLA: 'So Divine…' Video Released |  7 май 2014 : |
Video: TESLA Performs Two New Songs At FRONTIERS ROCK FESTIVAL |  6 май 2014 : |
TESLA: 'So Divine' Song Available For Streaming |  19 апр 2014 : |
TESLA To Release 'Simplicity' Album In June |  10 апр 2014 : |
Video: TESLA Performs New Song 'Ricochet' On MONSTERS OF ROCK Cruise |  7 мар 2014 : |
TESLA: New Album Title Revealed |  31 янв 2014 : |
TESLA To Record 'Eight Or Nine' New Songs Next Week |  16 авг 2013 : |
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Video: TESLA Performs Brand New Song 'Taste My Pain' In Biloxi |  7 июн 2013 : |
TESLA To Release 'Taste My Pain' Digitally This Summer |  6 июн 2013 : |
TESLA To Record New Song |  1 апр 2013 : |
TESLA Guitarist FRANK HANNON Releases 'The Hills Of California' Video |  17 янв 2013 : |
Video: TESLA Frontman Sings DEF LEPPARD's 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' |  9 янв 2013 : |
Video: TESLA Frontman Performs LYNYRD SKYNYRD Classic |  28 ноя 2012 : |
TESLA Guitarist Releases 'Set Me Free' Video |  31 окт 2012 : |
TESLA Singer's Country EP Due Next Month |  26 окт 2012 : |
TESLA Frontman To Launch Country Music Project |  18 июн 2012 : |
Former TESLA Guitarist Releases Second Solo Album |  26 май 2012 : |
TESLA To Release Live Recordings To Fans Immediately After Shows |  22 май 2012 : |
TESLA: 'I Love You' Video Released |  8 дек 2011 : |
TESLA To Receive Key To The City From Sacramento Mayor |  24 июн 2011 : |
TESLA: \'Twisted Wires And The Acoustic Sessions\' European Release Date Announced |  22 июн 2011 : |
TESLA To Release \'Twisted Wires And The Acoustic Sessions\' In July |  8 янв 2011 : |
TESLA\'s BRIAN WHEAT: \'One Of My All Time Bass Heroes Has Passed Away\' |  7 янв 2011 : |
TESLA Working On \'Acoustic-Style\' Album |  1 окт 2010 : |
TESLA\'s Recording Studio Destroyed In Fire |  14 мар 2010 : |
TESLA: Audio Samples Of Entire \'Alive In Europe!\' Album Available |  5 мар 2010 : |
TESLA: \'Alive In Europe!\' Audio Samples Available |  8 сен 2009 : |
TESLA: \'Breakin\' Free\' Video Released |  28 авг 2009 : |
TESLA Prepping Two Live Albums |  15 мар 2009 : |
TESLA: \'Fallin\' Apart\' Video Available |  26 сен 2008 : |
TESLA: Another New Song Available For Streaming |  5 авг 2008 : |
TESLA To Release 'Gold' Collection Of Digitally Remastered Hits |  26 ноя 2007 : |
TESLA Releases 'A Peace Of Time' iTunes-Exclusive EP |  30 авг 2006 : |
TESLA To Record Covers CD In November; Partial Track Listing Revealed |
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3 мар 2025

BRIAN WHEAT: TESLA Being Called 'Hair Metal' 'Used To Drive Me Nuts', But Now 'It Doesn't Bother Me' Anymore
 In a new interview with Ethan Dometrius, TESLA bassist Brian Wheat once again took issue with the label "hair metal," saying that the pejorative term was coined as a way to disparage acts thought to have been all flash and no substance. Regarding TESLA being unfairly lumped in with such acts as MÖTLEY CRÜE, RATT, SKID ROW and L.A. GUNS, Wheat said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I think TESLA probably has more in common with THE BLACK CROWES than we would some of the other bands that they call 'hair' bands.
"It used to drive me nuts because I used to take it, when people were saying it in kind of a derogatory, condescending way, 'Oh, they're a hair band,' which we never were," he explained. "We were no more a hair band than THE BLACK CROWES are. THE BLACK CROWES and TESLA are both blues-based rock bands. We both are heavily rooted in blues-based English rock. I mean, TESLA was like HUMBLE PIE or BAD COMPANY or LED ZEPPELIN, with two guitar players. Or AC/DC or UFO. Those were the things we grew up on. We weren't of that thing, but they wanna put us in there. And I'm over it now. It doesn't bother me. It used to really piss me off, but these days, last 10 years, I've just kind of said, 'Okay, whatever you wanna call us. As long as you're calling us something and talking about us and coming and seeing us play, then I don't care. Call us whatever you wanna call us.'"
When Dometrius noted that TESLA is probably benefiting from the fact that "hair metal" is "having a bit of a resurgence" right now and is becoming more popular again, Wheat said: "I guess. I wasn't aware it's popular. I didn't know if there was a resurgence. I mean, TESLA have kind of been doing the same thing we've always been doing for the last 20 years — playing anywhere from 60 to a hundred shows a year, depending on how we feel and what the climate is.
"When you say 'hair' bands to me, when you say RATT, their [debut] record came out — what? — in '84? There was no 'hair band' term then," Brian continued. "I mean, the SCORPIONS were out in '84. They had a huge record. VAN HALEN came out — VAN HALEN's '1984' was a huge album. Was VAN HALEN a hair band? They had long hair.
"It's kind of a slight in a way, which is the thing that kind of annoys me about it," Wheat added. "It's, like, well, how about we're just all playing rock music."
