I just returned from seeing Tesla play at La Zona Rosa in Austin, Texas. The show was good. Shorter than I expected (only one opening band, which I didn’t pay much attention to), but still a good show. Very straightforward, not much banter between songs, just music music music. I can’t put my finger on it, but I didn’t enjoy the show as much as the last one. Don’t get me wrong, this was a good show, but it felt like the last show/tour was just a lot of fun for the guys playing cover tunes and jamming. This show felt like “work”, and that’s understandable given they have a new album to promote (Forever More), and promote they did – they played 6 songs off the new album. The vibe just felt different, not bad, just different. Still, the show was good, glad I went.

Here’s a setlist:

1. Forever More
2. I Wanna Live
3. Modern Day Cowboy
4. Song & Emotion
5. Breakin’ Free
6. Hang Tough
7. Heaven’s Trail (No Way Out)
8. So What!
9. One Day At A Time
10. Fallin’ Apart
11. Acoustic Guitar Duel
12. Love Song
13. Try So Hard
14. What You Give
15. Signs
16. Little Suzi
17. Electric Guitar Duel (Encore)
18. Cummin’ Atcha Live (Encore)

And remember…. it’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you give.

Updated: Check it out. Someone made a high-quality video of the entire show and posted it to YouTube.

It looks like the person taking the video was standing at the “back” of the room, behind where the sound and light boards were. I was watching the entire show from just in front of the boards, since they had a bit of a wall/ledge in front of them that made it nice to lean and hang on. Looking at the user icon for teslajunkie’s YouTube channel, I remember seeing her back there. Didn’t know she was taping the show tho. Awesome!