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Tesla

Appearing in: houston, dallas-fort-worth, el-paso-new-mexico, boston, detroit, cincinnati, cleveland

Tesla formed in Sacramento, California in 1984 and occupied a distinctive position in the late-1980s hard rock landscape: less image-driven and more musically rooted than most of their contemporaries, drawing heavily on blues and classic rock influences that gave their songs a directness and warmth that the more theatrical Sunset Strip acts sometimes lacked. Their debut Mechanical Resonance (1986) and follow-up The Great Radio Controversy (1989) established them commercially and critically, with "Love Song" and "Signs" (their acoustic cover of the Five Man Electrical Band classic) providing the pop-radio breakthrough that made their name beyond the hard rock audience.

Tesla survived the grunge era more successfully than most of their peers, releasing music consistently through the 1990s and beyond, and their catalog — built on genuine musicianship rather than image — has aged better than that of many contemporaries. Their live shows are known for the warmth and looseness of a band that has been playing together for decades and has nothing left to prove. Joining Mötley Crüe and Extreme on the Return of the Carnival of Sins tour creates a bill of complementary rock traditions from the same era, each bringing something different to an audience that spans all of them.

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