The Wardenclyffe Tower is one of the most intriguing historical structures you can or ever will read about. Not only was it about to completely revolutionize humans, their technology, and the energy they use to power it, but it was sabotaged by JP Morgan and blown up by the US Military, which sucks but is also kind of cool in it’s suckiness. Not only did Tesla have the forethought to make a telecommunications tower that would unite the world and beam free energy to all, he was cool enough to make it the most bitch’in looking tower there ever was, singlehandedly launching an entire industry of cheesy sci-fi art. It’s the perfect foil for Tesla himself, who became fodder for cheesy sci-fi villains, even after he died broke, sick, insane, and the most important inventor and contributor to modern-kind.
I think that by now you realize that Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower is the single greatest contribution to modern-kind despite it’s spectacular failure (the military blasted it with a million sticks of dynamite), I urge you to read one of the coolest things ever written or said by anyone period, much less an electricity geek with an epic mustache and a groovy name, and I quote:
“it is necessary for the machine to get a grip of the earth,” he explained, “otherwise it cannot shake the earth. It has to have a grip… so that the whole of this globe can quiver.”
I don’t even know what that means, but if some wicked dude with a mustache said that to my face I’d be his sworn supporter and his forever side-kick no matter if he wants it. End of story.
We devote the cover of our first album to the great Tesla, and his totally bitch’in Wardenclyffe Tower.
