A Mandatory Album
My buddies and I saw Tesla's first Detroit appearance backing-up Def Leppard at Joe Louis Arena in 1987. Def Lep was promoting the Hysteria album, as well as their back catalog. The stage was round, and it rotated at center ice. Tesla only had Mechanical Resonance to draw from, but they came out blistering with "Cumin' Atcha Live". We were absolutely blown-away with their stage presence and hard-rocking command of a live show. While Def Leppard was stellar, as well, Tesla was unforgetable. And they still are, today.
Get Mechanical Resonance. It will be in your Top 10 favorite hard rock CDs, for sure.

"Modern Day Cowboy" a Late-Eighties Classic
The amazing "Modern Day Cowboy," from the Mechanical Resonance LP, backdropped life during the early part of 1987, when I was attending night classes and spending weekend evenings on the cruising strip in Longmont, Colorado. Tesla released several albums after Resonance and even reached the Top Ten in 1991 with "Signs" (a cover of the Five Man Electrical Band hit from 1971); the group never quite matched the success of its debut record, however. If nothing else, Tesla introduced rock fans to Nikola Tesla, best known for his development of systems that produce and use alternating current. Tesla is also credited with inventing the radio, based on patents in his name that predate those of Guglielmo Marconi.

Guitar Gods unleashed...timeless CD for rockers!
From a guitar player and audio engineer point of view...awesome and jaw dropping! My first listen to this CD affected me like the first listen to the Montrose album, times 10!
BUY this CD is my best advice. Learn every note,store it in your head,listen on the way to work,sitting at home alone....just do it.
THEN, go get Tesla's second release,The Great Radio Controversory,and do it all over again!

No words. Simply perfection in rock.
I'm so excited in writing this review, more than twenty years after I did buy this album. I'm excited in writing the review for Mechanical Resonance, MECHANICAL RESONANCE, which to me is like a picture from my youth, a smell from my youth, ... it is like having again the taste of the first kiss I had in my life. MECHANICAL RESONANCE GUYS!!!!! I remember quite clearly those days, when this album came out. Instead I can't remember how many times I have listened to this one. A billion maybe! It is the soundtrack of my teen age years! This album is just one of those albums that sign a time. It is simply perfect, one note after the other, one riff after the other, one song after the other, nothing is out of place here. This album is perfection in this style. Few albums in this style we love, rock, hard rock, metal, hair metal whatever you may call this, can match this perfection. But Mechanical Resonance is up there with the best of them in the very first positions. It was a shot in the dark to me! I will never forget the first listenings! I remember quite well I immediatly thought ... Wow this is unbelievable! Mechanical Resonance, yes, is perfect. It is the "Kind of blue" of rock 'n' roll, modern hard rock I might call this. Rock with chops, more chops than the Zep or Aerosmith. It was rock 'n' roll in the era of guitar heroes when the competition in guitar was very high. The guys from Tesla won that contest through a kind of Van Halen guitar style taking back to the simple and no frills rock'n' roll. This is the album to have from those years. From any era if you want a rock album that will shake your walls and delight your ears. It will never sound dated because it is simple and sophisticated, hard and tender, anthemic and brilliant. It has that special quality of the things that you know from the very first time you listen to them, that will last. It is a perfect example of what rock should be about. No frills, great chops, great energy, simple but catchy songwriting, extremely clever arrangements, and that special sense of modernity that will never fade away in a thousand years from now. There are wonderful ballads like We're no good together, phenomenal country rock songs like Little Suzi, incredible rock anthems like Ez come Ez go, or Comin atcha live, Cover Queen. I mean. It is perfect. It is FOR SURE one of the albums I love the most FROM ANY ERA. Neither Tesla ever reached this level. Some people say The great radio controversy is better. I don't agree. "Radio" is a good album, but Mechanical Resonance is PERFECTION. Everything is perfect in this album, even the cover which exactly speaks for the music. A shot of fire, the warmth of the tubes, an electric meltdown that was going to shake the world. And it did!!!!! Lights and thunder guys, close your eyes and listen here it is one the best rock albums ever made, MECHANICAL RESONANCE!!!!!!!!!

Fantastic!
As only Tesla can do... What a great listen! I recommend it to anyone, To all you old time rockers, it is just as good as you remember.