I created a killer playlist for my run this morning, selecting some of my favorite bands covering their favorite songs. There’s nothing like listening to Dream Theater sing Iron Maiden’s “To Tame A Land”, or Killswitch Engage play Dio’s “Holy Diver” or The Showdown jam to Kansas’ “Carry On My Wayward Son”!
As I hit mile 2 on my run, Tesla’s cover of the classic Temptation song “A Ball of Confusion” started playing and really caught my attention.
“Fear in the air, tension everywhere” – what an accurate description of our society today! As I pondered the words, I was actually comforted to know that today’s problems were basically the same 35 years ago, which were basically the same problems as 100 years ago, and on and on. There truly is nothing new under the sun. God was there for past generations and is here for me today.
Tesla released their 8th full studio release this week, entitled Forever More. If you’ve never heard of Tesla, you honestly have been missing out on life! Tesla is one of those bands that really gets it; they love the music that they play and from what I hear about people who know them, they are still down to earth guys. (They are from Sacramento, CA which is 2 hours from where I live, so yeah, with that whole 6 degrees of separation thing, I know people that know ‘em!)
Forever More is a great album. The songs are all solid and the album is very well produced. Unfortunately, the entire album didn’t automatically grab me the way their earlier releases did. After a few more listens, I’m sure I’ll love it as much as I love Tesla’s back catalog.
Below is Tesla’s latest video for the song I Wanna Live.
Tesla has been I’ve loved ever since their very first album, Mechanical Resonance (released in 1986). They have been producing great music ever since then. I’ve never been able to catch a concert, so I was super excited when I heard this DVD was going to be released.
As you can see, all of Tesla’s hits are played here. Track number 8, Dear Private Ledbetter is an amazing new song.
This entire DVD is amazing. The sound quality is great, the performance is great, everything about it is great. If you are a fan of hard rock in general, you gotta see this!
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