Guitar Drama

There's not much to say, except that I can't publicly endorse the band Tesla without something of a disclaimer. They had their redeeming qualities: they wrote much better songs than your average hair band from the 90's, songs that dealt partly with Nikola Tesla (the sadly forgotten inventor about whom I know quite a bit), they never wore make up, they were partly responsible for the acoustic rock movement (MTV Unplugged) with their Five Man Acoustical Jam album, and they were the reason for the 8 hour road trip I made to West Palm Beach with my buddy Wade my senior year of high school (1991-92), which is when I bought the shirt. That would make that shirt sixteen years old.

It wasn't until a few months later that I found Marc Cohn and Toad the Wet Sprocket, who thankfully ended my exclusive hard rock listening habits. (Rich Mullins, PFR, Susan Ashton and the like came into my life about a year later, around the time I realized how much I loved (and needed) to sing about Jesus.) I like the music I'm making now much better than Tesla, though somewhere in there lurks the influence of everything I listened to, methinks. If you listen close you can hear touches of Dvorak and James Horner, and a little Extreme thrown in for good measure.