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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Man, Hey, we got you in Denver on Saturday. You'll
be here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, the Mission Ballroom is going to be great.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Oh that room is so cool. Have you played that
room yet?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh? Yeah, I think so, I think so. You know what,
sometimes they change names and stuff and I go, hey,
this place used to be called you know, Great Woods
or something. Next you know, they call something else.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
This is a it's a fairly new room. I'd say
ten twelve years old, and it is. It's awesome. You're
gonna love this place. Played there, No, this will be
a first. You'll have to autograph a brick or something.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
We'll do more an autograph the brick. Fine, we're going
to blow the roof up. Well not literally, but we're gonna. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Hey, so let's talk about the keeping it real tour.
You guys tour all the time. Sometimes you've got new
music to share, Sometimes you don't. You're constantly on the road.
You know, does that wear on you?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Do you? Do? You?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I know you love playing music.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I know you.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I know you love fans.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
But that's that's it, you know, Greg. As long as
we're loving it, we're doing it. Man, We're having fun
and we're not just playing this catalog from forty years ago.
Non you know, we're writing stuff and we just can't
we we're all about love we did to you know,
let's get real, uh what it's time to rock and
Cold Blue Steel. So these guys, you know, Brian and
(01:31):
Frankin and they know how to release singles. But sometime
or other we're going to get time to write a
whole record. But you've got to have a year to
do that. And right now the people are still coming
and filling the seats and we're having fun, throwing some
little new stuff here in the mix, here and there,
we're doing some more cover stuff. We're having fun. Man,
(01:51):
we're full We're in full form, having fun.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Let's talk about some of those covers that have really
skyrocketed Tesla into superstardom back in the town. You know,
Little Susie, which was like a PhD two in a
very obscure new wave band. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
When people come up and they go little suits my
favorite song, I go, well, it's a cover song, and
they go, no way, my favorite song can't be a
cover song. I go, well it is. And then with
Signs That's that was a top ten single. We came
out with Love Song in nineteen eighty eight that was
a top ten single. And then in nineteen ninety were
on tour with Motley Crue and they had two nights
off in a row and we went, well, we don't
(02:31):
want to sit in the hotel room. Let's find a
place club that'll let us play acoustically. And then next
you know, we record it and forget about it. Six
months later we go play it in a radio station,
me and Tommy and Franklin. The phones were ringing off
the hook us back when phones were really phones on
a wall on the hook. And next you know, jeffrom Rexiso,
we got a whole night of this. We put it
(02:52):
out completely raw. They said you got to reduce stuff.
We went, not going to do it. They won't. We'll
put it back on a chef. Three months later they go,
we gotta put this out of the phones are ringing
off the hook for him, and we put it out
top to bottom. It's just live, just pushing the red
and go and it's our biggest com record to date.
Is still too million records.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And then you started a revolution. Then everybody had to
have an acoustic track. And then I think MTV even
started doing unplugged because of your success with Signs.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
People say that, but I don't know where the pioneers
of it, but we we did it.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh you brought you brought it back, We brought.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It back in. As matter of fact, I remember some
one time, like d Soward, he came out and goes,
thanks a lot, tesla, because now that we did that
acoustic thing, we were making other bands have to go, hey,
step it down. You got your waller ants, step it down.
Let's sher it acoustically. So that's why he because we're
good friends, and that's why he jokingly went, thanks a lot.
Tesla is a kind of set of bar.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You know it did it did man? And I tell you,
you know everybody knows you for those two songs, but
you know, you're records in the eighties stood out. You know,
you're you're you're lumped in that same category as hair metal,
but you're you're so far from it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You know what's funny was when Love Song went to
top ten, Casey Casm comes on the TV. I love
seeing it, but he went, this week, uh coming in,
Uh this week is a band and nobody's out of
nowhere It's trussa would love song coming in at number seven.
So we were like, all right, Kasey Kasem, just sit,
you know, just introduce our song. We had people calling
(04:31):
back when phones were on the wall and on the
call and going, hey, man, that wasn't cool. He called
your band and nobody's out nowhere. I said, we are.
We're at a Sacramento man, we got a top ten single.
