The ground started shaking in Sacramento, CA, in 1984; gold country that would soon be producing some platinum.

They started out as City Kidd, until a suggested name change to TESLA, honoring the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla who pioneered all things electrical.

Their 1986 platinum debut album, Mechanical Resonance, included Top 40 hits “Modern Day Cowboy” and “Little Suzi.”

1989’s double-platinum The Great Radio Controversy included hits “Heaven’s Trail (No Way Out)” and “Love Song”.

Suddenly, TESLA, who had been touring with bands such as Def Leppard and David Lee Roth, earned headlining status.

In 1990, TESLA helped reshape the face of modern rock music by stripping down to the Five Man Acoustical Jam, an informal collection of their biggest hits peppered with rock and roll classics by the Beatles, Stones, and others.

This album produced their biggest hit single to date, a cover of Five Man Electrical Band’s “Signs.”

Other 90s albums from Tesla include platinum selling Psychotic Supper and Bust a Nut.

The band continues to record and release material including 9 new albums since 2000 and recently debuted their new single, “Time To Rock!”