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BASSIST Brian Wheat said as Tesla confirmed a new album he would like all the band’s former members to be involved in their final tour.
Homage, largely a covers album, will be released via Frontiers on July 17 and the band will tour the US with Motley Crue and Extreme – starting that day. “I Love You”, Tesla’s second time covering the Climax Blues Band song, can be seen and heard below.
Reflecting on his recent reconciliation with Tesla’s former guitarist Tommy Skeoch, Wheat said on Sirius XM: “When Tesla does their last tour, I’m going to be the guy to go ‘I want Tommy and Dave (Rude) and Frank (Hannon) and Troy (Luckketta) and Brian and Jeff (Keith) together to go around the planet one more time.
“That’s me, OK? Because I think the fans deserve it. (Rude) has been in the band 20 years, Skeoch was in the band 20 years. We’re 40 years, right? That’s what I would want to do.
“It will be all three of them (guitar players).”
Wheat and Skeoch – who reconciled on the Monsters Of Rock Cruise – are in a band together called T3minal with former WASP guitarist Chris Holmes, who recently cancelled his own tour dates because of health concerns. “He’s OK,” Wheat said on the Faction Talk station of Holmes. “He’s got an issue he’s got to deal with … Chris is fine … I talked to him this morning.”
A new Tesla song, “Never Alone”, which was originally written for Wheat’s side project Violent Breed, is also included on the album.
Wheat says as Tesla’s managed he prefers to have singer Keith playing live than spending months and years in the studio at this stage of his career. That’s why it’s a covers album dedicated to great vocalists, rather than all new material.
In the same interview on the Trunk Nation show, Rude said the project started when a video of Tesla doing “I Love You” at a soundcheck went viral.
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