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This Hard-Rock Pop-Metal band was founded in 1982 under the name of City
Kid in Sacramento, California USA; two years later the band members, vocalist
Jeff Keith, guitarists Frank Hannon and Tommy Skeoch, bassist Brian Wheat
and drummer Troy Luccketta, re-named the group in honor of the famous
Serbian scientist and inventor of alternating current Nikola Tesla.
Their debut full-length album came out in 1986 on Geffen, "Mechanical
Resonance" broke into The Billboard Top 200 chart reaching the #32
and both the singles, "Little Suzi" and "Modern Day Cowboy",
ranked in the top 40 of The Mainstream Rock chart.
Their second effort, 1989's "The Great Radio Controversy", peaked
at #18 on The Billboard Top 200 chart selling over two million copies,
it also broke into the top 40 of the U.K. Official chart; the album's
lead-off single, the power ballad "Love Song", rose to the #7
spot on The Mainstream Rock chart and climbed into the top 10 of The Billboard
Hot 100, the band's second LP generated two more Active Rock top 20 hits:
"Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)" and "The Way It Is"
plus the top 30 single, "Paradise".
The next year the quintet released a live-acoustic set titled "Five
Man Acoustical Jam" which contained their best-known songs, number
of inspired cover versions and the smash single "Signs" which
peaked at #2 on Mainstream Rock chart and at #8 on The Billboard Hot 100,
finally the album hit #12 on The Billboard Top 200 list reaching the platinum
status.
Tesla's third studio LP, "Psychotic Supper", was issued in 1991,
it debuted at #13 in U.S. Top 200 Albums chart and went platinum spawning
three Billboard's Active Rock top 20 hits, including the #7 "What
You Give", "Call It What You Want" and "Edison's Medicine";
the band supported the album with a string of over 130 shows, by the end
of the American tour the band had sold nearly 15 million records.
Their next album, "Bust A Nut", was issued in August 1994, it
cracked the top 20 of The Billboard Top 200 chart and generated "Mama's
Fool" which peaked at #5 on Mainstream Rock Tracks chart; "Need
Your Lovin'" hit #19 and "Alot To Lose" made top 40 in
the same chart.
In mid-1995 Skeoch left the band and before the year's end appeared the
collection "Time's Makin' Changes The Best Of Tesla", the final
release on Geffen Records, which included a previously unreleased song,
the Mainstream Rock top 30 hit "Steppin' Over"; the remaining
members continued performing live as a four-piece for the next year and
finally the band broke-up while most of the bandmembers worked on side-projects.
2000's full band member reunion in Sacramento, generated "Replugged
Live", released on Sanctuary Records, followed a series of live shows.
In March of 2004, Tesla resurfaced with their fifth studio album, "Into
The Now", which reached the #31 on The Billboard 200 list, the record
yielded two Active Rock top 40 tracks: "Caught In A Dream" and
"Words Can't Explain".
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