Casey Kasem just introduces. They go, but he called your
band and nobody's out of nowhere. So what's funny is now,
probably when the Acoustic Greggy started and we're on tour
with Motley Crue and Nicki's he's they're all great to us,
(04:56):
Motley Crue, but Nicki six says, he goes. Somebody said
the interviews said, so tell us about Jeff. He goes,
They're a bunch of tomato farmers from Sacramento. And we went, oh,
that's funny. Had two more friends calling back in going
that ain't cool. He just said, you a bunch of
tomato farmers from Sacramento. I go with Sacramento's and farms
a lot of tomatoes. Until back in the day when
(05:17):
everybody was moving to La in the early eighties, we
were just going down there showcasing and driving back five
hours to Sacramento and coming back to the drawing board.
So we just stayed in Sacramento when most bands were
moving to La. That was the thing to do.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Why do you think that was, Jeff? Why was it
that way for Tesla?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well, because we just we lived five hours away. We
could just stay at home in Sacramento and go back
to the drawing board and bite all the record companies
out and let you know, we got Tom Zutaut and
Teresa Anthonos who used to work at Electra I think
or something, and then and then went over to Jeffen
Records and they signed us. And then when we got
(05:57):
signed to eighty five, they said you're not ready to
make a record, We went okay. We wrote for a
year and that's how we came up with Mechanical Residents.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know, did you think maybe it had something to
do with how you guys weren't really like the scene
in La as well?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I think definitely because we we we may dressed up,
made our own little clothes, were on stage and kind
of dressed up in their own thing. But you know what,
we're always just which we still are. Is just the
real deal, having fun, writing songs from the hearts. And
we didn't just always just take that easy route that
kind of would get you in that door back in.
And you know what, when gruns came along, I my
(06:35):
belief is we never tried to do a grunge song.
We just stayed Tesla, and I think the grunge world went,
you know what, We're gonna let you stick around because
you didn't try to adapt to be us, because you're
not us. You're from the eighties hairbands, and we write
about love and all this stuff and just having fun
(06:56):
and people like that, and well, you know what, we're
still doing it forty years later.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Man, you're like hard rock hippies.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You know what. We just stayed true to ourselves and
just and went to a smaller audience. But we loved
the smaller audience. And sometimes we go through there's a
thousand people, sometimes there's two, three, four, five, whatever, and
we're just having fun and that's what we're doing on stage,
and people see that and they're having fun with us,
and that all is full circle. We're feeding off them,
(07:25):
they're feeding off us, and we're just having a ball.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Well, every time I've seen you, it was great. You
reproduce your music like no other band. Your vocals are
still there, Jeff, you know a great vocalist. I saw
that Paramount show a few years back, maybe five years ago,
I think it was. Yeah. I mean, I'm a big fan.
I remember seeing you back in eighty seven at the
Texas Gym at the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Gosh, that was June twentieth. I got I got the
on my room next door where all my records and
stuff are. I got that June twentieth, nineteen eighty seven
with Box and Erolsmith, White Snake, Poisonous and a band
called Fahrenheit actually opened the show. They just didn't make
it on the poster, right.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Are theyre a last minute edition? I believe yes?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And then I got pictures where ones where me and
Frank from side stage and there's that Cotton Bowl, the
eighty four thousand plus and now people go, well, weren't
you scared when you did that? Jeff? And the next
picture I'm standing up on a monitor with my shirt off,
going does that look scared? We had a ball?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Oh man, what a great show. And I think that
was Boston's first show since they broke up back in
like seventy eight at the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yes, and Aerosmith had just come out with Done with Mirrors.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yep, they were on their comeback. That was a pretty monumental,
pretty monumental show.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
First concert was Day on the Green number three with
Aerosmith's headlining in nineteen seventy eight. Aerosmith headline foreigner Pat
Travers eight Deep with Bond Scott in nineteen seventy eight,
and Van Hayden opened the show.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
What was it like seeing and because that was probably
your first time to see ac DC, what was it
like seeing him the first time?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
In nineteen seventy eight, We watched Van Hanehm for a
bit and went all right, let's go up this grand
stands and roll a couple up and then we came
back down for ACDC went who the hell is this?
And you know what, My biggest impression was Bon Scott
and Malcolm Young. I was like, Wow, Malcolm is holding
that fort down. I don't know his name is Malcolm Young,
I just know, Wow, this guy's hold the fort down,
and this guy singing is just going how And we
(09:29):
all went, Me and my three friends from Georgetown went
he's wearing tedishoes and jeans just like us. He's like us,
but he's up there, and you know what, So every
night when I step on the stage, I'd just say,
bon Scott and my buddy Boom Garrett. I just go
bomb Scott, Boom Garrett. Let's step on the stage and
have fun and don't really care. But Stu would like
you to enjoy yourself, but not to say it like this.
