{"id":11437,"date":"2020-03-30T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=11437"},"modified":"2020-03-28T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T09:11:19","slug":"tesla-five-man-london-jam-umc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=11437","title":{"rendered":"Tesla \u2013 \u2018Five Man London Jam\u2019 (UMC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Three decades after almost single-handedly taking the hard rock goes acoustic format mainstream Sacramento\u2019s finest sons Tesla recently returned to the now well worn set-up for an intimate invitation only show at London\u2019s Abbey Road Studios to record a set of songs in homage to the original \u2018Five Man Acoustical Jam\u2019.<\/p>\n

Captured in 4K High-Definition both sonically and visually \u2018Five Man London Jam\u2019 is more than just a re-run of that Platinum selling 1990 opus though, with only five tracks common across both releases, although granted the more pedantic fan might argue its six if you want to include opener \u2018Comin’ Atcha Live\/Truckin\u2018 as two songs rather than one.<\/p>\n

Once past the common ground of the introductory track what follows is a mixture of tracks from Tesla\u2019s 2019 album \u2018Shock\u2019 (\u2018Tied To The Tracks\u2019 getting a cowboy booted foot in early doors with \u2018California Summer Song\u2019 and \u2018Forever Loving You\u2019 forming the mid-set spine) all lined up alongside some of their perhaps lesser known tracks from their back catalogue such as \u2018Miles Away\u2019 and \u2018Into The Now\u2019 from the band\u2019s 2004 by the same name. There are also three cuts from 1991\u2019s much overlooked \u2018Psychotic Supper\u2019 album in the shape of \u2018What You Give\u2019, \u2018Call It What You Want\u2019 and \u2018Stir It Up\u2019 to look forward to. Whilst of the remaining five original \u2018Acoustic\u2019 tracks the re-visiting of The Beatles \u2018We Can Work It Out\u2019, recorded in the very studio it was first recorded in, plus the whole seven and half minutes of \u2018Love Song\u2019, which brings this set to a close, are both in equal measures enthralling and magical.<\/p>\n

If I were to be slightly critical of the thirteen (look I\u2019m counting the opener as one track okay) song set is that reviewing it as I am here without the visuals it does get a tad one paced towards the middle of the set, and it takes a fantastic version of \u2018Into The Now\u2019 to truly get me back in the groove, also though on a more positive note it\u2019s great to hear the \u2018Shock\u2019 tracks live and devoid of the overproduction which I personally felt marred their last studio record.<\/p>\n

Look, I once stayed up until 4 am in a freezing cold Centre Stage at Minehead Butlins to watch Tesla deliver a show stealing set of songs to an audience that by that time in the morning largely resembled how I would imagine a war zone might look. So me, I\u2019ll take that rough memory with the smoothness of \u2018Five Man London Jam\u2019 any day of the week just for the pleasure of being able to hear the awesome vocals of Jeff Keith.<\/p>\n

What I will never be able to get my head around though is how Tesla have never really become the arena rocking behemoths they so rightly deserved to be, a bit like their heroes UFO I guess.<\/p>\n

Buy ‘Five Man London Jam’\u00a0Here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three decades after almost single-handedly taking the hard rock goes acoustic format mainstream Sacramento\u2019s finest sons Tesla recently returned to the now well worn set-up for an intimate invitation only show at London\u2019s Abbey Road Studios to record a set of songs in homage to the original \u2018Five Man Acoustical Jam\u2019. Captured in 4K High-Definition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4721,4723,2964,4724,4725,4722,1677,1739,2220],"class_list":["post-11437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-abbey-road-studio","tag-comin-atcha-live-truckin","tag-duff-press","tag-five-man-acoustical-jam","tag-five-man-london-jam","tag-jeff-keith","tag-tesla","tag-ufo","tag-umc","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11439,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437\/revisions\/11439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}