It doesn’t seem like 22 years ago, but I saw Tesla on a reunion tour on this date in 2000 at the Warnor’s Theater in Fresno. The band went 10 years between studio albums (Bust A Nut – 1994 and Into The Now – 2004) and this tour landed right in the middle of that stretch. The put out a greatest hits record and home video in 1995 but this was a return to action after the music industry decided to do anything it possibly could to ruin my rock n’ metal life in the 1990s.
Tommy Skeoch was still in the band and we were treated to the two-guitar magic that he and Frank Hannon were known for. Jeff Keith was in fine form both with his vocals and his flamboyant frontman skills throughout. There isn’t anything up on Setlist.fm for this show but it was the familiar Tesla show with all the big songs up to that point in their career.
I was just glad to be able to see them again after my music had been banished from the outlets that had been so heavy with hard rock and heavy metal throughout the 80s and early 90s. I got one of Frank Hannon’s picks but it wasn’t personalized, just a regular Tortex pick. The 2,000-seat Warnor’s Theater was mostly full and it was rocking throughout. The likes of Limp Bizkit were just a bad dream at least for a night.