(09:51):
But don't give a flat footage. You know what?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Hey, man, you know we lost one of the you know,
one of the godfathers of heavy metal last week. You know,
Ozzy Osbourne passing away. You gotta hey, you got a
Black Sabbath or Ozzie story you want to share with us?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Oh? Man, are you kidding? When the band I was
in before I joined City Kid was me and my
brother and we used to play wrapping in the brand
field so Fath burning through the night, guide say you've black.
We used to play that kind of stuff. And then
when I got in City Kid, it had to be
top forty so we couldn't do all it. But Black Sabbath, dude,
they are the godfather's a heavy metal back and when
(10:29):
we're in the eighties and people go, so, what do
you think, do you think test this heavy metal? Do
you think you're just like, listen, man, you're asking if
bon Jovi's heavy metal. It's like heavy metal is black
Sabbath man. So, and then he goes on with Randy
Rose and all these people and Zach Wild and all
these Jakie Lee and does all this solo stuff and
(10:49):
just really sores you know.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
See, I'm not I'm not a charts kind of guy.
I'm from small town. So we just listened. You know,
a lot of the deeper cuts that people go, I
never heard that. I've just heard Crazy Train and all
this not some great songs. We're going through changes. I
don't even know what the name of that song is,
but stuff like that, you know. So he inspired me
(11:15):
so much. I mean, who could he not inspire Ozzy
and all them? Well, he just the frontman that he was,
and then to do a solo thing. Come on, this
guy was incredible. Yeah, all be missed man, Ozzy Osborne. Wow,
we're talking about one of the best of the best ever.
In my book, that's just my opinions. Everybody has opinions.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, I'm with you. I agree, he's got one. Hey,
we're talking to Jeff Keith a Tesla. They're going to
be at the Mission Ballroom on Saturday. Tickets available through
the Fox dot Com. That's the Fox dot com to
check out Tesla. Now, I know you guys are super busy,
always on the road. We talked earlier about maybe sneaking
(11:57):
away and writing a full length I mean, you've got
enough singles over the last five six years to have
half a record at least.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, I know. But here's the deal, Greg, you got us.
You got to put a year into it because you've
got to write this stuff. Now, we could do that
while we're touring and doing stuff, but for us, even
when you're on the road, you get in that role,
it's like it's hard to break away and write. We
need time, Like maybe maybe in between this year, next year,
(12:28):
maybe we'll take a couple of months when we get
together and put some songs and get some things rolling,
and then after Tory and say maybe next year, then go, hey,
we got enough songs just to make a full on record.
But you have to make that commitment. You got to
take that time to do it, because you know, we're
not the kind of band where we write songs and
a diner on a napkin or something. We need time
(12:48):
to go in there and really put songs.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Together, you know, to grow it, nurture it.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
People wrote a song on a diner on a napkin,
don't do great songs.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I'm just saying, that's not how you do it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
The way we operate is we take the music and
put the music out there, and then the guys throw
it to me and I bite on this, and I
bite on that, and we take it from there.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You know, well, you know the new stuff that you
have played live for the fans, how do they like it?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
They love it? And you know what, they love it,
you know because they go, hey, man, you're still giving
an effort. We love it. We're still right like our
last singles all about love. We're still up there writing
about love because we're the kind of band we've always
been about love and it's not what you got, what
you give and all this stuff, you know, And I mean,
so we're still having fun with it. I just said,
(13:38):
to do full board records, you got to take the
time out to do it. And right now we're touring
constantly and people are loving it. So we've got to
find that time to put a record together. But right
now it's not the time. We're just putting out singles
because you can what do they call it downloads or something.
I don't know. It's difficus to.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Be thirty years ago, man, I tell you you guys
sound great. If you're If you haven't seen Tesla uh
in quite some time, make it a point to head
out to the Mission, Yes, the Mission Ballroom on Saturday night.
Like I said, the Fox has your tickets at the
Fox dot Com. That's the Fox dot com UH to
catch Tesla. Hey, Jeff, thanks for taking time out to
(14:18):
talk to us today. I'm a big fan. We're going
to have a ball Yes, sir, Jeff Keith and Tesla.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
We'll see you there. Gredon come back to Hello all right.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Will buddy. That's the Fox dot Com to get your tickets.