Wheat previously discussed TESLA's supposed association with "hair metal" during a March 2021 interview with "The Cassius Morris Show". Wheat said at the time: "I find [the term 'hair metal'] condescending. What does fucking hair have to do with the music? Should we be called 'cock metal' because we all have big dicks? Seriously, it's, like, 'hair metal' — what does that have to do with [anything music-related]? It's condescending. It's a putdown. It's almost like saying, 'Well, the music's not valid. They just had good hair.' That's what it's like.
"You can take the greatest hair metal band, whoever it is. I don't even know — who's hair metal? Would MÖTLEY CRÜE be considered hair metal? I guess they would. Well, 'Home Sweet Home' was a great song. What did fucking hair have to fucking do with that song? 'Dr. Feelgood' was a great song. So it's condescending. It's a putdown. Should we say about NIRVANA 'uncleanly music,' 'cause they look like they didn't bathe?
"I don't like it," he reiterated. "Just talk about the music, because that's what what matters. Not about the hair. If you wanna call it anything, call it '80s metal — call it 1980s rock. 'Cause that's what it was — it was rock that came out of the '80s and early '90s. THE BLACK CROWES came out a year later than TESLA, and they're not called a hair metal band.
"Why call us a hair metal band when all we were doing was imitating AEROSMITH?" Wheat added. "I think we're very parallel to an AEROSMITH. I think, personally, if you can't go see AEROSMITH and you wanna see a good version of AEROSMITH, go see TESLA. They're very similar. I mean, Jeff Keith looks like Steven Tyler; he sings like Steven Tyler."
Earlier this month, TESLA released the official music video for the electric version of "All About Love", the title track of the band's latest six-song EP, "All About Love".
Released last November, "All About Love" includes four versions of "All About Love" (acoustic, electric, hybrid, live); a live version of "Walk Away", a concert favorite from "Reel To Real, Vol. 1"; and another new song, "From The Heart", an instrumental track by guitarist Frank Hannon.
Some fans criticized TESLA for adopting a 1980s-style polished production for the band's latest album, 2019's "Shock". The follow-up to June 2014's "Simplicity" was helmed by DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen, whose own group is no stranger to slicked-up, glossy-sounding recordings.
In September 2023, TESLA released the official music video for its cover of AEROSMITH's "S.O.S. (Too Bad)". The song is a bonus track on TESLA's live album, "Full Throttle Live!", which arrived in May 2023. The LP includes the band's "Time To Rock!" single, plus other songs, all recorded in August 2022 at Full Throttle Saloon in Sturgis, South Dakota.
In September 2021, original TESLA drummer Troy Luccketta announced that he would "take a little time from the road" to spend with family and friends. He has since been replaced at TESLA's gigs and in the recording studio by Steve Brown, the younger brother of former DOKKEN drummer Mick Brown.
TESLA's debut album, 1986's "Mechanical Resonance", went platinum on the strength of the hits "Modern Day Cowboy" and "Little Suzi". The 1989 follow-up album, "The Great Radio Controversy", produced five hits, including "Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)" and "Love Song", which hit the pop Top Ten.
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Но хороши они были в обеих ипостасях.
А Tesla и впрямь под этот термин не попадали никогда. Разница между их музыкой и, например, Poison, просто колоссальная.
Все что-то другое играли )))
Все разные, один я обычный (с).
В 80-х все эти группы шли в одном ряду и выступали на одних и тех же площадках (да и аудитории у них серьёзно пересекались). Просто из всех напомаженных групп Poison - в плане имиджа - были самыми напомаженными, только и всего.
К примеру, тур 1987-го они полностью откатали с Ratt, а несколько шоу отыграли в связке с Tesla, Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Jetboy и Mötley Crüe.
В 1986-м Poison гастролировали с Cheap Trick, в 1990-м - с Warrant, в 1991-м - со Slaughter, а в 1993-м - вообще с
Damn Yankees и Firehouse.
Все были в одной глэм-обойме и никто их не чморил, дескать, "напомаженные" (а уж вечеринки они закатывали почище Motley Crue, все там отрывались, как не в себя). Если б они были таким "дерьмом", как ты здесь расписал - никто бы с ними в туры не ездил. С другой стороны, они не гастролировали с Priest, Maiden, Metallica или Deep Purple, т.е. кардинально отличающимися группами, а выступали именно с теми, кто был схож по стилю и целевой аудитории.
Так что то, что лично ты их не перевариваешь, сути дела вовсе не меняет.
Истинное лицо глэма - Poison и иже с ними. Нарочито припопсованные и припудренные. Не дерьмо, конечно, погорячился)
вообще там (восьмидесятые, США) натурально сокровищница всякого, небанального, интересного хард-рока, уж насколько он "глэм" это вопрос.
этот термин вообще какое-то музыкальное наполнение имеет, или чисто про имидж.
какое-то условное единство, по времени, месту появления, стилистике и обмену составами, конечно американские хардовики той поры имеют, не только "по прическам".
но чисто музыкально Cinderella с KISS, а Dokken с Guns-n-Roses сильно различны.
может быть, что-то в продюсировании было общее на всех?
есть такой кино и музыкальный поджанр "we love 80s", это про меня )))
отчасти наведенная, отчасти все-таки своя ностальгия.
просто насчет стилистики, почти каждый музыкант той поры начинает доказывать, что глэм он не играл, а просто так причесался, а играл он всегда...
(ну и далее варианты, от блюза до настоящего металла, и от вдохновленного Битлами классик-рока до припанкованного "уличного" харда).
только Пойзон, наверное, такого не говорили, но я ими особо не интересуюсь, так что может и они тоже нетакусики )))
в Штатах к ним другое отношение, так что и некоторый cultur gap наверное есть.
Это совсем не глэм, но отличный представитель музыки 80-х. Альбом 1984-го года "Signs Of Life" прямо очень рекомендую! Хит на хите.