Henry Kaiser began playing guitar the year I was born, and yet in 2012 we find ourselves together enrolled in the clip happy, diaphragm-collapsing, speaker-busting curriculum of Nikola Tesla High School. German luthier Ulrich Teuffel’s extraordinary Tesla guitars (which, in form and function, pay homage to electric pioneers Leo Fender and Mr. Tesla) provide the glue. Henry and I have had quite a lightning ride in the past decade with our Teslas; bringing them together might be a world first and is certainly a highlight in my path. I was instantly struck, listening side by side, at how similar, how simpatico, our Teslas are. I was afraid to admit I’d only changed on mine two of the strings in ten years, and those because they broke. Henry relayed something to the same effect about his seven-string. Instant bond. In preparation for this recording, we played a downtown Santa Cruz gig for a free-spirited contact yoga class. Classic California. Even in warm-up mode, it was infinite possibility, the chance to mak