Thanks Jeff, all right, thank you,
Man, Hey, we got you in Denver on Saturday. You'll
be here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, the Mission Ballroom is going to be great.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Oh that room is so cool. Have you played that
room yet?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh? Yeah, I think so, I think so. You know what,
sometimes they change names and stuff and I go, hey,
this place used to be called you know, Great Woods
or something. Next you know, they call something else.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
This is a it's a fairly new room. I'd say
ten twelve years old, and it is. It's awesome. You're
gonna love this place. Played there, No, this will be
a first. You'll have to autograph a brick or something.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
We'll do more an autograph the brick. Fine, we're going
to blow the roof up. Well not literally, but we're gonna. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Hey, so let's talk about the keeping it real tour.
You guys tour all the time. Sometimes you've got new
music to share, Sometimes you don't. You're constantly on the road.
You know, does that wear on you?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Do you? Do? You?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I know you love playing music.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I know you.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I know you love fans.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
But that's that's it, you know, Greg. As long as
we're loving it, we're doing it. Man, We're having fun
and we're not just playing this catalog from forty years ago.
Non you know, we're writing stuff and we just can't
we we're all about love we did to you know,
let's get real, uh what it's time to rock and
Cold Blue Steel. So these guys, you know, Brian and
(01:31):
Frankin and they know how to release singles. But sometime
or other we're going to get time to write a
whole record. But you've got to have a year to
do that. And right now the people are still coming
and filling the seats and we're having fun, throwing some
little new stuff here in the mix, here and there,
we're doing some more cover stuff. We're having fun. Man,
(01:51):
we're full We're in full form, having fun.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Let's talk about some of those covers that have really
skyrocketed Tesla into superstardom back in the town. You know,
Little Susie, which was like a PhD two in a
very obscure new wave band. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
When people come up and they go little suits my
favorite song, I go, well, it's a cover song, and
they go, no way, my favorite song can't be a
cover song. I go, well it is. And then with
Signs That's that was a top ten single. We came
out with Love Song in nineteen eighty eight that was
a top ten single. And then in nineteen ninety were
on tour with Motley Crue and they had two nights
off in a row and we went, well, we don't
(02:31):
want to sit in the hotel room. Let's find a
place club that'll let us play acoustically. And then next
you know, we record it and forget about it. Six
months later we go play it in a radio station,
me and Tommy and Franklin. The phones were ringing off
the hook us back when phones were really phones on
a wall on the hook. And next you know, jeffrom Rexiso,
we got a whole night of this. We put it
(02:52):
out completely raw. They said you got to reduce stuff.
We went, not going to do it. They won't. We'll
put it back on a chef. Three months later they go,
we gotta put this out of the phones are ringing
off the hook for him, and we put it out
top to bottom. It's just live, just pushing the red
and go and it's our biggest com record to date.
Is still too million records.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And then you started a revolution. Then everybody had to
have an acoustic track. And then I think MTV even
started doing unplugged because of your success with Signs.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
People say that, but I don't know where the pioneers
of it, but we we did it.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh you brought you brought it back, We brought.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It back in. As matter of fact, I remember some
one time, like d Soward, he came out and goes,
thanks a lot, tesla, because now that we did that
acoustic thing, we were making other bands have to go, hey,
step it down. You got your waller ants, step it down.
Let's sher it acoustically. So that's why he because we're
good friends, and that's why he jokingly went, thanks a lot.
Tesla is a kind of set of bar.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You know it did it did man? And I tell you,
you know everybody knows you for those two songs, but
you know, you're records in the eighties stood out. You know,
you're you're you're lumped in that same category as hair metal,
but you're you're so far from it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You know what's funny was when Love Song went to
top ten, Casey Casm comes on the TV. I love
seeing it, but he went, this week, uh coming in,
Uh this week is a band and nobody's out of
nowhere It's trussa would love song coming in at number seven.
So we were like, all right, Kasey Kasem, just sit,
you know, just introduce our song. We had people calling
(04:31):
back when phones were on the wall and on the
call and going, hey, man, that wasn't cool. He called
your band and nobody's out nowhere. I said, we are.
We're at a Sacramento man, we got a top ten single.
