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Real to Reel Vol.1
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Track Listing
- Space Truckin'
- Walk Away
- Hand Me Down World
- Bad Reputation
- Thank You
- I've Gotta Feelin'
- Day Of The Eagle
- Ball Of Confusion
- Rock Bottom
- Stealin'
- Bell Bottom Blues
- Honky Tonk Women
- Dear Mr. Fantasy
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #52755 in Music
- Released on: 2007-07-02
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Import
Customer Reviews
Tesla!
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'.
not a bad covers album
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
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
