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Tesla’s guitarist Frank Hannon said “not” had any brand conflict with Tesla Cars and his CEO, Elon Musk.
But confusion still appears. An elevator chat with a woman before this interview showed it.
“She asked me on which band I was and I told her that I was a guitarist doing solo shows and my daily work is a band called Tesla,” Hannon recalled. “And she immediately said: ‘Oh, the car?’ And I said: ‘No, the band’ “.
Hannon, 59, is forging his own space with a new instrumental album of Western inspiration called “Reflections.” He played clues for a small audience in the cutting room last week and also spoke with News.
Tesla reached its height of Heavy Metal mainly at the end of the 1980s and early 90s with singles such as “Modern Day Cowboy” and “The Way It Is”, entering the Billboard Top 10 with “Love Song” and a version of “Signs”. The group made several albums that reached Top 15 and opened frequently for def leppard.
But Hannon said he still needs to “make a living.”
“We are lucky that they still pay us quite well as a band and that people still love our songs,” he said. “Tesla has always been a band of workers.”
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Commentators of social networks often refer to Tesla as “underestimated”, a label they have adopts.
“I think we have always been a bit helpless in the sense that we have never had great domestic success in some way,” he said. “Forty years and we are still making residences in House of Blues in Las Vegas (one starts next month) and still playing throughout the country. Being underestimated, or whatever, is better than being overvalued.”
However, Hannon will not be accused of being a political one.
“I stay away from that, man,” he said. “I believe on the guitar and I believe in simply creating an escape so that people don’t think about politics … I want to create music to give people a place to go where they are not thinking about that.”
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