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(thought I'd get that in early...inevitable thread direction)
However, it’s great to see Dann Huff popping up a bit more on a few YT channels and chatting.
Top 3 guitarist for me.
Hopefully Rick Beato will do an interview with him at some point. (Edit - or a Tone Talk)
(Further edit - watched the lot and the vertex guy didn’t get in the way too much. Really interesting and a great watch :-) )
Tracking the groove with the band for 8 hours to get Man, I Feel Like A Woman tight in the studio..good grief. I had no idea. I didn't know he did the rhythm part finger style. There's a reason Huff and Bukovac are the players they are.
And Lead Me On / Amy Grant is probably the best 80s pop tune you've never heard (the album version extends the solo for the better). You're Not Alone from her runs it a close second place - again Huff? that solo...!!!
I must have listened to the intro of Giant's I'm a Believer a hundred times - (the bit where the synth kicks in at 40 seconds!! oh yes) ... the absolute antithesis of everything Cobain stood for...
magnificent stuff...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAbO7IcIG_o
Seriously though, the Last of the Runaways album got played to death and I still listen to Giant albums now. He was a great session player too, he's all over loads of albums in the 80's for lots of genres.
I loved that he referenced all the players I love and not just the big names like Luke, Paul Jackson Jr, but others like Michael Thompson (the King of LA Clean sounds) and David Williams (that's him on the Billie Jean riff).
I saw Giant twice in the 90s. They were great but sadly, whilst Dann's voice on record was good, he couldn't hack it live. There's a weird live video from one of those gigs (? BBC In Concert at the Town & Country) and I remember DH being very low in the mix at that gig but on the vid, he appears to have over-dubbed his solos, possibly to raise the volume, and they're out of synch.
Whatever you think of Mason M, to date, I don't think anyone else has bought anything out as in depth as this about DH in the past and I'm on the Dann Huff FB page and this has been very welcome and revealed a lot. He's one of the greats, and humble, too, and it was great to see the wonderful Richard Watson (Youtuber, instructor, sessioner) getting a question in and if you like the 80s stuff and LA session material, he's someone to check out.
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