I remember buying The Great Radio Controversy on cassette when it was released. I pulled out and unfolded the sleeve and noticed it had a lot of wording on it for a rock LP. I proceeded to read about a Nikola Tesla and what he had done. I was fascinated. I was in 6th grade and had never heard of that guy, not in school or tv or anywhere. Funny how an underrated rock band taught me a great deal of forgotten (...or erased) history.
They were like Whitesnake, not total Hairband cheese, but not hard ass metal guys either. The interlude is pound for pound one off he coolest guitar effects ever and they applied it perfectly to song. Sex, drugs and Weird Science.
Underrated is an understatement. I've seen them live 3 times, opening for bands like Def Leppard and Great White. They stole the show every time. Can't wait for them to play the Iowa State Fair in August with Styx and Def Leppard so I can watch them steal that one, too.
When I was in high school, we had a career center for 11th and 12th graders. I followed in my big brother's shoes (as always) and spent my junior year in the electronics course. It was because of this band that I did my final essay on Nikola Tesla and the work he did at Niagara Falls.
This is my all time favorite Tesla song!!! And one of my all time favorite bands along with Cinderella. This music will never get old it's PURE ROCK AND ROLL ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@nickmorgan8434 Well I know that they were very popular in the mid 80's and their music is still loved by many. Check out their albums NIGHT SONGS AND LONG COLD WINTER.. They too were a very underrated band like Tesla.
He certainly would have done more if he didn't have to waste so much time and energy fighting Edison. Edison was relentless. But you already know this.
tesla "the scientist" was a fraud. do your homework... all he did was steal other peoples ideas and he got away with it being he worked at the patton office... edison and westinghouse were just as bad, all they did was stole from tesla what tesla stole from others...
Cycles Ov Hatred actually, Nikola Tesla didn’t work in a “patton” office. He also didn’t work in a patent office, for what it’s worth, that was Albert Einstein that people accuse of stealing other’s patent ideas. A for effort buddy!
@@KimberlyBishh Na it's pretty cool. I remember well before this song came out during Mechanical Resonance they were talking to Frank I think and he talked about N. Tesla and how the band was based off that man's name. That's pretty freaking cool. Very unique.
Tesla's biography inspired me to be an electrical engineer. Been working as an engineer for 12 years and almost finished my masters of engineering degree while working full time. Love songs like this, it inspires me to learn more.
I got to meet Tesla when they opened for Def Leppard on the Hysteria tour in '88. My dad had connections in the industry & got us tickets & backstage passes. I was 12. It was my first concert experience & still the best.
Not only was he a genius at inventing, he also knew 8 languages completely fluently, and was celibate his whole life to focus on his work. That's what I call awesome.
@@MrUnidyne no he definitely had to masturbate at some point. He's not a fuckin sponge or a starfish. Humans are biologically incapable of reproducing asexually.
Without question the most overlooked and underrated band of the 80's. They were absolutely not a hair band nor a metal band. They we're just a great rock band.
HELL Yeah... AND the ONLY Awesome Scientist that has a BAD ASS Car NAMED after Him..!!!! Kinda makes ya WONDER HOW he actually passed away in NYC back in 1943...
@@tinagivens2784 He is right, though. They hated being considered "a hair metal glam band." Because it connotes flash over substance and undercuts their actual musicianship and uniqueness, given all the subpar hair & glam of the era like Ratt and Cinderella etc.🤘
I love these guys, my dad showed them to me over the summer and I can’t get enough! I feel like they were kinda wrong time and place, they could’ve been a lot bigger if they didn’t release this album right before grunge started. These guys aren’t hair metal, but grunge really took over everything, unless you were a hardcore band
@@chipmcdip8629 dude they were already popular years earlier with Mechanical Renosance. they had several hits just on that debut album and MTV played them heavy in rotation
Nailed it. Little quirks like this make it sound very unique and not just another 3 min 30 sec pop rock song that goes down like saccharine with a by-the-book radio friendly hook. Tesla strayed from this “book” often while still being catchy as hell. One of the reasons they were so fun to listen to.
If I had a time machine, I'd download this song to it, go back to the day before Tesla died and play it for him. Tell him everything about the future, his legacy today. It so pains me to think he died peniless, probably thinking that Edison and Marconi had won, he would be forgotten. He almost was, but thanks to the band Tesla and others like them, he wasn't. For those that don't know, he unerringly predicted modern smartphones, even the internet in 1926. From Collider Magazine: "When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket" Nikola Tesla January 30th, 1926
That's not speculation, that's direct development, without pen and computer, knowing what was scientifically feasible, a half century before the also rans, who envied him. Otherwise known as a STEM career under wokeassism. Losers.
