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Real to Reel Vol.1
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Tesla!
Review date: 2007-11-05 Rating: 8 out of 10
American hard rockers TESLA are back on the scene, and this, their 6th studio album, is a collection of classic rock covers from the 1960's and 1970's. While their fans would have preferred a collection of original material, 'Real to Reel' is an enjoyable nod to the (very) old school. The production is deliberately old fashioned as the album was recorded using analogue equipment, and this makes for a raw, energetic performance.
DEEP PURPLE's 'Space Truckin' and UFO's 'Rock Bottom' provide great headbanging material, but in all honesty, while solid enough, neither version here has anything like the magic of the originals. For me, it's always the more obscure songs that make an album like this worthwhile, even if it does just prove that TESLA would make a good friday night pub band. JAMES GANG's 'Walk Away' and ROBIN TROWER's 'Day of the Eagle' were both new tracks to my ears, and a couple of gems at that.
The playing throughout is faultless, and equally groovy, as are the ideally styled rock standard vocals of Jeff Keith. If you're a fan of TESLA, this album will be well worth picking up - and one thing's for sure - this is a much better covers affair than POSION's recent flop, 'Poison'd'.
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not a bad covers album
Review date: 2007-08-21 Rating: 6 out of 10
i only bought the cd on the back of it having the extra space to put my free real to reel cd 2 inside plus the album itself is not a bad collection of covers but what lets it down is their choice of covers as they could have held a vote for fans to have Tesla play their favorite tunes somthing that Poison let the fans down by playing the songs they played rather than what their fans had voted for.
Still a nice double album.
the reel deal teslafied
Review date: 2007-07-19 Rating: 10 out of 10
fantastic album start to finish when a band do a covers album you tend to cringe,not here from deep purples space truckin through led zeps thank you on to a ball dropping version of ball of confusion by the temptations which i think is the best track on disc one.bell bottom blues is another well covered track,good to hear frank hannon putting his own striking guitar work to these tracks,jeff keith sounds brillaint too.the only track im not keen on is the rolling stones honky tonk woman well covered but im not the biggest stones fan.look forward to getting my hands on the second disc to hear black sabbaths war pigs theres a song and ahalf along with lynard skynards saturday night special, and a song by the great areosmith seasons of wither a fantastic origanal.so buy this you won't be disapointed and do yourself a favour get the origanals too
A sincere attempt at reworking some rock classics....But dont play the originals first!
Review date: 2007-06-07 Rating: 8 out of 10
The release of a covers album can often be a sign that an artist is in either a creative or sales slump.Just occaisionally,however, this type of album can throw up a renewed spirit of fun for all involved,and thankfully Tesla's Real To Reel veers strongly to the latter.
There is no doubting the love Tesla have for the music they are playing,and respect is afforded to all of the songs they cover.Sensibly,the band have stuck[more or less] to their rock roots[declaring,somewhat hopefully, in the sleevenotes to be a band successful in the wrong decade],and they cheerfully run through songs by Deep Purple,U.F.O,[and it has to be said,a blistering version of "Rock Bottom"],Robin Trower,The James Gang,and Thin Lizzy with an almost reverential approach[its almost as if the band are secretly afraid of upsetting their heroes].In effect this means the songs stick very closely to their original versions,which to my mind is fine.The downside of this means that once the originals have been checked out,Real To Reel,could become redundant.
Still,this is a genuinely sincere attempt to pay homage to many great bands,and although this has now been done many times before,there are no real disasters on show to spoil this party!
Product Details/Specifications
Artist(s):
Tesla
Recording label: Tesla
Manufacturer: Tesla
EAN: 0896570001017
Binding: Audio CD
Format: Import,
Release date: 2007-07-02
Universal product code (UPC): 896570001017
Number of discs: 1
Disc 1 Tracks:
1. Space Truckin'
2. Walk Away
3. Hand Me Down World
4. Bad Reputation
5. Thank You
6. I've Gotta Feelin'
7. Day Of The Eagle
8. Ball Of Confusion
9. Rock Bottom
10. Stealin'
11. Bell Bottom Blues
12. Honky Tonk Women
13. Dear Mr. Fantasy
Publishers: Tesla