JEFF KEITH of TESLA

Jeff Keith of Tesla was first exposed to music by his father, who
played guitar for a local bar band in Georgetown, CA. After
graduating high school, Jeff bought a guitar chord book and
learned his favorite Beatles & Rolling Stones songs to play
at campfires. He later auditioned & got the gig for the band
City Kidd, and they played Top 40 hits with a few of their own
songs mixed in. City Kidd was eventually renamed Tesla. Tesla
went on tour with Mötley Crüe in 1990, and Nikki Sixx “in a
loving, joking way” described Tesla as “a bunch of tomato farmers
from Sacramento.” “We were proud to be tomato famers from
Sacramento.” Jeff says. Some of his biggest influences are Steven
Tyler, Bon Scott, and his favorite band, Foghat. “Foghat, early
ZZ Top; all that good stuff. I’m stuck in the 60’s and 70’s.