I loved this song back in the day for the crazy catchy melodies, and today I realise the lyrics were the clever bit. This is a song that I come back to, and it still sounds fresh.
I remember my History instructor when he 1st played this for me...Been hooked on HISTORY and not HIS STORY ever since!!! #this song will always kick major and minor ass!! #always will be a fan!!!
I love Edison’s medicine. It’s totally one of my favorite Tesla songs of all times. Saw em do it live in 93 in Lexington Ky at the Rupp Arena, undoubtably one of the best live performances ever, they were incredible. ⚡️🎸🇺🇸⚡️🎸🇺🇸⚡️🎸🇺🇸⚡️ 🤘🏼☠️🤘🏼going back August 24. Got tickets as soon as they went on sell. Can’t wait, what a blast it’s gonna be.🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨
....& he was SOOO RUTHLESSLY screwed and ripped off by westinghouse (he was a GHOUL of the 1st order, westinghouse, what an a&^hole!) and others it's a crime in itself!! Nikola Tesla literally should own intellectual copyrights to about 120 different gadgets & items used today in modern life, along with .......OH, GEE, & relay powerlines from transformers to convert A C free electricity to provide the globe free power, & radio-wave & micro wave theory of ANY/ALL kinds, ( 1 of Marconi's attorneys screwed Tesla there), Magnetic coils, and helo craft, they even found basic diagrams in his safe for an "Electric Coil rifle" which is the great GrandFather of the rail gun, (!!!!), etc., the guy was so SOOO far "outside the genius box" he terrified most people, but he was so brilliant, so close to being TOO SMART, 1 of his flaws in life (due to his brilliance) he never saw things thru if he hit a snag, and that cost him dearly in life but it shouldn't have..!!...But trust me boyz and girlz, had Nikola Tesla not been who he was and so devoted to science and invention etc.,& rugged enough to stick with his own belief's while being laughed at or having scumbags like westinghouse spend MILLIONS a yr back then in the 20's trying to smear him, we'd live in a markedly poorer and MUCH more drab world, even today!!Chef David, Monday, 5/29/17, 6:00pm..........................///////////
Can't believe it's been 20 years since this came out. This tune is still as fresh sounding as it was when it came out two decades ago. Timeless. This is the last Tesla album where they put a lot of effort into the songwriting and guitars.
Nikola Tesla Wanted To Give Electricity to All For FREE. Rich folks 🤨 did NOT want The People To Have FREE anything. So they did to him about the same as they are trying to do with Our 45th President.
Simple, as the song says, he was never out to sell. So that's how Thomas Edison and Marconi (don't even know or care what his first name was) destroyed him as they did. They stole his inventions, discredited him. The only thing Edison actually invented was the electric chair, and he did so by hooking up cats and dogs to an electrical grid to try to "prove" why Tesla's AC current invention was too dangerous and we should use his DC current invention instead. Thing is, AC will throw you and you are much more likely to survive touching it (depending on the amperage. I have a friend that stuck a paperclip in an wall socket and it literally flung him across the entire room. He was fine, as the amperage wasn't too high) hence why he had to strap the cats and dogs down (and why someone in a electric chair jerks so much.) DC you don't need to do that as it does the opposite. You can't let go, and you fry. So many don't realize it because of how he 'erased' Tesla, but he failed to convince anyone to use DC instead of AC. What's powering your home right now? Tesla's AC not Edison's DC.
I know Led Zep used odd times, but Tesla was the only 80's rock band I know to use odd meters (other than 3's) with such confidence and groove. Later, Soundgarden (my favorite band) really played with odd times to great effect, but I will always love how Tesla seamlessly throws in odd measures, and Jeff Keith keeps the melody in tact over them. Good stuff! Shows their intelligence.
@@Scott45fl12345 I think he's referring to the "skipped" beat in the pre-chorus of the song ("Man outta time, man outta time"). If you count the beats in that part, there are four in the first measure, but only _three_ in the second measure. They omit (or "skip") the last beat of that measure, effectively changing the time signature from 4/4 (four beats per measure) to 3/4 (three beats per measure) for a brief moment. The Beatles experimented with this too, and Rush did it on several songs. Queensryche too, and Dream Theater.
@@Scott45fl12345 He is talking about the musical structure of the song. As to saying music, for the most part, is on a rhythmic time scale .... (1 -anda 2 -anda 3 -anda -4.)..the structure of the song...as he is making a reference to the "odd" time signature's of the song. for the most part, your everyday song is in counts of 4.
This song and this whole album was freaking phenomenal! Me and my buddies in high school just freaking cranked it for years and jumped around danced air guitared,,, it's what got me to start playing Guitar which led me to an over 25 year career playing live!
