Tesla guitarist Frank Hannon mentioned he “didn’t really” have any branding battle with Tesla vehicles and their CEO, Elon Musk.
However confusion nonetheless pops up. An elevator chat with a lady earlier than this interview proved that.
“She asked me what band I was in and I told her I was a guitarist doing solo shows and my day job is a band called Tesla,” Hannon recalled. “And she immediately said, ‘Oh, the car?’ And I said, ‘No, the band.’”
Hannon, 59, is carving out his personal area with a brand new Western-inspired instrumental album known as “Reflections.” He performed tracks for a small viewers on the Reducing Room final week and likewise spoke to HuffPost.
Tesla reached its heavy steel heyday largely within the late Eighties and early ’90s with singles reminiscent of “Modern Day Cowboy,” and “The Way It Is,” breaking into Billboard’s high 10 with “Love Song” and a canopy of “Signs.” The group made a number of albums that reached the highest 15 and steadily opened for Def Leppard.
However Hannon mentioned he nonetheless must “make a living.”
“We’re fortunate that we still get paid pretty good as a band and that people still love our songs,” he mentioned. “Tesla has always been a working man’s band.”
Social media commenters typically seek advice from Tesla as “underrated,” a label Hannon embraces.
“I think we’ve always been underdogs a little bit in the sense we’ve never had a huge household main hit in a way,” he mentioned. “Forty years and we’re still doing residencies at House of Blues in Vegas (one begins next month) and still playing all over the country. Being underrated, or whatever, is better than being overrated.”
Hannon received’t be accused of being political, nonetheless.
“I stay away from it, man,” he mentioned. “I believe in guitar and I believe in just creating an escape for people to not think about politics … I wanna create music to give people a place to go where they’re not thinking about that.”
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