TESLA
Tesla is an American rock band formed in Sacramento, California in late 1982. They have sold 14 million albums in the United States. (More from Wikipedia)
Rock songs with religious themes, like “Mother of Mystery” by the Invisible Eyes, have always been fascinating to me. By now, Christian contemporary music has become an industry, but it wasn’t always like that. One long-time favorite is “Signs” by Five Man Electrical Band.
Tesla did a remake of “Signs” not so long ago on an album they called Five Man Acoustical Jam; and as far as I am concerned, they kind of missed the point: The instrumental introduction to the original song that I sometimes hear on the local oldies radio station is as free-wheeling an electrical jam as I have ever heard. Unfortunately, that jam didn’t make it onto the single that I own, and I have never found the Five Man Electrical Band album that features “Signs”, Goodbyes and Butterflies.
(December 2012)