I actually discovered this band by accident through Nikola Tesla. lol I am glad I did! Saw them live with Def Leppard and Styx. I was so impressed! They were fucking great! They rocked!
@@katkal3 Yep, the line "I did 12 years of hard time, more like the best years of my life, and never did I hear a single word about the man and his wicked mind" is so spot on for me (though I was not yet out of high school, but it was years later before I heard anything about Tesla I didn't seek out myself.)
Like a lot of others, I really got into the band Tesla in '87....Modern Day Cowboy was the first song I liked. Then I saw them on tour with Def Leppard - Awesome Show! These guys kicked Ass! I love every song they made on their first 3 albums. Any of you that's interested, should watch the PBS documentary on Nikola Tesla "Master of Lightning".....The man was a Genius. He invented MANY of the things we take for granted today, and most people don't even know his Name.... Inventor of the Radio, AC motors and electrical system, X-ray, fluorescent lights and the CFL bulbs they make us use now!....And - WIRELESS technology (remote control devices which led to cell phones, etc...and Tesla claimed that wireless Power was possible).....plus many other things and rumors that the gov't shut him down, his later ideas/inventions would've made power, radio and telephone available everywhere and Very, very cheap! (Insert government and huge utility companies here, along with our big monthly payments)
Perfect homage, to a Great Man, performed by his only namesake to carry on his name. Also without Teslas A.C. we probably wouldn't have the instrument Frank Hannon wields like a Samurai.
I absolutely love this band first and foremost. They were amazing. Now we have Tesla charging stations here in my little town. I can't imagine how proud that man would be. It's about he is recognized. He changed everything for us all. 😊
They wouldn't be able to even make this music if it weren't for Nikola Tesla. Les Paul might have invented the guitar, but Nikola Tesla put the METAL in it!
Steve please let me know if you have away to get a message to the groups ass kicking guitar Frank hannon and give my number to my friend and badass old band mate Derek k dorge Stevie g on guild. Bass and Robbie froesie. The John bottom Jr. On drums form good old sacto
Going tomorrow night, to meet the guys again. The last meet and greet we did with them[2006] was a memorable time. Frank and I ran across Woodward Ave. to get a picture together with a new Dodge Challenger. He wanted one so bad...and hadn't seen one. Great pictures, and a bunch of great guys.
Younger generations found out Nikola Tesla because of the movie The Prestige, but we the older generation already knew a lot about his genius thanks to this song being blasted regularly on MTV back in the day.
Guess I'm really old g Westinghouse ran with n Tesla ideas and burned Edison. I worked 13 years with Teslas ideas as a journeymen lineman. We ain't mindless pole monkies
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine". Nikola Tesla
4:55 for a partial list of Nikola Tesla's contributions to the Modern World. Tesla (the band) 1st album was released almost 30 years ago (1986...whoa I'm old), nobody was talking about Nikola Tesla the Inventor and this Band was - On the literal end, it was/is Knowledge vs Education - All the good info isn't in school textbooks. How many bands (Rush comes to mind) inspire a kid to go to a Library? This band. Read "Man out of Time" by Margaret Chaney. Get into Tesla's albums (the first 3 especially) and Nikola and prepare to have your Mind and Body Rocked!!!!
Yes! Margaret Chaney wrote the best books on Nikola Tesla. Also check out Wizard, it is another great book on the man. Also Iron Maiden introduced me to 'Rime of the Ancient Marnier'. Who says you can't learn and rock at the same time?
What I like about this video? It is not only a rocking song, very rocking, but it actually has a very good meaning behind it. It is not the classic 80s metal "getting with chicks" song. Very intelligent song
Best intro to a song ever! Great lyrics great song. I'll allways be a fan of you both TESLA (band and man). You have fans in Portugal, when will we ever have the plasure to see you live?
one of my favorite songs & video... man out a time... man out a time... can't listen to it without typing after the rythm! cooool!!! TESLA RULES!!! cheers... : )
I haven't heard this song in decades, but it still holds up. Great tune with a very interesting subject matter. Just watched a documentary about Nikola Tesla, so now I actually get the lyrics:-)
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I remember buying The Great Radio Controversy on cassette when it was released. I pulled out and unfolded the sleeve and noticed it had a lot of wording on it for a rock LP. I proceeded to read about a Nikola Tesla and what he had done. I was fascinated. I was in 6th grade and had never heard of that guy, not in school or tv or anywhere. Funny how an underrated rock band taught me a great deal of forgotten (...or erased) history.
Awesome! I have recently discovered Tesla and I am in LOVE!
same here!!!
In my opinion, one of the most underrated bands of the 80's
Well said Sir.
They were like Whitesnake, not total Hairband cheese, but not hard ass metal guys either. The interlude is pound for pound one off he coolest guitar effects ever and they applied it perfectly to song. Sex, drugs and Weird Science.
