Tesla bassist Brian Wheat was recently a guest of SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” and talked about the band’s upcoming plans, “Well, we’re playing some more shows next month in November, and then November 29th, we’re releasing a limited-edition EP, ‘All About Love’, which will have a brand new track that we’ve been playing live for a few months and a few other versions of it and a couple of surprises on it. So there’ll be a brand new Tesla EP coming out.”
Wheat said they’ve been performing “All About Love” for “probably four or five months, actually, which is kind of reverse to what we used to do in the old days. In the old days, we used to record the song and then go play it live. So we played it live and then recorded it.”
Asked if the “All About Love” EP will include the “Cold Blue Steel” and “Time To Rock!” singles the band released, Brian said, “No. There’s two other tracks that aren’t ‘All About Love’. And I don’t wanna give it away, ’cause it takes a little bit of the surprise away, but there’ll be four different versions of ‘All About Love’ and two new tracks. There’ll be the live version, the studio version and two kind of other alternate versions… It’ll be something real nice for the fans. We worked real hard on it, and I’m excited to put it out there. It’ll be cool. It’ll be a nice piece for the fans to buy.”
This past August, Tesla singer Jeff Keith did an interview with Rock Show Critique and talked about plans to release new music, “Now, at this point, after COVID and everything, we’re just releasing singles ’cause people can download them. And from what I understand — they explained it to me, ’cause I don’t go on the Internet, but they explained to me, ‘Jeffrey, in today’s world, you can release a single for people to download, and it’s just like back in the ’40s and ’50s when people would put a little 45 record with a B-side.’ So from what I understand, the last two songs we released was ‘Cold Blue Steel’ and then ‘Time To Rock!’ And it’s all getting worked up, and I forget what the release date is for a song called ‘All About Love’. We’ve been playing it live, but it’s going to be officially released and a limited supply on vinyl.”
In September 2021, original Tesla drummer Troy Luccketta said he would “take a little time from the road” to spend with family and friends. He’s been replaced by Steve Brown, the younger brother of former Dokken drummer Mick Brown.
Obviously would love a full-length LP, but beggars can’t be choosers. It’s 2024, and to get new music from Tesla, even an EP, hell, I’ll take it!
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