Casey Kasem just introduces. They go, but he called your
band and nobody's out of nowhere. So what's funny is now,
probably when the Acoustic Greggy started and we're on tour
with Motley Crue and Nicki's he's they're all great to us,
(04:56):
Motley Crue, but Nicki six says, he goes. Somebody said
the interviews said, so tell us about Jeff. He goes,
They're a bunch of tomato farmers from Sacramento. And we went, oh,
that's funny. Had two more friends calling back in going
that ain't cool. He just said, you a bunch of
tomato farmers from Sacramento. I go with Sacramento's and farms
a lot of tomatoes. Until back in the day when
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everybody was moving to La in the early eighties, we
were just going down there showcasing and driving back five
hours to Sacramento and coming back to the drawing board.
So we just stayed in Sacramento when most bands were
moving to La. That was the thing to do.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Why do you think that was, Jeff? Why was it
that way for Tesla?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well, because we just we lived five hours away. We
could just stay at home in Sacramento and go back
to the drawing board and bite all the record companies
out and let you know, we got Tom Zutaut and
Teresa Anthonos who used to work at Electra I think
or something, and then and then went over to Jeffen
Records and they signed us. And then when we got
(05:57):
signed to eighty five, they said you're not ready to
make a record, We went okay. We wrote for a
year and that's how we came up with Mechanical Residents.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know, did you think maybe it had something to
do with how you guys weren't really like the scene
in La as well?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I think definitely because we we we may dressed up,
made our own little clothes, were on stage and kind
of dressed up in their own thing. But you know what,
we're always just which we still are. Is just the
real deal, having fun, writing songs from the hearts. And
we didn't just always just take that easy route that
kind of would get you in that door back in.
And you know what, when gruns came along, I my
(06:35):
belief is we never tried to do a grunge song.
We just stayed Tesla, and I think the grunge world went,
you know what, We're gonna let you stick around because
you didn't try to adapt to be us, because you're
not us. You're from the eighties hairbands, and we write
about love and all this stuff and just having fun
(06:56):
and people like that, and well, you know what, we're
still doing it forty years later.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Man, you're like hard rock hippies.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You know what. We just stayed true to ourselves and
just and went to a smaller audience. But we loved
the smaller audience. And sometimes we go through there's a
thousand people, sometimes there's two, three, four, five, whatever, and
we're just having fun and that's what we're doing on stage,
and people see that and they're having fun with us,
and that all is full circle. We're feeding off them,
(07:25):
they're feeding off us, and we're just having a ball.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Well, every time I've seen you, it was great. You
reproduce your music like no other band. Your vocals are
still there, Jeff, you know a great vocalist. I saw
that Paramount show a few years back, maybe five years ago,
I think it was. Yeah. I mean, I'm a big fan.
I remember seeing you back in eighty seven at the
Texas Gym at the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Gosh, that was June twentieth. I got I got the
on my room next door where all my records and
stuff are. I got that June twentieth, nineteen eighty seven
with Box and Erolsmith, White Snake, Poisonous and a band
called Fahrenheit actually opened the show. They just didn't make
it on the poster, right.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Are theyre a last minute edition? I believe yes?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And then I got pictures where ones where me and
Frank from side stage and there's that Cotton Bowl, the
eighty four thousand plus and now people go, well, weren't
you scared when you did that? Jeff? And the next
picture I'm standing up on a monitor with my shirt off,
going does that look scared? We had a ball?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Oh man, what a great show. And I think that
was Boston's first show since they broke up back in
like seventy eight at the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yes, and Aerosmith had just come out with Done with Mirrors.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yep, they were on their comeback. That was a pretty monumental,
pretty monumental show.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
First concert was Day on the Green number three with
Aerosmith's headlining in nineteen seventy eight. Aerosmith headline foreigner Pat
Travers eight Deep with Bond Scott in nineteen seventy eight,
and Van Hayden opened the show.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
What was it like seeing and because that was probably
your first time to see ac DC, what was it
like seeing him the first time?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
In nineteen seventy eight, We watched Van Hanehm for a
bit and went all right, let's go up this grand
stands and roll a couple up and then we came
back down for ACDC went who the hell is this?
And you know what, My biggest impression was Bon Scott
and Malcolm Young. I was like, Wow, Malcolm is holding
that fort down. I don't know his name is Malcolm Young,
I just know, Wow, this guy's hold the fort down,
and this guy singing is just going how And we
(09:29):
all went, Me and my three friends from Georgetown went
he's wearing tedishoes and jeans just like us. He's like us,
but he's up there, and you know what, So every
night when I step on the stage, I'd just say,
bon Scott and my buddy Boom Garrett. I just go
bomb Scott, Boom Garrett. Let's step on the stage and
have fun and don't really care. But Stu would like
you to enjoy yourself, but not to say it like this.