Underrated is an understatement. I've seen them live 3 times, opening for bands like Def Leppard and Great White. They stole the show every time. Can't wait for them to play the Iowa State Fair in August with Styx and Def Leppard so I can watch them steal that one, too.
Brian Asklund I missed them back in day, but my wife and I are also seeing them with Def Leppard in June.
Shadowbat69 And I'll be seeing that same tour in August here in KC, Mo.
When I was in high school, we had a career center for 11th and 12th graders. I followed in my big brother's shoes (as always) and spent my junior year in the electronics course.
It was because of this band that I did my final essay on Nikola Tesla and the work he did at Niagara Falls.
Nina that is very cool 😎
I bet you got a A+
There's a statue of him sitting in a chair with a big book on his lap (went to Niagara falls in 2001)
This is my all time favorite Tesla song!!! And one of my all time favorite bands along with Cinderella. This music will never get old it's PURE ROCK AND ROLL ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I've honestly thought this has been way underrated rock song for a long time myself
Cinderella lol sorry
@@nickmorgan8434 Why Cinderella lol sorry???
@vlwetzel65 I was born in 79 lol I think they were going out in my time
@@nickmorgan8434 Well I know that they were very popular in the mid 80's and their music is still loved by many. Check out their albums NIGHT SONGS AND LONG COLD WINTER.. They too were a very underrated band like Tesla.
gotta love a band who pays homage to a pure genuis ,that DID change the world, and could/would have done so much more for us all
He certainly would have done more if he didn't have to waste so much time and energy fighting Edison. Edison was relentless. But you already know this.
tesla "the scientist" was a fraud. do your homework... all he did was steal other peoples ideas and he got away with it being he worked at the patton office... edison and westinghouse were just as bad, all they did was stole from tesla what tesla stole from others...
Dennis I have to tell you that you got that shit right!!
Cycles Ov Hatred actually, Nikola Tesla didn’t work in a “patton” office. He also didn’t work in a patent office, for what it’s worth, that was Albert Einstein that people accuse of stealing other’s patent ideas. A for effort buddy!
Yet the irony in the Tesla car!
Who doesn't love the ass kicking guitar solo opening? Outstanding! ❤
It’s incredible, love it, their killin here in their hey day.
Reminds me of Dimebag
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Yea it really kinda does, miss that guy 🦋🦄🌹
One of the best Teslas songs
Tesla has a band name was not ignorantly chosen.
@@KimberlyBishh Na it's pretty cool. I remember well before this song came out during Mechanical Resonance they were talking to Frank I think and he talked about N. Tesla and how the band was based off that man's name. That's pretty freaking cool. Very unique.
Cinderella and Tesla are one of the most underrated band
this song will still kick your ass after hundred of years
Cinderella turned into a bs blues band just like great white….both horrible bands and lost their rock rythem
Tesla is not a car manufacturer but a ROCK BAND to me.
A genius to me.
And a pretty hard one !!!
Tesla's biography inspired me to be an electrical engineer. Been working as an engineer for 12 years and almost finished my masters of engineering degree while working full time. Love songs like this, it inspires me to learn more.
I went to line school in 91 the more i dug Edison was a fraud. 1.73 makes the world go round
Too bad you are not 1/1,000,000th the person Tesla was.
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I hope you're still finding that inspiration!
@@Bonzi_Buddy what an ignorant thing to say
I got to meet Tesla when they opened for Def Leppard on the Hysteria tour in '88. My dad had connections in the industry & got us tickets & backstage passes. I was 12. It was my first concert experience & still the best.
Wow
Dad Rocks!
One of the most intelligent, kick ass songs in rock history. Thank you Tesla I still love you guys!!
Amen!
And Forever. Thank you.
Woot woot! Preach!
I love tesla. But this song sucks.. not factual
They represent Sacramento very well hometown boys do us proud keep yo head up and keep on
Not only was he a genius at inventing, he also knew 8 languages completely fluently, and was celibate his whole life to focus on his work. That's what I call awesome.
It may not have been Celibacy. He could just have been Asexual.
It would actually be more awesome to have some hot girl he would take to the moon and back, all her experiences were just electric
@@MrUnidyne no he definitely had to masturbate at some point. He's not a fuckin sponge or a starfish. Humans are biologically incapable of reproducing asexually.
Underrated man. Underrated band. Irony.
Nah...he just hit the cathouse once in a while.
Without question the most overlooked and underrated band of the 80's. They were absolutely not a hair band nor a metal band. They we're just a great rock band.
Kevin James by your logic you’re basically saying that gnR is a hair band
all bands are hair bands -I don't know any bald bands LMAO
@@SKRooU2 OH!
