In a recent interview with Jeff Gaudiosi of MisplacedStraws.com, TESLA bassist Brian Wheat touched upon the upcoming The Stadium Tour featuring Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison & Joan Jett.

Here’s what he said:

“I think it’s why we’ve had such a long career — because there’s not been a trend or a fashion we were ever in. But having said that about some of the bands from the eighties that, you wanna call them hair bands or whatever, it’s in fashion again. Look at what DEF LEPPARD and MÖTLEY CRÜE are doing in the stadiums,” referring to the upcoming “The Stadium Tour”, also featuring POISON and JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS.

He added:

“That’s great. And I would have loved to have been on that bill, by the way. I would’ve liked to have been in Joan‘s place. I don’t know why they didn’t put us in there. But maybe we’ve done too many tours with DEF LEPPARD recently.

“Look, man, it is what it is,” he continued.

“My proudest accomplishment is that we’re still together 36 years later, and we’re still standing. We’re survivors, man. We survived a breakup. We survived grunge. We survived the 2000s, and we survived the 2010s. And now we’re gonna survive this COVID sh*t, and we’ll be back as soon as that’s done. We’ll still be there singing and playing and trying to put a smile on someone’s face.”