TESLA PERFORMING A SIGNATURE 80's TUNE IN THE 2000's

Personally I like the 1986 studio version on record a lot more, but TESLA performing CHANGES live was always a blast and it still sounded excellent live sometime around 2005 or 2006 when this concert took place, one of the band's original twin guitar driving forces TOMMY SKEOCH was not playing this night, reportedly he was in rehab for a substance abuse problem.


He would leave the band soon after for good to pursue a mildly succcessful solo career, although no where in the success bracket of TESLA in the late 80's and early 90's.


DAVE RUDE was filling in for Skeoch in the mid 'noughties' for TESLA. Skeoch's solo album BRAND OF METAL is a solid workmanlike heavy rock album but lacking the 70's AEROSMITH like spark of TESLA.


TESLA were one of the biggest stadium concert support acts in America in their heyday, having done so for the likes of MOTLEY CRUE, POISON and DEF LEPPARD. Fact is TESLA were big, but they should have been bigger, often upstaging the main act with their gritty AEROSMITH and BAD COMPANY flavoured hard rock which was immaculately melodic and oft times quite sophisticated.


Lead singer JEFF KEITH is one of the most underrated rock vocalists of all time, he could take off STEVE TYLER to perfection and could almost match the intensity of BRIAN JOHNSON singing THUNDERSTRUCK.