Well stated sir. Very much agree
Definitely not hair metal. Like a Poison or somebody. Just a really, really good and straight forward hard to k band..
Psychotic Supper. One of the most solid Rock albums of its time.
Nikola Tesla: the only scientist that's so hardcore that he has his own hair metal band.
HELL Yeah... AND the ONLY Awesome Scientist that has a BAD ASS Car NAMED after Him..!!!!
Kinda makes ya WONDER HOW he actually passed away in NYC back in 1943...
@Captain MufDyven True That!!! Tesla was a REAL rock band!
SO Fuckin right!!
@Captain MufDyven Please just enjoy the message... It's not about music. Its about fact and how he was used by Edison.
@@tinagivens2784 He is right, though. They hated being considered "a hair metal glam band." Because it connotes flash over substance and undercuts their actual musicianship and uniqueness, given all the subpar hair & glam of the era like Ratt and Cinderella etc.🤘
"Man outta time, man outta time" while the song is out of time. It's a 15/16 beat for two bars.
That's the genius of this underrated band.
💯
I love these guys, my dad showed them to me over the summer and I can’t get enough! I feel like they were kinda wrong time and place, they could’ve been a lot bigger if they didn’t release this album right before grunge started. These guys aren’t hair metal, but grunge really took over everything, unless you were a hardcore band
Wow that's so subtly cool I didn't even notice
@@chipmcdip8629 dude they were already popular years earlier with Mechanical Renosance. they had several hits just on that debut album and MTV played them heavy in rotation
Nailed it. Little quirks like this make it sound very unique and not just another 3 min 30 sec pop rock song that goes down like saccharine with a by-the-book radio friendly hook. Tesla strayed from this “book” often while still being catchy as hell. One of the reasons they were so fun to listen to.
If I had a time machine, I'd download this song to it, go back to the day before Tesla died and play it for him. Tell him everything about the future, his legacy today. It so pains me to think he died peniless, probably thinking that Edison and Marconi had won, he would be forgotten. He almost was, but thanks to the band Tesla and others like them, he wasn't.
For those that don't know, he unerringly predicted modern smartphones, even the internet in 1926. From Collider Magazine:
"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket"
Nikola Tesla
January 30th, 1926
It's like he had a time machine and saw into the future predicted exactly as it is today. A real Man out of time.
He was more correct about the technology than he was about the fashions! Very few men wear vests anymore.
Amen brother!!!🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
That's not speculation, that's direct development, without pen and computer, knowing what was scientifically feasible, a half century before the also rans, who envied him. Otherwise known as a STEM career under wokeassism. Losers.
"Irrespective(sp) of distance" still working on it, in obscurity, somewhere....I'll bet.
These dudes are just amazing...2020 still making music & touring... RESPECT!!💯🤘🏻
Saw Tesla in concert with Def Leppard summer 2019. Both bands absolutely killed it! They can still without a doubt ROCK!!!
Leppard sucks now.
Nice! I saw them together in 1988-that was a killer show.
A very fitting tribute to Nikola Tesla.
The more I listen to this song....I can appreciate the talent these guys had 3 decades plus ago. Pure hard rock - heavy metal for this song.
I will never get over the fact that the guitarist whips a bass out of nowhere, rather than let the bass player have a solo. Stuff of legend.
Uh. That is the bass player, Brian Wheat.
@@deanwells501 - No. After his guitar solo, Frank breaks it down on the bass. @ 3:23. That's Frank Hannon, 1st guitarist. Not Brian Wheat.
And on a Rick too!!!
I've learned more about history thanks to this song and anything Iron Maiden has recorded....than I did in actual high school....
have you heard the band Sabaton yet? you really get a history lesson from them.
@Florida Metal favorite album, toss up between great war, war to end all wars, and heros
Godamn I miss the 80's music. The solo guitarist is so awesome, 12 string, 6 string, then bass solo. I love it.
Nikola Tesla, thank you for everything you have done, especially for AC, which powers transformers and tubes in my amp so I can rock hard!
Perfectly stated sir
I've loved Tesla since the 80's, and still love them . I still love them. I'm binge watching them today. Can't get enough of them !!!
I loved this song back in the day for the crazy catchy melodies, and today I realise the lyrics were the clever bit. This is a song that I come back to, and it still sounds fresh.
I remember my History instructor when he 1st played this for me...Been hooked on HISTORY and not HIS STORY ever since!!! #this song will always kick major and minor ass!! #always will be a fan!!!
Deplorable America insulting someone just because you don’t understand the pun is kind of ironic don’t you think?