(09:51):
But don't give a flat footage. You know what?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Hey, man, you know we lost one of the you know,
one of the godfathers of heavy metal last week. You know,
Ozzy Osbourne passing away. You gotta hey, you got a
Black Sabbath or Ozzie story you want to share with us?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Oh? Man, are you kidding? When the band I was
in before I joined City Kid was me and my
brother and we used to play wrapping in the brand
field so Fath burning through the night, guide say you've black.
We used to play that kind of stuff. And then
when I got in City Kid, it had to be
top forty so we couldn't do all it. But Black Sabbath, dude,
they are the godfather's a heavy metal back and when
(10:29):
we're in the eighties and people go, so, what do
you think, do you think test this heavy metal? Do
you think you're just like, listen, man, you're asking if
bon Jovi's heavy metal. It's like heavy metal is black
Sabbath man. So, and then he goes on with Randy
Rose and all these people and Zach Wild and all
these Jakie Lee and does all this solo stuff and
(10:49):
just really sores you know.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
See, I'm not I'm not a charts kind of guy.
I'm from small town. So we just listened. You know,
a lot of the deeper cuts that people go, I
never heard that. I've just heard Crazy Train and all
this not some great songs. We're going through changes. I
don't even know what the name of that song is,
but stuff like that, you know. So he inspired me
(11:15):
so much. I mean, who could he not inspire Ozzy
and all them? Well, he just the frontman that he was,
and then to do a solo thing. Come on, this
guy was incredible. Yeah, all be missed man, Ozzy Osborne. Wow,
we're talking about one of the best of the best ever.
In my book, that's just my opinions. Everybody has opinions.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, I'm with you. I agree, he's got one. Hey,
we're talking to Jeff Keith a Tesla. They're going to
be at the Mission Ballroom on Saturday. Tickets available through
the Fox dot Com. That's the Fox dot com to
check out Tesla. Now, I know you guys are super busy,
always on the road. We talked earlier about maybe sneaking
(11:57):
away and writing a full length I mean, you've got
enough singles over the last five six years to have
half a record at least.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, I know. But here's the deal, Greg, you got us.
You got to put a year into it because you've
got to write this stuff. Now, we could do that
while we're touring and doing stuff, but for us, even
when you're on the road, you get in that role,
it's like it's hard to break away and write. We
need time, Like maybe maybe in between this year, next year,
(12:28):
maybe we'll take a couple of months when we get
together and put some songs and get some things rolling,
and then after Tory and say maybe next year, then go, hey,
we got enough songs just to make a full on record.
But you have to make that commitment. You got to
take that time to do it, because you know, we're
not the kind of band where we write songs and
a diner on a napkin or something. We need time
(12:48):
to go in there and really put songs.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Together, you know, to grow it, nurture it.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
People wrote a song on a diner on a napkin,
don't do great songs.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I'm just saying, that's not how you do it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
The way we operate is we take the music and
put the music out there, and then the guys throw
it to me and I bite on this, and I
bite on that, and we take it from there.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You know, well, you know the new stuff that you
have played live for the fans, how do they like it?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
They love it? And you know what, they love it,
you know because they go, hey, man, you're still giving
an effort. We love it. We're still right like our
last singles all about love. We're still up there writing
about love because we're the kind of band we've always
been about love and it's not what you got, what
you give and all this stuff, you know, And I mean,
so we're still having fun with it. I just said,
(13:38):
to do full board records, you got to take the
time out to do it. And right now we're touring
constantly and people are loving it. So we've got to
find that time to put a record together. But right
now it's not the time. We're just putting out singles
because you can what do they call it downloads or something.
I don't know. It's difficus to.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Be thirty years ago, man, I tell you you guys
sound great. If you're If you haven't seen Tesla uh
in quite some time, make it a point to head
out to the Mission, Yes, the Mission Ballroom on Saturday night.
Like I said, the Fox has your tickets at the
Fox dot Com. That's the Fox dot com UH to
catch Tesla. Hey, Jeff, thanks for taking time out to
(14:18):
talk to us today. I'm a big fan. We're going
to have a ball Yes, sir, Jeff Keith and Tesla.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
We'll see you there. Gredon come back to Hello all right.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Will buddy. That's the Fox dot Com to get your tickets.
Thanks Jeff, all right, thank you,
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