Mechanical Resonance (CD)

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.

• Category:  Music  »  Hard Rock & Metal  »  Pop Metal
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: October 25, 1990
• Label: Geffen Records (USA)
• UPC: 720642412022
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105767990
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #15388 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #539 in Hard Rock & Metal (See Top 100 Hard Rock & Metal Bestsellers)
• #89 in Pop Metal (See Top 100 Pop Metal Bestsellers)

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Tesla: Jeff Keith (vocals); Frank Hannon (acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, keyboards, background vocals); Tommy Skeoch (electric guitar, background vocals); Brian Wheat (electric bass, background vocals); Troy Luccketta (drums).

Additional personnel: Michael Barbiero (background vocals).

Recorded at Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, New York.

Tesla was a bit of an anomaly on the '80s scene. While making concessions to the Sunset Strip mentality of the era (song titles littered with slang, tracks laced with thinly veiled euphemisms), the music itself holds a great deal more in common with rough-and-tumble hard rock than with watered-down glam. The record's greatest assets are vocalist Jeff Keith, who combines an authentic blues delivery with competent melodic range, and guitarist Keith Hannon, who supplies ample electricity amid the four-measure riffing without devolving into showy, soulless solos. There are a handful of slowed-down offerings on RESONANCE, although, unlike pandering power ballads of the era, songs like "Changes" display a knack for tasteful instrumentation and clever arrangements. Listening to RESONANCE, it's not difficult to see how Tesla later came up with their classic stripped-down 1990 cover of Five Man Electrical Band's "Signs."

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