I love Edison’s medicine. It’s totally one of my favorite Tesla songs of all times. Saw em do it live in 93 in Lexington Ky at the Rupp Arena, undoubtably one of the best live performances ever, they were incredible. ⚡️🎸🇺🇸⚡️🎸🇺🇸⚡️🎸🇺🇸⚡️ 🤘🏼☠️🤘🏼going back August 24. Got tickets as soon as they went on sell. Can’t wait, what a blast it’s gonna be.🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨
The man who inspired this song was a genius!
More like a fucking theif
Get outta here, Edison.
Yeah I'm sure I can put all his inventions on that forhead of yours
It took this awesome rock band to introduce me to this most incredible human being of our time!!! And both are truly amazing and underrated!!!
I concur!
Same here. I was 10 when this song came out. I had no idea what the lyrics were about, so I started asking questions.
Happy Birthday to Nikola Tesla, and thanks to Tesla the band for never letting us forget
So true. Thanks for stating it. :) Nikola Tesla was an amazing individual. And so is this band who were inspired by him.
....& he was SOOO RUTHLESSLY screwed and ripped off by westinghouse (he was a GHOUL of the 1st order, westinghouse, what an a&^hole!) and others it's a crime in itself!! Nikola Tesla literally should own intellectual copyrights to about 120 different gadgets & items used today in modern life, along with .......OH, GEE, & relay powerlines from transformers to convert A C free electricity to provide the globe free power, & radio-wave & micro wave theory of ANY/ALL kinds, ( 1 of Marconi's attorneys screwed Tesla there), Magnetic coils, and helo craft, they even found basic diagrams in his safe for an "Electric Coil rifle" which is the great GrandFather of the rail gun, (!!!!), etc., the guy was so SOOO far "outside the genius box" he terrified most people, but he was so brilliant, so close to being TOO SMART, 1 of his flaws in life (due to his brilliance) he never saw things thru if he hit a snag, and that cost him dearly in life but it shouldn't have..!!...But trust me boyz and girlz, had Nikola Tesla not been who he was and so devoted to science and invention etc.,& rugged enough to stick with his own belief's while being laughed at or having scumbags like westinghouse spend MILLIONS a yr back then in the 20's trying to smear him, we'd live in a markedly poorer and MUCH more drab world, even today!!Chef David, Monday, 5/29/17, 6:00pm..........................///////////
Hari Menon if its to LOUD UR 2 OLD.....
One of the greatest rock albums ever.
Can't believe it's been 20 years since this came out. This tune is still as fresh sounding as it was when it came out two decades ago. Timeless. This is the last Tesla album where they put a lot of effort into the songwriting and guitars.
Funny, I was just thinking the same thing, only about it having been thirty years.
Me 3!!! Lol!
Bust a Nut and Into the Now both have excellent guitar work and songwriting… Ever heard Shine Away?
Its been 31 years at this point. 😮
I will never understand why this man did not get more credit for what he did for this world? A pure genius!, he could have done so much more.
Nikola Tesla Wanted To Give Electricity to All For FREE. Rich folks 🤨 did NOT want The People To Have FREE anything. So they did to him about the same as they are trying to do with Our 45th President.
Simple, as the song says, he was never out to sell. So that's how Thomas Edison and Marconi (don't even know or care what his first name was) destroyed him as they did. They stole his inventions, discredited him. The only thing Edison actually invented was the electric chair, and he did so by hooking up cats and dogs to an electrical grid to try to "prove" why Tesla's AC current invention was too dangerous and we should use his DC current invention instead. Thing is, AC will throw you and you are much more likely to survive touching it (depending on the amperage. I have a friend that stuck a paperclip in an wall socket and it literally flung him across the entire room. He was fine, as the amperage wasn't too high) hence why he had to strap the cats and dogs down (and why someone in a electric chair jerks so much.) DC you don't need to do that as it does the opposite. You can't let go, and you fry. So many don't realize it because of how he 'erased' Tesla, but he failed to convince anyone to use DC instead of AC. What's powering your home right now? Tesla's AC not Edison's DC.
I know Led Zep used odd times, but Tesla was the only 80's rock band I know to use odd meters (other than 3's) with such confidence and groove. Later, Soundgarden (my favorite band) really played with odd times to great effect, but I will always love how Tesla seamlessly throws in odd measures, and Jeff Keith keeps the melody in tact over them. Good stuff! Shows their intelligence.
Not being a smart ass. But, what does this mean?
@@Scott45fl12345 I think he's referring to the "skipped" beat in the pre-chorus of the song ("Man outta time, man outta time"). If you count the beats in that part, there are four in the first measure, but only _three_ in the second measure. They omit (or "skip") the last beat of that measure, effectively changing the time signature from 4/4 (four beats per measure) to 3/4 (three beats per measure) for a brief moment.
