3/6/2023 0 Comments Im a believer![]() ![]() ![]() A great band built a rep, you had to hear them. That’s something that’s been lost, along with the humanity. And that’s what made it so immediate and relatable. The studio take was always slick, the edges were sanded off, but live the music breathed, the edges were back. It sounded like the original, but different. Back before all the acts went to hard drive, never mind being synched with untold production. You forget that the sound used to be imperfect. But this guy, who looks jive, opens his pipes, and wow, he’s like Arnel in Journey, he doesn’t look like Dann but he certainly sounds like him, maybe even better.Īnd now the band is firing on all cylinders and… Well, doing research I found somewhere on Facebook that Dann didn’t want to. I mean I’m bugging out, staring, it sounds like the record, are they playing the record or is it really him?Īnd then some guy in torn jeans and a vest takes the stage and…who is this? He’s the singer, why is it not Dann? And sure, it’s not perfect, but Dann certainly is. I expect the sound to be lousy, it almost always is on these YouTube live clips. Have you been to one of those, where all the boomer players come out of the woodwork and get together and play, dividing the reunion in half, the players going down the rabbit hole together? I have, not my own, but Felice’s. He resembles nothing so much as one of those players at your high school reunion. He’s smiling like he’s embarrassed, like he never does this anymore. The most key being the lead guitarist and vocalist Dann Huff, who reinvented himself as a hit country music producer, one of the best, to some degree unchallenged until Dave Cobb emerged with his earthier sound.Īnd I’m on YouTube and I find a Giant reunion, it’s already five years old, and it’s in a club, so my expectations are low.Īnd Dann Huff has got that latter day Eric Clapton look, you know, cleaned-up with short hair, as if when he’s done he’s got to pick up the kids at school. There’s still a band with that name, playing some of the old music, but the key members have long gone. Which for a long time sat in my car, I’d like to fire it up when I was driving, especially on the freeway, when I could put the pedal to the metal.Īnd I’m listening to “I’m a Believer” and I’m wondering if there’s a live version. Took a long time for a lot of non-hit music to resurface. I was listening to music on my iPad via headphones, the big ones, not the portable ones, and when I get the urge certain go-to songs come to mind, and about two weeks ago, it was “I’m a Believer.”įor a long time “I’m a Believer” was unavailable online. Other than Twitter, which most people never pay attention to, it’s for information junkies, it’s more up to date than any news site, as a matter of fact all the reporters are on Twitter, but it turns out most people are more concerned with their image, becoming influencers, than the news.īut every once in a while, when I’m really relaxed, I find myself surfing once again. Doesn’t matter how much the platforms shuffle the deck, you’re done. ![]() But the funny thing is all these outlets have a window, it opens and you’re fascinated, you spend time and then the novelty wears off, and suddenly you’ve got little interest in going back. But recently, years late, I find myself on Instagram, turns out you’ve got to surf or you lose your name, which happened and having reclaimed it I don’t want to lose it again. I’d already heard from most everybody I ever knew, and the people I went to high school with, there was a reason I left my hometown. I must say I never got into the Facebook thing. And sometime in the last ten years surfing was eclipsed by apps. ![]() End result was the loss of truth, and in many cases credibility, and it’s been overwhelming. But then there wasn’t, and then the news exploded, sometime in the late aughts, and then we got to the point where there was no way anybody could get a grasp on what was going on, you could surf new stuff endlessly. Then I went into my tab cycle, it would take me about an hour to go through all of mine on Safari, and by time I got back to the beginning, hopefully there’d be new news. I remember telling my shrink twenty-odd years ago that I’d seen it all, I was on repeats. I don’t do much mindless surfing these days. That sound is still dead, but there were years where it was the biggest in the land. Sure, we were on the last legs of hair band ballads, and Guns N’ Roses was something different, something dangerous, yet Giant was more akin to a seventies act, just great players playing straight ahead rock. After a decade of MTV pop now ruled, And hip-hop was growing. Giant was perfect for the fifteen years before, but was now out of step with America’s changing tastes. AOR was on its last legs, we just didn’t know it yet. ![]()
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