Final evening (Thursday, July 24),TESLA bassist and founding member Brian Wheat joined BAD MARRIAGE on stage in Webster, New York, marking the primary time in practically 20 years that Wheat and Tommy Skeoch — BAD MARRIAGE lead guitarist and unique TESLA member — have carried out stay collectively. Wheat, Skeoch and the remainder of BAD MARRIAGE ripped via the TESLA classics “Rock Me To The High” and “Little Suzi”.
BAD MARRIAGE bassist Todd Boisvert shared video of the reunion and wrote in an accompanying caption: “I do not give my bass as much as anybody.. however when Brian Wheat needs to jam along with his brother Tommy Skeoch on stage I’ll relent…first time in virtually 20 years…”
The brand new album from BAD MARRIAGE, “Match Made In Hell”, is slated for launch quickly through Ron Keel‘s RFK Media label.
5 months in the past, Wheat introduced up his present relationship with Skeoch whereas chatting with Ernest Skinner of Canada’s Border Metropolis Rock Speak about his friendship with former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes. He stated: ”Me and Chris are gonna do a band or a venture, no matter you wanna name it, collectively. And Tommy has agreed to do it as properly. So the three of us have talked about placing collectively a venture, band, no matter you wanna name it this point in time, however me and Chris have already began to work on some songs. And I do know me and Tommy know write songs collectively ‘trigger we did lots in TESLA. So the following step can be to get me and Tommy and Chris collectively, whether or not it is on a Zoom, working collectively like that or no matter, and write some materials, after which discover a singer that will be the proper singer for that venture.
“However, yeah, me and Chris are fairly good buddies,” Brian continued. “We see one another after I’m at my home in Italy. He is there on a regular basis. He lives in France. And I am in Florida now for the winter. Tommy‘s in Florida. So we have all talked about it. So it is simply once we get round to doing it. And it is simply carving out a time the place Chris is not busy doing MEAN MAN, I am not doing TESLA or VIOLET BREED, and Tommy‘s not doing BAD MARRIAGE.
“I am wanting ahead to it, as a result of I like Chris and I wanna work with Tommy once more,” Wheat added.
In February 2022, Skeoch, who left TESLA in 2006 to obtain remedy for substance-abuse points, reconnected with Wheat for the primary time in additional than a decade and a half aboard that 12 months’s Monsters Of Rock cruise. The constitution cruise featured performances by Skeoch‘s then-band RESIST & BITE whereas Wheat was onboard exhibiting his artwork.
In an interview with SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Skeoch was requested if he exited TESLA of his personal accord or if he was requested to depart. Tommy stated: “I used to be fired. I used to be getting fucked up and I used to be positively within the flawed about loads of stuff, and so they put up with it for a very long time. However on the identical time, none of us had been angels, and we put up with loads of stuff from the opposite guys for a very long time too, and so they’re nonetheless there. So I felt like a bit of scapegoated by the factor. And the opposite factor is that they did not need individuals — I assume for the good thing about my household, so it would not look unhealthy — they stated, ‘Tommy‘s simply gonna spend time [with his family].’ That is why no person is aware of, and that is why you are asking this query. Everybody’s confused on even what occurred. Mainly, I used to be fired. I used to be getting fucked up, and I saved fucking up, and I saved telling ’em I would not, and I simply could not cease.”
Skeoch added that he accepts duty for the circumstances that led to his departure from TESLA. “I do, in fact,” he stated. “However I additionally imagine we put up with loads of shit for a very long time from virtually each different man within the band, and so they’re nonetheless there. So I do not know what’s up with that; that is a bit of bizarre to me.”
Skeoch was a founding member of TESLA and performed on the Sacramento five-piece defining albums, together with 1986 debut “Mechanical Resonance” and 1990’s “5 Man Acoustical Jam”.
Tommy, who was fired resulting from substance abuse points in 1994, rejoined when TESLA reformed greater than two and a half a long time in the past following a short hiatus.