The Beatles experimented with this too, and Rush did it on several songs. Queensryche too, and Dream Theater.
@@Scott45fl12345 He is talking about the musical structure of the song. As to saying music, for the most part, is on a rhythmic time scale .... (1 -anda 2 -anda 3 -anda -4.)..the structure of the song...as he is making a reference to the "odd" time signature's of the song. for the most part, your everyday song is in counts of 4.
Rush one of the kings of odd time signatures
"......along with number 3" 😉👌
Thanks to Nikola Tesla we can enjoy this, someway he made rock n' roll
Hardmetalman almost all the instruments they’re using have some sort of device that uses Tesla’s patents. So yes! You’re right.
Tesla is TOTALLY responsible for metal! If it weren't for him, there wouldn't BE electric guitars!
I remember this one my first year of college...still a kick ass song!!!
This song and this whole album was freaking phenomenal! Me and my buddies in high school just freaking cranked it for years and jumped around danced air guitared,,, it's what got me to start playing Guitar which led me to an over 25 year career playing live!
Why is Tesla so underrated??? So much history in this song....cmon u have a phone - educate yaselfs where ya got the powersource....
He was a genius and a humanitarian. We need more people like Tesla in the world and less Edisons!!!
YES!
NIKOLA TESLA - UNDERRATED SCIENTIFIC
TESLA - UNDERRATED BAND
COINCIDENCE? I THINK NO
Ur a dope
Well....I grew up with this stuff...very heavy rotation on MTV back in the day...I absolutely love this song, though....
The lies they teach in school. Just about everything I learned in history was a BIG fabrication of the truth... Tesla a great man, and a awesome band!
Actually, that’s the very definition of coincidence.
what's a underrated scientific? you mean scientist?
I actually discovered this band by accident through Nikola Tesla. lol I am glad I did! Saw them live with Def Leppard and Styx. I was so impressed! They were fucking great! They rocked!
i discvered tesla through this band ha!
@@katkal3 Yep, the line "I did 12 years of hard time, more like the best years of my life, and never did I hear a single word about the man and his wicked mind" is so spot on for me (though I was not yet out of high school, but it was years later before I heard anything about Tesla I didn't seek out myself.)
Still America's BEST strait ahead rock n roll band
Maxharddrive64 right after the Foo fighters .. yes
@@scottkral5627 FF aren't shit compared to Tesla
An underrated band singing about, until recently, an underrated genius.
these guys can even make history songs good love it!!
Like a lot of others, I really got into the band Tesla in '87....Modern Day Cowboy was the first song I liked. Then I saw them on tour with Def Leppard - Awesome Show! These guys kicked Ass! I love every song they made on their first 3 albums.
Any of you that's interested, should watch the PBS documentary on Nikola Tesla "Master of Lightning".....The man was a Genius. He invented MANY of the things we take for granted today, and most people don't even know his Name....
Inventor of the Radio, AC motors and electrical system, X-ray, fluorescent lights and the CFL bulbs they make us use now!....And - WIRELESS technology (remote control devices which led to cell phones, etc...and Tesla claimed that wireless Power was possible).....plus many other things and rumors that the gov't shut him down, his later ideas/inventions would've made power, radio and telephone available everywhere and Very, very cheap! (Insert government and huge utility companies here, along with our big monthly payments)
One of the most under-rated bands EVER!!!!
Perfect homage, to a Great Man, performed by his only namesake to carry on his name.
Also without Teslas A.C. we probably wouldn't have the instrument Frank Hannon wields like a Samurai.
The TESLA is a measure of magnetic flux
I absolutely love this band first and foremost. They were amazing. Now we have Tesla charging stations here in my little town. I can't imagine how proud that man would be. It's about he is recognized. He changed everything for us all. 😊
Gotta love a song with two different choruses! Awesome!
They wouldn't be able to even make this music if it weren't for Nikola Tesla. Les Paul might have invented the guitar, but Nikola Tesla put the METAL in it!
I discovered this band yesterday and now I can't stop listening to them
I Hope You are Still "Out There" after 12 Years, and if your are, I am hopeful that you are still listening to TESLA in 2023!
Beautiful song. And taught us all a history lesson. Thank you TESLA!!!
This one here is one of the best songs of its time
best show I ever saw it was march 2001 at the state theatre Detroit Michigan first show with the whole band in 15 years
Awesome song from an awesome band. Great stuff.
Trish Taylor
Extremely underrated song from an extremely underrated band.
400KrispyKremes I agree
Steve please let me know if you have away to get a message to the groups ass kicking guitar Frank hannon and give my number to my friend and badass old band mate Derek k dorge Stevie g on guild. Bass and Robbie froesie. The John bottom Jr. On drums form good old sacto
Going tomorrow night, to meet the guys again. The last meet and greet we did with them[2006] was a memorable time. Frank and I ran across Woodward Ave. to get a picture together with a new Dodge Challenger. He wanted one so bad...and hadn't seen one. Great pictures, and a bunch of great guys.
