Biography

Like their eccentric namesake, the band Tesla has always operated slightly outside the mainstream. In an era when glam-metal ruled the airwaves and MTV, the hard-rocking Sacramento-based band stuck to their own brand of melodic hard rock, rife with probing lyrics, evocative imagery, and thoughtful, classical-based guitar riffs. After garnering impressive reviews for their 1986 debut, and scoring a top ten hit in 1990 with the progressively wandering opus "Love Song," the band also set a precedent by releasing an all-acoustic, mostly-covers live album that featured another top ten in the '70s protest anthem "Signs." The group put in a solid decade of recording and quietly dissolved in the mid '90s, but have reformed several times, releasing live and covers albums, as well as an iTunes-only studio album.

Top Tracks

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• A Lot To Lose

• Call It What You Want

• Edison's Medicine

• Heaven Nine Eleven

• Heaven's Trail (no Way Out)

• Little Suzi

• Look @ Me

• Love Song

• Mighty Mouse

• Modern Day Cowboy

• Signs

• Song & Emotion

• The Ocean

• The Way It Is

• Try So Hard

• What You Give

Discography

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• Forever More

  Tesla Electric

  2008

• Real to Reel, Vol. 2

  Tesla Electric

  2007

• Real to Reel

  Tesla Electric

  2007

• Into the Now

  Sanctuary

  2004

• Standing Room Only

  Sanctuary

  2002

• Replugged Live

  Sanctuary

  2001

• Bust a Nut

  Geffen

  1994

• Psychotic Supper

  Geffen

  1991

• Five Man Acoustical Jam

  Geffen

  1990

• The Great Radio Controversy

  Geffen

  1989

• Mechanical Resonance

  Geffen

  1986