I feel old when I watched this I miss Tommy Skeoch's influence on the band That intro was sick!
That dudes foot on this song. OMG....... Drummers will understand!
I told someone to day how underrated these guy are. 🇬🇧
Saw these guys on a cruise ship doing pretty much the entire 5 man acoustical jam album. Jeff Keith still had it and I was stoked they were there.
And example of when a band that you don't personally dig makes an amazing song that you can't help but love.
How could you NOT love this song!!!
Tesla invented a time machine.
Hes back
Younger generations found out Nikola Tesla because of the movie The Prestige, but we the older generation already knew a lot about his genius thanks to this song being blasted regularly on MTV back in the day.
Guess I'm really old g Westinghouse ran with n Tesla ideas and burned Edison. I worked 13 years with Teslas ideas as a journeymen lineman. We ain't mindless pole monkies
This song has had a permanent spot on my playlist for 30 years
This is a perfect rock song 10/10. I remember buying this album the day it was released......Amazing Album!!!
Amazing! They definitely chose the greatest inventor of all time! Smart guys, they did their research well! Love this band , love Nikola Tesla!
I can't wait to show my kid this video when his homework is about this subject, it will be the only time when homework is THAT fun!
the guitar solo that starts at 2:45 has always been one of my favorites.
this album was great, underappreciated tesla. probably their hardest rockin'
perfect song tesla \m/
RESPECT AND ADMIRE FOR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS OF THE ELECTRICITY FROM SERBIA!!!!!!!!!
Serbian from Croatia! It was all Yugoslavia at that time...
Actually, it was Austrian Hungary.
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine".
Nikola Tesla
Getting a history lesson from a hard rock video?
Hell yes.
Love this song and more importantly the message behind it Tesla energy one day will rule!
4:55 for a partial list of Nikola Tesla's contributions to the Modern World. Tesla (the band) 1st album was released almost 30 years ago (1986...whoa I'm old), nobody was talking about Nikola Tesla the Inventor and this Band was - On the literal end, it was/is Knowledge vs Education - All the good info isn't in school textbooks. How many bands (Rush comes to mind) inspire a kid to go to a Library? This band. Read "Man out of Time" by Margaret Chaney. Get into Tesla's albums (the first 3 especially) and Nikola and prepare to have your Mind and Body Rocked!!!!
Yes! Margaret Chaney wrote the best books on Nikola Tesla. Also check out Wizard, it is another great book on the man. Also Iron Maiden introduced me to 'Rime of the Ancient Marnier'. Who says you can't learn and rock at the same time?
They were the ONLY musicians that recognized that Marconi did not invent the radio.
What I like about this video? It is not only a rocking song, very rocking, but it actually has a very good meaning behind it. It is not the classic 80s metal "getting with chicks" song. Very intelligent song
Top band, 5 man acoustic jam is a masterpiece .
Love how they do a great honor to a Great Man...Dammit can't turn it up loud enough...need a Tesla coil for this one
The guitar/bass solo was so badass. XD
That thing with an antena Frank Hanon is waving at before the guitar solo is a theremim. Really bad ass instrument.
Nikola and these dudes both kinda flew under the radar.
Both have creations that ROCK!!
Great song and a nice history lesson. Hard to find in music these days.
Best intro to a song ever!
Great lyrics great song.
I'll allways be a fan of you both TESLA (band and man).
You have fans in Portugal, when will we ever have the plasure to see you live?
one of my favorite songs & video... man out a time... man out a time... can't listen to it without typing after the rythm! cooool!!! TESLA RULES!!! cheers... : )
One of my favorite 80s bands. Just badass rock n roll
This song is amazing - such an amazing band
Love me some Tesla, ahhh the good ole dayz
Heard this on the radio today, what a banger🔥
Yeah we knew what we was listening to. Tremendous rock band. A fav of mine. Frank is highly underrated guitar player
That's why the band is called TESLA.
"2019" And Still KiCk'N It🎼🎧🎼👍
This is the best way to get a history lesson, with blazing guitar.
I haven't heard this song in decades, but it still holds up. Great tune with a very interesting subject matter. Just watched a documentary about Nikola Tesla, so now I actually get the lyrics:-)
Tesla was the first band I ever saw live! 1988 I believe it was.
TESLA !!! (The band, not the corporation)...
Insanely underrated band.
Underrated only by mainstream people who didn't know them 😉
A band out time.. Always a inspiring story and song. Don't ever STOP....
Such a great song, even after all these years!